Tunisia

They marvelled at the protests in Tunisia, wondering if they dared to dream that this was the beginning of a new era.

Separately the meeting reacted to the unrest in the Middle East by agreeing to "stand ready to support Egypt and Tunisia" .

The Islamists did not play a role in Tunisia and in Egypt the course of events seems to have taken the Muslim Brotherhood by surprise.

One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia.

If calm is restored and genuine elections take place in the next few months, Tunisia may yet emerge as a pluralist and peaceful democracy.

Since the crises erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, the National Security Council staff has been meeting six, sometimes seven, days a week.

His initiative will give realistic solutions to ensure that Yemen does not become the next Tunisia or Egypt, ' he said.

The point is to keep people moving and not to have them camped out in Tunisia for too long.

In Tunisia , many places sell the Desert Rose gift shop, Desert Rose seems to have become the characteristics of cultural symbols Tunisia .

In an attempt to make up for complicity and dithering in Tunisia and Egypt, France has stuck its neck out over Libya.

Who can say with any confidence what sort of countries Egypt, Tunisia or Libya will be five or even two years from now?

Her comments seemed one attempt to reposition the United States, which backed Tunisia's dictatorial leader as a partner against terrorism.

"She asked me to make her a dress for a visit to Tunisia, " he said.

The question now is how much the events in Tunisia will influence people in other countries, like this man in Algeria.

The counterterrorism relationship with Tunisia, where the Arab Spring movement began, also remains strong, he said.

Tunisia is in with a good chance of having a decent democracy and a perky economy by the end of next year.

But all that failed to placate the crowds, who finally got what they wanted later in the day: a Tunisia sans Ben Ali.

In Egypt and Tunisia more professional armies refused to open fire to save their beleaguered presidents after the collapse of the police.

The North African country of Tunisia is at the vanguard of the popular, anti-government uprisings spreading across the Arab world.

Nahda (Awakening), Tunisia's main Islamist group, is the only party big enough to field male and female candidates in all constituencies.

Russian bloggers, as others around the globe, have entered into a lively discussed about the recent revolution in Tunisia.

We saw that same desire to be free in Tunisia, where the will of the people proved more powerful than the writ of a dictator.

To many in Tunisia, tolerating Ben Ali seemed like a small price to pay to avoid such a fate.

Mr Ibrahim said Mr Koussa had been granted "sick leave" last week and allowed to travel to neighbouring Tunisia for medical treatment.

Tunisia is a friendly country of China. We are ready to consolidate and develop friendly cooperation with Tunisia.

It's been a weary few months, marked with strikes and demonstrations, and big questions: How will Tunisia's version of democracy play out?

Some experts say that decision might be an attempt for Algeria to avoid uprisings like we've seen recently in Egypt and in Tunisia.

In Tunisia and Egypt, decades of suppressed workers' rights and societal inequalities are bursting to the surface.

The Bank first started investing in the sector in 1962, with a $5 million loan to Tunisia to build a few schools.

Like Tunisia, Egypt today is in flux, as a range of interest groups contend over the direction of the future.

On its own, Tunisia has done more to advance the cause of democracy than any of the west's military actions in the Middle East.

At present, Tunisia still faces unrest continues to spread social unrest continued to intensify in the grim situation.

Meanwhile oil companies are using private military groups to help scores of staff out of Libya by road to Egypt and Tunisia.

Such blended loans, with revenues helping to offset interest payments, are in place in Tunisia and Egypt.

The US did not give the location of the talks, but Libya said they had taken place on Saturday in neighbouring Tunisia.

The Delegation of Tunisia thanked the Chair for his efforts in managing that committee's work in trying to reach a consensus.

Thousands of Egyptians have also been streaming out of Libya over the western border to Tunisia.

Old house in Sidi-Bou-Said, the blue and white small town in Tunisia, Mediterranean coast, North Africa.

The most obvious outcome of Tunisia's unrest was the exit of its president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, after 23 years of rule.

No one expects him to go quietly, as the presidents of neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia did.

