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Radical Islamist Killed in Tunisia Street Protests

Tunisian authorities say a street battle between radical Islamists and police has killed one Islamist protester on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis. Authorities said the man, in his late 20s, died of injuries sustained in Sunday's fighting in the Etadhamen district. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police to protest a government ban on their annual ...
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Four people were injured after an earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale hit off Algeria's northern coastal province of Bejaia on Sunday morning, a local media source told Xinhua. The earthquake which took place at 10:07 am (0907 GMT) on Sunday, and the epicenter was in the sea -- some 20 km northeast of downtown Bejaia, the capital of Bejaia province and a Mediterranean ...
Egypts Morsi rejects dialogue with kidnappers as hostages

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1 killed 14 injured in clashes between Salafists police

A protester was killed on Sunday in Tunisian capital during clashes between police and a hardline Salafist group that was banned from holding their congress, official TAP news agency said.The protester, 27, who engaged in the pro-Islamist protest organized by members of Salafist group Ansar El Shariaa, received gunshot wound and died later in a hospital in western Tunis, TAP said.At least 11 ...
Algeria plans to build its 1st nuclear plant in 2025

Algeria plans to build its first nuclear plant in 2025 to cope with the country's soaring electricity consumption, the official APS news agency reported Sunday, citing Minister of Energy and Mines, Yousef Yousfi."We plan to set up our first nuclear power plant in 2025, and we are working on it," Yousfi was quoted as saying in a press conference in capital Algiers.Algeria's ...
Salafist protester killed in clashes with Tunisia security forces

Radical Islamist movement Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with Tunisian police officers after Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned their annual conference supposed to be held in Kairouan, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, Sunday May 19, 2013. Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist ...
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Radical Islamist Killed in Tunisia Street Protests

Tunisian authorities say a street battle between radical Islamists and police has killed one Islamist protester on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis.

Authorities said the man, in his late 20s, died of injuries sustained in Sunday's fighting in the Etadhamen district. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police to protest a government ban on their annual conference in the center of the country.

Police fired tear gas to break up the violent protest and arrested about 20 demonstrators.

Tunisian authorities deployed a heavy security presence in the central town of Kairouan to block the Salafist gathering, which had been scheduled for Sunday with thousands of activists expected to attend. Some Salafists in Kairouan also threw stones at police, who responded with tear gas.

The Tunisian government banned the conference by the Ansar al-Shariah group as a threat to public order. The group openly supports al-Qaida.

Ultraconservative Muslim groups have been trying to expand their influence in Tunisia. Secular Tunisians have expressed alarm, fearing the Salafists will try to impose their strict views on other people and undermine individual freedoms and democracy.