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Headline Title:  Activist: ‘Zimbabwe government increases repression following Arab Spring’ 25 May 2012 Hope that the wave of popular uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa would spread south and translate into widespread social reforms was quashed over the last yea...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- The prosecutor in a military tribunal has demanded the death penalty for Tunisia's former dictator over his role in the deaths of protesters during the popular uprising that overthrew him a year ago....

Libya’s former prime minister will be extradited to his country only if his life is not in danger there and he can be guaranteed a fair trial, Tunisia’s presidential spokesman said Wednesday.

Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries, according to a new study commissioned by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

TUNIS  - Tunisia will extradite former Libyan prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, held since his arrest last September, but was still awaiting "guarantees" of a fair trial in Libya, officials said Tuesday. "The extradition decision has been taken," a justice ministry official told AFP. "There are only the procedures to complete with the Libyan authorities." However a spokesman of ...

Tunisia will extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi — currently being held in Tunis — back to Libya,officials said today.

Ex-prime minister Ali Al-Mahmoudi to be handed over to Libya within "days or weeks," Tunisia's justice minister says.

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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged people in Saudi Arabia to follow the example set by popular revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and rise up.

wasimkadak writes in with an interview with Anonymous member "Commander X" in which he talks about how the hacktivists are the most powerful group on the planet. "Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, away from the prying eyes of law enforcement. It's ...

No more than 500 pilgrims attended religious festival celebrated a month after Passover at one of Africa's oldest synagogues.

An independent United Nations expert today urged the Tunisian Government to ensure that human rights, especially the right to education, are kept at the heart of the historic reforms taking place in the North African nation.

Although the early uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt were markedly secular and free of ideology, it was Islamists in both countries that swept the board in recent parliamentary elections. Where did it go wrong for Arab liberal secularists? How can they reconnect with the masses?

The owner of a Tunisian TV station is fined for showing a controversial and award-winning animated film, Persepolis.

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Syria is in a civil war, and there is no unified popular uprising as there was in Tunisia and Egypt. Instead, a divided country is at war with itself. The opposition could suddenly seize power with the assistance of foreign military forces and a slaughter of civilians by both sides could ensue.

The USA's group for the London Olympics also includes Tunisia and two teams to be determined.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Olympic men's basketball champions United States have drawn Argentina, France and Tunisia in Group A at the London Games.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) The U.S. will play Argentina, France and Tunisia in the first round of the Olympic men's basketball tournament in London.

TUNIS — Upstairs, Ibrahim Amara and his friends gather around the computer to watch YouTube preachers offering a vision of Islam that rejects democracy and elections. “Democracy’s freedom is absolute,” Ibrahim says, “and we don’t accept that. In our religion, freedom is limited to the freedom God gives you.” Read full article >>

A major Chinese railway company is seeking business opportunities in Tunisia, notably under the framework of a cooperation deal with a Turkish partner.

... We suggest this one: our second take on the role of the Web and social media in the revolutions in the Middle East. Last year we sent a talented and perceptive writer, John Pollock, to Egypt and Tunisia to investigate the role social media really played in the beginning of the Arab Spring. Today we publish John's follow-up on the subject: an inside look at how civilians in Libya us...

Belhassen Trabelsi has released a letter saying he wants to clear his name before ‘any judicial proceeding’ in his home country

In Tunisia and other countries that toppled governments in the Arab Spring, new regimes are struggling to impose order on the chaos left behind.

The "Arab Spring" is now over one year old. In much of the popular analysis over the past year the term "Arab Spring" has become the defining characteristic of the "new" Middle East emerging from decades ofauthoritarian and repressive rule. However, one should be cautious about inflating the importance of the democratic uprisings in several Arab countries in shaping the future contours of the ...

FRESH fighting has erupted in western Libya, killing at least two people near the border with Tunisia, a hospital official said.

Fresh fighting has erupted in west Libya after two days of deadly clashes near the border with Tunisia but there are no reports of new casualties.

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The more scientists discover about desert ants, the more impressive they seem. Decades of research have established that ants use path integration – an innate form of mental trigonometry – in order to navigate the visually featureless environments that are the salt pans of Tunisia. They do this by calibrating a mental clock based on the motion of the sun, which they combine with a “mental ch...

Moncef Marzouki, the President of Tunisia is offering Syria's President Assad asylum and a 'safe haven' in the north African country.

TARIQ RAMADAN I last travelled to Tunisia almost 25 years ago. Zine Al Abidine Bin Ali and his regime had forbidden me entry; the Swiss authorities warned that: “an accident might happen at any time.” Now, as my flight winged south, my feelings swung between pleasure and apprehension. Pleasure at returning to a country I’d come to love and appreciate; pleasure, most of all, at ...

TARIQ RAMADAN I last travelled to Tunisia almost 25 years ago. Zine Al Abidine Bin Ali and his regime had forbidden me entry; the Swiss authorities warned that: “an accident might happen at any time.” Now, as my flight winged south, my feelings swung between pleasure and apprehension. Pleasure at returning to a country I’d come to love and appreciate; pleasure, most of all, at ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advised an audience in Tunisia on Saturday to "not pay attention" to the comments made by candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination, saying the often overheated rhetoric of the campaign doesn't reflect U.S. policy....

