French President Emmanuel Macron heads to Algeria on Thursday seeking to soothe festering diplomatic tensions with an increasingly important supplier of gas to Europe. Franco-Algerian relations are still fraught with resentment caused by the colonial era -- Paris ruled the North African territory for more than 130 years -- and the bitter war of independence. But they have been particularly stormy in the last year after Macron reportedly questioned Algeria's existence before French occupation and accused the Algiers government of fomenting "hatred towards France". Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune withdrew his country's ambassador to Paris last October in respon
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