Algeria cut diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates, Algerian state television said. [1] Reuters filed the rupture. [1] Al Jazeera filed the ambassador given 48 hours to leave. [2] A rupture is not a closed Gulf and not a closed Hormuz. Print the break. Do not print a strait.

Western Sahara, Abraham Accords, and Sahel arguments are the background file, not Thursday's operative sentence. [2] People-to-people copy from Abu Dhabi is a claim. A claim is not restored ties. Print cut. Leave a named restoration to the edition that owns a named restoration.

Abu Dhabi's people-to-people claims meet Algiers' rupture with a shrug. Ruptures outrank press releases. Thursday keeps the break.
Print the 48 hours. Keep this off the Brent lede.

Forty-eight hours is the standard diplomatic fuse for expulsions. Ties cut this fast rarely stay cut, but the signal lands regardless. Thursday lit the fuse.

Lit fuses burn toward deadlines; forty-eight hours is short. Thursday's clock runs. Algiers watches it burn.

Burning clocks run short; Thursday's runs forty-eight hours. Algiers watches. Restorations need named later copy.

Ties cut this fast rarely stay cut, but the signal lands. Forty-eight hours is short. Thursday lit the fuse.

Algiers lit a 48-hour expulsion fuse that Abu Dhabi's people-to-people copy cannot snuff. State television's break is the operative sentence. Sahel and Sahara files stay in the background graf. Restored ties need a named later bulletin this page does not have.
State television's break is the operative sentence. Thursday's fuse is 48 hours, not a restored tie. Forty-eight hours is short.

State television's break is the operative sentence. Forty-eight hours is short. Thursday's Algeria-UAE fuse is 48 hours, not restored ties.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels