IN BRIEF: Algerian anti-militant minister sacked

Algerian anti-militant minister sacked

Paris - The Algerian President, Liamine Zeroual, has sacked his Interior Minister, Abderahmane Meziane Cherif, a staunch opponent of Muslim militants - as the government tries to bring the militants, whose Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was banned three years ago, back into the political mainstream. Reute