TUNISIA
Explosion near U.S. embassy in Tunisia leaves 5 hurt
TUNIS, Tunisia (WKOW) — Tunisian media are reporting that a suicide bomber on a motorcycle has set off a blast near the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Tunis. According to the Associated Press, the private Radio Mosaique said that five police officers were wounded Friday. That report could not be immediately confirmed. Police taped off …
Ben Ali: Tunisian autocrat ousted in Arab spring dies in exile | World news
The ousted Tunisian autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has died in exile in Saudi Arabia aged 83, days after a free presidential election in his homeland, his family lawyer has said. “Ben Ali just died in Saudi Arabia,” the lawyer, Mounir Ben Salha, told Reuters by phone. Ben Ali fled Tunisia in January 2011 as …
Boat with dozens of migrants capsizes off Tunisia coast | World news
Dozens of African migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia after setting off for Europe from Libya, a government source and the Tunisian Red Crescent have said. Some of the four initial survivors told the Tunisian coast guard on Thursday the boat had sunk off the town of Zarzis the day before, the Red Crescent …
Health of hospitalised Tunisian president begins to improve: adviser
FILE PHOTO: Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi holds a news conference at the Carthage Palace in Tunis, Tunisia, October 25, 2018. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi/File Photo TUNIS (Reuters) – The condition of 92-year-old Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has begun to improve, a presidential adviser told Reuters on Thursday, hours after his office said he was hospitalised …