And the protesters might just begin to believe that after Tunisia, anything is possible.

Those images of what became known as the Orange Revolution are strikingly similar to those from Egypt and Tunisia in recent weeks.

Unlike in Tunisia and Egypt, Yemeni street protests have so far only managed to teeter on the edge of an uprising.

Everything began with the death in despair of a pauperized vegetable vendor, in a small provincial town in the hinterland of Tunisia.

Whenever it was during the Cartage times or during Islamic Dynamics times, Tunisia was the country with significance.

The Delegation of Tunisia recognized the personal contribution of the Chairman of the General Assembly .

A team from the bank is currently in Tunisia assessing its transition and possible financing needs.

If I'm a textiles analyst in Chicago or I work at a Walmart in Galveston, why should I care about what's happening in Tunisia?

COMPARED with the other upheavals across the Arab world this year, Tunisia's is still the runaway winner.

I do not know these new people, but we all knew Ben Ali and the transformation that was achieved in Tunisia.

Tunisia has a larger middle class and a higher standard of living than any of its neighbors.

In Tunisia, at a critical turning point, the Army took the side of the protesters in the street: it refused to fire on demonstrators.

Although calm has returned to much of Tunisia, there is still unrest in parts of the country.

But the administration clearly didn't want Mubarak to be chased out of office, as Zine Abedine Ben-Ali of Tunisia had been.

Tunisia now has a birth rate similar to that of France.

Tunisia can still qualify for the knockouts, but at this stage Ghana are the only African participants.

To avert this, the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia cannot be allowed to fail.

The revolution in Tunisia has put the political and economic effects of food-price inflation at the top of the international agenda.

The former president's trial is part of Tunisia's halting attempt to create a modern democracy following a month of protests.

Some protesters say they are ready to die, like hundreds did in Egypt and Tunisia, to bring about changes.

Nothing that has happened in Tunisia or Egypt makes the consequences of that decision any less calamitous.

The early demonstrations in Tunisia, then Egypt, however, were marked by a new phenomenon: the emergence of the individual.

He does not accept, for instance, that the successes of the Islamists in recent elections in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco are cause for alarm.

Mr Obama's optimistic reading of events was all every well when Tunisia and Egypt were the templates for change.

Tunisia's revolt started with younger citizens fed up with high unemployment, rising costs of living and a corrupt federal government.

What became known as the Arab Spring uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East ousted the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia.

Civil unrest first broke out in Tunisia, from where it spread quickly to Egypt, and then to Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and others.

He said his party would respect women's rights and Tunisia's pro-Western values.

Meanwhile, events in Egypt and Tunisia show democracy may indeed be spreading in the Middle East now, just as Dubya wanted.

But the children who looked at the back gave the printed answer "Presidius Akeman" to the bogus question "Who discovered Tunisia? "

Tunisia's former president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and his wife were each sentenced in absentia to 35 years for corruption and fined $66m.

Barack Obama, America's president, was right to stand behind the protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and now Libya.

"This is something that we've talked about with respect to other countries in the region, " he said, including Tunisia and Egypt.

Walker's critics are amusingly Orwellian. They liken the crowd in Madison to the ones in Tunisia and claim to be fighting for democracy.

If nothing else goes wrong, Egypt and Tunisia should be able to finance some extra spending.

After graduation, to put my skills to use, I moved to Cairo, and then to Tunisia, where I just finished working with divorced women.

The threat first arose in the U. A. E. , followed by Saudi Arabia. India, Tunisia and Lebanon all threatened to follow suit.

When fresh demonstrations broke out in Tunisia in early May, police used tear gas and live ammunition.

Acceding to crowd pressure, he has quickly reversed a two-decade ban on Tunisia's main Islamist party, and freed the last of its prisoners.

And Tunisia's constitution-framers will not ditch the section that entitles women to only half as much inheritance as men.

His move now appears to have been inspired by the political struggles in Tunisia and Ivory Coast.

The British ambassador has warned expatriates that Yemen may follow the path of Libya rather than Egypt or Tunisia.

Tehran is revelling in analogies between Egypt and Tunisia, and its own revolutionary inception.

Tunisia has Mohammed Bouazizi, the man who set himself on fire, and Egypt has Khaled Said, the victim of police brutality.

More importantly, the interests of organized foreign capital that propped up the dictatorship of Ben Ali in Tunisia are still in place.

Late in the week, there was violence in Sidi Bouzid, the city where the protests against Tunisia's longtime president began.

The move is in response to the influx of thousands of migrants fleeing the upheaval in Libya and Tunisia.

Strauss-Kahn cites Tunisia and Egypt - where economic indicators showed growth but failed to create opportunities for its citizens.

With its tourism floundering and problems such as high youth unemployment and poverty festering, Tunisia is in a fragile state.

It was only this month, after all, when Tunisia held fair and free and peaceful elections, in which a moderate Islamist party came first.

Zuckerberg's Facebook was a key spark in the spread and organization of the recent revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya.

Bombing raids by the Allies force the defenders of the Mediterranean Pantelleria Island, between Tunisia and Sicily, to surrender.

Meanwhile, the European Union should take the lead in planning for Libya's post-Qaddafi era (as well as in adjacent Egypt and Tunisia).

It also wished to endorse what had been said by the Delegation of Tunisia the day before.

The Frenchman who coaches Tunisia is the only coach to celebrate a birthday at the group stage.

If there's one thing that net-savvy activists from Tunisia to Bahrain are aware of, it's that the Internet isn't always safe .

Mohamed Bouazizi himself had no more than a high school degree and he came from a deprived family in the centre of Tunisia.

TUNISIA is small and tidy, with a large, well-educated middle class amid its 10m-plus people and a long tradition of quiet politics.

Mr Frattini wants to launch another pilot programme in his native Italy, where southern farmers might recruit workers from Egypt or Tunisia.

IF FOR nothing else, the dictators of Tunisia and Egypt must be thanked for bowing out rather than steeping themselves in blood.

Islamists in both Tunisia and Egypt may soon emerge as leading political actors. So far, however, they have taken a back seat.

Traders are trying to bring in more of them from Tunisia.

It's not just that the waiters are no longer transplants from Naples or Palermo, but immigrants from Bangladesh and Tunisia.

Tunisia -- can have elsewhere. After all, plenty of countries perform poorly on the index each year, and very few experience revolutions.

High on the agendas is how the rest of the world will help Egypt and Tunisia revamp their economies.

The spark in Tunisia of course fuelled a chain reaction leading to an awakening across the Arab world.

Now it's all the pro-Western Arab regimes which are obsolete in the light of events in Tunisia.

The promise of aid, in the form of debt relief and loan guarantees, is helping allay some fears in Egypt and Tunisia.

"Tunisia, Tunisia, the sudden . . . " rivet guns could be in a cheerful voice to sing.

Its ability to transmit these images throughout the Arab world may have given events in Tunisia and Egypt far greater regional resonance.

Those estimates put the country behind the western Europe as well as countries like Albania, Chile and Tunisia.

Unlike Tunisia, Egypt has a large, popular opposition group with a grassroots following: the Muslim Brotherhood.

In Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and elsewhere, bloggers have been jailed and even beaten as governments try to repress online expression.

In May, the Group of Eight promised $20bn of loans to Tunisia and Egypt over the next three years.

Among the reasons that protests filled the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen was lack of food.

To add to her unpopularity, her family were regarded as the ultimate symbol of corruption and excess in Tunisia.

"Extreme emergency" refers to the northwestern city of Tunisia, Kraft fatal incidents over the weekend.

Lauded as a tool of revolutionaries in Tunisia and Egypt, Facebook has surely provided a unique platform for mobilization.

Hamza spoke of the recent demonstrations in Tunisia by hard-line Islamists against unveiled women and against theatre groups and actors.

The World Bank also promised at least one billion dollars for Tunisia.

Occupy Wall Street organizers say they are inspired by the Arab Spring that led to the toppling of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt.

In Tunisia and Egypt they are going the right way, with a hopeful new mood prevailing and free elections in the offing.

Like Tunisia, Egypt is flirting with a democratic revolution, not an Islamist takeover.

Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Libya turn out to be more free than the USA. Somehow, I'm not surprised.

Sometimes quite the reverse: France was, until the very last minute, offering its security expertise to keep Tunisia's Louis XVI in power.

With the advantage of hindsight, many experts and analysts view the events that started in Tunisia and Egypt as predictable.

Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based watchdog, ranks Tunisia's press as one of the world's least free.

I grew up in France, Tunisia and Algeria.

Yesterday, a security official said Tunisia, the Libyan Oil Minister Al-Ghanim General People's Committee has come out of Tunisia.

In Tunisia, there was some form of cooperation between the Army and the people.

Shedding presidents, as in Tunisia and Egypt, is a startling and significant development, but only partial regime collapse.

The immediate consequence was to ignite a firestorm that engulfed Tunisia and the wider Middle East.

There is no way I'm going to get on a plane after what happened in Guatemala, Venezuela, Tunisia and Paris.

Most countries are now used to tourists and it certainly isn't necessary to don a sari in India or a yashmak in Tunisia .

Tunisia's new interim government says it'll recognise all banned political groups and grant amnesties to all political prisoners.

Business associations and chambers of commerce are increasingly involved in public policy in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait .

Generalised concerns about rising inflation have been given an extra edge by the events in Tunisia.

Those estimates put the country behind western Europe as well as countries like Albania, Chile and Tunisia.

France suffered humiliation in Tunisia, but seized on the Libyan revolt to set matters straight.

The two big questions now are: How quickly will Washington deliver promised economic support to the new governments in Egypt and Tunisia?

Islamists, who won Tunisia's recent elections, are now often the target of his pen.

Elections in Tunisia and Egypt have been postponed. Offers of reform in Yemen and Syria have been rejected as inadequate.

Camp residents wait in long lines for the food and water provided by Tunisia and international humanitarian organizations.

Investors have responded to Tunisia's sudden change of course by widening credit spreads throughout the region.

Egypt and Tunisia have been rules by dictators who do not care for the people.

Social networking sites were used by anti-government demonstrators to thwart censorship during pro-democracy revolts in Tunisia and Egypt.

Diversified exporters like Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia are enjoying double-digit growth, thanks to increased trade demand from Europe.

He complimented China on its remarkable progress in every field, saying that Tunisia highly appreciated it.

Egypt is big and messy, with a lot more people living in its capital, Cairo, alone than in the whole of Tunisia.

The high cost of food is one reason that protesters took to the streets in Tunisia and Egypt.

Jiang spoke highly of good relations and cooperation between China and Tunisia.

He candidly admitted to investigators that there are indeed some organized gangs smuggling illegal immigrants between Tunisia and Italy.

Several countries, including Morocco, Tunisia and Malta, have reportedly expressed interest.

Habib Bourguiba was the creator of modern Tunisia and famous in the worldwide.

Information disclosure, the French domestic opposition criticism Alliot Mali and Tunisia linked the former regime.

For freedom-aspiring citizens across the Middle East, Tunisia was akin to the first shower of rain.

Though shaky, Tunisia still feels well ahead of its rival in the Arab democratisation league, Egypt.

Banners promise to keep his memory alive and stress that Tunisia's revolution began here, in December, not in Tunis in January.

A greater percentage of Egypt's population lives below the poverty line, compared to Tunisia, making Egyptians arguably more desperate.

High unemployment rates are the main reasons for the unrest in Tunisia.

Jiang expressed the hope that the friendly relations between China and Tunisia will bear more fruitful results in the new century.

Moreover, pressure from the West, which may have helped speed change in Egypt and Tunisia, is a dead letter in Iran.

Nobody in Egypt, Tunisia or Libya is arguing for a Saudi Arabian, Iranian or even Chinese model.

Crowley said people across the region are drawing lessons from Tunisia's example.

