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| TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia said on Thursday its economy grew 4.8 percent in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2011, when weeks of protests ousted veteran leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and hit the economy. Gross domestic product in the North African country was up a more modest 1.2 percent compared to the last quarter of 2011. Tunisia's economy shrank 1.8 percent in 2011 as ... |
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| Tunisia said Tuesday it will soon extradite Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his homeland, after detaining the former Libyan prime minister for eight months. |
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| Standard & Poor's dropped its rating for Tunisia by one notch on Wednesday to a speculative 'BB/B' level due to political uncertainty and weaker economic outlook. |
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| ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Tunisia plans to issue $300 million to $350 million in debt guaranteed by the U.S. government in July, a finance ministry official said on Wednesday, as it taps international debt markets for the first time in five years. "The maturity is highly likely to be seven years. We have not yet decided which banks to mandate but they will be international," Chaker Soltani, director ... |
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's on Wednesday cut its sovereign credit rating on Tunisia to junk with a two-notch downgrade to BB, citing weaker-than-expected economic, fiscal and external debt indicators despite overall political stability. The rating outlook for Tunisia is now considered stable, S&P said in a statement. The Arab Spring protests that erupted in Tunisia in January 2011 and ... |
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| TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's justice minister said on Tuesday he suspected Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was still benefiting from funds stashed abroad 16 months after his overthrow and urged Saudi Arabia to extradite the former president for trial. Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia as protests engulfed Tunisia on January 14 2011, has been sentenced in absentia to decades in jail on charges ranging ... |
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| Libya's former prime minister will only be extradited to his country if his life isn't in danger there and he can be guaranteed a fair trial, Tunisia's presidential spokesman said Wednesday. |
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| KAIROUAN, Tunisia (Reuters) - Waving black flags embossed with Islamic verses, thousands of radical Islamists rallied in the central Tunisian town of Kairouan on Sunday to demand a wider role for religion in a country long considered one of the Arab world's most secular. Draping their banner from the town's ancient mosque, supporters of Ansar al-Sharia, or the Partisans of Islamic Law, one of ... |
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| TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia will extradite former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's prime minister to Libya and the handover could take place in "days or weeks", Justice Minister Noureddine Bouheiri said on Tuesday. Should he be handed over, Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi would be the first senior official to be sent back for trial under Libya's transitional leadership and his extradition could ... |
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