Algerian legislators declare French colonization a crime, demand restitution

Algerian legislators declared France's colonization a crime and demanded restitution for property taken during its rule. The law, approved by 340 of 407 members of the National Assembly, seeks the return of archives, property, and maps of nuclear tests, and repatriation of resistance fighters' remains. France called the law a "hostile act" threatening bilateral efforts, while Algeria views it as a historic moral stance and culmination of a long struggle.