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Tunisian court rules that 81-year-old can drop slave name

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Tunis, Tunisia Thomson Reuters Foundation A Tunisian court has allowed an 81-year-old man to remove a word that marked him out as descended from slaves from his name, in the country’s first ruling of its kind, his lawyer said. Tunisia was one of the first countries to abolish slavery in 1846, but critics say it […]