20110202
Xinhua
TUNIS, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia's new interior minister Farhat Rajhi said in a TV interview on Tuesday that the attack against the interior ministry is "a conspiracy to undermine the country."

20110202
Xinhua
TUNIS, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The recent turmoil in Tunisia has killed 147 people and wounded 510 others, the UN human rights commission chief said Tuesday.

20110128
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police stormed a protest camp on Friday, to disperse demonstrators who have held a round-the-clock sit-in for five days demanding the resignation of the interim government, witnesses said.

20110128
Reuters
(Reuters) - The Tunisian government ditched loyalists to its ousted president on Thursday -- a move which won backing from the powerful labor union and could help defuse protests which have inspired people across the Middle East.

20110128
Xinhua
TUNIS, January 27 (Xinhua) -- Anti-government protestors at the Kasbah square in Tunis have staged their fifth day of sit-in calling for the resignation of the current interim government.

20110128
Xinhua
ATHENS, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Tension rose in the Greek capital on Thursday evening over the approximately 300 illegal migrants who have been in Athens University Law School since Jan. 24, demanding legal residence status in Greece through a hunger strike.

20110125
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of Tunisians rallied on Tuesday in support of the interim government formed after the ousting of president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, but later clashed with protesters demanding a purge of former regime loyalists.

20110125
Xinhua
TUNIS, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia's interim government will compensate the families of victims in the protests that led to the overthrow of ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, said the minister of local development in the interim government.

20110123
xinhua

Tunisian authorities have put two of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's strongmen under house arrest, the official news agency TAP reported on Sunday.

20110124
xinhua

The Tunisian authority Sunday arrested a private TV station owner and his son, accusing them of "treason" for provoking violence and assisting the return of fallen President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, official TAP news agency reported.

20110124
xinhua

TUNIS, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- A TV channel owned by a relative of Tunisia's ousted former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was suspended for a few hours Sunday after its owner was arrested for "treason."

20110123
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Protesters from Tunisia's poor rural heartlands demonstrated in the capital on Sunday to demand that the revolution they started should now sweep the remnants of the fallen president's old guard from power.

20110122
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Protesters who overthrew Tunisia's president took to the streets again on Saturday to accuse his lieutenants of clinging to power and to demand new leaders now.

20110121
RFI

Demands that deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's former allies be purged from Tunisia's political life continue, as the country starts three days of mourning for those killed by security forces during the revolt that toppled him.

20110120
xinhua
TUNIS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Violence-hit Tunisia Wednesday saw peaceful protests in its capital, with hundreds chanting national anthem and displaying cartoons to demand the ruling RCD party be out of the unity government, while no clashes were reported.

20110120
xinhua
TUNIS, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- All members of the Tunisia's former ruling party RCD in the new-born interim government quit party, official TAP news agency reported Thursday.

20110118
xinhua

TUNIS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian interim president Foued Mebazaa and Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi quit Tunisia's ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally party (RCD) Tuesday, official TAP news agency reported.

20110118
xinhua

TUNIS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Tunisians took to the streets of Tunisian capital Tunis on Tuesday to protest against the new-born interim government, announced only one day before, demanding the ruling RCD party to give up power.

20110118
africanews

unisia's Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi has announced a national unity government to replace the former administration led by President Ben Ali who was ousted by a month-long anti-hunger uprising last Friday.

20110118
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's new coalition government hit trouble on Tuesday when four ministers quit and an opposition party threatened to walk out, undermining efforts to restore stability and end unrest on the streets.