Tunisia
The Tunis first-instance court's fourth criminal chamber sentenced businessman Maher Chaâbane and La Goulette's former mayor to five years in prison each, with fines exceeding two million dinars combined, Mosaïque FM reported Sunday. The case centres on suspected administrative and financial irregularities and document forgery during the former official's tenure; she was first taken into custody in June 2024. Chaâbane already faces separate corruption and foreign-currency cases, including a two-year sentence on appeal from October 2025.
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Webdo · Sunday, 11 October 2026
Free Destourian Party leader Abir Moussi, in detention since 2023 and now held at the Bulla Regia prison, publicly asked lawyer Mohamed Karim Krifa to leave her defence team, accusing him of straying from defending her rights and of coordinating with people close to power. The rift surfaced after an October 2 court hearing; Krifa has not publicly responded to the accusations. Moussi, who calls the prosecutions against her illegal, assigned a fellow lawyer, Ali Bejaoui, to formalise Krifa's removal.
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Réalités · Sunday, 11 October 2026
Tunisia's 2026-2027 olive harvest is expected to fall 30 to 40 percent from last season, a representative of the Tunisian olive-growers' union said, with regional data pointing the same way: Sidi Bouzid expects about 350,000 tonnes against 500,000 last year, and Manouba about 14,000 tonnes against more than 20,750. Growers say lower output could push olive-oil prices higher depending on international markets and demand; a bacterial disease, olive tuberculosis, has also hit orchards in Mahdia and Sfax.
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Webdo · Saturday, 10 October 2026
The national statistics institute INS put the deficit at 20.997 billion dinars for January-September 2026, up from 16.727 billion a year earlier, as imports grew 13.1 percent to 71.397 billion dinars while exports rose 8.6 percent to 50.4 billion, and the import-coverage ratio slipped from 73.5 to 70.6 percent.
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Webdo · Monday, 12 October 2026
Tunisia's journalists' union SNJT closed its 7th congress on 11 October by electing a nine-member executive board, with outgoing president Zied Dabbar topping the vote; the board has yet to choose its own president. On the congress's opening day, parliament's rights and freedoms committee chair Thabet El Abed called for the release of journalists detained for their work, saying any detention must meet tests of necessity, guarantees and proportionality. The union already names four jailed colleagues, Zied El-Heni, Mourad Zeghidi, Mohamed Yousfi and Borhen Bsaies, as the cases it wants resolved.
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Réalités · Monday, 12 October 2026
Europe
President Trump announced on Sunday, giving no further detail, that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop striking each other's energy infrastructure. Moscow did not confirm any agreement, and hours later a drone hit a power plant in Kyiv, cutting power in the capital, with further strikes following in Kharkiv. President Zelenskyy said Ukraine was ready to halt its own strikes if Russia did the same, but that Kyiv had not been consulted on Trump's announcement.
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Euronews · Sunday, 11 October 2026
Polish police said Sunday they had received information about a planned attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, and Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński announced the arrest of a man accused of planning it. A spokesman for the minister overseeing intelligence services said authorities judged a “high probability” the plan would have been carried out, and Tusk called the threat “exceptionally concerning”. The arrest follows a tense week in Poland that included attacks on schools and concern over possible Russian hybrid operations.
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Euronews · Sunday, 11 October 2026
Ireland, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, proposed cutting the European Commission's roughly 2-trillion-euro plan for the 2028-2034 budget by 141 billion euros, with international aid cut hardest at 17 percent and agriculture and regional funds cut only 3 percent. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, speaking for a group of six net-contributor states demanding cuts of “several hundred billion euros”, said the size of the proposal “is not a basis for agreement”. EU leaders are set to discuss the draft at a summit in Brussels on 15-16 October, with officials aiming for a deal by Christmas to avoid the talks dragging into 2027's election year.
