Tunisian presidential candidate freed days before election

A Tunisian appeals court on Wednesday freed presidential candidate Nabil Karoui days before Sunday's second-round runoff election, his lawyer Kamal Ben Massoud told Reuters.

Karoui, a media mogul, was detained in August before the first round of the election and has spent the entire campaign period in prison pending a verdict in his trial for money laundering and tax evasion, which he denies.