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Tunisia's newly elected assembly gets to work
TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia's newly elected assembly held its inaugural meeting Tuesday, ready to start shaping the constitution and the democratic future of the country that sparked the Arab Spring uprisings. A moderate Islamist party, Ennahda (...)

22 - 11 - 2011
Islamist Tunisian party promises an open society
TUNIS, Tunisia — The new Tunisia will welcome people of all faiths and carry on the tradition of moderation for which it has always been known, the leader of the Islamist party that won the country's first free elections promised (...)

11 - 11 - 2011
Tunisian court orders ex-Libyan PM extradited
TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian appeals court on Tuesday ordered former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi extradited to Libya. Al-Mahmoudi was convicted of illegally crossing into Tunisia and imprisoned there in September, but the (...)

08 - 11 - 2011
Tunisia's moderate Islamists win landmark vote
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda, banned for decades, emerged the official victor in the nation's first free elections, taking 41.47 percent of the vote and 90 of 217 seats in an assembly that will write a new (...)

28 - 10 - 2011
Tunisia Islamists set for big election gains
TUNIS: As the land that launched the Arab Spring heads into historic elections next week, all eyes are on the long-repressed Islamists — and whether a big victory for them will irrevocably change this North African nation and inspire similar (...)

17 - 10 - 2011
Tunisia Islamists set for big election gains
TUNIS, Tunisia — As the land that launched the Arab Spring heads into historic elections next week, all eyes are on the long-repressed Islamists — and whether a big victory for them will irrevocably change this North African nation and inspire (...)

16 - 10 - 2011
Ex-Tunisia president condemns upcoming trial
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ? Tunisia's former autocratic leader, whose downfall triggered uprisings in the Arab world, condemned his upcoming trial as a "shameful masquerade," according to a statement released Sunday. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who is in (...)

20 - 06 - 2011
Tunisia's ex-president to be tried in absentia
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's deposed president will be tried in absentia on June 20 by civil and military courts on charges ranging from embezzlement and murder to drug trafficking, the prime minister said. Beji Caid Essebsi added in the (...)

14 - 06 - 2011
Egypt and Tunisia head to G8 for economic succor
TUNIS: Egypt and Tunisia, the poster nations for the popular uprisings that swept the Middle East, head this week to an annual meeting of the world's rich nations to save their countries from the economic consequences of their revolutions. As (...)

26 - 05 - 2011
Rebels: Qaddafi fighters shell western mountains
TRIPOLI: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi shelled villages and towns to try to take control of the high ground in a western mountain range as NATO widened its campaign of bombings and leafleting to persuade government troops to stop (...)

18 - 05 - 2011
Tunisia hands ousted dictator additional charges
TUNIS, Tunisia: Tunisia's toppled dictator and his wife are facing charges of inciting violence in connection with a bloody crackdown following his January ouster, the official TAP news agency reported Wednesday. The report cited a Justice (...)

05 - 05 - 2011
Tunisia hands ousted dictator additional charges
TUNIS: Tunisia's toppled dictator and his wife are facing charges of inciting violence in connection with a bloody crackdown following his January ouster, the official TAP news agency reported Wednesday. The report cited a Justice Ministry (...)

05 - 05 - 2011
Tunisian army fires warning shots during protest
TUNIS: The Tunisian army fired a barrage of warning shots in the capital Thursday as demonstrators converged on the headquarters of the longtime ruling party, which dissolved its decision-making core following a wave of departures by ministers (...)

21 - 01 - 2011
Violence-scarred Tunisia announces new government
TUNIS: Tunisia's prime minister announced a national unity government on Monday, hoping to quell simmering unrest following the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali amid huge street protests. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, a longtime (...)

18 - 01 - 2011
Tunisian interior minister sacked as police clash with protesters in the capital
TUNIS: Tunisian interior minister Rafik Belhaj Kacem was sacked Wendesday as police and protesters clashed in the center of the capital Wednesday, bringing unrest to the government's doorstep after nearly a month of violent protests that pose the (...)

12 - 01 - 2011
Arafat's widow stripped of Tunisian citizenship
TUNIS: Tunisia has stripped the widow of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of Tunisian citizenship, officials said Tuesday. A formal decree published Aug. 2 in Tunisia s official register indicated that 44-year-old Suha Arafat, who was born (...)

14 - 08 - 2007
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