Separatist officials welcomed the deal, the separatist news website DAN reported.
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According to Motherboard, Facebook is worried that banning white separatist groups would negatively impact other separatist movements around the world like black separatist groups.
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It also doesn't change the company's existing policies on separatist and nationalist movements more generally; content relating to Black separatist movements and the Basque separatist movement, for example, will still be allowed.
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Separatist violence and street protests have increased in Kashmir since last year when security forces killed a popular young separatist commander.
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Senior separatist official Eduard Basurin said shelling from the Ukrainian side had stopped at midnight on Sunday, separatist website DAN reported.
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Meanwhile separatist officials accused Ukrainian troops of firing at a rebel-held residential district in southern Donetsk region, separatist news site DAN reported.
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Government forces shelled the Western outskirts of separatist-held Donetsk city late on Monday, damaging eight residential buildings, separatist news service DAN reported.
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Separatist tensions date to post-colonial era Anglophone separatist fighters have been accused of kidnapping students in the country's north and southwest regions.
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Separatist parties won 70 seats out of 135, with Puigdemont's Junts Per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) party retaining its position as the largest separatist force.
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"In Italy, there has been a resurgence of separatist energies," said Antonio Rapisarda, who has been tracking separatist movements for the daily newspaper Il Tempo.
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China considers the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader a dangerous separatist, and ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a regular briefing the meeting would encourage "separatist forces".
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Catalonia might be the separatist region making headlines at the moment but Europe has many other separatist movements that are closely watching developments in northeastern Spain.
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In Catalonia, Quim Torra, a separatist who now leads the regional government, has a tenuous grip on power; a coalition of the two main separatist parties recently splintered.
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Held hostage by opportunistic separatist authorities, they are simultaneously cast as outlaws by the Ukrainian government — as separatist sympathizers and disloyal citizens, whose sin was having been taken hostage.
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Separatist lawmakers used the result to make a botched declaration of independence, and the central government responded by ousting the separatist leaders and imposing direct rule over Catalonia for several months.
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After the vote, in which Socialist Meritxell Batet was elected committee president, Catalan separatist politicians used the swearing-in process as a platform to demand freedom for jailed Catalan separatist leaders.
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Cover image: Protesters hold a banner reading 'traitors' with drawings depicting Catalan separatist leaders near the Supreme Court during the trial of Catalan separatist leaders on February 12, 2019 in Madrid, Spain.
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Experts say that white nationalism and white separatism movements are different from other separatist movements such as the Basque separatist movement in France and Spain and Black separatist movements worldwide because of the long history of white supremacism that has been used to subjugate and dehumanize people of color in the United States and around the world.
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In Thursday's vote, Catalonia's separatist parties won 70 of the 135 seats, compared with 72 last time, with Puigdemont's Junts Per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) retaining its position as the largest separatist force.
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Last month, a young Kashmiri separatist blew up a bus full of Indian soldiers, setting off a sharply escalating military crisis between India and Pakistan, which India has accused of supporting separatist militants.
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Separatist rebels also operate in Baluchistan as do criminal gangs.
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Other leading separatist commanders have been killed in unexplained circumstances.
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The separatist Parti Québécois (PQ) wanted to go much further.
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The forthcoming trials of the separatist leaders will inflame emotions.
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Do you even understand the meaning of the word "separatist"?
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TODAY Catalan separatist leaders go on trial, accused of rebellion.
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I'm basically a lesbian separatist, and I can say that.
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Some protesters waved separatist flags while others sported sleeping mats.
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In response, Catalan separatist leaders called for mass civil disobedience.
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Cumhuriyet is accused of writing stories that serve "separatist manipulation".
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They shot two women accused of cooking for separatist fighters.
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Some protesters waved separatist flags while others sported sleeping mats.
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Banning explicit white nationalist and white separatist content: Yes, really.
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China views the Nobel Peace laureate as a dangerous separatist.
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It fears the referendum will inflame separatist tensions at home.
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Islamic State and an Arab separatist group both claimed responsibility.
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A separatist insurgency since 2004 has killed nearly 7,000 people.
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But two separatist wars in Chechnya have spread to Dagestan.
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The separatist coalition then organized an independence referendum on Oct.
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But regions in the north still have active separatist movements.
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The fighting killed one separatist soldier and wounded five others.
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Pakistan has a history of funding separatist militants in Kashmir.
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Analysts say the attacks were carried out by a separatist insurgent group known as Barisan Revolusi Nasional after it was left out of peace talks between Thailand and another separatist umbrella group in Malaysia.
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However, the ongoing trial of 12 Catalan separatist leaders, for their role in the failed independence bid back in 2017, along with disputes among separatist parties resulted in pro-independence parties rejecting the appointment.
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Separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who chairs the Hurriyat Conference of separatist groups, said arbitrary arrests and jailing of leaders, activists and young people for their political beliefs had happened across Kashmir for 30 years.
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The two main separatist groups have denied involvement in the hijacking.
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Beijing considers the Dalai Lama part of a Tibetan separatist movement.
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Avdiika is under Ukrainian government control in the separatist Donetsk region.
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China has accused them of forming separatist groups and fueling terrorism.
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The election has given a fillip to separatist sentiment in Alberta.
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China has blamed much of the unrest on separatist Islamist militants.
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A separatist Baluchi group killed ten Iranian border guards in April.
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The separatist project foundered last autumn when confronted with harsh reality.
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These setbacks, and the jailings, prompted divisions in the separatist camp.
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It also accused him of speaking "negatively" about his separatist superiors.
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Dodik has had the support of Russia for his separatist stands.
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It denies giving material aid to Muslim separatist fighters in Kashmir.
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Kashmir has been in the throes of separatist violence since 1989.
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The separatist leader has been campaigning while in exile in Belgium.
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Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine by separatist militia armed
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Catalonia's separatist government, however, remains committed to holding it on Sunday.
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Indian-administered Kashmir has been plagued by separatist violence since 1989.
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Baluchistan Province has been simmering with a separatist insurgency for decades.
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Several worked for the Russian-backed separatist government in eastern Ukraine.
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This specialty is also claimed by another Georgian region, separatist Abkhazia.
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In exchange, Russia would withdraw its troops from Ukraine's separatist regions.
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Officials in Pakistan have accused India of fanning separatist sentiment there.
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China depicts the Uighur people as a separatist and terrorist threat.
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Russian-backed separatist rebels are mostly driving the increase in violence.
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But Mr. Mas was a late convert to the separatist cause.
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" She added, "I think it's perfectly reasonable to have separatist spaces.
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Some separatist politicians used the Diada to visit those in prison.
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His conservative separatist party is part of the prime minister's coalition.
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BARCELONA, Spain — Separatist lawmakers declared Catalonia's independence from Spain on Oct.
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The separatist government in Donetsk blamed the Ukrainian government in Kiev.
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Separatist leaders were not immediately available to comment on that raid.
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The PKK launched a separatist insurgency in southeast Turkey in 1984.
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The other jailed separatist leaders were politicians rather than rights activists.
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"I'm almost a separatist Anglophone," he told me, his voice rising.
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That includes restrictions on the movement of the few separatist political leaders who are out of jail, pressure on foreign diplomats not to meet them, and the recent banning of a number of unarmed separatist organizations.
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Last week, Mr. Sánchez promised to "rebuild bridges" with the separatist parties of Catalonia and his appointment in Madrid coincided with a new separatist administration taking office in Barcelona, the Catalan capital, led by Quim Torra.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian security forces shot dead an 18-year-old Papuan separatist during a shootout, a military spokesman said on Wednesday, though a separatist group disputed the account and said the victim was a civilian.
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"This is becoming, as our fighters say, the second Airport," said Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the separatist Vostok battalion, writing in a recent blog post — a rare insight into the often-closed ranks of separatist forces.
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And the PP and Spain's other large anti-separatist party, Ciudadanos — or "Citizens" — spearheaded a rally in central Madrid last weekend calling for elections as a protest against Sanchez's comparatively conciliatory approach to the Catalan separatist movement.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The premier of Belgium's Flanders region, which has itself seen separatist frictions in the past, denounced Spanish authorities on Friday for arresting sacked separatist Catalan officials and urged the EU to mediate in the dispute.
