Algerians began voting on Thursday in an election President Abdelaziz Bouteflika needs to win convincingly to show he can re-connect with disillusioned voters and snuff out a lingering Islamist insurgency. Bouteflika, a 72-year-old veteran of Algeria's war for independence from France, hopes that a score better than the 84.99 percent he achieved in the last presidential election in 2004 -- when turnout was a little under 60 percent -- will give him an enhanced authority... Read more »