Tunisia News

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Tunisian police arrested an imam after he delivered a sermon described as "insubordinate," the Interior Ministry said Wednesday, in the first high-profile arrest since the government began taking a harder line toward religious conservatives.

FEMEN activists this morning staged a bare-chested protest in Berlin ahead of a planned speech in the city by Barack Obama.

Tunisia's first issue of a sukuk is likely to be postponed to next year, adding to pressure on government finances, because of disruptions to legislative business.

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News emerged a few weeks ago in Arabic media that yet another fatwa had called on practicing Muslim women to travel to Syria and offer their sexual services to the jihadis fighting to overthrow the secularist Assad government and install Islamic law.

The purpose of the workshop is to find solutions to reduce money transfer costs for better development impact.

At a meeting with Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jarandi on Monday, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said that Tunisia's initiative to organize an internet freedom conference is a good example for other countries in the region to promote freedom in cyberspace as well, reported BC the Foreign Ministry of Estonia.... Read more...

A Tunisian court has sentenced six radical Islamists to five years in prison for burning a Sufi Muslim shrine in one of a spate of attacks that have highlighted rising militancy in the country that ignited the Arab Spring.

After three months on the run, the rapper hoped to overturn the conviction handed down for his song "Boulicia Kleb."

A year or two ago, it all seemed so inevitable. Just as Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had been swept from power in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak deposed in Egypt and Moammar Khadafy toppled in Libya, surely it was only a matter of time before Bashar al-Assad's cruel dictatorship in Syria ran its course.

In the magnificent Ummayad mosque of Damascus, flags of two nations on different sides of a brutal war came together, in the hands of tearful mothers.

A Tunisian court on Monday charged two musicians and a journalist implicated in violence that erupted last week at the trial of a rapper who was controversially jailed for two years for insulting the police.

Ghana striker Emmanuel Clottey has left Tunisian giants Esperance de Tunis to join United Arab Emirates Pro League side Al Dahfra, Ghanasoccernet.com can confirm.

A Libyan militant with ties to al-Qaida-linked militants has been arrested in southern Tunisia, according to the interior ministry.

Pending an audit of the banks, which is due to be completed by the end of the year, the government is weighing its options, which include reducing its stakes, recapitalising them, or merging them into a new entity.

More than 1,200 migrants reached Italy over the weekend after attempting the perilous sea passage from Africa in flimsy vessels, the Italian coast guard said on Monday.

Two and a half years after kindling a revolution that flamed across the Arab world, Tunisians have moved on to the next chapter, a political struggle between Islamic fundamentalism and the tolerant, Mediterranean-style Islam that has characterized their nation's 57 years as an independent state.

The company's new strategic direction will be focused on moving into new business areas and expanding in international markets.