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Ruling Islamists Split over Deepening Tunisia Crisis
by Naharnet Newsdesk 07 February 2013, 14:39

Tunisia's ruling Islamists Thursday rejected plans by the prime minister to form a government of technocrats while the main trade union called a general strike amid renewed unrest, deepening a crisis sparked by the killing of an opposition leader.

With tensions running high since the murder Wednesday of a leftist opposition leader, Chokri Belaid, clashes between police and protesters broke out in the capital and in a central town, AFP correspondents said.

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