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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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.
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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.
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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 (...)
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 (...)