Capped 26 times for Algeria, he moved to France from his homeland in 2003 with AC Ajaccio.

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Now, like Catilina, who is with Ajaccio, he has left the San Siro and will sign for Kilmarnock when the paperwork is completed on Thursday.

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Fifa said it had also received a request from Algeria about former Liverpool midfielder Carl Medjani, who now plays for Ajaccio in the French second division.

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During the night of April 19th, five paramilitary gendarmes from an anti-terrorist squad were sent, by their own subsequent confession, to burn down Chez Francis, a fashionable restaurant south of Ajaccio, the island's capital.

ECONOMIST: Corsica

On February 7th gunmen in a street in Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, killed the prefect, Claude Erignac, the highest representative of the French state on the island, as he was on his way to a concert.

ECONOMIST: Corsica