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1 hr ago | International Business Times

British Holidaymakers Shun Spain for Adventure [SLIDESHOW]

Research carried out by the LV travel insurance revealed that the number of Britons picking Spain as a holiday destination has dropped by 18 percent in the past five years.

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5 hrs ago | WMDT

Minister: Armed gang in Tunisia had al-Qaida links

Tunisia's interior minister says an armed group that has clashed with Tunisian forces in the south of the country has links to al-Qaida. Tunisian forces caught up with a three-man armed militant cell on Feb.

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5 hrs ago | The Washington Post

Armed group stopped in southern Tunisia had al-Qaida links, interior minister says

Tunisia's interior minister says an armed group that has clashed with Tunisian forces in the south of the country has links to al-Qaida. Tunisian forces caught up with a three-man armed militant cell on Feb.

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6 hrs ago | Arutz Sheva Israel News

Egyptian Report: Mossad Now More Active in Tunisia

An Egyptian research institute reports that following the Tunisian revolt the Mossad has renewed its activity, and is monitoring PA Arabs and The Islamic Movement in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia.

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11 hrs ago | AllAfrica.com

Tunisia: World Bank Support to Country 'Resolute', Says Visiting Vice President

Tunis - The World Bank expressed its strong commitment to supporting Tunisia's democratic transition in discussions that wrapped up yesterday about the financial and technical support the institution can offer to help Tunisia's economic recovery and its drive to strengthen governance and foster social and economic inclusion.

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13 hrs ago | Ghanamma.com

Tunisia: To Build a Better Interior Nation May Need Better Maps, Experts Say

Hear the term - geospatial information technology - and at first blush you'll think of it as an obscure field.

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13 hrs ago | Ghanamma.com

Tunisia: Nato Ships Drop Anchor in Nation

A NATO naval minesweeping group docked yesterday at the harbor of La Goulette, a northern suburb of Tunis, in an operation aiming to enhance mutual relations between NATO and countries of the Mediterranean like Tunisia.

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15 hrs ago | PR-inside.com

Leoni denies closure of its Tunisian plant in Mateur North

Leoni, the leading provider of cables and cable systems to the automotive sector and other industries, has not closed its Tunisian plant in Mateur North and will not do so.

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15 hrs ago | Ghanamma.com

Tunisia: Nation Still Undecided Over Form of Government for New Democracy

Nearly four months after Tunisia elected a corps of delegates to write the country's new constitution, these representatives are no closer to reaching agreement on one of the most fundamental tenets of such a document: what form of government will define Tunisia's future? The process of drafting the new Tunisian constitution will begin on February ... (more)

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15 hrs ago | Ghanamma.com

Tunisia: Locals Take to the Streets in Support of Syrian People

Approximately 1500 Tunisian and Syrian men and women crammed onto the landing in front of the iconic municipal theater in the heart of downtown Tunis today to denounce the Assad regime's bloody crackdown on Syria's pro-democratic protest movement.

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17 hrs ago | AME Info

Hotelier Millennium delays Tunisia, Egypt and Syria expansion

Global hospitality chain, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels has suspended plans for hotels in Egypt, Syria and Tunisia, The National has reported.

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Sun Feb 12, 2012

Malaysia News

Pragmatism will prevail

Last week, I found myself in Paris, engaged in a long two-day discussion with my French colleagues and counterparts over the question of where the Arab Spring is heading.

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Springer

Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management

During the last decade, Knowledge Discovery and Management has been an intensive and fruitful research topic in the French-speaking scientific community.

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Daily Times

Arabs seek joint UN-Arab peacekeeping force for Syria

'The resolution called for opening communication channels with the Syrian opposition and providing all forms of political and material support to it,' according to the final resolution drawn up at a meeting in Cairo.

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Ynetnews

Tunis to host meeting on Syria

Tunisia will host a meeting of the "Friends of Syria" which will group nations seeking to build an international agreement on how to end violence in Syria, Arab ministers said on Sunday.

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Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Through the Lens: Violence in Syria

Syrians living in Amman, Jordan, light vigil candles in front of the Russian Embassy on Tuesday.

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Free Republic

Tunisia: Tataouine, the Setting of Star Wars, Covered in Snow

Residents of the southern Tunisian towns of Tataouine and Matmata, small desert cities that furnished the setting for Star Wars movies, woke up to an unusual sight today: snow.

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Sat Feb 11, 2012

The Guardian

A Star Wars break in Tunisia, family cycling and the best hot springs

Head to the desertscape of Tunisia; easy bike ride routes in Devon and Yorkshire; and Europe's most spectacular geothermal pools film, and where better to celebrate it than in the otherworldly desertscape of southwest Tunisia, where much of the movie was shot? The Dar HI hotel, with its startling architecture, makes a suitably futuristic base for ... (more)

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Reuters

Tunisian secular parties merge to face Islamists

Five secular Tunisian parties merged on Saturday in an attempt to create a rival to Ennahda, the moderate Islamist party that swept to power in the first free elections last year.

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The Huffington Post

Maytha Alhassen: Please Reconsider the Term "Arab Spring"

As we come upon more than a year of cascading revolutions and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa/Maghreb , it is worth critically examining the way we in the West have come to describe these revolutions, resistance movements and uprisings in the region.

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