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18 January 2011 Last updated at 20:17 ET

Tunisia leaders quit ruling partyA protester faces up to a policeman in Tunis, 18 January 2011

Tunisia's interim president and prime minister quit the RCD party, in an apparent bid to defuse anger over its continued involvement in running the country.


The Jewish settlement of Gilo, on the outskirts of Jerusalem (16 January 2010)Arabs push settlement resolution

Arab nations formally submit a resolution to the UN Security Council condemning Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Bomb kills Iraqi police recruits

A suicide bomber kills at least 60 people and injures more than 100 outside a police recruitment centre in Tikrit, Iraqi officials say.

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