Monday, January 17, 2011

Unrest And Revolution In Tunisia -- News Updates January 17, 2011



Chaos Threatens Tunisia's Revolution -- Time Magazine

Tunisia appeared to tip towards all-out chaos on Sunday evening as fierce gun battles exploded in the heart of the capital, with the military attempting to root out thousands of well-armed militia loyal to the ousted dictator Zine Abidine Ben Ali. Two days after Ben Ali abandoned his 23-year rule and fled the country, forced out by an extraordinary month-long popular revolt, the street battles topped a tautly tense weekend, in which the country seemed perched between armed conflict and near-normality.

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More News On The Unrest In Tunisia

Tunisia awaits new unity govt, unrest continues -- Yahoo News/AP
Security forces use water cannon on Tunis protest -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Tunisia in turmoil amid power vacuum -- Yahoo News/AFP

Tunisia crisis: live updates -- The Guardian
Live: Tunisia turmoil after government falls -- BBC

Clashes in Tunisia as key figures arrested -- The Age
Tunisia unrest: Renewed anti-government protests -- BBC
Tunisian protesters in fresh clashes with security forces -- The Guardian
Authorities Struggle to Take Control in Tunisia -- New York Times

Former Tunisia government figures arrested, new Cabinet to be named -- L.A. Times
Tunisia's Prime Minister Expected To Announce New Government Soon -- Radio Free Europe
Tunisian leaders bid to fill power vacuum -- AFP
Tunisians await new government -- Al Jazeera

In shell-shocked Tunisia, armed groups now patrol the streets -- Christian Science Monitor
Residents of Tunis 'unable to leave homes' -- BBC

France in a fluster over Tunisian crisis -- BBC
France Has Adminsitrative Block on Ben Ali Assets, Lagarde Says -- Bloomberg Businessweek
France Seen Wary of Interfering in Tunisia Crisis -- New York Times

Ben Ali clan fled Tunisia with 1.5 tonnes of gold: report -- Ahram Online
Ben Ali's hated in-laws looted Tunisia's wealth, experts say -- Ahram Online
Greed of the Tunisian president's wife that drove a nation onto the streets to start a revolution -- The Daily Mail

Arab world discontent -- Mail & Guardian
Tunisia: economic implications -- Financial Times
Tunisia: A media led revolution? -- Noureddine Miladi, Al Jazeera
Tunisia: Will there be a domino effect? -- BBC
Analysis: Tunisia - first popular uprising in Arab world -- Zvi Mazel, Jerusalem Post
TIMELINE-Tunisia in crisis after Ben Ali ousted -- Reuters

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