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Tunisia judges locked out of their offices after President Saied's decree
Police have closed the Supreme Judicial Council.
The head of Tunisia's main legal body says they have been locked out of their offices, a day after President Kais Saied said he was dissolving it. The sound of heavy gunfire heard in Guinea Bissau's capital created panic among some civil servants nearly a week after an attempted coup.
(Photo: Police have closed the Supreme Judicial Council. Credit: EPA)
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