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President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who returned to Algeria this week after two months in Germany, had promoted the new constitution as the "cornerstone of the new Algeria".
19 African nationals, including children, died along with the Algerian driver of a pick-up truck which overturned near the southern town on Tamanrasset.
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Zoulikha Nachinache was found guilty of money laundering, influence peddling, squandering public funds and illicit transfer of foreign currency abroad.
The country had signed a "mutual agreement with a Russian laboratory for acquisition of the coronavirus vaccine from January".
Aged 75 and a heavy smoker, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was hospitalised in Germany on October 28, and Algerian authorities later announced he had the Covid-19 illness.
The defence ministry said the cash was an "instalment of the ransom" paid out in a controversial October agreement.
Algerian prosecutors are seeking a tougher jail sentence for Amira Bouraoui, a prominent activist in the pro-democracy Hirak movement, at her trial on appeal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited Moroccan King Mohammed VI to visit Israel following a "friendly" telephone call.
Amnesty International has called on Algeria to immediately halt the deportation of seven Yemeni immigrants who could face death in their home country.
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