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A small number of victims were reportedly from Germany, Belgium and Ukraine. We will be united to ensure we defeat them but united also in working to defend our values.

Under the country’s new constitution, approved in January a year ago, the president has the right “in the event of imminent danger threatening the nation’s institutions, or the security or independence of the country” to “take any measures...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essibsi declared on Saturday a state of emergency one week after 38 foreign tourists were killed at a beach resort in the country’s worst-ever terror attack.

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has told the BBC that police took too long to react to last week’s jihadist attack that killed 38 people, mostly Britons.

Meanwhile, the bodies of eight of the 26 Britons killed in last week’s attack were set to be flown home Wednesday, a British embassy source said.

The attack was Tunisia’s deadliest ever, and threatened to be a devastating blow to the country’s tourism sector.