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Algeria presidential candidates appeal election result

Algeria's presidential candidates who lost out to incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algeria's presidential election filed appeals to the Constitutional Court Tuesday, contesting the provisional result of the vote.Abdelaali Hassani, who heads the moderate Islamist party the Movement of Society for Peace, was first to submit his appeal.He said the day before he had "lost the battle but not the war" and denounced the results as a "fraud".
Source: Al Monitor
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Blinken urges Israel to make changes after activist killed

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said he will press Israel to make "fundamental changes" in its operations in the occupied West Bank after the military acknowledged its fire likely killed a US citizen activist.After an initially measured response to Friday's death of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi pending a fact-finding exercise, Blinken said the United States would raise her death at senior levels with its key ally.The investigation, and eyewitness accounts, make clear "that her killing was both unprovoked and unjustified", Blinken told reporters on a visit to London.
Source: Al Monitor
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