Tunisian Union Seeks to Salvage Crisis Talks

Tunisia's powerful labor union on Thursday tried to broker a last-minute agreement between the country's ruling Islamists and secular opposition, struggling to reach consensus over forming a new government.   The government has agreed to step down in a few weeks to ease political turmoil that has threatened to upset Tunisia's transition to full democracy three years after its “Arab Spring” uprising.   Tunisia's UGTT labor movement has set a deadline of December...

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