Tunisians take to streets after killing

THE assassination of prominent Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid has sparked deadly protests, attacks on offices of the ruling Islamist Ennahda party, and the pledge of a new government of technocrats. Furious protesters built barricades in central Tunis and clashed with police, and four opposition groups including Belaid's Popular Front bloc said they were pulling out of the national assembly. One policeman was killed after being hit on the chest by rocks in Tunis, the interior ministry said. President Moncef Marzouki denounced the killing of Belaid, an outspoken critic of his government, as an "odious assassination," while Ennahda chief Rached Ghannouchi told AFP the...