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Algeria Summons French Ambassador over Visa Restriction Decision

Algerians demonstrate iwith flags along the docks of Algiers, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP)
Algerians demonstrate iwith flags along the docks of Algiers, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP)
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Algeria Summons French Ambassador over Visa Restriction Decision

Algerians demonstrate iwith flags along the docks of Algiers, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP)
Algerians demonstrate iwith flags along the docks of Algiers, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP)

Algeria has summoned the French ambassador following the French government's pledge to slash the number of visas available to nationals from Maghreb countries.

The French government's move is in response to North African governments' refusal to take back illegal migrants sent home by French authorities.

Algeria's foreign ministry said in a statement that the French ambassador had been summoned "to notify him a formal protest ...following the unilateral decision of the French government".

The move had previously been reported by BFM television.

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Yemen's Houthis Fire Missile Toward Northern Israel

Houthi supporters chant slogans during an anti-US and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
Houthi supporters chant slogans during an anti-US and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
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Yemen's Houthis Fire Missile Toward Northern Israel

Houthi supporters chant slogans during an anti-US and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
Houthi supporters chant slogans during an anti-US and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Yemen's Houthi militias launched a missile early Wednesday toward northern Israel, a rare target for the group as a monthlong intense US airstrike campaign continues to target them.

Sirens sounded in Haifa, Krayot and other areas west of the Sea of Galilee, the Israeli military said.
“An interceptor was launched toward the missile, and the missile was most likely successfully intercepted,” the Israeli military said.
Those in the area could here booms in the predawn darkness.
American airstrikes, meanwhile, continued targeting the Houthis on Wednesday morning, part of a campaign that began on March 15. The Houthis reported strikes on Hodeidah, Marib and Saada governorates. In Marib, the Houthis described a strike hitting telecommunication equipment, which has previously been a target of the Americans.
The Houthis in response have stepped up their targeting of American drones flying over the country. Late Tuesday, Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said the militias shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen's Hajjah governorate.
The US military acknowledged the report of the drone being downed, but said it could not comment further.
Saree said the militias targeted the drone with “a locally manufactured missile.”

The US is targeting the Houthis because of the group’s attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, a crucial global trade route, and on Israel.