Tunisia’s prime minister has named a new government after a spate of resignations that has revived questions about the country’s post-revolution direction.

Four people have died in fresh clashes in the Tunisian capital between stone-throwing protesters and police on the sidelines of demonstrations against the interim government, officials said today.

Al-Qaida’s offshoot in Yemen has urged Muslims to revolt against Arab rulers and establish governments based on Islamic law, according to an audio tape posted on militant websites.

Tunisian authorities have temporarily banned vehicle and pedestrian traffic on the capital's central boulevard after a new outbreak of clashes between police and stone-throwing protesters.

Italian authorities have intercepted a boatload of 32 people believed to be from Egypt as the wave of would-be immigrants from North Africa toward Italy’s shores continues.

Thousands of people defied an official ban on demonstrations in the Algerian capital and gathered in the city centre for an pro-reform protest today, the day after weeks of mass protests in Egypt succeeded in toppling the president.

Tunisia’s interior minister suspended all activities of the country’s former ruling party amid the most serious protests since the country’s autocratic president fled into exile.

Almost 150 people were killed and another 510 were injured in the uprising that toppled Tunisia’s president last month, the head of a United Nations mission investigating the unrest said today.

THOUSANDS turned out to welcome Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi after more than 20 years in exile, as he eyed a political future for his Ennahda movement after the fall of Tunisia’s regime.

The leader of a Tunisian Islamist party that was long outlawed by authorities has returned to his homeland after two decades in exile.

A money laundering investigation has been launched into accounts belonging to ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family, Swiss prosecutors said today.

Acil Tabbara reports from Dubai on unrest in the region and the role played by Facebook

Tunisia's prime minister appointed independents to three key posts in the country's new interim Cabinet, removing ministers from the former ruling party in a major concession to demonstrators.

Tunisia’s foreign minister announced his resignation today, state media reported, as authorities sought to quell unrest by street protesters who want to oust other allies of deposed former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Hundreds of Tunisian protesters demonstrated outside the prime minister’s office today to demand the removal of members of the ousted president’s regime still in the government.

Tunisian teachers went on strike today as part of growing protests demanding supporters of the overthrown president be kept out of the new government.

Tunisia’s once-feared police have staged a rally of their own, demanding better salaries and insisting they were not to blame for deaths among protesters who forced the North African country’s autocratic leader to flee.

Tunisia’s prime minister has pledged to quit politics after elections that he says will be held as soon as possible.

Tunisians have lowered flags and state television is playing recitations of the Koran to mourn dozens who died in protests that drove the country’s iron-fisted president from power.

Tunisia's fragile new government emerged from its first meeting today hopeful that it can reunite a country scarred by deadly riots, and calm people still seething at the party which reigned supreme for 23 years.

The Tunisian army fired warning shots in the capital today as demonstrators marched toward the ruling party’s headquarters and government ministers quit the party in a desperate attempt to keep their jobs.

Two top ministers in Tunisia’s government have quit the political party founded by the country’s ousted ruler.

TUNISIA’S interim leadership promised a “complete break with the past” and freed political prisoners yesterday in efforts to appease street protesters who want a total purge of the old guard from a unity government.

Tunisia’s new government began releasing prisoners today and moved to track down assets stashed overseas by its deposed president and his widely disliked family.

Hundreds of protesters marched through Tunisia’s capital today demanding that allies of the exiled president stop clinging to power.

FOUR ministers quit Tunisia’s day-old government yesterday, undermining its hopes of quelling unrest by sharing power with members of the opposition to the old regime.

Looting, deadly prison riots and street chaos engulfed Tunisia the day after mass protests forced its strongman to flee.

Tunisia’s president has left power for good, the president of the country’s Constitutional Court said today, declaring that the leader of the lower house of parliament would assume power until elections are held in two months.

After 23 years of iron-fisted rule, the president of Tunisia was driven from power by violent protests over soaring unemployment and corruption.

The Tunisian President has declared a state of emergency as rioters clashed with police in the capital.

New clashes have erupted in Tunisia after police opened fire and killed four people overnight, oppostition officials say.

Police and protesters clashed in the centre of Tunis today after nearly a month of violent demonstrations, posing a serious challenge to the president’s two decades of iron-fisted rule.

TUNISIA’S president has been re-elected for a fifth five-year term with 89.62% of the vote, the country’s interior ministry announced yesterday.

Tunisia’s president has been re-elected for a fifth five-year term with 89.62% of the vote, the country’s interior ministry announced today.

A bus carrying Tunisians on an excursion went off the road as it went down a hill, killing 19 people and injuring 31 others.