Tunisia Bound

The IMF has received a request for aid from the new government in Tunisia and discussions over a new loan program have already started, the Washington-based crisis lender said Thursday. The North African country is facing a serious economic crisis that is discouraging...

By Paul Raymond Tunisian olive farmer Ali Fileli looked out over his parched fields and crushed a lump of dry, dusty earth in his hand. "I can't do anything with my land because of the lack of water," he said. Fileli is just one of many farmers who have been left high...

A Tunisian city held a general strike on Wednesday, after a protester died of tear gas inhalation during angry demonstrations over the reopening of a rubbish dump. Abderrazek Lacheheb, 35, died early Tuesday in Aguereb, in the Sfax region on the central coast, after...