Tunisian Islamist movement denies accusations of terrorist financing, money laundering

07 july 2022 - 18:38:45
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The spokesperson of the Tunisian Islamist Movement (Ennahdha), Imed Khemiri, refuted here Thursday accusations of suspected [...] Full text...

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Television, radio stations closed down in Tunisia

27 october 2021 - 20:41:33
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Three weeks after the television channel "Zitouna", close to the Islamist movement Ennahdha, two other stations, [...] Full text...

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Former Tunisian presidential candidate arrested over tax evasion charge

24 december 2020 - 15:58:44
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Former Tunisian presidential candidate in the 2019 election and head of Qalb Tounes (In the Heart [...] Full text...

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Tunisian journalists association denounces colleague Ben Brik's one-year prison sentence

25 july 2020 - 13:47:10
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) strongly condemned, in a statement issued on Friday, the [...] Full text...

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Tunisian Journalist Taoufik Ben Brik sentenced to one year imprisonment

24 july 2020 - 15:45:06
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Correctional Chamber at the Ben Arous Court of First Instance in Tunisia has sentenced writer [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigns

15 july 2020 - 21:37:21
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh Wednesday tendered his resignation letter to President Kais Saeid over allegations [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: Youssef Chahed hands over to Elyes Fakhfakh

28 february 2020 - 18:31:04
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Outgoing Tunisian Prime Minister, Youssef Chahed, on Friday in Tunis handed over the reigns of government [...] Full text...

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Tunisian new Prime Minister announces his cabinet

20 february 2020 - 12:52:31
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - After intense negotiations with political parties, twists and turns and a suspense worthy of a Hitchcock [...] Full text...

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Tunisian President takes steps to appoints a new PM

11 january 2020 - 19:41:26
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kais Saied has taken constitutional steps to appoint a new, fittest figure to form [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: Reactions after new government's failure in parliament

11 january 2020 - 09:49:12
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - In a statement issued late Friday after the adjournment of the parliamentary session during which the [...] Full text...

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2ND LEAD: Tunisian Parliament passes no confidence vote in new government

11 january 2020 - 00:20:56
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Parliament Friday evening refused to give its confidence to the new of Habib Jemli, [...] Full text...

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Uncertainty hangs over Tunisian parliament's vote on new government

10 january 2020 - 12:18:01
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - After lengthy political negotiations, the Tunisian Parliament began a plenary session on Friday on a vote [...] Full text...

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Islamist Rached Ghannouchi elected new speaker of the Tunisian Parliament

14 november 2019 - 17:31:08
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The president of the Tunisian Islamist party "Ennahdha", Rached Ghannouchi, was Wednesday elected new speaker of [...] Full text...

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Official results of Tunisia's parliamentary elections throws up fragmented parliament

08 november 2019 - 17:59:50
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The final results of the October 16 Tunisian parliamentary polls, announced on Friday by the Tunisian [...] Full text...

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Final results of Tunisian legislative elections to be released Thursday

06 november 2019 - 14:34:20
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The final results of the 6 October legislative elections in Tunisia will be made public on [...] Full text...

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Tunisia's main labour union calls for speedy formation of new govt

04 november 2019 - 09:22:16
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), Noureddine Taboubi, on Sunday called for the [...] Full text...

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Tunisian President calls on parties to agree on formation of government

27 october 2019 - 12:57:48
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian newly-elected President Kais Saied on Saturday appealed to all parties in the country to reach [...] Full text...

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Tunisia's president-elect calls for fight against ‘cancer’ of corruption

21 october 2019 - 20:57:31
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -  Tunisia’s president-elect, Kaïs be describing it as a ‘cancer’ that affected society. In a statement to the [...] Full text...

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Tunisia's president elect to be sworn in next Wednesday

18 october 2019 - 14:15:28
Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian elected President, Kais Saied, will take his oath of office on Wednesday (October 23rd) before [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: Kais Saied officially proclaimed President of the Republic

17 october 2019 - 13:00:09
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) -  Tunisia's electoral body on Thursday officially declared Kais Saied as the new president following completion of [...] Full text...

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ISIE issues the Provisional Official Results of the Tunisian Presidential Election

14 october 2019 - 18:51:19
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Provisional official results of the second round of the presidential election, held on Sunday, released [...] Full text...

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Karoui congratulates Saied, winner of Tunisia's presidential results

14 october 2019 - 16:42:19
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Almost 24 hours after the announcement of the results of Tunisia's presidential election, the runner up, [...] Full text...

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President-elect vows to 'build a new Tunisia'

14 october 2019 - 09:58:18
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Shortly after the announcement of the preliminary result that gave him a landslide victory in Sunday's [...] Full text...

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Kais Saied elected new Tunisian president

13 october 2019 - 20:32:11
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) -  Independent candidate Kais Saied Sunday won the presidential election in Tunisia with 72.53 percent as against [...] Full text...

