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Death toll from migrant shipwreck off Tunisia rises to 20

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia on Friday has risen to 20 people, most of them Syrians, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a civil protection official told Reuters on Saturday, the latest migrant ship disaster off Tunisia.

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Tunisia halts protests on avenue symbolic of 2011 revolution -reports

The governor of Tunisia's capital Tunis has banned political protests on Avenue Habib Bourguiba, a symbol of the 2011 revolution, ahead of a protest called by the opposition Workers' Party on Saturday against President Kais Saied.

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Tunisian union warns over rights after journalist detained

Tunisia's main journalism union said anti-terrorism police detained a radio reporter on Friday for refusing to reveal his sources on a story about militants, describing the decision as a new attempt to undermine press freedom.

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IMF Staff to Visit Tunisia for Talks on Possible Financing Program

A small team of International Monetary Fund staff will visit Tunisia later this month for further discussions about a possible IMF-supported financing program, the global lender said on Thursday, citing good progress in discussions to date. IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice said the visit came after several months of consultations with…

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Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Literature, Young Author, and Children’s Literature Shortlists

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), part of the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi, has announced the shortlisted entries in its Literature, Young Author, and Children’s Literature categories for the 2022 edition, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported Thursday. Together…

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Tunisians Snub Poll on Reforms as Economic Crisis Bites

Tunisian President Kais Saied, who last year grabbed power in what critics labelled a coup, has now asked voters for their political views -- but days before the online poll closes, fewer than six percent had taken part. Most people in the small North African country are more concerned with…

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Police Break Up Militant Cell in Tunisia's Tataouine

Police have broken up a militant cell linked to ISIS in the southern Tunisian city of Tataouine, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. Police said the cell was planning attacks with explosives and trying to recruit young people, according to the ministry statement. In November, police shot and wounded an…

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HRW report accuses Mali government forces of killing civilians

In tonight's edition: Human Rights Watch says that Mali's military has killed dozens of people in its crackdown on extremists. Jihadist groups are also accused of ramping up violence since December. Abuses on both sides may amount to war crimes. Plus, women from sub-Saharan Africa who live in Tunisia often…

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Tunisia Journalists Declare Public Media General Strike

The National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) announced on Monday a general strike in public media, noting that the date will be set later. SNJT Vice-President Amira Mohamed said the decision was taken in coordination with the General Federation of Information during the meetings held at the headquarters of Tunisian…

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Thousands Protest against Tunisian President on Sunday

Thousands of supporters of the Free Constitutional Party protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied for his march towards one-man rule and failure to avert an economic crisis. The protest is the biggest by the party since Saied seized executive power last summer, according to Reuters. "Saied you are going…

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Tunisian protest shows widening opposition to president's one-man rule

Thousands of supporters of a hardline secularist Tunisian party protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied for his march towards one-man rule and failure to avert an economic crisis, showing the increasingly broad opposition to his actions.

Reuters

Hundreds of Tunisians stranded in Ukraine return home safely

Vast majority of Tunisians caught in Russia-Ukraine war have evacuated, and others await flights back as fighting rages.

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Tunisia Records More than 28,000 COVID Deaths

Tunisia registered up to 28,000 coronavirus-related deaths and slightly over 1 million infections since the pandemic began two years ago, the Health Ministry reported on Thursday. The Ministry said five COVID-19 deaths and 540 infections were reported on March 8, raising the caseload to 1,018,447 and death toll to 28,009.

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Tunisia’s Saied Declares ‘War’ on Food Profiteering

Tunisian President Kais Saied declared war Wednesday on food speculators amid a shortage of products such as wheat and semolina -- key staples in a country already mired in a political-economic crisis. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has threatened supplies of basic foodstuffs, particularly wheat which many Arab countries chiefly import…

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Tunisian questionnaire on constitution is met with a nationwide shrug

As Tunisia's president prepares to rewrite the constitution after dismissing parliament last year and ruling by decree, he has called for citizens' input by setting up a voluntary multiple-choice questionnaire online.

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Tunisia’s Ennahda Party Says Its Senior Official Bhairi Released from House Arrest

Tunisia's moderate Islamist Ennahda party said on Facebook that its senior official, Noureddine Bhairi, was freed from house arrest early on Tuesday. The Tunisian Interior Ministry had lifted the house arrest order against Bhairi, the state news agency (TAP) reported late on Monday. Bhairi was placed under house arrest due…

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Tunisia Investigates Alleged Forced Recruitment of its Nationals in Ukraine War

Tunisia is investigating press reports claiming that a number of its nationals held in Ukrainian prisons were forcibly recruited to join the fighting against Russia in the Ukraine war, a source in the Tunisian Foreign Ministry said Monday. “Tunisian authorities contacted Ukrainian ambassador in Tunisia (Volodymyr Khomanets) to request information…

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Senior official from Tunisia's Ennahda party released from house arrest

A senior official from the biggest party in Tunisia's suspended parliament was released from more than two months of detention early on Tuesday, his party said.

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Tunisian President Appoints Members of New Top Judicial Council

Tunisia's president on Monday appointed a temporary replacement for the country's top judicial council, a body he dissolved last month in what his opponents called a move to consolidate his power. President Kais Saied seized executive authority last year and last month broke up the top supreme judicial council which…

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Tunisian president appoints members of temporary supreme judicial council

Tunisian president Kais Saied appointed on Monday members of a temporary supreme judicial council, a presidency statement said, after he last month dissolved the council, one of the last remaining institutions in the country able to work independently of him.

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‘We need bread’: fears in Middle East as Ukraine war hits wheat imports

Aid agencies warn of ‘ripple effect’ as soaring wheat prices hit countries already facing inflation, food insecurity and conflict

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Tunisia Foils Terrorist Attack, Woman Arrested

Tunisia's interior ministry said on Saturday that security forces had foiled a planned terrorist attack and arrested a female militant suspected of involvement. In a statement, the ministry said investigators believed the woman had planned to kidnap the children of some members of the security forces and the military to…

Reuters

Tunisia's interior ministry foils terrorist attack, woman arrested -statement

Tunisia's interior ministry said on Saturday that security forces had foiled a planned terrorist attack and arrested a female jihadist suspected of involvement.

The Independent UK

Expert Simon Calder answers your questions about international travel

From Tunisia’s must-sees to how Brexit is really affecting travel as things open up, The Independent’s travel correspondent takes reader questions

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Dubai, Canada, Tunisia, Jordan and Cyprus remove testing requirements for travellers

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