EDITORIAL. The German mediation that made possible, on Wednesday, the pardon of writer Boualem Sansal, imprisoned in Algeria for a year, highlights the exhaustion of Paris's leverage over Algiers.

BERLIN: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday urged his Algerian counterpart to pardon the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who was given a five-year jail term…

L’Elysée a plusieurs fois cru à la libération de l’écrivain, otage du régime d'Abdelmadjid Tebboune. Jusqu’à ce 12 novembre, date à laquelle Alger l'a gracié et accepté son…