Tunisia Lifting Nighttime Curfew

Tunisia say it is lifting a nationwide nighttime curfew declared last month amid the worst social unrest since the country’s 2011 revolution. The 8:00 pm to 5:00 am curfew was established January 22, prompted by sometimes violent demonstrations against unemployment across the nation. With a youth unemployment rate of nearly 30 percent, protests worsened following the death of an unemployed man in the central town of Kasserine. The young man, who was denied a government job, climbed...

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