20110817
Reuters
RAS JIDR, Tunisia (Reuters) - Five months after Sudanese worker Mohammed Hassan fled civil war in Libya he is still stranded in a tent city just across the border in Tunisia.

20110816
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian security forces used tear gas and truncheons on Monday to disperse a crowd of protesters in the capital demanding that the government step down for failing to prosecute supporters of the ousted president.

20110813
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's feared former security chief was acquitted on Friday on charges of forging passports to help relatives of the deposed Tunisian leader and his wife escape with cash and jewellery.

20110714
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian soldiers fired in the air to break up clashes between hundreds of young people in the southern city of Gafsa on Wednesday, residents and local media said.

20110629
xinhua
TUNIS, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of lorry trucks loaded with rice and flour were queuing up at dawn on Tuesday at the Ras El Jedir crossing border point to receive customs clearance before entering Libya, the official TAP press agency reported.

20110629
xinhua
TRIPOLI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Six powerful explosions struck the eastern suburb of Tajuraa in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, a Xinhua correspondent said.

20110627
xinhua
TUNIS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns said his country will spare no efforts to support Tunisia's transition, TAP reported on Monday.

20110627
xinhua
TUNIS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Between 14,000 to 18,000 people will be excluded from Tunisia's elections for the Constituent Assembly due to be held on Oct. 3, 2011, the official TAP press agency reported on Monday.

20110626
xinhua
TUNIS, June 25 (Xinhua) -- A court in Tunis has doubled the sentence against Imed Trabelsi, the former nephew of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, sentencing him to four years in prison and a 3,000 dinar (about 2,200 USD) fine, for drug abuse, the state-run press agency TAP reported on Saturday.

20110625
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Tunisia, whose demonstrations inspired the so-called 'Arab Spring' uprisings across the region, on Friday became the first North African state to join the International Criminal Court (ICC).

20110621
Xinhua
TUNIS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia's interim Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi on Monday received Omrane Boukraa, Libya's Arab affairs Secretary General at the external communication committee, the official state agency TAP reported.

20110620
Xinhua
TUNIS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The trial in absentia of former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, began on Monday in Tunis, the state-run press agency TAP reported.

20110619
Xinhua
TUNIS, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian interim President Fouad Mebazaa Saturday met with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of Libya's rebel National Transitional Council (NTC), the state-run TAP press agency reported.

20110618
Xinhua
TUNIS, June 17 (Xinhua) -- A Tunisian military magistrate has begun extradition procedures against former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the official press agency TAP reported on Friday.

20110614
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - Former Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia in January, will be tried in absentia on June 20, Tunisia's interim prime minister said on Monday.

20110613
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - About 150 people protested in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Sunday, demanding the release of Samir Feriani, a police employee who was jailed after he publicly criticised the Interior Ministry.

20110604
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 90 wounded after rival clans clashed over access to jobs in the central Tunisian mining town of Metlaoui, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

20110601
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - The Tunisian army and navy are trying to rescue 700 people trapped in a fishing boat that broke down 20 km (12.4 miles) from the Tunisian island of Kerkennah, the Tunisian state news service TAP reported on Tuesday.

20110601
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - Qatar has frozen assets belonging to deposed Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family, a spokesman for the Tunisian Justice Ministry said on Tuesday.

20110526
Reuters
LA BAULE, France (Reuters) - Tunisia, touch-paper for unrest that swept the Arab world, will suffer rising unemployment through most of 2011 as the economy struggles to grow, Employment Minister Said Aidi told Reuters on Wednesday.