The UK is to officially recognise the Syrian National Council as a "legitimate representative" of the country, William Hague announces as he attends a major meeting in Tunisia.

Nassridine Ben Saida, publisher of the daily newspaper 'Attounissia was arrested last month in Tunisia.

Nassridine Ben Saida, publisher of the daily newspaper 'Attounissia was arrested last month in Tunisia.

A major world conference will be held in Tunisia to seek a breakthrough in the increasingly bitter Syrian unrest.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Thursday that China will not attend the Friends of Syria conference to be held Friday in Tunisia.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has planned a trip to North Africa that will include a major conference in Tunisia on Syria's future.

With an Arab League proposal for a U.N.-authorized peacekeeping mission failing to gain traction in the U.N. Security Council, France and Turkey today revived the moribund proposal for the establishment of a humanitarian aid corridor in Syria. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who first floated the idea in November, will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tomor...

Throughout an 11-month uprising, how has Syria's leader outlasted his peers in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere?

Ghana squeezed through to the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals with a 2-1 win over Tunisia on Sunday following goalkeeper Aymen Mathlouthi's dreadful mistake in extra time.

A hard working Black Stars team benefited from Mathlouthi's goalkeeping error to earn a date with Zambia in the 2012 AFCON semifinals.

Con un rotondo 3-0 sul Sudan, lo Zambia ha conquistato la qualificazione alle semifinali di Coppa d'Africa. Avanti anche il Mali di Keita, che supera ai rigori il Gabon.

Tunisia will need to secure $5 billion in external financing this year to fill the gap in its balance of payments as well as refinancing some of its debt, the central bank governor said.

The African Nations Cup provided a double helping of last-minute drama on Friday as Tunisia beat Niger 2-1 and co-hosts Gabon stunned Morocco 3-2 to reach the quarter-finals.

Exactly one year ago, inspired by an uprising in Tunisia, ordinary Egyptians took to the streets to call for democratic change and to demand the fall of the regime.

ASK AROUND and the consensus is that Libya’s best player is the midfielder Tariq al-Taib. He has twice finished in the top 10 of the voting for African Player of the Year, had successful stints in Tunisia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and captained the national side the last time they reached the finals of the Cup of Nations, in 2006. When Libya walk out at the Estadio de Bata this evening to face ...

Return of embezzled billions will require teams of experts, writesEILEEN BYRNEin Tunis

The year 2011 will be remembered for a number of significant political events. "Arab Spring," regime change in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. The debt crisis in Europe and the accident at the nuclear power plant in Japan had political implications. The world has lost a prominent dictator and terrorist No. 1. Norway shuddered at the actions of Breivik

Rick Perry was the real deal. Tim Pawlenty was the candidate to watch. Columnist Doyle McManus confesses his year's errors and omissions (and a couple of things he got right).A year ago, soon after the Tunisian uprising, I demonstrated my powers of prediction in a column about the democracy movement in the Arab world. The revolution in Tunisia, I wrote, "arose from local circumstances that don'...

The challenges in Libya are far greater than those faced by its neighbours in Tunisia and Egypt

Tunisia presented a coalition government that gives key ministries to a moderate Islamist party that dominated the country's elections.

GENEVA (AFP) - At least 106 journalists were killed in 2011, among them 20 who reported on the Arab spring uprisings, a campaign group said on Monday. More than 100 others were attacked, intimidated, arrested and wounded in countries including Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen, the Geneva-based Press Emblem… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

GENEVA (AFP) - At least 106 journalists were killed in 2011, among them 20 who reported on the Arab spring uprisings, a campaign group said on Monday.More than 100 others were attacked, intimidated, arrested and wounded in countries including Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen, the Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign said. Mexico and Pakistan were the most dangerous countries to work in howe...

Release Time:  For Immediate Release President Obama called Tunisia’s interim Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali today to congratulate him on his appointment and to underscore America’s strong support for Tunisia’s democratic transition.  The President and the Prime Minister discussed the importance of continued progress on meeting the ...

Time magazine names "The Protester" its Person of the Year for 2011, citing global protests from Tunisia to Moscow to Wall Street.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The first cinematic output covering protests in Egypt and Tunisia this year recreates the euphoria of revolutions that many thought would never happen, but reveals signs of the conflicts that lay ahead over Islamist groups.

The wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair (pictured) launched an outspoken attack on equality in Britain, saying even Tunisia had done better.

Tunisian authorities have extended the North African nation's state of emergency for the rest of the year.

Recent social unrest in places like Tunisia highlights why countries should not disregard people's desire to share in the benefits of economic growth.

The trial in Tunisia over the broadcasting the animated Iranian film "Persepolis" was cut short Thursday after an uproar in the courtroom.

Following their political upheaval early this year, Egypt and Tunisia have launched new campaigns trying to boost their tourism markets and put a positive spin on the revolutionary movement that swept the region.

(I am not a big fan of counterfactual thinking, but in this particular case it does help to generate new insights.) So let's assume that the protests in Tunisia had eventually gone the way of the Green Revolution in Iran: the government stayed in power, regrouped, and began a massive crackdown on its opponents. As we know from the post-protest crackdown in Iran, the Internet has proved a very...