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A ray of hope for Algeria's crumbling Casbah?

ALGIERS (Reuters) - From cutlass and canon to earthquake and flood, powerful forces have long done damage to the Algiers Casbah, fabled bastion of Barbary pirates who plied the Mediterranean for centuries in defiance of European power. <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?a=WXNu9q"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/reuters/worldNews?i=WXNu9q" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=3HTFnK"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=3HTFnK" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=RQmYdk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=RQmYdk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=xwoeMk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=xwoeMk" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/380026628" height="1" width="1"/>