Tunis, Tunisia News

Tunisian FEMEN activist, known by the pseudonym Amina Tyler, 19, is set to appear before a court on May 30, to face a charge of possessing pepper spray.

Partnership activities as part of the India-Africa Initiative, particularly the project of support to the Tunis-based Institut de Pasteur and the post-doctoral scholarships programme topped the agenda of the meeting, a Higher Education Ministry press release said... The Islamic Development Bank will organise, in June 2013, the first investment ... (more)

For Winnsboro native Palmer Boulware, Memorial Day holds special memories of the brave men he served with in World War II.

The Tunisian-Qatari Company of Food Industries voiced readiness to import important quantities of frozen poultry meat from Tunisia to Qatar.

A Spanish court of appeal in February responded to a request from Tunisian prosecutors and confiscated the yacht once owned by Belhassen Trabelsi, the brother-in-law of deposed Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.

Abdellatif Kechiche's film about young female lovers beautifully explores the effects class and upbringing have on romance.

This recent image from video shows Tunisian Femen activist Amina Tyler. TUNIS: A young Tunisian women's rights activist, who was arrested at the weekend while protesting against hardline Islamists, has been charged with possessing pepper spray, her lawyer said on Thursday.

Speaking on Express FM, Noureddine Achour, Director of the National Observatory of new and emerging diseases, denied today May 23, reports that there are two new cases of infection with Corona virus.

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In an evocative procession through the 'Gateway to the Sahara', Nick Redmayne embraces sun, sand, camels and couscous on a North African trek Looking me briefly in the eye for emphasis, Walid shrugged: "We thought after the revolution all the young people would have work." Walid was a 25-year-old IT graduate pressed by circumstance to make a living ... (more)

Tunisia's prosecutor ordered the arrest of the Femen activist after she tried to take off her clothes opposite Uqba Ibn Nafi Mosque.

TUNIS: Ansar Al Sharia spokesman Seifeddine Rais, detained in the Tunisian city of Kairouan at the weekend as police enforced a government ban on its annual congress, was released on bail yesterday, the Salafist group said.

Tunisia is in talks with Qatar over a deposit in Tunis' central bank "with easy conditions" Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said on Thursday.

For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities.

A novel coronavirus particle is pictured in negative stain electron microscopy in this image from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Back in March I reported deep concern for a young Tunisian Muslima who had disappeared after she posted topless photos of herself to protest the Shariah oppression and subjugation she suffered as a Muslim girl.

's religious center of Kairouan to prevent a conference by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks around the country.

A diabetic, the Tunisian man complained of breathing problems since his return from Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. and Tunisia have launched an initiative to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, boost trade and promote economic growth.

The Tunisian group Ansar al-Sharia is about as close as one could fear to being an al-Qaeda-front organization operating freely in an Arab country.