Algeria and Italy share the same positions on the need to find a political solution to the crisis in Libya and to strengthen the fight against terrorism, said Wednesday in Rome Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel. “Algeria and Italy share the same positions (as regards the crisis …

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned what he called the “deplorable” attack on Tunisia’s national museum that left at least 17 tourists, including a South African, dead on Wednesday. The UN Security Council also slammed what it called “this heinous act.”

Tunisia said it would deploy the army to major cities and arrested four people on Thursday after militant gunmen killed 20 foreign tourists visiting the national Bardo museum, the worst attack on the north African country in more than a decade.