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ALGIERS: Clashes that pitted police against stone-throwing youths from an Algiers slum this week are characteristic of the confrontations that take place in Algeria over poor living conditions. On Monday and Tuesday, hundreds of youths from the Algiers slum district of Diar Echems, supported by their parents, clashed with police, stoning them from a rise in the road that leads to their shabby homes.

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