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Forty-one people are killed when a boat carrying 45 migrants from Sfax, Tunisia, capsizes and sinks in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy.
2023-08-9

Tunisian police close the Supreme Judicial Council building in Tunis and prevent its members and their staff from entering. The legal body was dissolved yesterday by President Kais Saied in a move widely decried within the nation as illegal.
2022-02-7

Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi tests positive for COVID-19.
2021-06-25

German authorities arrest a Tunisian man accused of building a ricin bomb.
2018-06-20

The United Kingdom holds a minute of silence at midday to commemorate the 38 people - including 30 Britons - killed in Tunisia a week ago.
2015-07-3

Tunisia announces plans to close down 80 "propagandist" mosques following yesterday's attacks in which 39 people died.
2015-06-27

Eight police officers and two Islamist militants are killed in clashes near Sidi Bouzid in the southern part of Tunisia.
2013-10-23

Islamist gunmen kill two Tunisian policemen in clashes in the northeastern city Goubella.
2013-10-17

Tunisia's constituent assembly is suspended until the Islamist-led Government and secular opposition begin talks to resolve a Political crisis.
2013-08-6

The United States has ordered all non-essential staff to evacuate its embassies in Sudan and Tunisia and urges its citizens to avoid travelling to those countries.
2012-09-16