The Air Algerie Crash
![French and European flags fly at half-staff, Quai d'Orsay, in Paris, July 28, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/30A3641A-4F9B-487E-96EB-F69C2C448F18_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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French and European flags fly at half-staff, Quai d'Orsay, in Paris, July 28, 2014.
![Algerian Transport Minister Amar Ghoul (center) speaks at a news conference regarding Air Algerie AH5017, in Bamako, Mali, July 27, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8557CE4F-7CED-4EEC-97A9-21A5D9EEBA8F_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Algerian Transport Minister Amar Ghoul (center) speaks at a news conference regarding Air Algerie AH5017, in Bamako, Mali, July 27, 2014.
![President François Hollande announced three days of mourning and ordered that flags on government buildings across France fly at half-staff for three days after the death of 118 people, including 54 French nationals, in the crash of Air Algerie flight AH5017 in Mali, in Paris, July 28, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/BD31791B-BF3A-41CE-B1F2-CBAFAB317A12_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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President François Hollande announced three days of mourning and ordered that flags on government buildings across France fly at half-staff for three days after the death of 118 people, including 54 French nationals, in the crash of Air Algerie flight AH5017 in Mali, in Paris, July 28, 2014.
![This photo provided by the French army shows soldiers at the site of the Air Algerie plane crash in Mali, July 25, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/31DE7EB2-A09E-4D85-9689-FEC820350816_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This photo provided by the French army shows soldiers at the site of the Air Algerie plane crash in Mali, July 25, 2014.