Local officials blamed the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), Algeria's most violent militant organisation AP. Twenty of the injured were said to be in a serious condition.First reports indicated the bomb went off in a car parked near the main police station, not far from the railway terminal. The action we have taken is a legitimate recourse of a kind acceptable in any civilised country." Until this year, no correspondent had been expelled for professional reasons since the days of military dictatorship in the 1980s."The screws have been tightening in the last couple of months," said Mr Cheesman. "It is anti everything that the new Korea is supposed to stand for, a Third World mentality of worrying what the foreign press says about it.". Car bomb kills six in Algerian city Algiers - A car bomb exploded yesterday outside the police headquarters in the north-eastern city of Tizi-Ouzou, killing at least six people and injuring 25 others, hospital sources reported.

He admitted he has no documentary evidence for the most serious allegations.But, based on interviews with former and serving politicians and aides and officials, the book will make embarrassing allegations about the funding of Mr Kim's 1992 election campaign and about the avowedly Christian President's private life.The past few months have been a critical period for President Kim: as well as the trials of his predecessors Roh Tae Woo and Chun Doo Hwan, on charges of corruption, mutiny and treason, his New Korea Party faces parliamentary elections in a month's time which could rob him of control of the National Assembly.Mr Sohn said: "This present action is not aimed at the foreign press, with whom we enjoy excellent working relations. Last week the Review received papers from lawyers for the Korean government initiating defamation proceedings.But more decisive, Mr Cheesman believes, was the book he has been working on: an unofficial biography of Mr Kim focusing on the most controversial rumours which billow around the charismatic President. The Financial Review's jokey account, complete with cartoon, and citing inside sources, provoked fury. Mr Cheesman was hauled in for the latest in a series of official scoldings. This - the rumours went - had angered the heavens.The President's men denied the Buddha had been moved.

Last year Koreans were shaken by a series of disasters, including the collapse of a bridge and a store in Seoul in which more than 500 people were killed.A Buddhist paper reported rumours that Mr Kim, a Christian, had ordered the removal of a Buddha statue from the garden of the presidential palace. He repeatedly made false and defamatory allegations about the government of Korea."Mr Cheesman insisted his visits as a tourist were made years ago and that what really rattled Seoul was his personal criticism of President Kim and members of his family.Chief among the government's complaints is the case of the presidential Buddha. On 26 February, after nine years working in Seoul, his application for a new visa was rejected by the Justice Ministry. Despite lobbying by diplomats, a government spokesman said the decision was "irrevocable" and Mr Cheesman would not be allowed to work again in South Korea.No official reason has been given, but Sohn Woo Hyun, director-general of the foreign-media division of the Korean Overseas Information Service, said Mr Cheesman had violated immigration regulations by doing research while visiting the country as a tourist, and had "repeatedly gone beyond the bounds of what we consider sound journalistic practice. Earlier this month Mr Hanley asked Gong Ro Myung, the Foreign Minister, to reconsider the case of Bruce Cheesman, who works for the Australian Financial Review. Salvi's lawyers said his crime had been triggered by the murders of four Catholic priests in Algeria on 27 December 1994.. In an apparent toughening of its attitude towards the foreign media, South Korea has rejected a request by Jeremy Hanley, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, to reinstate a British journalist expelled after writing articles poking fun at President Kim Young Sam. Witnesses said that he was seen practising at a shooting-range the day before his rampage.Salvi's father said his son had been a normal healthy child, but late in his teens became strange and withdrawn, spending long hours closeted in his bedroom reading the Bible.

Witnesses testified that as Salvi fired 10 bullets into one of his victims, he cried: "This is what you get! You should pray the rosary!"Before the trial started Salvi repeatedly disrupted hearings, insisting he be granted an opportunity to make a statement to the media about an anti-Catholic conspiracy in which, he said, the Freemasons and the Ku- Klux-Klan were involved.The prosecution successfully argued, however, that Salvi had carried out the killings with clear premeditation and was fully alert to the fact that what he was doing was illegal and wrong. OPM rebels have been holding 11 hostages, including six Europeans, in the forbidding jungles of Irian since 8 January.. John Salvi, 24, was found guilty yesterday of murder after a Massachusetts jury turned down a defence claim that he was insane when he went on a shooting rampage at two Boston abortion clinics on 30 December 1994, killing two receptionists and wounding five others. Salvi, who says he believes abortion is part of a worldwide conspiracy against the Roman Catholic Church, faces life in jail after convictions on two counts of first-degree murder and five counts of assault with intent to murder. There is no death penalty in Massachusetts. Salvi's defence did not question the police version of the facts of the case, but contended that at the time of the killings he was prey to paranoid schizophrenia Some of the evidence appeared to support the insanity plea. "He was a teacher at the university and they wanted to take him there before he was buried," one resident said.Last week the Irian towns of Timika and Tembagapura, where Freeport Indonesia operates one of the world's largest copper and gold mines, were rocked by riots by disgruntled tribespeople frustrated at not benefiting from the development in Irian.Diplomats said Wainggai was believed to have had close links with the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM), which is fighting for an independent Irian Jaya. Wainggai, a US-trained anthropologist said to have died of heart problems on the way to a hospital from Cipinang prison, just outside Jakarta, was believed to be in his sixties.His Japanese wife was sentenced to six years in jail and has since been released, but 21 others are still in detention.Residents said the rioters, mostly students, wanted to take Wainggai's body to the university before it was taken to his family home.

Riots hit the town of Abepura when the body of Thomas Wapai Wainggai, who died last week while serving a prison sentence in Jakarta, arrived in the provincial capital, Jayapura, for burial. "They burned cars and a market and damaged buildings," a spokesman said. Residents said Jayapura, 2,000 miles east of Jakarta, was sealed off by the military. Offices were shut and frightened residents stayed indoors.The riots broke out in Abepura after protesters were stopped from heading to Jayapura, 12 miles away. Residents and the army said last night that calm had returned but soldiers continued to patrol."Tension has reduced but the military is still keeping a watchful eye.