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Eighteen members of Tunisia's Parliament have tested positive for the virus, the body's doctor, Maher Ayadi, announced on Tuesday. Several cases among lawmakers were reported following a full parliamentary session [...]

Emna Chargui, 27, said she didn't want to offend anyone when she shared another Facebook user's post about the coronavirus that mimicked Quranic iconography. TUNIS -- As Tunisia battled the [...]

Ms. Ben Mhenni used her blog to expose violence against protesters in the revolt that led to the government's overthrow, and then to the Arab Spring. TUNIS -- Lina Ben [...]

Byline: Lilia Blaise Outrage over photographs of a politician appearing to sexually harass a student led hundreds of women to speak out about abuse. But how much change results may [...]

Outrage over photographs of a politician appearing to sexually harass a student led hundreds of women to speak out about abuse. But how much change results may depend on a [...]

TUNIS -- Tunisia's young democracy has endured many shocks since it emerged from the Arab Spring protests of 2011. But its presidential runoff this month may pose a new and [...]

Byline: Lilia Blaise TUNIS - The death this week of Tunisia's first democratically elected president accelerated the timetable for choosing his successor, placing new strain on a political system in [...]

Byline: Carlotta Gall and Lilia Blaise President Béji Caïd Essebsi, Tunisia's first popularly elected head of state, who steered the country through a democratic transition after an uprising that set [...]

TUNIS -- The death this week of Tunisia's first democratically elected president accelerated the timetable for choosing his successor, placing new strain on a political system in which power is [...]

President Béji Caïd Essebsi, Tunisia's first popularly elected head of state, who steered the country through a democratic transition after an uprising that set in motion the Arab Spring of [...]

TUNIS, Tunisia -- Prime Minister Youssef Chahed of Tunisia on Friday prohibited anyone wearing the niqab, a religious covering for the face with only an opening for the eyes, from [...]

TUNIS -- Outrage grew in Tunisia this past week after 11 premature babies died in less than 24 hours from infections acquired in the same hospital as doctors and patients [...]

TUNIS, Tunisia -- Two years ago, American Marines battled Al Qaeda militants in western Tunisia along the border with Algeria. A Marine and a Tunisian soldier were wounded and two [...]

TUNIS -- Ramadan ends this week, and that comes none too soon for some in Tunisia -- not least the hundred or so protesters who began the Muslim holy month [...]

Byline: LILIA BLAISE Correction Appended TUNIS -- Maya Jribi, the first female leader of a political party in Tunisia and a tenacious supporter of democracy under the country's dictators well [...]

TUNIS -- Maya Jribi, the first female leader of a political party in Tunisia and a tenacious supporter of democracy under the country's dictators well before the Arab Spring, died [...]

Byline: LILIA BLAISE GABÈS, Tunisia -- A commission that has been working for four years to deliver justice to victims of Tunisia's decades-long dictatorship has brought one case to court, [...]

GABÈS, Tunisia -- A commission that has been working for four years to deliver justice to victims of Tunisia's decades-long dictatorship has brought one case to court, which began last [...]

GAFSA, Tunisia -- For women like Sihem Ben Romdhane, the options used to be fewer. Her husband of 19 years often beat her and she lodged complaints with the police, [...]

Byline: LILIA BLAISE GAFSA, Tunisia -- For women like Sihem Ben Romdhane, the options used to be fewer. Her husband of 19 years often beat her and she lodged complaints [...]

TUNIS -- The Tunisian authorities are moving to defuse the anger that has driven protesters to the streets over the past week and led to hundreds of arrests. As still [...]

TUNIS -- The authorities in Tunisia have arrested nearly 800 people who were protesting tax increases and other government policies after a series of clashes with the police. The arrests [...]

TEBOURBA, Tunisia -- Tense protests have erupted across Tunisia since a new budget took effect on Jan. 1 that raised taxes on gasoline, phone cards, internet usage, hotel rooms and [...]

TUNIS -- Tunisia has long been regarded as a pioneer for women's rights in the Arab world, but the day-to-day life of many Tunisian women is still one of abuse [...]

TEBOURBA, Tunisia -- When Adel Dridi poured gasoline on his head and set himself on fire in May, his first thought was of his mother, Dalila, whose name is roughly [...]