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The Ukrainian military said rebels had opened fire on Ukrainian positions four times since the truce came into force, while separatist officials also accused the Ukrainian side of not fully respecting the truce, separatist website DAN reported.
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The separatist force, built with UAE support, has more than 50,000 fighters.
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That's why Tekla is a separatist festival and it's only for girls.
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Nevertheless, many of the Catalan separatist leaders talk the language of identity.
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Separatist groups have also voiced support for the Avengers, local media reported.
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Saudi Arabia called for the meeting after the separatist forces on Aug.
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The largest consists of southern fighters, often with Salafist and separatist leanings.
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Khuzestan has been the scene of anti-regime protests and separatist attacks.
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Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of funding separatist groups on its territory.
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Rajapaksa's administration crushed the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009.
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Turkey fears their advances will fuel separatist sentiment among its own Kurds.
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The Ukrainian state security service said 103 prisoners remained in separatist hands.
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The anti-Assad opposition views it as part of a separatist project.
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"I call it the Kumbaya factor," moans an anti-separatist Catalan economist.
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India accuses Pakistan of orchestrating a separatist revolt in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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Every day, Russian-led separatist forces are killing Ukrainians in the Donbass.
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The newspaper is also accused of writing stories that serve "separatist manipulation".
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The three Catalan separatist parties won a combined 23 seats on Sunday.
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And any support from Catalan separatist parliamentarians would be hard to clinch.
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Fearing dismemberment, national governments often use fiscal decentralisation to reduce separatist pressures.
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Separatist militias cannot take the towns; the army cannot take the bush.
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An oligarch is rumored to have paid for east Ukraine's separatist forces.
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One rebel fighter was killed and another wounded, separatist website DAN reported.
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Control over that territory could fuel separatist ambitions among Kurds in Turkey.
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A separatist named Randy Weaver was up against firearms charges in 1992.
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We were supposed to investigate a separatist movement with a young fixer.
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This was one of the problems with the whole lesbian separatist movement.
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Both the Islamic State and a separatist group, Al Ahwaz, claimed responsibility.
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That opens the door to the politics of nationalist and separatist movements.
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BRUSSELS — Separatist politicians in Catalonia have been pushing for independence from Spain.
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The bloc defends democratic rights but is wary of encouraging separatist forces.
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He was a compromise choice to break a deadlock among separatist parties.
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Separatist militants have been battling Indian security forces in Kashmir for years.
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Separatist movements have occasionally flared up, but Beijing has suppressed these demonstrations.
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But separatist politicians from other parties immediately distanced themselves from his project.
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People's Daily, the party's mouthpiece, accused Mr Morey of being "pro-separatist".
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The sentences were greeted with outrage by the separatist segment of Catalonia.
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Separatist leaders were grooming him to be defense minister in the DNR.
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Ire over this has contributed to a long-running ethnic separatist rebellion.
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Ukraine said it would only approve a deployment in separatist-held areas.
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In recent weeks, my parents' business has suffered attacks by separatist radicals.
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The Sunni Islamic State and an Arab separatist group both claimed responsibility.
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Hadi's government has publicly asked the UAE to stop supporting separatist forces.
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Analysts say the attacks were carried out by a separatist insurgent group known as Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) after having been left out of peace talks between the Thai government and a separate separatist umbrella group in Malaysia.
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Meanwhile separatist officials accused the Ukrainian military of firing at rebel-held territory, including with heavy weapons that were meant to be withdrawn from the front line according to the Minsk deal, the separatist news site DAN reported.
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The separatist issue goes back decades in India, with one of the most important clashes occurring in 1984 when Indian Army soldiers stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhs' holiest site, in an effort to capture separatist leaders.
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To add to the confusion, Mr. Puigdemont and other separatist lawmakers later signed a document proclaiming Catalan independence — a signing that separatist lawmakers argued should not be seen as more than an opportunity to negotiate over independence with Madrid.
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Intense shelling was also reported overnight in the separatist-held city of Donetsk.
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Some members of the ethnic separatist movements are based in the European countries.
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"(China) will resolutely oppose and contain separatist activities for Taiwan independence," Li said.
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They accused 13 of being members of a pro-Papua independence separatist group.
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Separatist groups have carried out intermittent attacks for decades, including on oil installations.
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Moscow and the rebels accused Kiev of staging an advance into separatist territory.
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At the start of the campaign, the separatist parties showed signs of moderation.
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FOR UP TO 15 months nine Catalan separatist leaders have been in jail.
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The Kremlin has relied on Kadyrov to stabilize Chechnya after two separatist wars.
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Last week, a Cameroonian separatist leader arrested in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, was deported.
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Mr Sánchez swiftly retreated, breaking off contact with the separatist administration in Barcelona.
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Separatist lawmakers defied court orders and held a referendum on independence in October.
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The Times added that Johnson is chairman of the separatist American Freedom Party.
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The case will be closely watched by separatist groups across Europe and beyond.
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A separatist insurgency has dragged on since 2004, killing more than 6,900 people.
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Since then, Moscow has been supporting pro-separatist groups in Ukraine's eastern region.
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Something I found interesting in the description is the mention of separatist kidnappers.
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Iran often accuses Sunni nations of supporting Sunni separatist groups against the government.
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Obama also called on the combined Russian-separatist forces to honor the Feb.
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This could focus the markets' attention on further indications of European separatist tendencies.
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This overreaction strengthened separatist sentiment, and Anglophone pro-independence groups took up arms.
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Wednesday's parliamentary debate also raised tensions between Mr. Rajoy and Catalan separatist lawmakers.
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Some of the Catalan separatist leaders were later arrested or fled the country.
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Spain issued a European arrest warrant for the five separatist politicians on Friday.
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If this separatist alliance sounds fragile, unwieldy and paradoxical, that's because it is.
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If they choose to disobey it, separatist lawmakers have a range of options.
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Separatist lawmakers have two months to form an administration or force new elections.
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On Friday, a Spanish judge widened the investigation to include more separatist politicians.
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Nineteen separatist leaders are expected to appear in two Spanish courts this week.
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A poorly armed and fractured separatist movement has simmered in Papua for decades.
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A poorly armed and fractured separatist movement has simmered in Papua for decades.
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Iran and Turkey fear it will escalate separatist ambitions among their Kurdish minorities.
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A prominent religious leader and separatist, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, was giving a sermon.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had already moved from integrationist to separatist aims.
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The government considers Xinjiang a hotbed of Islamic extremism, violence and separatist thought.
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The explosion took place at an event for recruits to a separatist militia.
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Ms. Casel, secure and proud in her identity, isn't a purist or separatist.
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Despite the February 2015 agreement, fighting has continued between separatist groups and Ukraine.
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The man at left was an unidentified separatist; he was not Mikhail Tolstykh.
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Pro-separatist parties in Catalonia want to hold an independence ballot on Oct.
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Catalonia's separatist leaders have denied that Russian interference helped them in the vote.
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Lega is prominent across northern regions and was founded on a separatist agenda.
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Five separatist militant groups with about 500 men have been fighting the military.
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Catalonia's separatist leaders have faced growing pressure on multiple fronts in recent days.
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Nevertheless, the separatist majority in the Catalan regional Parliament declared independence weeks later.
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There was no immediate reaction or claim of responsibility from any separatist group.
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Vox has gone further than other right-leaning parties in Spain by not only condemning the pro-independence movement in Catalonia but by taking an active role in a trial against separatist leaders; it also wants to ban separatist parties.
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On Monday, separatist leaders warned they would take control of Ukraine-run businesses in rebel-held areas if the government in Kiev did not end a blockade by a group of Ukrainian lawmakers and veterans on rail traffic from separatist territory.
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Catalonia's separatist government, which published a "white book" outlining plans for an independent state in 2014, said Catalonia would assume a portion of the debt if Spain agreed to transfer state-owned infrastructure and other assets to the separatist government.
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After a contentious independence referendum last weekend, marred by clashes between the Spanish police and Catalan voters, a large-scale intervention by Madrid could increase separatist feelings among Catalonia's divided citizenship and unsettle other regions with a history of separatist sentiment.
