20110117
reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - French rights groups Sherpa and Transparency International France will file legal complaints against Tunisia's ousted president for corruption and misuse of public funds to ensure his assets in France are frozen, the groups said on Monday.

20110117
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's ministers of defence, the interior, finance and foreign affairs will keep their posts in the new government but opposition leaders including Najib Chebbi will also have posts, the prime minister said on Monday.

20110117
reuters

JEDDAH/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has taken in Tunisia's fallen strong man, but the oil wealth of the kingdom and its neighbours should ensure the poverty-driven unrest which ousted Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali does not follow him to the Gulf.

20110117
reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - Moncef Marzouki, an exiled leader of a secular Tunisian opposition party, said on Monday he was reconsidering running for election after the departure of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, calling a newly formed government a "farce".

20110117
xinhua

TUNIS, Jan. 16, (Xinhua) -- The Tunisian soldiers shot dead two gunmen in central Tunis near the interior ministry on Sunday, the state television reported.

20110117
xinhua

TUNIS, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A new government will be formed in Tunisia on Monday, Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi said on state television.

The creation of the new government will be announced on Monday, which will help the country enter a new stage, Ghannouchi said in a statement.

20110117
xinhua

TUNIS, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian TV reported Sunday evening that elements of the Tunisian army were engaged in a gun battle against guards loyal to the ousted president near the presidential palace.

20110116
reuters

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian circus troupe with about 50 animals is appealing for evacuation from Tunisia by ship after being stranded by violent street protests.

20110116
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian politicians tried to form a unity government on Sunday but the relative calm enforced by the army two days after the president was ousted was broken by a gunfight outside an opposition party headquarters.

20110115
RFI

Tunisia's parliamentary speaker Fouad Mebazzaa has been sworn in as caretaker leader after the Constitutional Council declared that Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi did not have the right to assume power.

20110115
xinhua

RIYADH/TUNIS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Saudi Arabian government confirmed early Saturday the arrival of Tunisia's ousted president and his family in the kingdom.

20110115
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Sakher Materi, the businessman son-in-law of Tunisia's ex-president, is in Dubai and a television report he is under arrest is not true, an aide told Reuters.

20110115
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - A surge of anger in the streets over police repression and poverty swept Tunisia's veteran leader from power on Friday, sending a chill through unpopular authoritarian governments across the Arab world.

20110115
reuters

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia confirmed the former Tunisian president and his family had arrived in the kingdom early on Saturday morning to stay for an unspecified period of time.

20110112
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Police fired into the air to disperse a crowd ransacking buildings in a Tunis suburb on Tuesday, the first time a wave of violent unrest that officials say has killed 23 civilians has hit the capital.

20110110
RFI

An unprecedented wave of violence in Tunisia sparked by high food prices and unemployment has killed at least fourteen people and left many more injured.

20110110
africanews

The Tunisian government announced on Sunday that eight people had been killed in a renewed unrest over unemployment that took a viral turn over the weekend.

20110107
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police have arrested a rap singer who released a song critical of government policies as protests against President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's rule shook the North African nation, his brother said on Friday.

20110103
africanews

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to pay an official visit to Tunisia on Monday at the invitation of his Tunisian counterpart, Yemen News Agency (SABA) said on Sunday.

20101219
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Police in a provincial city in Tunisia used tear gas late on Saturday to disperse hundreds of youths who smashed shop windows and damaged cars, witnesses told Reuters.