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Tunisia's 3rd largest parliamentary bloc to back Essebsi

Tunisia's Free Patriotic Union party – which has the third largest bloc in parliament – has said it would throw its weight behind presidential candidate Beji Caid Essebsi of the centrist Nidaa Tounes party in a runoff vote slated for late December. "We call on supporters to vote for...

Turkish President: West ignores our cultural heritage

(Anadolu Agency)- Turkey cannot accept hegemons writing the history of the arts and the sciences, and even the Nobel Prize is not awarded objectively, said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday. "We cannot abandon our cinema, literature and art. Turkey...

Ex-Bourguiba minister elected Tunisia parliament speaker

  Tunis (AFP)- Tunisia’s first parliament since the 2011 revolution on Thursday elected veteran politician Mohamed Ennaceur, 80, of anti-Islamist party Nidaa Tounes as house speaker. Ennaceur, the sole candidate, won 174 votes from the 214 MPs in attendance. In a brief...

Egyptian court sentences 185 to death for attack on police

(Reuters) - An Egyptian judge sentenced 185 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death on Tuesday over an attack on a police station near Cairo last year in which 12 policemen were killed. The ruling is preliminary and subject to a lengthy appeals process. It also goes to the...