PARIS -- If France's president-elect has broken every rule in the political playbook, consider Brigitte Macron, the country's next first lady. She met her future husband, Emmanuel, when he was [...]

Byline: SUSAN CHIRA and LILIA BLAISE PARIS -- If France's president-elect has broken every rule in the political playbook, consider Brigitte Macron, the country's next first lady. She met her [...]

STAINS, France -- For voters in the poorer, largely immigrant suburbs of Paris, the motivation to turn out for France's presidential runoff seems clear: to defeat Marine Le Pen, the [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN and LILIA BLAISE Correction Appended STAINS, France -- For voters in the poorer, largely immigrant suburbs of Paris, the motivation to turn out for France's presidential [...]

TUNIS -- Since their revolution in 2011, Tunisians have tussled among themselves to define their new identity after successive dictatorships. Belatedly, they have started reclaiming their history as well. Dictatorships [...]

Byline: CARLOTTA GALL and LILIA BLAISE TUNIS -- Since their revolution in 2011, Tunisians have tussled among themselves to define their new identity after successive dictatorships. Belatedly, they have started [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFor the nearly three dozen passengers who dangled in cable cars over the glaciers of Mont Blanc, it was a long, cold and -- in most cases -- sleepless [...]

PARIS -- Thirty-three passengers remained stranded overnight on Thursday in high-altitude cable cars in the French Alps after helicopters were used to rescue 65 others who had been trapped, officials [...]

Byline: AURELIEN BREEDEN and LILIA BLAISE PARIS -- France's highest administrative court on Friday struck down a town's ban on 'burkinis,' the full-body swimwear used by some Muslim women that [...]

PARIS -- France's highest administrative court on Friday overturned a town's ban on burkinis, the full-body swimwear used by some Muslim women, setting a precedent that challenges similar bans in [...]

Byline: AURELIEN BREEDEN and LILIA BLAISE PARIS -- The mayor of the French resort city of Cannes has barred women in full-body, head-covering swimsuits from bathing on public beaches there, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPARIS -- The mayor of the French resort city of Cannes has barred women from bathing on public beaches in swimsuits that reveal too little skin. At issue are [...]

Byline: LILIA BLAISE ST.-ÉTIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France -- It was the first time since a childhood school trip that Anissa Latroche had set foot in a church. Ms. Latroche, a sociology student [...]

ST.-ÐTIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France -- It was the first time since a childhood school trip that Anissa Latroche had set foot in a church. Ms. Latroche, a sociology student who is Muslim, [...]

Byline: LILIA BLAISE PARIS -- Inside, the house is frozen in time. News clippings and golden records perch on black walls. The couch maintains an indentation where its owner always [...]

Byline: ADAM NOSSITER, ALISSA J. RUBIN and LILIA BLAISE MSAKEN, Tunisia -- His own parents were so frightened by his violence that they kicked him out when he was 16. [...]

PARIS -- Inside, the house is frozen in time. Press clips and golden records perch on black walls. The couch maintains a divot where its owner always sat. Next to [...]

Byline: ADAM NOSSITER, ALISSA J. RUBIN and LILIA BLAISE MSAKEN, Tunisia -- His parents were so frightened by his violence that they kicked him out when he was 16. Desperate, [...]

MSAKEN, Tunisia -- His own parents were so frightened by his violence that they kicked him out when he was 16. Desperate, by the time he was 19, they dragged [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN and LILIA BLAISE NICE, France -- When a Tunisian man drove a truck down a crowded street in Nice last week in an attack claimed by [...]

NICE, France -- When a Tunisian man drove a truck down a crowded street in Nice last week in an attack claimed by the Islamic State, more than one-third of [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN and LILIA BLAISE NICE, France -- It was the first and last fireworks show in this seaside city that 4-year-old Yanis Coviaux ever saw. He died [...]

NICE, France -- It was the first and last fireworks show in this seaside city that 4»-year-old Yanis Coviaux ever saw. He died in the carnage Thursday night. So did [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN, LILIA BLAISE, ADAM NOSSITER and AURELIEN BREEDEN Nice, France -- The death toll from the terrorist attack on a Bastille Day fireworks celebration in the southern [...]