TUNIS (Reuters) - Around 40,000 secularists rallied in Tunis on Tuesday to call for the departure of the Islamist-led ruling coalition, but there were no reported clashes with another demonstration by thousands of Islamists elsewhere in the Tunisian capital.
Beset by a severe economic downturn, a suspension of parliament and a surge in Muslim militant attacks, Tunisia's government, led by the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, is grappling with secularists' calls for its resignation.
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