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The region, which has a strong separatist movement, has been a contentious point in Spanish politics for many years, but it has escalated with the imprisonment and sentencing of Catalan separatist politicians to between nine and 13 years in 2019.
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Russia's main focus is returning separatist-held Donbass to Kiev on its own terms.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Spaniards face an uncomfortable choice between political paralysis and separatist confrontation.
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Separatists won a December election and chose fervent separatist Quim Torra as regional chief.
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The separatist movement gathered pace in 2017 after a government crackdown on peaceful demonstrations.
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In June separatist demonstrators broke up an academic conference on Cervantes at Barcelona University.
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There are more protests and demonstrations planned on both the unionist and separatist sides.
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A separatist insurgency has dragged on in southern Thailand for more than fifteen years.
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The once-separatist MILF has accepted autonomy instead of independence for mainly Muslim areas.
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And then local channels run by separatist groups are stronger than the Ukrainian channels.
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The total separatist vote was 47.6%, barely down on 2015 despite the bigger turnout.
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Later, a senior Turkish official confirmed to CNN that the "separatist organization" is PKK.
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She was well aware of the separatist regime's aversion to any form of dissent.
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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the head of the alliance, said separatist political leaders felt isolated.
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Should white nationalism be treated more harshly than anti-LGBT hate or separatist groups?
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President Xi Jinping and other officials have warned separatist activity would not be tolerated.
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He and other separatist leaders have called for a strike in Kashmir on Friday.
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"YPG is part of the separatist terror organization," Davutoglu said, referring to the PKK.
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Aishat Kadyrova's father is a former separatist fighter-turned pro-Kremlin leader of Chechnya.
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For years, the separatist movement has successfully sold itself as cool, kind and progressive.
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It's worrisome that these separatist initiatives are happening in other parts of the world.
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Separatist groups in Baluchistan have threatened to attack any CPEC projects in the province.
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The group that issued the threat was this radical, transphobic separatist group up there.
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Hostilities erupted in eastern Ukraine, where a Russian-backed separatist movement began seizing cities.
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Some worry that such resentments will encourage the growth of Alberta's tiny separatist movement.
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Initially, sanctions were targeted toward the separatist regions and their leadership, as in Transnistria.
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If Moscow stirs up separatist sentiment again — which is likely — what can Congress do?
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Finally, past U.S. policies have not deterred Moscow's efforts to further manufacture separatist territories.
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There are no official international rules, but guidelines are on hand for separatist movements.
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On Monday news emerged that Madrid's High Court had detained two Catalan separatist leaders.
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Baluchistan Province has been simmering with a separatist insurgency by Baluch rebels for decades.
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"I don't have evidence or information being passed on the separatist side," Zannier added.
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The deadlock comes amid a heated confrontation between Madrid and separatist politicians in Catalonia.
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China has the will, confidence and ability to defeat any separatist activity, Xi said.
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Meanwhile separatist rebels accuse government troops of violating the ceasefire on a daily basis.
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As in Euripides, God-maddened women establish a radical separatist commune in the woods.
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Spanish authorities accuse the separatist government of irresponsibly encouraging voters to violate Spanish law.
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Last month, a Baloch separatist group attacked a bus carrying Chinese workers, wounding five.
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But the level of participation depends partly on whether separatist politicians will take part.
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In March, Facebook banned white nationalist and white separatist content on Facebook and Instagram.
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I'd be interested to hear what younger Canadians think of the separatist movement today.
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The fourth suspect, Leonid Kharchenko, is a Ukrainian who led a separatist combat unit.
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A separatist insurgency by some Baluch tribes has simmered in the province for decades.
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Chechnya was involved in two brutal separatist wars in the 20113s and early 22011s.
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On Monday Madrid courts charged at least 20 separatist leaders with rebellion and sedition.
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Some of the condemned separatist leaders could be eligible for parole from next January.
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Since the sentencing, separatist protesters have come out in force in cities across Catalonia.
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The name of his separatist group, Bakata Katanga, means "cut off Katanga" in Swahili.
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Some Ukrainians suspect a Russian efforts to put separatist leadership in more malleable hands.
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Gordon is maybe a prophet, or a militia separatist or a polygamous child abuser.
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The two main Catalan separatist parties were also set to vote against Mr. Rajoy.
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Some, like Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, continue to call for a new state.
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The Chinese government likes to focus on the alleged separatist nature of the movement.
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China has the will, confidence and ability to defeat any separatist activities, Xi said.
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I began my career documenting post-conflict recovery and the aftermath of separatist movements.
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The accord aimed to restore Kiev's control over separatist-held territory in eastern Ukraine.
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Heavy fighting recently broke out in the separatist-controlled territory known as the Promzone.
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Separatist movements remain a force to be reckoned with in the region, with a spokesman for the region's largest separatist party - the Basque Nationalist Party – saying recently that he hopes the region could have its own vote on independence just like Catalonia.
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Initially, after the second Chechen war ended in 2000, Russia was fighting a separatist movement.
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The economy has tanked and a conflict with separatist rebels has no end in sight.
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Yves-François Blanchet, the Bloc Québécois's leader, downplayed its separatist aspirations during the election campaign.
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Indonesian security forces have tried to suppress a tiny separatist movement, often with brutal tactics.
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Last week, Putin signed a decree recognizing passports issued by separatist authorities in the region.
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But, according to the BBC, it is believed that it could have been separatist insurgents.
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Both the Ukrainian authorities and separatist officials have warned of economic fallout from the blockade.
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The army may have cut off the head of the Biafran separatist snake for now.
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European leaders, especially those with separatist stirrings inside their own borders, have each other's back.
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The worst abuses by far have taken place in regions seized by Russian-separatist forces.
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People display Catalan separatist flags during a demonstration outside the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona.
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"What is happening today is a natural response to these separatist groups," Abu Zayd said.
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A number of separatist leaders fled Spain or were arrested and imprisoned, causing widespread controversy.
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Turkey views the YPG as a terrorist organization linked to Kurdish separatist insurgents at home.
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A Kremlin-backed separatist movement soon swept across the Donbas, Ukraine's southeastern region bordering Russia.
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The meeting is likely to upset China, which regards the Dalai Lama as a separatist.
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Government soldiers were targeting the PKK, the separatist group the Turks consider a terrorist organization.
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A Russian-backed separatist insurgency erupted in 2014 and bloodshed has continued despite the ceasefire.
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In fact, he says people have the wrong idea about him and his separatist cause.
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Fundamentalists preferred a separatist approach: The gospel of Christ crucified is foolishness to the gentiles.
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Islamabad denies this, saying it provides only diplomatic and moral support to the separatist movement.
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Tourism though has been affected this summer because of a flare-up in separatist violence.
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Francesc Homs, a Catalan separatist lawmaker, said he expected a 10 percent drop in turnout.
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Among other challenges that require serious attention from Madrid is the separatist drive in Catalonia.
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They said they had spoken to a separatist who confirmed part of the return route.
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Others dismiss the idea of working within the system and call for a separatist stance.
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A Russia-backed separatist insurgency led to fighting that has killed 10,000 people since 2014.
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Separatist politicians in Catalonia have also been pushing for such a change in their region.
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Also, there is nothing preventing Catalonians from simply electing another extreme pro-separatist as president.
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Meanwhile Turkey fears the vote could stoke separatist aspirations among its own sizable Kurdish minority.
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China's Foreign Ministry said the riot was "plotted mainly by a local radical separatist organization".
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Below please find brief description of how Catalonia compares with other regions with separatist leanings.
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It was variously decorated with Catalan separatist flags, a blowup doll and a pig's head.
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Pakistan accuses India of helping the separatist movement in Baluchistan, a charge denied by India.
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Nineteen separatist leaders are expected to appear in two Spanish courts on Thursday and Friday.
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The presence of fighters from Turkey's separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) further complicates the picture.
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A separatist group claimed responsibility and vowed more attacks against Chinese interests in the country.
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The separatist group Hurriyat Conference called for a three-day strike and protests across Kashmir.
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Afghan officials confirmed that General Raziq had housed Baluch separatist leaders in Kandahar for years.