So is the clubby coastal elite that continues to dominate Tunisia (see article, which reports a reasonably hopeful situation there).

The town lies on the main route running along the coast from Tripoli to Tunisia.

Once you saw the first protests in Tunisia, did you imagine that similar demonstrations might eventually break out in Libya?

It also includes a * coastal highway stretching across the country from Tunisia to Egypt. Mr.

As Arab revolts have recently toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, Iranian opposition leaders resumed calls to take to the streets.

And, more recently, Tunisia's Ben Ali fleeing with a ton and a half of gold.

Tunisia's prime minister has announced a transitional government that includes members of the opposition.

The common thread of this year's democracy movement from Tunisia to Iran, from Yemen to Libya, has been undaunted courage.

The next day, we were told to pack, and we thought we were on our way to Tunisia.

Then, two weeks before the demonstration, Egyptians, like Arabs everywhere, were mesmerized by the popular uprising in Tunisia.

Tunisia - Pray that Tunisian Christians called to interview with the security police will stand firm in their faith.

We were inspired by what happened in Tunisia and Egypt and we had this feeling that America was ripe for a Tahrir moment.

Africa's highest security body has recognized the speaker of Tunisia's national assembly as interim leader until fresh elections are held.

Tunisia's former president is the first deposed leader to face trial in the wake of the uprisings, but others are likely to follow.

rebels now control the main nearby crossing-point to Tunisia, though the Libyan regime still holds the coastal one.

One way to understand the significance of social media in Tunisia is to examine the government's attempts to control and silence it.

The deaths were the first amid a series of recent protests that have rocked Yemen, initially triggered by Arab revolts in Tunisia and Egypt.

The economy has certainly been hurt by the disruption following Tunisia's revolution and the strife in neighbouring Libya.

Those last steps have already been taken in Egypt, where the army, much stronger than in Tunisia, has assumed overall control.

In Tunisia , a fragile transitional unity government struggled to restore order, promising elections in six months.

In addition to Libya, Rice will visit Portugal, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco from September 4 to September 7, he said.

Tunisia's former government banned Ennahda. The party says its positions are moderate and similar to those of Turkey.

Jiang said that he felt the warmth and friendship of the Tunisian people everywhere after he arrived in Tunisia.

Muhammad, a Tunisian, works in a supermarket on the Edgware Road, London's Little Arabia. His family is still in Tunisia.

It also includes a coastal highway stretching across the country from Tunisia to Egypt.

The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and Libya are a reminder of how often foreign policy is shaped by someone else.

Besides regime-toppling protests in Tunisia and Egypt, large demonstrations have rocked Algeria, Jordan and Yemen.

In any event, Tunisia needs a financial helping hand for the next year or so.

Their greatest legacy, though, was a colony in what is now Tunisia.

They saw what was happening in Tunisia and Egypt and became very alarmed.

he quickly stepped down and ceded power to Fouad Mebazaa, the head of Tunisia's parliament.

Other gold medal winners included Cameroon, in the women's triple jump, and Tunisia, in the men's 1500-meter swimming (freestyle) race.

Meanwhile, constituent assembly elections in Tunisia were recently postponed to October.

In Tunisia, a rapacious first family indulged in widespread racketeering, alienating every social class.

Egypt's Mubarak, Tunisia's Ben Ali, and Syria's Assad built brutal (and deeply illiberal) police states with strong secularist support.

Exactly as in Tunisia, their suspiciously complete exit sparked a wave of looting, vandalism and banditry.

Other nations are also newly making a mark in science, including Iran, Tunisia and Turkey, the paper found.

The first country to oust its authoritarian ruler, Tunisia has had a bumpy road to economic recovery.

Moreover, Tunisia has a chance to set an example for the rest of the Arab world.

None predicted how quickly a flame lit in Tunisia would sweep across the Arab world.

The Council statement urged Tunisia's interim leaders to promptly organize elections to elect a successor to President Ben Ali.

Petronas is also involved in upstream activities in Algeria, Angola, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon, Niger, Sudan, South Africa, Tunisia and Lybia.

