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Tunisia’s Ben Ali flees amid unrest

Parliament speaker becomes interim leader after president of 23 years, facing a mass uprising, lands in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has said that Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's president for more than 23 years, and his family are in the kindgom, a day after they fled a mass uprising in their country. The departure came as a dramatic climax to weeks of violent …

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