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Algerian paper prosecuted for announcing more aftershocks
Jordan Times, 5/30/03
ALGIERS (AFP) — An Algerian newspaper is being prosecuted for warning Thursday that more aftershocks would hit the country after last week's devastating killer quake, the APS news agency reported. The Arabic-language daily Er-Rai faces charges of “propagating controversial and baseless reports,” the agency said, according to a crisis authority set up after the May 21 quake that left more than 2,250 people dead. “This newspaper is especially known for publishing erroneous information meant to spread panic among the people,” a crisis authority source said. Northern Algeria was rocked Thursday by the third major aftershock in less than 36 hours, causing widespread panic as already shaky buildings crumbled to the ground, injuring 300. Last week's quake was the worst the country had suffered in 23 years, trapping many victims in buildings that had clearly not been quake-proofed, in violation of regulations on the books since a 1980 quake killed 3,000 people.
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| Earth, a planet hungry for peace |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |