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The Democratic National Committee announced Friday that CNN and The New York Times will co-host the party's fourth presidential debate next month in Westerville, Ohio.

The three leading Democratic presidential candidates clashed over health care, along with immigration and President Barack Obama's legacy in a fierce debate Thursday night that pitted an aggressive Joe Biden against liberal rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

The presidential hopefuls will have 1 minute and 15 seconds for direct responses to questions and 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals. Candidates will have the opportunity to deliver opening statements, but there will be no closing statements.

It was the first true presidential debate in the Arab world, yet the front-runner was nowhere to be seen. Nabil Karoui was not entirely to blame for his absence from the stage, though. The businessman and media mogul is campaigning to be president of Tunisia from jail.

While political debates have become fatiguingly familiar for Americans, in Tunisia they have been something else entirely – historic.

Either way, the past three days, as Tunisia’s presidential candidates tried to persuade voters in a series of debates, were historic for the country and the region.

The Independent High Authority for Elections (IHAE) approved Monday a request to hold a Televised talk with presidential candidate Nabil Karoui, head of Heart of Tunisia Party, who is now at Mornaguia Prison.

Moreover, even though the turnouts have significantly declined in each one of the three consecutive elections reflecting on voter frustration with the existing class of politicians and political parties, for the first time in the Arab world there has been a televised debate between the candidates

On Monday, Oct. 7, six federal party leaders faced off in an English-language debate in front of a non-partisan live audience at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., overlooking Parliament Hill.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has called for other party leaders to boycott an upcoming French-language debate that has excluded her.

When the federal party leaders face off in October for the official English and French election debates, they will be answering questions from a panel of journalists — and from some of you.