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Will separatist lawmakers stick with Carles Puigdemont or seek a compromise with unionists and Madrid?
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The Chinese paint the Uighurs as a separatist threat as well as a terrorist threat.
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Chinese officials and the state news media have denounced the protests as a separatist movement.
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Turkey has been fighting separatist Kurds inside its borders and considers the Syrian Kurds terrorists.
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"My punk scene was very unfeminist, and Miranda's scene was slightly lesbian separatist," Mills said.
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A separatist insurgency against Indian rule began in 1989 and has since claimed 47,000 lives.
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Eduard Basurin, deputy commander of the 20,000-strong Donetsk-based separatist forces, denies the claim.
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Kiev and the West accuse Russia of stoking the separatist movement and aiding the rebels.
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He even briefly aligned himself with the Nation of Islam, a black separatist religious group.
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Separatist violence erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and has killed 9,600 people so far.
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The restive region of Chechnya was the site of two separatist wars in the 1990s.
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But separatist militants are determined to disrupt any resumption of normalcy and maintain the resistance.
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Step 2: UAE-backed separatist militia gets that equipment & uses it against Saudi-backed govt.
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That has alarmed Turkey, which fears the advances will stoke Kurdish separatist ambitions at home.
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China's Foreign Ministry has said the riot was "plotted by a local radical separatist organization".
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Moreover, separatist sentiment caused one firm to cancel plans to put its headquarters in Calgary.
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Ramazan Sharif told ISNA that an Arab separatist group carried out the attack, without elaborating.
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The separatist sentiment intensified after the military killed Nawab Akbar Bugti, a prominent Baloch leader.
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He considers such areas a threat that could inspire separatist Kurds in Iraq and Turkey.
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Russia seized on the turmoil, annexing Crimea, stoking separatist rebellion and launching a clandestine invasion.
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Officials suspect the armed men were linked to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front separatist movement.
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"We're not going to support a separatist entity ... that's cut and dry," the official said.
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"It is a coalition government, which is not very common in Spain, it lacks an outright majority, and whose likely simple majority relies on the abstention, of among many other regional parties, the big separatist ERC (a Catalan separatist party)," Hense told CNBC via email.
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To this end, Moscow eagerly supports extremist parties, divisive groups and separatist movements across the Continent.
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On Thursday's agenda is the separatist conflict in Ukraine that the West accuses Russia of orchestrating.
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India accuses Pakistan of funding armed militants and separatist groups in India's portion of the region.
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It says the YPG are an extension of a Kurdish separatist movement inside its own borders.
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Mali's expansive north has been unstable since 2012, when separatist rebels and jihadists seized the area.
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Esquerra, a Catalan separatist party, will probably abstain, which would get Mr Sánchez over the line.
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Arrimadas will struggle to form a regional coalition as collectively separatist parties achieved a narrow majority.
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In exchange, Russia would withdraw its troops from the separatist regions in Ukraine's war-torn east.
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Such a move, potentially could alarm Turkey, which fears separatist sentiment in its own Kurdish population.
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Catalan separatist parties have until Wednesday to say if they maintain their objection to the budget.
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The next summer, in July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over separatist-controlled territory.
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An outlawed separatist group, the PKK has been fighting the Ankara government for nearly four decades.
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The three separatist parties won 215% of the vote and retained a narrow majority in parliament.
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In Quebec, Canada's French-speaking province, the big winner was the Bloc Québécois, a separatist party.
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The central government briefly took direct control of the region and rounded up prominent separatist leaders.
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The Hong Kong National Party (HKNP), founded in 2016, is the territory's first separatist political party.
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Catalonia saw sometimes violent protests in October after nine separatist leaders were handed lengthy prison sentences.
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He also believes America's policy of encouraging Ukraine to reintegrate its separatist eastern provinces is ruinous.
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The two wings of the Catalan separatist movement secured 49% of the vote in the region.
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Separatist, anti-independence, and even pro-dialogue demonstrations have filled Barcelona since the referendum was held.
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Islamic State and a separatist group from Iran's Arab minority both claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Baluchistan is Pakistan's poorest and least developed province and has suffered a long-running separatist violence.
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Ukraine says in its filing that separatist forces, backed by Moscow, have carried out terrorist acts.
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The move early Saturday came after separatist Catalan lawmakers passed a declaration of independence on Friday.
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In Chechnya, Russian government forces smashed the city for several years to root out separatist rebels.
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Bosniak parties fear the proposal could be a prelude to the Croats forging a separatist entity.
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Saudi Arabia has been hosting indirect talks for a month between Hadi's government and separatist leaders.
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In the Philippines, existing separatist groups such as Abu Sayyaf are increasingly being linked to ISIS.
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Sri Lanka, under the ousted leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, crushed the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.
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It has been plagued by violence from the Pakistan Taliban, a separatist movement and other groups.
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Protests flared last year after security forces killed a popular underground separatist leader called Burhan Wani.
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Violent protests rocked Aden and other southern provinces last month after separatist officials issued similar calls.
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Islamabad denies this, saying it provides only diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiri separatist movement.
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A long-running separatist movement in Papua has seen an increase in violence in recent months.
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The Sri Lankan military finally vanquished the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan guerrillas in 2009.
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The reports could not be independently verified and separatist leaders could not be reached for comment.
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Turkey, for decades, has been fighting a Kurdish separatist group -- the Kurdistan Worker's Party, of PKK.
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After the war, Georgia entirely lost control of both South Ossetia and another separatist region, Abkhazia.
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Chinese officials justified repression of Tibetan Buddhists by conflating them with separatist and pro independence movements.
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In the valley itself, many had heeded the calls of separatist leaders to boycott the polls.
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Erdogan mentioned both ISIS and Kurdish separatist groups as threats to Turkey's security in the address.
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Quebec political leaders, including those from the separatist Parti Québécois, have declined to meet with her.
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Brexit is probably just the beginning, as populist/separatist/xenophobic movements gain influence across the continent.
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Almost equally important will be who comes top on the separatist side, Mr Puigdemont or Esquerra.
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This kind of paranoia about localists blossoming into full-fledged separatist political activities might be counterproductive.
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Protests also erupted in Mizoram state, where some activists have given voice to old separatist aspirations.
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Both the Ukrainian authorities and separatist officials have warned of economic fallout from blocking coal supplies.
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"Now it's just Russian and separatist ones," said Shazhkova, who remains sympathetic to the Kiev cause.
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Other Catalan separatist politicians warned that Mr. Rajoy's announcement would escalate rather than resolve the conflict.
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Mr. Puigdemont's separatist agenda has been set by the most extremist elements of his governing coalition.
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He had reportedly dined often at the restaurant, which was paradoxically called Separ, short for separatist.
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Based on this highly controversial referendum, separatist lawmakers voted to declare independence from Spain on Oct.
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On June 17, Savchenko was captured by one of these separatist groups, the Donbass People's Militia.
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That separatist movement, and the sectarian and political resentment that drove it, never really went away.
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If found guilty of rebellion, the separatist leaders could face up to 30 years in prison.
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Jammu and Kashmir, India's only majority-Muslim state, has seen decades of violence and separatist tensions.
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Separatist sentiment among ethnic Serbs in Bosnia, ethnic Albanians in Macedonia or minorities elsewhere could strengthen.
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For years, he seemed to suggest that the only solution was a separatist show of arms.
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Oplot was subsequently transformed into a large, Russian-backed paramilitary unit fighting on the separatist side.
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" Separatist mayors must endorse the referendum, she said, because otherwise "nobody will vote for you again.
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The former was meant to put an end to war by discouraging invasion or separatist rebellion.
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As a result, he added, the separatist leitmotif that "Spain robs us" remains a powerful message.
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Quim Torra, the separatist leader of the regional Catalan government, had called on citizens to demonstrate.
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In 2003, the Spanish government outlawed Herri Batasuna, a separatist political party closely linked to ETA.
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Instagram In London, I spoke with Akhmed Zakayev, once the prime minister of Chechnya's separatist government.
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Russia's foreign ministry accused Ukraine of his murder, while Kiev blamed his death on separatist infighting.
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His ideological transformation from assimilationist to anti-white separatist to antiracist inspired millions of all races.
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A senior former separatist described last year how Russian financial support propped up the breakaway area.
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Separatist rebels are battling government forces while Taliban and other militant Islamist groups also operate there.
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Dagestan and its neighbor Chechnya have been wracked by separatist and Islamic violence in recent years.
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"We need to know how Facebook will define white nationalist and white separatist content," said Ahussain.
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Quetta is the capital Baluchistan province which has been plagued for decades by a separatist insurgency.
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Rouhani did not identify those behind Saturday's attack, which was claimed by an Arab separatist group.
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While separatist parties had already said that Puigdemont was their candidate, Torrent's announcement makes it official.
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The Chinese government views the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in India, as a separatist.
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The legislation aims to bring peace to a region choked by four decades of separatist violence.
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A passing soldier could have destroyed a separatist position with a single sweep of his hand.
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In March, for example, Facebook banned white nationalist and white separatist content on Facebook and Instagram.
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European leaders have also denounced the push, fearing it could fan separatist sentiment around the continent.
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Julius Ayuk Tabe, the Nigeria-based chairman of the Governing Council of Ambazonia separatist movement, was taken into custody alongside six others at a hotel in Abuja on Friday, said an official in the west African country and a member of the separatist group in Cameroon.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The leader of the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Alexander Zakharchenko, is believed to have been killed in an explosion in a cafe in the region's capital, Interfax news agency cited a source in the separatist administration as saying on Friday.
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In a televised news conference, Laura Borras, a separatist lawmaker, called the ruling "profoundly anti-democratic" and a violation not only of the rights of elected politicians, but also of the more than two 2 million people who voted for separatist parties in Catalonia in recent years.
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Islamabad denies the Indian accusation, saying it provides only diplomatic and moral support to a separatist movement.
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Islamist groups hijacked a separatist Tuareg rebellion in 2012 to seize towns in Mali's vast desert north.
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There, for the benefit of a separatist news crew, they bemoan the depredations of the Ukrainian army.
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Would the President send in the AC-130 Spectre gunships and Bradley Fighting Vehicles — against separatist Californians?
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Separatist leaders called for a general strike and protest march to Wani&aposs hometown to honor him.
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It also led to the imprisonment of some separatist politicians, while others fled to self-imposed exile.
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Pavlo Zhebrivsky, head of Donetsk's regional administration, said two civilians had died from separatist shelling in Avdiivka.
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"It is too late for dialogue now," says a former fighter with one of the separatist militias.
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While not currently affiliated to any party, Torra belongs to the separatist political movement Junts per Catalunya.
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Spain's deadliest terror attack remains the 2004 Madrid train bombing, which separatist group ETA claimed responsibility for.
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A separatist spokesman denied involvement and said government soldiers had staged the kidnapping to discredit the insurgents.
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However, he may well need to bring separatist lawmakers on board, which would complicate any broader alliance.
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Hadi's government asked Abu Dhabi, which has called for dialogue, to stop funding and arming separatist forces.
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The region saw sometimes violent protests in October after nine separatist leaders were handled long prison sentences.
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The press-shy white separatist broke his silence in a story by Aram Roston and Joel Anderson.
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Cormac McGarry of Control Risks, a consultancy, says many pirates have gained experience fighting for separatist groups.
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The next targets might be Catalan public television and radio, which the government sees as separatist mouthpieces.
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Thousands escaped from Kinshasa's maximum security prison last month after an attack linked to a separatist group.
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BRUSSELS – A Belgian court has rejected a Spanish request for the extradition of three Catalan separatist leaders.
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Russia continues to support the separatist republics in Ukraine, and Crimea's annexation has become a fait accompli.
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The separatist PKK has fought an on-off insurgency against Turkish security forces for over three decades.
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Islamabad denies the Indian accusation, saying it provides only diplomatic and moral support to the separatist movement.
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Fighting between Ukrainian troops and Moscow-backed separatist rebels has killed more than 10,000 people since 2014.
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The government has condemned separatist attacks and defended its security forces, saying all alleged atrocities are investigated.
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More than 10,000 people have been killed in separatist fighting that NATO accuses Moscow of directly backing.
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A 2015 peace deal signed by Mali's government and separatist groups has failed to end the violence.
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Protests at the sentencing of nine separatist Catalan leaders focused on Monday on the regional capital's airport.
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This leaves the separatist Bloc Quebecois, which seeks independence for the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec.
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The local government has appealed to the public and separatist political leaders to help calm the situation.
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The separatist parties were seen getting 67-71 seats in the 135-seat assembly, the poll showed.
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But separatist groups do continue to inflict violence on Russia, like the deadly 2014 bombings in Volvograd.
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Many people in Indian-controlled Kashmir resent Indian rule, and often protest in support of separatist militants.
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Several separatist leaders, including former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras, have been in custody since last year.
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In January 2004, a shadowy separatist insurgency by ethnic Malays resurfaced in Thailand, after simmering for decades.
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Ukrainian soldiers reported a grenade was dropped on their position by a drone piloted by separatist fighters.
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Ukrainian forces went on the offensive, and appeared poised to retake the separatist-held territories by August.
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The PKK launched its separatist insurgency in 1984, and more than 40,000 people have been killed since.
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Kiev says Russia's support for separatist forces violated a U.N. convention banning the funding of terrorist groups.
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Arthur: I tend to be more of a separatist, especially after living for several years in Catalonia.
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It must realize that more heavy-handed use of law enforcement will simply strengthen the separatist cause.
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Central authority was weakened in many countries, which allowed the growth of separatist movements that still exist.
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" Trichet is convinced the separatist movement in Spain will fail, but called it a "very difficult challenge.
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The resulting separatist territories create "gray zones" that are problematic for the international community and international law.
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The coalition has vowed further attacks to dislodge southern fighters after hitting a separatist area on Sunday.
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The mass protests were triggered by the Spanish Supreme Court's sentencing of nine separatist leaders on Oct.
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Meanwhile, a September ceasefire in Ukraine, offered unilaterally by separatist leaders, failed after just over a week.
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China's leaders appear to think that taking a hard line against the separatist movement can contain it.
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Russia still fuels a separatist conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine, creating strife for yet another.
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And a decades-old separatist movement at the heart of a devastating civil war is brewing again.
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A long-running separatist movement in the region has seen an increase in violence in recent months.
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Turkey regards Kurdish fighters in the region as terrorists, linking them with Kurdish separatist groups within Turkey.
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More than 40,000 people have been killed during the 30-year separatist insurgency against New Delhi's rule.
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More than 63,000 people have been killed during the 30-year separatist insurgency against New Delhi's rule.
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Catalonia Spain hoped the results of regional elections would deliver a knockout blow to Catalonia's separatist ambitions.
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Separatist parties were seen getting 70 seats in the 135-seat assembly, Reuters reported, citing official data.
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Indian authorities on Friday also banned another separatist organization in Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front.
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The PKK launched a separatist insurgency in 1984 in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.
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Puigdemont's Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) party emerged as the largest separatist force in a Dec.
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The F.B.I. report said he searched for and "liked" pages of black separatist groups on social media.
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Here in Canada, a relatively recent conglomeration of former British colonies, we've also grappled with separatist urges.
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He led the Northern League, a regional separatist party seemingly out of step with the national mood.
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He transformed his Northern League party from a regional separatist movement into a national — and nationalist — movement.
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Mr. Zakharchenko became the latest in a long list of separatist leaders to die in mysterious assassinations.
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The Arab separatist movement in Khuzestan has gone on for decades, sometimes carrying out shootings and bombings.
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In Barcelona, our correspondent met the promoters of independence for Tabarnia, a fictitious separatist movement within Catalonia.
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Journalists have been called traitors simply for seeking accreditation from the separatist authorities of the Donbas region.
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And China has long feared that separatist Uighurs will try to create an independent homeland in Xinjiang.
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Last year, under Catalonia's regional president, Carles Puigdemont, the region's separatist government forged ahead with the Oct.
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Russia and Ukraine, locked in conflict over a separatist Ukrainian region, blamed each other for the tragedy.
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Separatist leaders said attacks on civilians by any of their forces were unacceptable and would be investigated.
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The trial of 12 separatist leaders, 3 of whom were convicted today of lesser charges, captivated Spain.
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Roguelon was picked up by a band of separatist gunmen sometime later and taken to a hospital.
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The border area has long been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and separatist militants.
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Separatist fighters unleashed attacks on a group of soldiers in the city of Buea, in southwest Cameroon.
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Witnesses described how separatist compounds manufactured their own Claymore-style land mines and trained in urban warfare.
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"Homeland," by Fernando Aramburu, about the lingering effects of Basque separatist violence on two once-intimate families.
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Separatist protests have been largely peaceful but police sources have said authorities are prepared for potential violence.
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Separatist parties have agreed on massive but peaceful "civil disobedience" if the 12 leaders are not acquitted.
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A Sunni separatist group said it had seized them as revenge for the oppression of Sunni Muslims.
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That was when Russia seized Crimea and, in Ukraine's east, set off separatist fighting that continues today.
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The Socialists, meanwhile, again held talks with a Catalan separatist party in a bid to gain support.
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New Delhi has long accused Islamabad of sponsoring a separatist movement and militancy in the Himalayan region.
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Separatist militants, who India says are backed by Pakistan, have been fighting Indian security forces since 1989.
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Ukraine is fighting a pro-Russian separatist insurgency in eastern regions that has killed more 10,000 people.
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Complicating peace talks, Russia issued a decree recognizing passports issued by two separatist governments in eastern Ukraine.
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Both the Beijing and Hong Kong governments have made clear such separatist rhetoric will not be tolerated.
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FROM CATALONIA to Kashmir, and from Hong Kong to Scotland, separatist movements will make headlines in 2020.
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The sanctions were imposed over Moscow's annexation of Crimea and support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
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He soon met with Quim Torra, the separatist leader of Catalonia, who also took office in June.
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The court deemed the article to be terrorist propaganda in support of a banned Kurdish separatist organization.
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Once the fire and smoke subsides, the man — Ukrainian or separatist, it's hard to tell — has vanished.
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Torra said he will use the trip to the United States to try to drum up support for the separatist cause and the release of nine high-profile Catalan separatist who are in jail while they await trial for their role in last year&aposs failed breakaway attempt.
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"Meeting separatist leaders in jail or under house arrest is out of the question, but up until a few years ago we used to be able to meet with those that weren't," said one of the diplomats, who has visited the region but not met with any separatist leaders.
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The reasoning at the time was that Facebook believes it has to consider how a policy that bans all nationalist or separatist movements related to race or ethnic groups would impact people around the world; Facebook pointed to Black separatist groups, the Zionist movement, and the Basque movement.
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Grigorian also leads the Yerkapah group of volunteers who support separatist forces in Azerbaijan&aposs Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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As the story opens, Galen Erso and his archeologist wife Lyra are in captivity on a Separatist world.
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Ankara and Tehran are worried that the vote could revive the separatist aspirations of their own Kurdish populations.
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The UAE, which has armed and trained thousands of southern separatist fighters, earlier called for calm and unity.
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After Yanukovich was toppled, Moscow swiftly annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and supported a separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine.
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One well-known separatist leader, Abdul Gani Bhat, was placed under house arrest, according to his political party.
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More than 10,000 people have been killed in the conflict between Ukraine and the separatist rebels since 2014.
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Securing isolated stretches of road from separatist rebels in Balochistan is also gobbling up large amounts of cash.
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They have been blamed by police on an "armed criminal group" but linked to separatist rebels by others.
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A senior PP official said on Sunday a coalition would be the best response to the separatist challenge.
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Ciudadanos, the most combative anti-separatist voice, emerged as the single biggest force, with 22006% of the vote.
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"According to this agreement, Turkey and Russia will not allow any separatist agenda on Syrian territory," Erdogan said.
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Separatist insurgents in Muslim-majority provinces in the south also set off bombs, but rarely outside their region.
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"Today since midnight companies have been being taken under external control," separatist website DAN quoted him as saying.
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Ukraine, where Russia is backing separatist rebels against the government in Kiev, came in second with 545 targets.
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Vox directs its anti-establishment ire not at the EU so much as at feminists and separatist Catalans.
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Two policemen were killed in the attack which was claimed by the separatist Balochistan Liberation Army insurgent group.
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It is no secret that many of them have since left for Syria, says another former separatist leader.
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Firemen shout slongans under an Estelada (Catalan separatist flag) during a march in Barcelona, Spain, October 27, 2017.
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BERLIN – German authorities say two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA have been arrested in Berlin.
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A day later Germany called the vote worrying, as other states fretted about their own separatist-minded communities.
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India accuses Pakistan of funding armed militants, as well as separatist groups in India's portion of the region.
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Putin has stepped up military, economic and political support for the separatist regions in the past few years.
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Today in the southern Philippines, Abu Sayyaf benefits from sympathetic locals who share their separatist sentiments, Wadi says.
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But that hinges in no small part on who the Catalan separatist bloc selects as its next candidate.
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Moscow has supported a separatist movement in Eastern Ukraine since 2014 in addition to annexing Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula.
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Anger over the attack is growing in India, which accuses Pakistan of backing separatist militants in divided Kashmir.
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Chinese authorities have blamed separatist Uighurs for terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds of people in recent years.
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Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and supports separatist rebels in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region.
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Catalonia also elected a new regional parliament this year in which separatist forces retained a majority of seats.
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He said one of the servicemen was killed in separatist shelling near the government-controlled village of Novoluhanske.
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The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami effectively put paid to Aceh's secessionist movement—the last big, threatening separatist drive.
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These days, however, it is the territory's small but increasingly vocal separatist movement that alarms it far more.
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Separatist leaders on Friday evening called for a 72 hour strike and protests against the killings of civilians.
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The triumph of the Brexit campaign has also invigorated separatist inclinations elsewhere, in Scotland, the Netherlands and beyond.
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CNBC highlights some of the larger and long-standing separatist movements that are monitoring Catalonia's referendum with interest.
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No figures are available for casualties on the separatist side, but its leaders says there have been some.
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Sanctions also didn't stop Russia from supporting a separatist movement in eastern Ukraine, which it continues to do.
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"That was a separatist time," Nanette Veilleux, who started volunteering at the shelter after college, in 1980, says.
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Mr. Wani, in his early 20s, had become a prominent face of separatist sentiment in the Kashmir valley.
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Its demise comes as the Spanish government grapples with another separatist movement in the northeastern region of Catalonia.
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Islamist groups hijacked a separatist Tuareg rebellion in 2012 to seize major towns in Mali's vast desert north.
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In another letter, lists of candidates for separatist government positions arrived in Mr. Surkov's inbox before their appointments.
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His wife, once a United Russia member of Parliament, is the head of the separatist government's election commission.
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Police have blamed an "armed criminal group" while military authorities say the gunmen were linked to separatist rebels.
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Esquerra and Junts per Catalunya, along with a smaller separatist party, have not yet agreed on a coalition.
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For example, the Turkish government considers some Kurdish separatist groups to be terrorist organizations, while many Kurds disagree.
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War between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed separatist forces in the eastern Donbass region has killed 13,000 people.
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Separatist parties won control of the regional Parliament in 2015, but with only 48 percent of the vote.
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Separatist leaders also realize that any further violation of the Constitution could land them before the Supreme Court.
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Marta Rovira, a deputy leader of the separatist party Esquerra Republicana, met with Mr. Puigdemont on Tuesday evening.
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There are writings by the Dalai Lama, whom China considers a dangerous separatist, and a photograph of him.
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Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena also sent five separatist leaders to pre-trial jail, sparking protests across Catalonia.
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The three main separatist parties won 70 of the 135 seats in the Catalan Parliament, official results showed.
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Mr. Zoido firmly rejected separatist claims that Mr. Junqueras and others should be considered to be political prisoners.
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The group that claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack is an umbrella organization of several banned Baluch separatist groups.
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I asked Ferran Mascarell, a separatist politician and historian, whether Mr. Puigdemont was set to reshape Catalan history.
