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ANALYSIS-Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
Reuters* Moderate Islamist-led government cracks down on Salafists * Rupture raises risk of fuelling armed radicals in N.Africa * Main Salafist group rejects state, shuns elections * Secular Tunisians fear for freedom, stability By Tarek Amara TUNIS, May 23...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Revolutions, North Africa, Zine el Abidine ben Ali, Religion and Belief
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Analysis: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
ReutersTUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities. The...Tags: Religion and Belief, Feminism, Armed Conflicts, Muammar Gaddafi, Justice and Rights
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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
ReutersMay 22 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Wednesday: ** Clearwire Corp said its special committee and its board of directors approved Sprint Nextel Corp's sweetened offer to take over the...Tags: Real Estate Sellers, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Companies and Corporations
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Talks over Vimpelcom's Djezzy at delicate stage: source
ReutersMOSCOW/CAIRO (Reuters) - Russia-focused telecoms firm Vimpelcom's talks to sell a controlling stake in its Algerian mobile business Djezzy to Algeria are at a delicate stage but have not failed, a source with knowledge of the discussions said on...Tags: Russia, Orascom Group, Inc., Moscow (Russia), Mikhail Fridman
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Reuters World News Highlights 1800 GMT May 21
ReutersTOP STORIES ----------- MOORE - Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, and officials lowered the death toll from the storm to 24, including nine...Tags: U.S. Congress, Russia, Internal Revenue Service, Labor Legislation, National Government
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Algeria's Bouteflika convalescing in France
ReutersALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but had been ordered by his doctors to rest. Since he was rushed to hospital in Paris on...Tags: Paris (France), Hospitals and Clinics, Elections, France, Politics
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Reuters World News Highlights 2200 GMT May 21
ReutersTOP STORIES ----------- MOORE - Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and thousands of survivors were homeless on Tuesday, a day after a massive tornado tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City, wiping out whole blocks of homes and...Tags: Bashar Assad, U.S. Congress, Russia, Internal Revenue Service, Labor Legislation
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Algerian prime minister says President Bouteflika convalescing
ReutersALGIERS, May 21 (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but has been ordered to take complete rest by his doctors. Since he was rushed...Tags: Paris (France), Elections, France, Government, Politics
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Reuters World News Highlights 1430 GMT, May 20
ReutersAMMAN - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday. - - - SEOUL -...Tags: Explosions, Walmart, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, China
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Reuters World News Highlights 1000 GMT, May 20
ReutersAMMAN/LONDON - The world's diplomats will make a major new push in the coming days for negotiations to end Syria's civil war, but their chances of achieving a peace deal look as remote as ever. - - - - SEOUL - North Korea fired its fifth short-range...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Baghdad (Iraq), Nigeria, U.S. Congress, South Africa
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With president ailing, Algeria prepares for end of an era
Reuters* Bouteflika believed to be seriously ill * Energy wealth and scars of war will keep Algeria stable * Bouteflika last of old guard who fought for independence By Lamine Chikhi and Myra MacDonald ALGIERS, May 19 (Reuters) - Three weeks after being...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religious Conflicts, France, Newspaper and Magazine, Libya
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France detains suspect in Toulouse killings investigation
ReutersPARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - French anti-terror judges ordered the detention on Saturday of a man on suspicions he aided an al Qaeda-inspired gunman prepare for a shooting spree last year, a judicial source said. Mohamed Merah killed four Jews and three...Tags: Mohamed Merah, Toulouse, France Shootings (2012) , Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, France
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