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Tunisia's interim president extends state of emergency for one month

Tunisia's interim president extends state of emergency for one month
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's interim president extended the country's state of emergency for another month, his office said in a statement on Friday.

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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in separate attacks on police in Tunis in June but security in Tunisia has improved since authorities first imposed a state of emergency in November 2015 after dozens died in militant attacks that year.

(Reporting by Mohamed Argoubi and Omar Fahmy; Writing by Ulf Laessing; editing by John Stonestreet)

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