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Tunisia: Suicide bomber attacks resort in Mediterranean town of Sousse

According to the Washington Post, a man blew himself up Wednesday in front of a popular seaside hotel as authorities foiled a possibly related assault at the mausoleum of modern Tunisia’s secular founder, the Interior Ministry said. The attack was believed to be the country’s first suicide bombing. Tunisia had largely avoided major terrorist incidents, but since the country kicked off the Arab Spring by overthrowing its long-ruling secular dictatorship, it has been battered by a rising Islamist insurgency in remote parts of the country. The violence is the first in a tourist area and raised fears for its already troubled tourism industry. Read article

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Athens Greece: thousands protest in streets in protests of far-right Golden Dawn Party

The alleged murder of a leftist rapper by a neo-Nazi has shocked Greece, where thousands have taken to the streets to protest the rise of the far-right Golden Dawn party. Athens says it is determined to take action. As Pavlos Fyssas was laid to rest in Athens on Thursday morning, thousands of Greeks took to […]

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