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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/new-president-amid-tunisia-unrest.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Tunisian speaker of the lower house of parliament, Fouad Mebazaa, takes an oath as interim president (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-new-president-amid-tunisia-unrest.jpg" alt="Tunisian speaker of the lower house of parliament, Fouad Mebazaa, takes an oath as interim president (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Tunisia has sworn in a new interim president as the nation grapples with looting, deadly prison riots and chaos in the streets.</p>
<p>Looters emptied shops and torched the main railway station in the capital Tunis, and soldiers traded fire with attackers in front of the interior ministry in the city.</p>
<p>At least 42 people were killed on Saturday in a prison fire in a resort town, and the director of another jail let 1,000 inmates walk free after a deadly rebellion.</p>
<p>The interim president &#8211; Fouad Mebazaa, the former president of the lower house of parliament &#8211; ordered the creation of a unity government that could include the opposition, which had been frozen out and ignored under President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali&#8217;s 23 years of autocratic rule.</p>
<p>Ben Ali abruptly fled the country on Friday for Saudi Arabia following a month of street protests over corruption, a lack of jobs and clampdowns on civil liberties.</p>
<p>Yet while the protests were mostly peaceful, the first day after his departure was chaotic &#8211; and deadly.</p>
<p>The leadership changes came at a dizzying speed. After Ben Ali left, his long-time ally PM Mohammed Ghannouchi stepped in briefly with a vague assumption of power that left open the possibility that Ben Ali could return.</p>
<p>But Constitutional Council president Fethi Abdennadher then declared the president&#8217;s departure permanent and gave Mr Mebazaa 60 days in which to organise new elections. Hours later, Mr Mebazaa was sworn in.</p>
<p>In his first televised address, he said he asked the premier to form a &#8220;national unity government in the country&#8217;s best interests&#8221; in which all political parties will be consulted &#8220;without exception nor exclusion&#8221;.</p>
<p>The move was one of reconciliation, but it was not clear how far 77-year-old Mr Mebazaa, who has been part of Tunisia&#8217;s ruling class for decades, would go to invite the opposition into the government.</p>
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