Tunisia on edge as PM calls for new elections

Tunisia's Islamist Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has announced that the country’s government would be dissolved and a national unity cabinet formed amid fierce protests following the assassination of a prominent secular opposition leader. By FRANCE 24 (text) Tunisia's prime minister has pledged to form a government of technocrats and to call fresh elections following the assassination of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid in broad daylight Wednesday. Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, a leading member of the Islamist Ennahda party, said in a televised address late on Wednesday that he would form a new, non-political administration ahead of fresh elections. He did not say when...