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  • British holidaymakers evacuated from trouble-torn Tunisia

    Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali forced to flee Tunisia as protesters claim victory 2011

  • The Hindustan Times Situation tense but under control in Punjab The situation in trouble-torn Punjab was today tense but under control after violence swept the state in the wake of the killing of a sect head in Vienna even as a protestor was killed by an SAD councillor in "self defence" in Jalandhar, taking the death toll to three.

    India News Digest: Sensex May Touch 19,500 Level This Year: Analysts 2009

  • MALKANGIRI/BHUBANESWAR: Cautiously avoiding the single-laid path of confrontation, police and administration seem to have switched to playing mindgames to checkmate the Maoists in the trouble-torn Malkangiri district.

    Wooing Maoists : Cops play mindgame Abhay N 2007

  • Bangladesh's ranking is 162nd among the least corrupt out of 180 countries, just below trouble-torn Zimbabwe.

    Bangladesh improves on its graft image about Corruption. 2007

  • He will wear the hat of facilitator of the regional initiative for peace in the tiny, trouble-torn Great Lakes Region country, a statement from the office of the Regional Initiative for Peace in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • The move to remove the staff from the embassy, which is responsible for servicing Iraq, is part of the authorities decisive steps to protect its diplomatic staff and citizens in and around the trouble-torn Gulf in the face of the imminent US led military invasion of Baghdad, Iraq.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Foreign armies would only be welcome in the trouble-torn Ivory

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • More shacks have been set on fire at the trouble-torn Zandspruit informal settlement west of Johannesburg, SABC radio news reported on Friday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • The bomb exploded inside a tent of sleeping security officers guarding the trouble-torn Macetjeni area, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) southeast of Mbabane, Dlamini said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • NDF commander in the trouble-torn eastern Kavango region, Colonel

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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