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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tunisian-prisoners-being-released.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A protester addresses riot police officers during a demonstration against the RCD party in Tunis (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-tunisian-prisoners-being-released.jpg" alt="A protester addresses riot police officers during a demonstration against the RCD party in Tunis (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Tunisia&#8217;s new government has started to release prisoners and has moved to track down assets stashed overseas by its deposed president and his widely disliked family.</p>
<p>Tensions on the streets appeared to be calming as the administration tried to show it was distancing itself from the old guard.</p>
<p>Hundreds of protesters led a rally in central Tunis demanding that former allies of deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stop clinging to power.</p>
<p>Later, about 30 youths in the capital broke a curfew and set up camp near the heavily guarded Interior Ministry, bringing mats, food and water for an overnight sit-in. Police did not bother them.</p>
<p>In recent days, officers have fired tear gas and clubbed protesters.</p>
<p>The UN said more than 100 people have died in the unrest which surrounded the ousting of the president.</p>
<p>Mr Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday after 23 years in power, and a caretaker government is now struggling to calm the moderate Muslim nation on the Mediterranean Sea, popular among European tourists and seen as an ally in the West&#8217;s fight against terrorism.</p>
<p>Mr Ben Ali&#8217;s long-time prime minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi, kept his post and is trying to convince Tunisians a new era has arrived &#8211; even if the composition of the interim government has many faces from the old guard.</p>
<p>Interim President Fouad Mebazaa went on television and promised to live up to the people&#8217;s revolt, which he called a &#8220;revolution&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Regarding security, you have certainly noticed that it has improved,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have discovered the leaders of the chaos, and have stopped the gangs and those who put fear in the hearts of people. The situation is moving toward stability.&#8221;</p>
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