Algerian president overthrown in ’92 coup dies

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s state news agency says former President Chadli Bendjedid, who was overthrown in a 1992 military coup, died Saturday at a military hospital. He was 83. Bendjedid, who became president in 1979, presided over a series of political reforms that gave Algeria a multiparty political system with competitive legislative and municipal [...]