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* Algerian forces clearing mines from site * Fifteen charred bodies found - source By Lamine Chikhi and Abdelaziz Boumzar ALGIERS/IN AMENAS, Algeria, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Algerian army on Saturday carried out a "final assault" on al Qaeda-linked gunmen holed up in a desert gas
Read moreALGIERS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Algerian army is clearing mines planted by al Qaeda-linked fighters at the desert gas plant they attacked three days ago, the national oil and gas company Sonatrach said on Saturday. News of the mine clearing operation came shortly after Algerian official med
Read morePARIS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - France believes there are no more French nationals being held at the Algerian desert gas plant where Islamist militants took scores hostage, France's defence minister said on Saturday . Asked in an interview on France 3 TV if he could confirm there were no more Fr
Read moreALGIERS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The field commander of the Islamist group that attacked a gas plant in the Algerian desert this week and seized many hostages is a veteran fighter from Niger called Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri, Mauritanian news agencies reported. Nigeri is said to be close to the over
Read moreBy Alastair Macdonald and Lamine Chikhi LONDON/ALGIERS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The In Amenas gas plant felt impregnable to many who worked there - walled in, hundreds of miles from anywhere and with the Algerian army constantly patrolling its desert approaches. That was a mirage. Libya, a
Read more* Recall two-day ordeal at isolated natural gas plant * Witnessed killings, hid in fear from Islamist militants * Fate of many hostages remains unknown By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - A Frenchman spent a day and two nights in terror, boarded up under his bed,
Read more* Thirty hostages, at least seven foreign, killed - source * More than 20 foreigners still held or missing on Friday * Western governments not consulted, Algiers faces questions * 10 Japanese, 8 Norwegians, "less than 30" Britons at risk By Lamine Chikhi and Abdelaziz Boum
Read moreALGIERS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Algerian forces have freed about 100 of the 132 foreigners who were taken hostage in a gas facility in the Algerian desert, a security source told Reuters. The fate of the others - whether they remained captive or had been killed - remained unclear, he said, as t
Read moreALGIERS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Azedine, 27, the radio operator at Algeria's In Amenas' gas plant, is still in shock after escaping from his armed Islamist captors on Wednesday, unable to shake the face of his dead supervisor from his mind's eye. As the young Algerian escaped from the desert co
Read moreWASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is receiving regular updates on the situation at an Algerian gas plant, where about 60 foreigners were being held hostage or missing, a White House spokesman said on Friday. "We are in constant contact with the government of Algeria
Read moreLONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday militants who attacked the United States and its citizens will be hunted down, in the first comments by a senior U.S. official on a hostage attack by Islamist militants in Algeria. He said the U.S. government was
Read moreALGIERS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - About 60 foreigners are still held hostage or missing at the besieged Algerian gas plant where Islamist militants fought Algerian troops who stormed the desert facility, a local source told Reuters on Friday. It was unclear how many of those 60 foreigners were st
Read more* Transaction seen improving balance sheet * EBIT gain of 440 mln eur * Shares up 0.8 percent VIENNA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Austrian energy group OMV has agreed to sell its LMG stockholding business to its ELG unit and will have a one-off pretax gain of 440 million euros ($588 mil
Read moreMUMBAI, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd posted its first profit increase after four quarters of declining returns, buoyed by stronger oil refining margins. Net profit rose 24 percent to 55.02 billion rupees ($1.01 billion) for the fiscal third quarter that end
Read morePARIS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The French government was given no advance warning of Thursday's assault by the Algerian military on militants holding dozens of hostages at a desert gas facility in Algeria, a senior government source said. Asked whether the government had been given a heads-up, t
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