Tunis – Tunisia’s all-powerful leader for over two decades, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced from power and into exile by a landmark popular uprising in early 2011, sparking revolts across the Arab world.
He died on Thursday aged 83 in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia’s foreign ministry said...
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