Tunisia's president says all can express views on new political system

Everyone in Tunisia will have a chance to express their views on plans for a new political system before a panel gives directions for constitutional reforms, President Kais Saied said on Monday.
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Spike in migrants under 18 reaching Italy from Tunisia

A record number of irregular migrants under 18 years old reached Italy from Tunisia last year, more than quadrupling in four years, a rights group said Wednesday.
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Tunisia releases ex-justice minister from house arrest

A former justice minister and senior figure in Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, under house arrest since December, was released on Tuesday but remains under investigation on "terrorism" charges, the government said.
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Tunisia sentences 16 to death over 2016 attacks

A Tunisian court sentenced 16 people to death in the first judgments against jihadists involved in 2016 attacks near the Libyan border that left scores dead, media reported Saturday. A total of 96 people stand accused in the trial relating to the March 2016 events that saw the town of Ben Guerdane become the stage of a bloody battle as members of the Islamic State group's Libya branch staged a series of deadly attacks.
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Six African countries to receive mRNA vaccine technology in WHO project

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that six African countries - Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia - would be the first on the continent to receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines.
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Tunisian president dissolves top judicial watchdog, accuses it of bias

Tunisian President Kais Saied has dissolved a major independent judicial watchdog, he said Sunday, accusing it of bias and working for special interests.
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Detained Tunisian politician hospitalised 'in critical condition'

Detained Tunisian politician Noureddine Bhiri has been rushed to hospital in a "critical condition", activists and lawmakers said on Sunday. Bhiri, a 63-year-old former justice minister and deputy president of the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party opposed to President Kais Saied, was arrested on Friday.
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Film festival offers Tunisian inmates rare escape

The prestigious Carthage Film Festival offered the prisoners the chance to briefly escape confinement - under police supervision - to help make a documentary about the festival.
"To be free, even for a while - nothing is more beautiful," said one of the inmates, who gave his name as Nemss.
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Tunisian lawmaker detained over suspected tax fraud, money laundering

A Tunisian court on Sunday ordered a lawmaker to be detained over suspected tax fraud and money laundering - the fourth parliamentarian to be taken into custody since President Kais Saied seized near total control of the country in July.
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Tunisia president appoints new govt nearly 3 months after power grab

Tunisia's President Kais Saied appointed a new government Monday, 11 weeks after firing the last one in a controversial power grab, as the country faces acute economic and political crises.
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Tunisian police re-arrest MP hostile to President Saied

Tunisian lawmaker Seifeddine Makhlouf, an outspoken critic of President Kais Saied, has been re-arrested, for "undermining the dignity of the army", his lawyer told AFP on Wednesday.
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Tunisia president takes new powers, says will reform system

Tunisian President Kais Saied has put in place special measures for wielding legislative and executive power, the presidency said on Wednesday, without elaborating.
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Tunisian man dies after setting himself ablaze

A Tunisian man suffered died in hospital on Saturday after setting himself on fire, witnesses and medics said, days after another burned himself alive to protest living conditions.
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