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The two candidates for Tunisian presidential election vote in Tunis

13 october 2019 - 14:19:13
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  The two candidates running in the second round of the early presidential election in Tunisia voted [...] Full text...

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Tunisians elect new president on Sunday

13 october 2019 - 10:09:20
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   Tunisians, for the third time in less than a month, Sunday go to the polls for [...] Full text...

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Tunisian presidential candidates face-off in first televised debate

12 october 2019 - 14:48:32
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - For the first time in Tunisia and the Arab world, the two candidates in the second [...] Full text...

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Tunisians abroad voting in second round of presidential election

11 october 2019 - 12:31:21
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisians abroad on Friday started voting in the second round of the presidential election between independent [...] Full text...

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Islamist Ennahdha party wins Tunisia's legislative elections

10 october 2019 - 17:21:26
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The preliminary results of the parliamentary elections, proclaimed on Wednesday by the Independent Supreme Electoral Commission [...] Full text...

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Detained Tunisian Presidential Candidate, Nabil Karoui, released

09 october 2019 - 17:42:06
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunis Court of Cassation on Wednesday ordered the "immediate" release of presidential candidate, Nabil Karoui, [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: ISIE rejects request for postponement of second round of the presidential poll

09 october 2019 - 12:21:04
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) -Tunisia's Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) has rejected a request to postpone the second round of [...] Full text...

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Exit polls give Tunisia's Islamist party victory in parliamentary election

07 october 2019 - 08:45:00
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Exit polls released on Sunday by two polling polling institutes, Emhrod Consulting and Sigma Council on [...] Full text...

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Tunisian presidential candidate, Kais Saied, vows not to campaign for second round

05 october 2019 - 13:38:20
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Faced with the controversy caused by the continued imprisonment of his opponent, Nabil Karoui, the leading [...] Full text...

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Keeping Karoui in detention tarnishes credibility of Tunisian presidential election, says president Ennaceur

04 october 2019 - 23:39:32
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  Acting Tunisian President Mohamed Ennaceur said here Friday the continued incarceration of Nabil Karoui, candidate of [...] Full text...

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Legislative elections: Tunisians abroad start voting this Friday

04 october 2019 - 16:35:25
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Voting for the legislative elections, the second of its kind since the adoption of the new [...] Full text...

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Electioneering campaign for second round of the Tunisian presidential election launched

03 october 2019 - 16:38:58
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The electioneering campaign for the second round of the presidential election in Tunisia began on Thursday [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: ISIE must go on with the electoral process, despite..... - Electoral umpire

02 october 2019 - 19:28:59
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia's Independent Higher Electoral Commission (ISIE) can neither cancel nor postpone the second round of the [...] Full text...

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Tunisian Electoral body warns against the consequences of keeping candidate Nabil Karoui in prison

02 october 2019 - 18:21:07
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - In the wake of the rejection by the judiciary of a new request for the release [...] Full text...

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Libya provides 800 ballot boxes to support legislative, presidential polls in Tunisia

02 october 2019 - 15:43:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) has provided its counterpart in Tunisia, the Independent Higher Electoral [...] Full text...

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Tunis Chamber of accusation rejects request to release second round presidential candidate Nabil Karoui

01 october 2019 - 23:47:44
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  The public prosecutor of the Tunis Court of Appeal Tuesday rejected a request to release the [...] Full text...

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Confusion reigns in Tunisia before second round of presidential election

28 september 2019 - 15:10:56
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The political situation in Tunisia remains confused and tormented, marked by the continued detention of the [...] Full text...

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Three candidates appeal against decision of administrative court on first round of Tunisian presidential election

26 september 2019 - 22:59:48
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -  Three candidates, Hatem Boulabiar, Néji Jalloul and Youssef Chahed, have appealed against the decision of the [...] Full text...

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Canada advises nationals in Tunisia to be vigilant

25 september 2019 - 23:26:13
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  - The Canadian embassy here Wednesday advised Canadians living in Tunisia to be vigilant and follow the [...] Full text...

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Detained Tunisian presidential candidate, Nabil Karoui, to appeal against incaceration

22 september 2019 - 16:29:07
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The candidate of the party, "Kalb Tounes", Nabil Karoui, although through to the second round of [...] Full text...

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Tunisian PM warns against election of Kais Saied in Tunisia's presidential vote

21 september 2019 - 11:54:08
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Prime Minister and unsuccessful candidate in last Sunday's first round presidential election, Youssef Chahed, on [...] Full text...

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Tunisian Judge rejects request for provisional release of detained presidential candidate

19 september 2019 - 13:53:48
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – A renewed request for provisional release Nabil Karoui, presidential candidate of 'Kalb Tounes' party who came [...] Full text...

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Tunisia sets Sept 19 as deadline for filing objections to results of the presidential elections

18 september 2019 - 19:17:23
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The last date for the filing of appeals against the provisional results of the presidential election [...] Full text...

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Tunisian presidential election: Kais Saied, Nabil Karoui officially qualify for second round of polls

17 september 2019 - 17:20:43
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The Tunisian national independent electoral commission (ISIE) on Tuesday proclaimed the preliminary official results of the [...] Full text...

