News from Tunisia

Demonstrators, mainly conservative Muslim Salafists, run away as security forces launch tear gas during a demonstration against a private television station in Tunis. Tunisian police fired tear gas Friday at hundreds of people demonstrating in the capital against a private television station accused of blasphemy for airing a film with an image of God. (AFP Photo/Fethi Belaid)
Tunisian extremists fire-bombed the home of a TV station chief Friday, hours after militants protesting its broadcast of a film they say violated Islamic values clashed with police in the streets of Tunis..

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