20120815 AFP Tunisia's new constitution will not be adopted before February 2013, the head of the drafting committee said on Tuesday, after earlier announcing that it would be delayed until April.
20120812 AFP Tunisian women are rising up against a proposed article in the new constitution seen by many as an Islamist ploy to reverse the principle of gender equality that made Tunisia a beacon of modernity in the Arab world when it was introduced six decades ago.
20120811 AFP Tunisia is seeking a $1 billion loan from foreign donors, including the World Bank and the European Union, Investment and International Cooperation Minister Riadh Bettaieb said on Friday.
20120810 AFP Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a second anti-government protest in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, birthplace of last year's revolution.
20120807 AFP Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party, accused by opposition groups of anti-democratic behaviour, on Monday slammed the language of hostile media and strike calls that it said threatened the country's unity.
20120807 AFP Abdelfattah Mourou, a veteran member of Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party, was attacked and injured by a radical Islamist late on Sunday, the victim's son Dhiaeddine Mourou told AFP.
20120804 AFP Tunisia's economic rebound is set to continue after the turmoil and recession that swept the country last year, the IMF said on Friday, predicting 2.7 percent GDP growth this year and 3.5 percent in 2013.
20120731 AFP US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday said Washington was ready to help Tunisia develop its capacities to combat Al-Qaeda, and urged closer regional cooperation in fighting the terror network.
20120728 AFP Tunisian Finance Minister Houcine Dimassi has resigned following a disagreement with the policies of the government led by Islamist Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, an official said on Friday.
20120725 AFP Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (ANC) on Tuesday appointed Chedly Ayari as the new central bank governor, after weeks of heated debate and another stormy session in the interim parliament.
20120721 AFP Tunisia's tourism revenues, a key earner for the Arab country which were hammered by last year's political turmoil, jumped 36 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011, the government said on Friday.
20120719 AFP Tunisia's ex-strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for complicity in the murders of 43 protesters in the 2011 revolution that toppled him, a judge said on Thursday.
20120718 AFP After five days of often heated debate, Tunisia's ruling Islamist Ennahda party pledged to pursue its mission of moderation but was also seen to opt for ambiguity to safeguard "unity" in a still fragile nation.
20120718 AFP Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki vowed on Tuesday to guarantee ex-strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali security and a fair trial as he visited France in a bid to restore strained ties.
2012-07-11 Xinhua Tunisia's Communist Workers' Party has changed its name to The Tunisian Workers' Party, the party's leader Hamma Hammami announced during a press conference held on Tuesday.
20120709 AFP Tunisia's ultra-conservative Salafist Reform Front, which advocates Islamic law, or sharia, met for the first time on Sunday and urged the authorities to renounce the separation of politics and religion.
20120705 AFP A Tunisian university dean who is to face trial on Thursday for allegedly slapping a female student wearing a niqab dismissed the proceedings against him as "astonishing" and an attack on freedoms.
20120702 AFP Leila Ben Ali, the reviled wife of ousted Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, said they were ready to face trial back home but conditions for a fair hearing did not exist, in an interview published on Sunday.
20120625 AFP Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki denounced the extradition of Moamer Kadhafi's former prime minister to Libya as "illegal" late Sunday, in a broadside at his country's Islamist prime minister.
20120625 AFP General elections in Tunisia should be held as soon as possible, "maybe before March" as currently planned, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said Sunday.
