Person: Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali

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Tunisia seeks to borrow €500m from EU as US offers to guarantee loans

Tunisia is negotiating to borrow up to €500 million from the European Union, and the US has also expressed willingness to guarantee loans in 2014, the country’s finance minister told the state news agency.

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How safe is the land of the free?

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Tunisia’s Ben Ali sentenced to 35 years in jail

world

Saleh exit would plunge Yemen into uncertainty

EU divided between calls for sanctions and restraint

world

Anger as dictator Obiang picked to head African Union

Mubarak deploys army as Cairo chaos grows

EGYPT’S military deployed on the streets of Cairo to enforce a night-time curfew as the sun set yesterday on a day of rioting and chaos that amounted to the biggest challenge ever to authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year regime.

Sat, 29 Jan, 2011

Tunisia seeks to track deposed leader’s assets

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.

Thu, 20 Jan, 2011

Violence flares again in Tunisia

Riot police fired tear gas at angry protesters today as Tunisia’s prime minister defended including some of the deeply unpopular old regime in a new unity government.

Tue, 18 Jan, 2011