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Algeria senate approves sending troops to Niger

ALGIERS, Algeria: Algeria’s upper house of parliament on Sunday approved a proposal to deploy troops to neighboring Niger to “protect energy facilities,” a senator speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP. Any overseas deployment would mark a first since Algiers sent troops to support Egypt during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The legislator said 148 senators in the 174-seat body voted in favor of the move. The parliament’s lower house is set to vote on the proposal later in the day, likely t