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Tunisian protesters lift sit-in at national broadcaster

Demonstrators who claim Tunisia’s state television network is backing the ousted Ben Ali dictatorship ended nearly eight weeks of sit-ins Wednesday after the government asked them to leave. Dozens of protesters had been camped outside the offices of Wataniya since March 2 in the capital Tunis.

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