Tunisian president, calling for calm, says he won’t run for re-election
TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s autocratic president, struggling to contain deadly riots that have threatened his authority, made sweeping pledges for political and media freedom and said he will leave the presidency – but not until his term ends in 2014. Facing the worst unrest in his 23 years in power, an unusually contrite President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Thursday ordered prices on sugar, milk…
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