A bomb exploded on Thursday near a car carrying the governor of Algeria’s restive Tizi Ouzou region, in the first apparent assassination attempt in years against a top local government official, residents said. A policeman was wounded but the governor, or wali, Hocine Mazouz, was unharmed when the device went off beside a road in Ain al-Hamam village seconds after his car passed by, they said. Full Story