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Tunisian court releases prominent radio director from prison
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s most popular private radio station said an appeal court has allowed its director to be released on bail from prison, after more than three months of detention. Mosaique FM announced Wednesday that its director, Noureddine Boutar, was freed after...
Tunisian leader calls meeting with Syria's Assad 'historic,' buries memories of Arab Spring
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Smiles, a handshake and what Tunisian President Kais Saied called a “historic meeting” with the long-ostracized Syrian leader Bashar Assad. The talks between the two presidents, held before the start on Friday of the Arab League summit in Saudi...
Tunisian journalist sentenced to 5 years in prison for counterterrorism reporting
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian appeals court has sentenced a journalist to five years in prison for revealing details of a counterterrorism operation and refusing to reveal his sources, according to his lawyer, prompting outcry from media rights advocates. Khalifa Guesmi’s...
Tunisia's moderate Islamist leader sentenced in absentia to year in prison
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A court has sentenced moderate Tunisian Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi to a year in prison for allegedly referring to police officers as tyrants in what his party said Tuesday amounted to a sham trial. Ghannouchi, 81, founder of the Ennahdha party, has...
Deadly Tunisian synagogue attack was premeditated and targeted temple, interior minister says
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian national guardsman behind an attack that killed five people intentionally targeted the ancient synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba in a premeditated act, Tunisia's interior minister said Thursday. Interior Minister Kamel Fekih pledged to...
Tunisia investigates guardsman's motive for killing 5 outside historic synagogue
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities opened an investigation Wednesday into a shooting attack at a synagogue that killed two Jewish pilgrims and three members of the country's security forces. The motive of the gunman, whom guards killed before he could enter the building on the island of...
Tunisian naval guard kills 3 near synagogue; 10 injured
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians Tuesday as he tried to reach a synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said. The attacker was slain by security guards, and 10...
210 migrant bodies wash up on Tunisia coast in under 2 weeks
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s coast guard says it has recovered around 210 bodies of migrants under two weeks that have washed up on the North African country’s central coastline amid an ongoing increase in migration. Preliminary examinations of the bodies indicated that the...
Tunisia rounds up migrants at sea in unprecedented numbers
OFF THE COAST OF SFAX, Tunisia (AP) — A young man wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with “Dior," women clutching babies wrapped in blankets, children bundled in winter coats. All gingerly stepped from rickety boats into the sturdy craft of the Tunisian Maritime National Guard — and away from...
Over 1,000 migrants reach Italian isle; 23 reported missing
ROME (AP) — With the return of calm seas, migrant smugglers launched dozens of boats from Tunisia during the weekend and some 1,200 people ended up on a tiny Italian island while several were reported missing at sea, the Italian Coast Guard said Monday. Coast guard officials said...
