Tunisia

Tunisia

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  Protests turn to street clashes across Egypt

  Egyptian security forces backed by water cannons fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Friday while ... 

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  Tunisia Islamists say no new gov't as crisis grows

  Tunisia sank deeper into political crisis Thursday, as the ruling Islamist party rejected its own prime minister's decision to replace the government ... 

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  After fatwas, security hiked for Egypt opposition

  One hardline Muslim cleric on an Egyptian TV station justified sexual assaults on women protesters. Others issued religious edicts saying opposition ... 

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  Tunisia to shake-up government after assassination

  Shaken by the assassination of a prominent leftist opposition leader that unleashed major protests, Tunisia's prime minister announced Wednesday that ... 

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  Egypt opposition leader warns over death edict

  Egypt's most prominent opposition leader criticized the Islamist government on Wednesday for its silence over a Muslim cleric's edict calling for the ... 

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  In Davos, examining the Arab Spring's mixed bag

  The convulsions of the Arab world are taking center stage at this year's World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, where leaders and experts are much ... 

• Iraqi protester tries to set himself on fire

  A demonstrator tried to set himself on fire in the north of Iraq Sunday in what is thought to be the first attempted self-immolation since ... 

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  Violence plagues Tunisia's politics 2 years later

  Two years after the revolution that overthrew an authoritarian president and started the Arab Spring, Tunisia is struggling with high unemployment and ... 

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  Tunisian prosecutors opposed freeing Libya suspect

  Tunisia's attorney general's office opposed the recent release of one of the only people in custody for the September attack on the U.S. 

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  Lawyer: Tunisian suspect in Libya attack freed

  Tunisian authorities released one of the only men in custody for alleged links to September's attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in the Libyan city ... 

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  Tunisian FM accused in 'Sheraton-gate' scandal

  Tunisia's foreign minister has been accused by a blogger of misusing public funds in a growing national scandal involving issues of government ... 

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  North African nations take different reform routes

  Two years after an itinerant Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire to protest government injustice and ignited uprisings across the Middle East, ... 

• Ex-Tunisian dictator's property goes under hammer

  Tunisian authorities are putting property confiscated from ousted Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali up for auction. That includes a pair of ... 

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  Unrest marks Tunisia revolution anniversary event

  Protesters threw stones and tomatoes and booed Tunisian leaders Monday at a ceremony marking two years since the start of an uprising that changed ... 

• Libya attack suspect wants lawyers at FBI parley

  One of the only known suspects held in the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya wants any interrogation by the FBI to take place in a Tunisian judge's ... 

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  Union calls off strike in restive Tunisian town

  A Tunisian labor union on Sunday suspended a nearly weeklong strike in an impoverished central town after the national government agreed to remove a ... 

• Riots injure 177 in central Tunisian town

  A strike in a low income region of Tunisia has degenerated into a second day of clashes between police and protesters, leaving 177 people injured, ...