Meanwhile, refugees continue to flee the fighting to nearby camps as well as to neighboring countries, Egypt and Tunisia.

Africa's star performers are South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Botswana, Libya, Mauritius, Morocco and Tunisia.

In Tunisia, civilian politicians and technocrats quickly took the helm of the country in the wake of the revolution.

The regime isn't relying only on its security forces to stamp out any effort by Libyans to emulate Tunisia and Egypt.

But there have been signs of domestic discontent since Tunisia's popular uprising last month.

Tunisia scores high in poverty reduction, literacy, education, population control, and women's status.

Meanwhile, as in Egypt and Tunisia, Mr Qaddafi's relatives and cronies monopolised many of the most lucrative business opportunities.

A repair vessel is expected to reach the damaged sector between Sicily and Tunisia by this evening.

Libya has borders with several countries which are France's sphere of influence including Algeria, Tunisia, Niger and Chad.

He promised a dollop of cash to help countries such as Tunisia and Egypt along the road to freedom.

When I asked Ghiles for predictions about voting in Egypt and Tunisia, he said: "At this stage it's completely pointless. "

UNHCR estimates that the total number of refugees is greater than 110, 000, with 50, 000 going to Egypt and the remainder to Tunisia.

Tunisia offers a timely corrective to his corrective.

Global capital still has a strong hold over Tunisia.

And, faced with a serious loss of revenue from tourism, Egypt and Tunisia urgently want immediate cash, not long-term project aid and loans.

Instead the Libyan people have looked for inspiration and practical support to their recently liberated neighbours in Egypt and Tunisia.

It is understandable that Egypt and Tunisia had essentially not registered on the markets' traditional scale of systemic influence.

The frustration of an educated but unemployed population was key to Tunisia's revolt.

Tunisia and Egypt are an exception among Arabic states, allowing foreign tourists to swim topless on private beaches.

The literacy rate for women in Tunisia is now over 70%, though only 27% of the labour force is female.

It drew participants from Algeria, Egypt, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon.

A peninsula of northeast Tunisia extending into the Mediterranean Sea across from Sicily.

Collected here are images of the turmoil in Tunisia over the past couple of weeks.

Two weeks ago, no one could have predicted the overthrow of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's repressive regime in Tunisia.

Rage at the wealth and corruption of the ruling elite fuelled the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt.

The success of Egypt's (and Tunisia's) budding revolution remains to be seen.

Again the western media is insinuating that China will have the same chaotic situation like Egypt and Tunisia.

Flying a helicopter over southern Tunisia in 1988 in search of locust footage, he and his crew got more than they'd bargained for.

Google Trends says Chatroulette is most popular in Tunisia, followed by Norway, France, Chilli and Finland.

Whatever happens in the months ahead, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and even Syria will not be the same.

Good-bye Tunisia, good-bye Sahara desert, good-bye and I love here!

The president is not as deeply loathed as Tunisia's fallen dictator, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

Thein Sein has undoubtedly watched the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and now Gaddafi with growing horror.

Reports say the rebels attacked a post at Dehiba in the western mountains, prompting dozens of soldiers to flee into Tunisia.

By contrast the EU, apparently under pressure from France and Italy, which both have close ties to Tunisia, has kept quiet.

There was even a special website to disseminate and discuss the Tunisia-related US cables ( tunileaks. org).

Protest movements, not unlike those of Egypt and Tunisia, have surfaced in both countries.

OBSERVATION: An isolated cervical lymphadenitis was observed in a 37 year-old man living in the north of Tunisia.

The recent political unrest in Tunisia and Egypt "makes our meeting even more timely and the issues more urgent, " Clinton said.

Tunisia and Egypt, the region's revolutionary pioneers, are already running into turbulence.

But it is a more of a bellwether than Tunisia was.

With Mr. Ben Ali gone, freedom of speech is a reality in Tunisia. But double-digit unemployment and poverty remain.

But Tunisia is a peripheral interest for Washington and its allies.

Food prices are also part of economic problems to blame for the deadly riots in Tunisia.