| 5,904,690 |
33.13783 |
11.21965 |
Tunisia |
|
Residents of Tunisia's two main border crossings with Libya staged a general strike Tuesday to protest what they say is excessive force by police during clashes over the weekend that left one person dead. Protesters demanded development, cancelling the toll on Libyan arrivals, as well as investigating the recent events in the area where a protester was killed in clashes with police. |
| 5,904,695 |
32.92967 |
10.45177 |
Tunisia |
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Residents of Tunisia's two main border crossings with Libya staged a general strike Tuesday to protest what they say is excessive force by police during clashes over the weekend that left one person dead. They said only the emergency services, chemists and bakers were working in the Tatouine area, and an AFP journalist said Ben Guerdane near the Ras Jedir border post was also paralysed. |
| 5,904,700 |
35.07485 |
8.90575 |
Tunisia |
|
Having located a number of hideouts where terrorists are holed up in mounts Salloum and Samama (in the governorate Kasserine), the army shelled, Thursday, these positions with artillery and fighter-bombers, spokesperson of the National Defence Ministry lieutenant-colonel Belhassen Oueslati announced. Special force units were sent on the spot and are now conducting a large combing operation of the area, the spokesman added in as statement to TAP. |
| 5,904,705 |
35.31804 |
8.8523 |
Tunisia |
|
Having located a number of hideouts where terrorists are holed up in mounts Salloum and Samama (in the governorate Kasserine), the army shelled, Thursday, these positions with artillery and fighter-bombers, spokesperson of the National Defence Ministry lieutenant-colonel Belhassen Oueslati announced. Special force units were sent on the spot and are now conducting a large combing operation of the area, the spokesman added in as statement to TAP. |
| 5,904,709 |
36.81897 |
10.16579 |
Tunisia |
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415 people were arrested in a vast security campaign launched by police units across the country. |
| 5,904,713 |
36.82772 |
10.08913 |
Tunisia |
|
Unidentified persons, early on Sunday, attacked the seat of the Douar Hicher delegation using molotov cocktails. |
| 5,904,717 |
33.15 |
11.56667 |
Tunisia |
|
Some people from Ben Guerdane tried to block the border post of Ras Jedir, demanding the closure of border passage until that commercial activities will not resume and border tax removed. |
| 5,904,721 |
33.13783 |
11.21965 |
Tunisia |
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The circulation of people and vehicles across the Ras Jedir border post is almost entirely blocked due to a sit-in in the border town of Ben Guerdane. Protesters continues to demand that the resume of commercial activities and the removal of a border tax. |
| 5,904,725 |
33.13783 |
11.21965 |
Tunisia |
|
The circulation of people and vehicles across the Ras Jedir border post is almost entirely blocked due to a sit-in in the border town of Ben Guerdane. Protesters continues to demand that the resume of commercial activities and the removal of a border tax. |
| 5,904,731 |
35.16758 |
8.83651 |
Tunisia |
|
Four National Guard officers were killed in a terrorist attack in the town of Boulaaba, in the governorate of Kasserine. A group of 20 terrorists attacked a patrol of the National Guard," two kilometres (1.2 miles) from Kasserine, which lies at the foot of Mount Chaambi. The gunmen opened fire at a police car, killing the four policemen, and fled with their weapons. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assault, but a Twitter account close to Okba Ibn Nafaa praised the attack. |
