Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Syria's Bashar al-Assad has defied the odds, surviving international isolation and the temporary loss of two-thirds of the national territory to claw his way back into relevance and hold on to power.

Zine El Abidine melarikan diri dari Tunisia pada Januari 2011 dalam pemberontakan rakyat yang mencetuskan 'Arab Spring.

Pada hari sama Presiden Beji Caid Essebsi dalam ucapannya berhampiran bandar Tunis telah berjanji untuk meningkatkan pekerjaan bagi golongan muda dan menyelar tindakan tunjuk perasaan yang diadakan.

Tunisia's lawmakers approved on Wednesday a new government formed to pull the country out of a deep political and economic crisis, as an impoverished vendor died after setting himself alight.

Activists from Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda gathered in central Tunis to protest the right of their movement to lead the government, amid ongoing talks to form a new cabinet of technocrats.

Tunisians marked the second anniversary on Monday of veteran dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's flight into exile in the first of the Arab Spring uprisings