Tunisian Prime minister Ali Larayedh (R) meets for an emergency meeting in Tunis on August 1, 2013 with Houcine Abbassi (L), Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), who has been calling for the resignation of the government following the assassination of opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi. Tunisia’s leaders started talks with opposition and civil society representatives to try to defuse the country’s latest political crisis, prompted by last week’s murder of an opposition MP. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID