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In Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began after a vendor set himself on fire to protest the government two years ago, the populace is growing disenchanted with the transition to democracy and an economy left in ruins by the regime change.Social disruption, dramatic declines in mining and tourism and the Feb. 6 assassination of popular leftist leader Chokri Belaid, who was gunned down outside his home in the capital apparently by hard-line Islamists, known as Salafists, have all contributed to a darkened atmosphere inside the birthplace of the Arab Spring. There's a sullen resentment at the failure of the Islamist government -- it is ruling with two secular center-left parties – to move the economy on.This week, the former governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia put the price tag of kicking out autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali at 14 percent of Tunisia's gross domestic product."This cost is extremely high compared to what was expected," Mustapha Kamel Nabli told a conference in Tunis.Belai...
RABAT, Morocco -- Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire in the capital Rabat as part of widespread demonstrations in the country over the lack of jobs,...
More than 5,000 people have reportedly taken part in the funeral of a young man whose self-immolation touched off nearly three weeks of unrest in Tunisia.Mohamed Bou...
More than 200 protesters from around Tunisia descended on the capital Sunday to join demands to rid the interim government of holdovers from the ousted former presid...
It started with a young man who set himself on fire, acting out of desperation after police confiscated the fruits and vegetables he sold without a permit.Mohamed Bo...
An Egyptian man set himself on fire Monday outside the country's parliament, security officials said, in an apparent protest emulating the self-immolation of an unem...
Security officials say an Egyptian man apparently inspired by events in Tunisia has set himself on fire outside the prime minister's office in central Cairo — the se...
The family of a young man who set himself ablaze, triggering a popular uprising that overthrew Tunisia's autocratic president, wants Tunisians to honor his memory by...
Actor Charlie Sheen's "Winning" already stands out as one of 2011's most memorable catchphrases. Perhaps it's also a fitting term to analyze the Arab Spring of 2011....
Police in Tunisia cracked down Sunday on key allies of the ousted president, placing two high-ranking officials under house arrest and detaining the head of a well-k...
A 25-year-old unemployed man died in a hospital on Tuesday after setting himself on fire in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, security officials said, amid a wav...
The head of the Arab League told the region's leaders Wednesday the upheaval in Tunisia is linked to deteriorating economic conditions throughout the Arab world, war...
Helmeted riot police armed with batons and shields on Saturday clashed with rock- and chair-throwing protesters who tried to march in defiance of Algeria's ban on pu...
Disgusted by corruption in his provincial hometown, a 36-year-old Bulgarian quietly doused himself in gasoline and set himself ablaze. This week, another man — the f...
An Egyptian court has ordered the retrial of two policemen sentenced to seven years in prison in the killing of a young man whose death helped ignite last year's upr...
After a disastrous year in which revolution, social upheaval and strikes scared away tourists and crippled industrial production, Tunisia's economy is slowly climbin...
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledged Monday that increasingly stiff international sanctions have yet to compel Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions. But...
Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of helicopter gunships to counter a civil uprising will prove to be "a nail in Assad's coffin," U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panet...
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TUNIS, Tunisia -- A hospital official says a second man has set himself on fire in Tunisia, two days after a similar case.Hedia Khemiri of the Bougatfa hospital says...
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