President Bouteflika to return to Algeria soon-source

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President Bouteflika to return to Algeria soon-source

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is expected to leave hospital in Paris and return to Algeria soon, a source close to the presidency told Reuters on Monday. Bouteflika was rushed to hospital in France on April 27 after a stroke. The 76-year-old has ruled the North African oil and gas producer since 1999. He is part of an older generation of leaders who have dominated politics in a former French colony that supplies a fifth of Europe's natural gas imports and cooperates with the West in combating Islamist militancy. ...

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