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Tunisia opposition targets ruling officials in ICC lawsuit
The opposition Nidaa Tounes (Call for Tunisia) party will lodge allegations of “crime against humanity” against several members and allies of the ruling Ennahda party
Security beefed up in Tunis after Islamist clashes
Militants attacked two national guard posts in the Tunis suburb of Manouba on Tuesday night after police arrested a Salafist suspected of assaulting the head of the area’s public security brigade
Anti-government demo in Tunis on poll anniversary eve
Supporters of the leftist coalition the Popular Front shouted slogans such as: “The people want to regime to fall!” and “Jobs, freedom, dignity!”
US withdraws embassy staff from Sudan and Tunisia
Yemen and Sudan refuse deployment of Marines
Fabulous Fayoum: the art of natural history
Relaxing and reflecting in the natural beauty and artistic atmosphere of Lake Qarun and the Valley of the Whales
Tunisia constitution date set
Tunis (AFP) — Tunisia’s new constitution will not be adopted before February 2013, the head of the drafting committee said on Tuesday, after earlier announcing that it would be delayed until April. “I believe that in all reality there can be no final reading of the constitution before February 2013,” Habib Kheder, who is also …
Thousands of women marched in Tunis to protest constitutional amendment
Roughly 6,000 protesters, mostly female, took to the streets of Tunis
Tunisia’s President and Premier face off
Tunisian ruling coalition facing internal divisions that are stalling the nation’s transition
Tunisia extradites former Libyan prime minister
Libyan PM extradition from Tunisia faces criticism
Mediterranean states mull ways to draw tourists back
By AFP DJERBA: Mediterranean states opened a conference Monday on the future of tourism in the region, in a bid to claw back market share lost because of the Arab Spring uprisings and the European debt crisis. “Besides the economic crisis in the origin countries, the ongoing political changes in North African and Middle East …
Ousted Tunisian strongman’s kin says ready to face justice
By AFP TUNIS: The exiled brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian strongman Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali regrets his role in the dictatorship and is prepared to face justice at home, news reports said Friday, quoting an open letter. “I have written this letter to apologize, even if I know that in the eyes of many Tunisians, if …
Riot police fire tear gas, charge protesters in Tunis
By AFP TUNIS: Riot police fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters Monday who staged demonstrations on a Tunis avenue where rallies are banned, in some of the worst violence seen in the Tunisian capital in months. As hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets, the head of the Ennahda Islamist party which dominates parliament called …