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Contradictions have emerged over claims that that Libya under dictator Moammar Gadhafi funded French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign.
Qatar has offered Tunisia a $1 billion low interest loan to bolster the North African country's battered economy, Tunisia's presidential spokesman announced Wednesday.
Tunisia's interior minister has announced the lifting of a ban on demonstrations in a symbolic downtown boulevard.
Islamic law will not be enshrined in Tunisia's new constitution, preserving the secular basis of the North African nation, Tunisia's ruling Islamist Ennahda Party said Monday.
More than 4,000 members of Tunisia's main trade union marched through the center of the capital on Saturday to denounce the Islamist-led government. Police fired tear gas to disperse the protest after it exceeded its time limit.
The head of a Tunisian newspaper and two of its editors were arrested Wednesday for violating public morals, the Justice Ministry said, after the publishing of a photo of a sports figure with a nude woman.
More than 8,000 Tunisians marched Saturday through the capital denouncing violence committed by ultraconservative Islamist groups in recent months.
The head of Tunisia's moderate Islamic party condemned anti-Semitic slogans chanted Monday by a handful of ultraconservative Muslims during the arrival of a top Hamas official that have alarmed the local Jewish community.
Around 200 students and professors demonstrated in Tunisia's capital on Wednesday calling for an end to the standoff by ultraconservative Muslims at a nearby university.
Violent demonstrations erupted in Tunisia's impoverished central region and had to be dispersed with tear gas, according to local officials and the state news agency.
The new constituent assembly that will emerge from Tunisia's landmark elections this weekend will, without a doubt, have one of the highest percentages of female members of any Middle Eastern parliament.
Tunisian police on Sunday arrested dozens of Islamist demonstrators set on attacking the offices of a television channel that had shown the award-winning film "Persepolis," officials said.
The campaign for the first elections born of the revolts that swept the Middle East began in Tunisia on Saturday, featuring 81 political parties in a country where more than 90 percent of the vote used to be awarded to just one.
A lawyer for Libya's ex-prime minister says his client has gone on a hunger strike in a Tunisian jail to protest authorities refusal to free him even though his conviction for entering this country illegally was overturned.
A Tunisian court has granted a defense request to postpone the trial of 23 relatives and close collaborators of ousted Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali for about a week.
Tunisia's leading Islamist party announced Monday it is pulling out of a commission that is preparing the country for its first elections after the ouster of its longtime dictator in a popular revolt.
Tunisia will hold an election Oct. 23, not in July as planned, because conditions are not yet right for the first vote since the ouster of the country's autocratic president, the prime minister announced Wednesday.
Tunisian authorities have restored calm to the main border crossing with Libya after local residents clashed with refugees stranded there.
Western security officials worry crucial intelligence on terror groups in North Africa will dry up as repressive — but effective — security services are dismantled or reorganized following the Arab revolts.
A Tunisian colonel and two foreign militants were killed Wednesday during a clash near the Algerian border, the Interior Ministry said.
Libya's oil minister has defected and fled to Tunisia, a Tunisian security official said Tuesday, one of the highest profile figures to abandon Moammar Gadhafi's government.
Tunisia's government is lifting an overnight curfew instituted in and around the capital amid a resurgence of violence in street protests earlier this month.
Tunisia's government says that 58 bodies were discovered in April on the country's Mediterranean beaches, likely migrants headed to Europe in small boats that sank.
The Palestinian president said Wednesday he is opposed to another armed uprising against Israel, even if faltering peace efforts fail later this year.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Monday he hopes to reach an agreement soon with Tunisia to help halt the influx of illegal North African migrants who've been overrunning a tiny Italian island en route to mainland Europe.
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