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Tunisia region at heart of revolution waits to reap rewards

by Bouazza Ben Bouazza
| December 17, 2020 5:30 AM

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia on Thursday marked 10 years since a local fruit and vegetable seller set himself ablaze in protest after police took his cart, an act that enraged the country and snowballed into the revolution that toppled the North African nation's autocratic leader months later and triggered the Arab Spring.

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