Police Deaths Delay Tunisia Crisis Talks

Tunisians are mourning seven policemen killed in a gun battle with suspected jihadists that has resulted in a new delay in long-awaited crisis talks between the country's main political forces. The slain police were to be buried later Thursday in home towns around Tunisia, including in the central Sidi Bouzid region where Wednesday's clash broke out, amid rising anti-government sentiment. In Kef, where one of the officers is to be buried, protesters torched the office of Tunisia's ...

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