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The Tunisian uprising raises so many questions that it is difficult to focus on only one or two, but one…

The secretary general of the Arab League on Wednesday linked the upheaval in Tunisia to deteriorating economic conditions throughout the…

Egypt has reached a state in which its citizens have lost hope for change, sociologists warned. They blamed unemployment, poverty,…

London--An outbreak of violent unrest in Tunisia has punctured a taboo on challenging President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in public,…

Tunis--Troops deployed in the Tunisian capital Wednesday as the government sacked the interior minister and announced it would free protesters…

Brussels--The European Union led international condemnation on Monday of Tunisia's weekend crackdown on a wave of food protests which killed…

 Tunis--A Tunisian teenager died on Friday and ten others were injured when protestors attacked a national guard post in a…

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak acknowledged this month that many of his compatriots have yet to benefit from faster economic growth…

Egypt's Economic Development Minister said on Wednesday the country's poverty rate could be reduced to 15 percent from 20 within…

Official statistics agency CAPMAS announced Thursday that the national unemployment rate had fallen from 9.12 percent of the population in…