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Mr. Rajoy and the Spanish courts may be tempted to ban hard-line separatist parties and their politicians.
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The city is rebel-held and the separatist area is known as the so-called Donetsk People's Republic.
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He did not specify if representatives for the separatist movements would be invited to participate to the talks.
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Bloc Quèbècois - Quebec separatist party that only runs candidates in the province, led by Yves-François Blanchet, 54.
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Step forward (or rather, stay six feet away, socially distanced by his four lightsabers) Separatist leader General Grievous.
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After the attacks, Madrid-based newspapers ran editorials urging the Catalan separatist government to abandon its referendum plan.
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Some Hong Kong marchers carried Catalan flags on Sunday to show solidarity with the separatist movement in Spain.
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He said a team of six soldiers engaged the separatist fighters in the area, killing seven of them.
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A Quebec-based separatist party in Canada's French-speaking province could also make surprise gains at the polls.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the year Russia became involved in a separatist war in Ukraine.
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At the end of last month, four-way talks on ending the separatist conflict ended without a breakthrough.
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It said it continued to operate in the Luhansk separatist area as well as on government-controlled territory.
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The separatist Bloc Quebecois party came third with 24.3% of the vote, and the Conservatives trailed with 16.7%.
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Protests on both sides of the separatist debate have continued, though less forcefully since the start of November.
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Turkey and Iran fear that independence for Iraq's Kurds would embolden separatist ambitions among their own Kurdish minorities.
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Three other separatist leaders were sentenced for the lesser crime of disobedience during the events two years ago.
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Russia also fomented a separatist movement in eastern Ukraine that led to a war that is still ongoing.
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During the Second Chechen War, he stayed loyal to the separatist cause long after Kadyrov's father switched sides.
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There has been a long-running conflict in Baluchistan between Pakistani security forces and a militant separatist movement.
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It picked Zakharchenko, whom it viewed as easy to control, said one of the three ex-separatist sources.
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Already the blockaders have forced a mine and a steel plant in the separatist region to shut down.
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The separatist insurgency and the frequent quarrels between India and Pakistan have hit the local tourism industry hard.
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Papua has suffered a simmering conflict led by a mostly poorly armed and fractured separatist movement for decades.
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Last year, a work labeling Catalonia's separatist leaders as political prisoners was removed from an international art fair.
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He was not among his separatist supporters, but spoke via satellite from hundreds of miles away: in Belgium.
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When Russia seized Crimea in 2014 and began stirring up separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine, there was widespread concern in Western capitals that Narva might also fall prey to jingoistic Russian propaganda and, as happened in Ukraine, to separatist subversion by Russian soldiers and secret agents masquerading as local activists.
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Separatist gunmen in Balochistan province in Pakistan attacked a hotel frequented by Chinese visitors in the city of Gwadar.
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Separatist commander Brigadier General Muneer al-Yafee was among those who died in the missile attack on the parade.
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Russia is rife with regional autonomous and separatist movements that would like to break out from under Moscow's rule.
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But it was also long criticized by those who charge that it is racist, and sympathetic to separatist ideology.
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It has created a force estimated at 40,000 men in the separatist territories, including, covertly, about 5,000 Russian soldiers.
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He then criticized supporters of Hong Kong's protests, calling them a "separatist movement" in a territory controlled by China.
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The conflict is still ongoing, and Donbass is home to two separatist republics, neither of which are recognized internationally.
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The government defeated separatist guerrillas from the ethnic Tamil minority in 2009, after more than 25 years of conflict.
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At least five other leading separatist commanders have been killed in unexplained circumstances not connected to front-line combat.
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Within weeks, Russia had annexed Crimea , and by that summer it had ignited a separatist conflict in the Donbass.
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Baluchistan, a restive province that borders Afghanistan and Iran, has been racked by separatist and sectarian violence for years.
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Hemon suggested growing U.S. social and political rifts could summon separatist forces eventually capable of redrawing America's political map.
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China sees its Uighur population as a separatist threat — one that stands in the way of its global ambitions.
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It was not immediately clear if or how other Ukraine-registered businesses operating in separatist territory had been affected.
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Four Catalan separatist leaders have been in pre-trial detention for almost four months; two dozen more face charges.
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In all, eight of those elected to parliament on the separatist parties' lists are either in jail or exile.
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Because of separatist intimidation "it's not easy being Ciudadanos in Catalonia," she said in the Plaza de la Villa.
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In a statement to Axios, a YouTube spokesperson said: Go deeper: Facebook to ban white nationalist and separatist content
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"The rumours are that they fought, and fought well," says one former senior separatist commander, with a sly smile.
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Meanwhile, the two separatist parties in the former Catalan governing coalition held separate meetings to decide their next move.
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Television cameras film the inaugural "separatist derby" between the soccer teams of the respective Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.
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Demonstrations began in July after the Indian army killed Burhan Wani, the commander of the separatist group Hizbul Mujaheedin.
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Oriol Junqueras, the leader of Esquerra Republicana (Republican Left), the largest separatist party, is in jail, facing similar charges.
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He wants the separatist parties to vote for his budget, which includes a dollop of extra money for Catalonia.
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Mr Girkin, a well-known commander of the separatist forces, is a former officer of the Russian security services.
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Western governments say Russia fomented the separatist conflicts to frustrate Georgia's drive to join NATO and the European Union.
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Twelve separatist leaders are currently appearing at Madrid's Supreme Court on a number of charges including rebellion and sedition.
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Islamic Liberation Front, a Muslim separatist movement in Mindanao, as well as with various breakaway factions of the movement.
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Syrian Kurdish autonomy in northern Syria alarms Turkey, which fears it could increase separatist sentiment among its Kurdish minority.
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The man in the video was not a separatist fighter or cannibal, and the body parts were not real.
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Since January, returning foreign fighters displaying separatist flags from the conflict have surfaced in France's violent "yellow vests" protests.
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Activists and separatist leaders have criticized the security forces' response to the protests, accusing them of using excessive force.
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India accuses Pakistan of smuggling in men, equipment and counterfeit cash to back separatist fighters - a charge Islamabad denies.
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"The hereditary rulers of the UAE are clearly and blatantly advancing a separatist agenda," Abdul Salam said this month.
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In Ukraine, pro-Kiev volunteer battalions and pro-Russian separatist fighters have used small commercial drones in equal measure.
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On Saturday, 750,000 people marched in Barcelona to call for the release of separatist leaders from pre-trial detention.
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Mali has long faced a separatist movement in the north and is also battling a rise of Islamist militancy.
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Earlier on Tuesday, China warned the United States to stick by its promises not to support any separatist activities.
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Abu Sayyaf is an Islamist separatist group, linked - as so many of them seem to be - to al Qaeda.
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Iran's armed forces have demanded authorities in Iraq hand over separatist Kurdish dissidents stationed there and close their bases.
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THE separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) is cruising to victory in the elections to Scotland's Parliament on May 20133th.
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It was the worst single attack in years in a region where a Muslim separatist insurgency has killed thousands.
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China's Communist Party said on Tuesday it would not tolerate any "separatist behavior" after some protesters called for independence.
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He also accused Mr. Iglesias of supporting separatist politicians in what he described as an attempted coup in Catalonia.
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There is no telling indeed where the contagion of Catalonia's separatist movement will stop in Europe's complicated political landscape.
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The Chinese government, which considers the Dalai Lama a separatist, denounced the project and pressured Disney to abandon it.
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The Sahrawis' Polisario Front separatist movement wants a referendum on independence, but Morocco says it will only grant autonomy.
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On Monday, members of the same separatist group attacked a military post near the construction site, killing one soldier.
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Russia went on to annex Crimea from Ukraine and backed a pro-Russian separatist insurgency in the country's east.
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China views him as a separatist, but Tibet's spiritual leader says he only wants genuine autonomy for his homeland.
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Instead, the new oppositional movements are often rooted in religious or ethnic identity and take sectarian or separatist forms.
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Erdoğan has asserted, and continues to assert, that his military is merely responding to Kurdish separatist fighters in Cizre.
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Although there are violations on both sides, the deal has foundered largely because of Russia and its separatist allies.
