Warning shots, tear gas fired at Tunisia demos

Hundreds of demonstrators demanded the resignation of the Islamist-led governmentPolice fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a second anti-government protest in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, birthplace of last year's revolution.


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