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  Tunisia Extends State of Emergency By 2 Months

  A state of emergency imposed in Tunisia after a jihadist gunman killed 38 foreign tourists in June is to be extended for two months, the president's office said today.

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  Tunisia Declares State of Emergency After Beach Attack

  Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on Saturday declared a state of emergency following last week's jihadist beach massacre in which 38 foreign tourists were killed, his office said.

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  Tunisia Begins New Deployment to Protect Tourists: Ministry

  Tunisia began deploying armed police to protect foreign tourists on Wednesday after last week's deadly jihadist attack on a beach resort, the interior ministry said.

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  Most Seaside Massacre Victims in Tunisia Were British Tourists

  Thousands of scared foreign holidaymakers were being flown from Tunisia today after an Islamist gunman killed 38 people, most of them British tourists, at a beach resort.

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  At least 27 Dead in Attack on Hotel in Tunisia, Says Ministry

  At least 27 people, including foreign tourists, were killed when at least one gunman opened fire on a Tunisian beachside hotel in the popular resort of Sousse on Friday, an interior ministry spokesman said.

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  After Bardo Attack, Tunisia Treads Line Between Security And Freedoms

  Soon after Islamist militants gunned down 21 foreign tourists in Tunisia's Bardo museum last month, newspaper columnists, radio hosts and politicians swiftly called for a merciless crackdown to save their young democracy.

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  Security Concerns Delay Reopening of Tunisia National Museum

  Tunisia's national museum today delayed a planned reopening after last week's attack on foreign tourists due to security concerns, its head of communications Hanene Srarfi told AFP.

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  Tunisia Prime Minister Fires Police Chiefs After Museum Attacks

  Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has fired police chiefs for the capital and the area of the national museum after last week's attacks on foreign tourists, the government said today.

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  Tunisian President Says Third Gunman Involved in Museum Attack on the Run

  Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Sunday that a third gunman involved in an attack that killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists, at a Tunis museum last week was on the run.

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  Tunisia Arrests More Than 20 in Crackdown Since Museum Attack

  Tunisian authorities have arrested more than 20 suspected militants in a nationwide security crackdown since gunmen killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Wednesday's attack in the capital, the government said.

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  Tunisian Took Break From Travel Agent Job to Shoot Tourists

  Shortly before he and a friend gunned down 20 foreign tourists at Tunisia's Bardo museum, Yassine al-Abidi sat down to a breakfast of olive oil and dates with his family and left for work at his travel agency as usual.

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  Tunisia Says Museum Gunmen Trained in Libya

  The two gunmen who killed 21 people in an attack on foreign tourists at a Tunis museum trained at a militant camp in Libya, Tunisia's secretary of state for security said.

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  Islamic State Claims Deadly Attack on Tunis Museum

  The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack on foreign tourists at Tunisia's national museum that killed 21 people, as the security forces swooped on suspects.

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  Tunis Attack Museum to Reopen by Tuesday: Minister

  Tunisia's National Bardo Museum will reopen early next week following the attack on foreign tourists that left at least 21 people dead, the culture minister said on Thursday.

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  Silent Demonstration Called Outside Tunis Attack Museum

  Tunisia's main trade union confederation and other civil society groups called for a silent demonstration today outside the Tunis museum where 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians were killed.