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A head-on collision between two passenger trains injured 95 people Monday in the south of the Tunisian capital, emergency services said. "The injured were taken to hospitals and there were no deaths," civil defense spokesman Moez Triaa told AFP, adding that only one of the trains was carrying passengers. Most…

Last July, President Saied suspended parliament, sacked PM and further expanded his legislative and executive powers.

Thousands of supporters of the Free Constitutional Party protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied for his march towards one-man rule and failure to avert an economic crisis. The protest is the biggest by the party since Saied seized executive power last summer, according to Reuters. "Saied you are going…

Thousands of supporters of a hardline secularist Tunisian party protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied for his march towards one-man rule and failure to avert an economic crisis, showing the increasingly broad opposition to his actions.

Vast majority of Tunisians caught in Russia-Ukraine war have evacuated, and others await flights back as fighting rages.

Tunisia registered up to 28,000 coronavirus-related deaths and slightly over 1 million infections since the pandemic began two years ago, the Health Ministry reported on Thursday. The Ministry said five COVID-19 deaths and 540 infections were reported on March 8, raising the caseload to 1,018,447 and death toll to 28,009.

As Tunisia's president prepares to rewrite the constitution after dismissing parliament last year and ruling by decree, he has called for citizens' input by setting up a voluntary multiple-choice questionnaire online.

Tunisia's moderate Islamist Ennahda party said on Facebook that its senior official, Noureddine Bhairi, was freed from house arrest early on Tuesday. The Tunisian Interior Ministry had lifted the house arrest order against Bhairi, the state news agency (TAP) reported late on Monday. Bhairi was placed under house arrest due…

Tunisia is investigating press reports claiming that a number of its nationals held in Ukrainian prisons were forcibly recruited to join the fighting against Russia in the Ukraine war, a source in the Tunisian Foreign Ministry said Monday. “Tunisian authorities contacted Ukrainian ambassador in Tunisia (Volodymyr Khomanets) to request information…