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Kais Saied leading Tunisian presidential poll with 19% of counted votes

17 september 2019 - 14:03:03
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Independent candidate Kais Saied remains on top of the first round of Sunday’s early presidential election [...] Full text...

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Tunisia presidential election: Independent candidate, media magnate claim 1st, 2nd in first-round of polls

16 september 2019 - 19:41:13
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The partial results released on Monday afternoon by the Tunisian national independent electoral commission (ISIE) following [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: Early results show Kais Saied, Nabil Karoui leading Sunday’s presidential vote

16 september 2019 - 14:27:43
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Two unexpected candidates were likely to win Sunday’s presidential election in Tunisia, according to unconfirmed early [...] Full text...

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Tunisians vote Sunday to elect new president

15 september 2019 - 11:28:12
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian voters went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president for the next [...] Full text...

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Tunisians pick their choice in presidential poll

15 september 2019 - 10:08:32
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Dozens of Tunisian voters queued up at 13,000 polling stations which opened early on Sunday for [...] Full text...

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Tunisians to elect new president on Sunday

14 september 2019 - 14:37:30
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - More than seven million Tunisians are expected to go to the polls on Sunday to elect [...] Full text...

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Detained Tunisian presidential candidate begins hunger strike

12 september 2019 - 14:00:34
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Nabil Karoui, a candidate for the Tunisian presidential election who was arrested 23 July, has begun [...] Full text...

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Tunis Court of Appeal refuses televised interview for jailed presidential candidate

11 september 2019 - 22:46:55
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   The Tunis Court of Appeal said here Wednesday it had refused to grant permission to Nebil [...] Full text...

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Tunisia holds first ever televised debate for presidential candidates

08 september 2019 - 18:29:10
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – For the first time in Tunisia and the Arab world, a three-day televised debate is being [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: Supporters of candidate Nabil Karoui denounce his non-release from jail

04 september 2019 - 19:22:53
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Close associates of Nabil Karoui, candidate for the presidential elections scheduled in Tunisia on September 15, [...] Full text...

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Request for release of Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui rejected

03 september 2019 - 22:38:01
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   The Tunis Court of Appeal Tuesday rejected a request by lawyers of Nabil Karoui, media owner [...] Full text...

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Tunisia election campaign begins under tense atmosphere

02 september 2019 - 13:32:28
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Campaign for Tunisia's presidential election on 15 September, which pits 26 candidates, started on Monday amid [...] Full text...

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Electoral body approves 26 candidates for Tunisian presidential race

31 august 2019 - 18:53:21
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian electoral body announced on Saturday the final list of candidates allowed to participate in [...] Full text...

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Controversy rages over the arrest of a presidential candidate in Tunisia

24 august 2019 - 17:59:02
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The arrest on Friday of one of the main candidates in the presidential election is provoking [...] Full text...

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Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui arrested

23 august 2019 - 22:14:49
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   A Tunisian security unit Friday arrested Nabil Karoui, businessman and one of the main candidates for [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: 26 candidates scale 1st hurdle to run for presidency

14 august 2019 - 19:10:43
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Nabil Bammoun, president of Tunisia's Independent High Elections Commission (ISIE), announced on Wednesday the approval of [...] Full text...

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Ten candidates file papers to contest Tunisian presidential election

02 august 2019 - 22:29:14
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   Ten candidates Friday filed their papers to contest the 15 September presidential election, the Tunisian higher [...] Full text...

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777 candidate file papers to contest 6 October parliamentary elections in Tunisia

29 july 2019 - 23:27:56
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  The Tunisian higher independent electoral body (ISIE) has received 777 nominations for the 6 October parliamentary [...] Full text...

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Tunisians slam 'scandalous' amendments of electoral law

21 june 2019 - 05:17:49
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisians are vehemently criticising amendments to the country's electoral laws saying they are aimed at the [...] Full text...

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Tunisian Parliament amends electoral law just months before general elections

18 june 2019 - 23:54:44
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   The Tunisian parliament on Tuesday adopted several controversial amendments of its electoral law, introducing conditions for [...] Full text...

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Owner of Nessma TV channel, candidate for the 2019 presidential election in Tunisia

27 may 2019 - 23:34:36
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   The head of a private television channel Nessma, Nabil Karoui, announced here Monday his candidacy for [...] Full text...

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Tunisia urged to dismantle repressive Ben Ali-era laws

17 december 2011 - 14:27:37
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly should urgently revise laws to ensure freedom of speech and the independence of [...] Full text...

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Tunisian court files 18 charges against deposed president

15 april 2011 - 12:28:30
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Former Tunisian President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali, toppled 14 January by a popular uprising, is [...] Full text...

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Tunisian TV to promote culture in the Maghreb

14 july 2009 - 18:55:00
Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian private Television station, Nessma TV, has pled ged to promote culture in the Maghreb region [...] Full text...

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