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In 887, theater artist Robert Lepage recounts his childhood in Quebec City during the escalation of the separatist movement.
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Separatist groups in the region had opposed the project, with some likening it to Israeli settlements within Palestinian territories.
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Spain is struggling to contain its Catalan separatist movement and the President of Catalonia has taken refuge in Belgium.
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Earlier, a judge from Spain's national court ordered prison without bail for two separatist leaders, pending a sedition trial.
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Arab separatist groups have operated sporadically in the region for years, and previous attacks have been attributed to them.
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More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict since the PKK launched its separatist insurgency in 1984.
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As all this was happening, Russia continued to arm and support the separatist militias, thus keeping the war going.
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In June, Ukrainian special forces snatched him from his home in separatist-controlled territory and brought him to Kiev.
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Mr. Puigdemont's Together for Catalonia was the largest vote-getter among the separatist parties, though he campaigned from Belgium.
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The case has also spilled over the border because the jailed separatist politicians have sought support from international institutions.
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Separatist leaders who challenge India's sovereignty over Kashmir called for a strike on Wednesday to protest recent civilian killings.
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Oriol Junqueras, the leader of the other main separatist party, Esquerra Republicana, awaits trial in a prison in Madrid.
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Mr. Puigdemont's party won 34 seats in the next regional Parliament, two more seats than its rival separatist party.
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He was removed from office by Mr. Rajoy in October, after he and other separatist lawmakers declared unilateral independence.
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"We need to know how Facebook will define white nationalist and white separatist content," she said in an email.
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China, which took control of Tibet in 1950, brands the 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate a dangerous separatist.
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Alternately, he could get his separatist lawmakers to vote for a unilateral declaration of independence, as he recently threatened.
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Through the months of agitation, and with Cameroonians abroad organizing protests, a small separatist movement began to gain momentum.
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One woman who identified herself as a separatist leader looked out at the sea of mourners and gravely smiled.
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He and other Catalan separatist leaders were jailed shortly after being ousted by the Spanish government in October 2017.
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On Monday afternoon, factions of separatist groups laid blame for the kidnapping on each other, and on the government.
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The Ukrainian National Security Council has said its intelligence reports show one case of infection in the separatist regions.
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In an Op-Ed, Mr. Puigdemont's deputy, now deposed, argues that future elections could help advance the separatist struggle.
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Many protesters expressed support for the separatist leaders - nine of whom are in jail - awaiting the Supreme Court verdict.
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It's still unclear who the gunmen were; some officials blamed an Arab separatist group, and ISIS also claimed responsibility.
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That changed dramatically in 2011 when the separatist Bloc Québécois collapsed and the party swept much of the province.
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Marriott promised that it would "absolutely not support any separatist organization that will undermine China's sovereignty and territorial integrity."
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The former leaders of both groups were among the separatist leaders sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday.
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The division has led to decades of conflict with numerous separatist campaigns and multiple wars between India and Pakistan.
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A violent separatist movement is ongoing in Kashmir and a number of terrorist and militant groups are active there.
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The region lies inside Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since a separatist war ended in 1994.
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If these are deemed to be free and fair, self-governing status could be granted to separatist-held areas.
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Five columns of separatist protesters marched from different parts of the region into the city amid a general strike.
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Separatist sentiment has endured since, in part because the region, though resource-rich, is the poorest in the country.
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To this day, India blames Pakistan for stirring the unrest by backing separatist militants — a charge its neighbor denies.
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The Cameroonian army has accused Anglophone separatists of carrying out the kidnappings, but a separatist spokesman has denied involvement.
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Violence has been on the rise in the region since the police killed a popular separatist leader in July.
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When, in retaliation, separatist leaders started nationalizing Ukrainian mines and factories, the president said he felt forced to act.
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The separatist Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahwaz issued an emphatic denial after IRNA reported it had claimed responsibility.
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However, Arab separatist groups in the region have launched attacks on oil pipelines there in the past and Iran.
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India's portion of Kashmir has been gripped by protests since security forces killed a popular separatist leader in July.
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During the battle of Ilovaisk in August 2014, Ukrainian soldiers became encircled by Russian regular soldiers and separatist fighters.
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The ERC separatist party came first but it was unclear who could form a majority to rule the municipality.
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Sri Lanka saw frequent suicide bombings before 2009 but ethnic minority Tamil separatist insurgents mostly went for government targets.
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India has long accused Pakistan of encouraging separatist Muslim militants fighting Indian rule in the Indian part of Kashmir.
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The SBU says that rebel authorities impose a "sales tax" on such goods to help finance their separatist republics.
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Five separatist leaders, including the latest candidate to become regional president, Jordi Turull, were ordered jailed pending their trial.
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"Looks like the separatist movement is falling apart," Kepler Cheuvreux analyst Adrian Zunzunegui said in a note on Monday.
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European governments, some of whom face separatist movements of their own, have generally been supportive of the Spanish government.
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Responsible for the deaths of more than 203 Spaniards, the Basque separatist group declared a unilateral cease-fire in 2011.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Could ethical business be the key to ending one of Southeast Asia's most intractable separatist conflicts?
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That called for Donbass to be given a special status and for an amnesty for separatist fighters among other things.
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Russia and separatist Ukraine are not the Soviet Union, but justice is still suborned to theatre, and facts to interests.
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The group were in a vehicle conducting a minefield survey when the explosion occurred in the separatist region in Azerbaijan.
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Carrico, who has done research on Hong Kong politics and the independence movement, was branded a "separatist" by the newspaper.
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His departure lit the fuse for Moscow's annexation of Crimea and a separatist uprising in mainly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine.
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Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran has long been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and separatist militants.
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The province, the poorest and least developed in Pakistan, has suffered nearly a decade of separatist violence against the government.
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Instead, Russian soldiers tightened the noose around Debaltseve, a strategic transit hub linking the separatist strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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The first was a splinter of a local Arab separatist group, the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz.
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But the government fell short of meeting its pledges and fighting has regularly broken out between loyalist and separatist militias.
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In Quebec, Bloc party leader Yves-François Blanchet, a Quebec separatist, is nearly tied with Trudeau and the Liberal party.
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Ukraine's economy, dragged down by a separatist conflict in the east, is dependent on IMF assistance worth billions of dollars.
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The agreement ends more than three months of feuding among separatist parties over who should lead the next regional government.
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But despite the tensions, the separatist coalition between the main parties — Convergence and the left-leaning Esquerra Republicana — stuck together.
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The government in Delhi should enter talks with separatist groups before their supporters become too enraged to countenance any discussions.
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India blames its arch rival for fomenting separatist trouble, including attacks on security forces, in its part of the region.
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They include New Delhi's sheltering of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader whom Beijing considers a separatist traitor.
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EU leaders are extremely wary of Catalonia's search for independence because it has stirred separatist feelings far beyond Spanish borders.
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker this month in Madrid called on Europe to reject what he called separatist poison.
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Turkey has called the Kurdish fighters terrorists that Turkey sees as closely linked to Kurdish separatist groups based in Turkey.
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Analysts say separatist insurgents operating in Thailand's deep south use Malaysia as a base to launch and plan their attacks.
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That is the result of a peace deal with the Moro National Liberation Front, the main separatist group, in 1996.
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The details: The policy aims to ban representations, not just praise and support, of white nationalist and white separatist content.
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In Georgia in 2008 it used decades-long separatist conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia as cover for an invasion.
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For fear of encouraging other separatist movements in the region, the international community, following the African Union, has never obliged.
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Mr Sánchez attempted to defuse the Catalan conflict, talking to the separatist government in Barcelona about their more everyday grievances.
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Though Mr Zoubaidi has raised the flag of the former South Yemen, he is tempering his separatist rhetoric for now.
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According to sources in both the SBU and Luhansk's separatist administration, the LNR is broadly split into two rival camps.
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Though the Ukrainian government and separatist groups have signed two separate peace accords, fighting in the eastern Donbas region continues.
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The shooting took place weeks after Turkey launched a new military offensive against Kurdish separatist militants based in northern Iraq.
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The attack took place weeks after Turkey launched a new military offensive against Kurdish separatist militants based in northern Iraq.
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Normal life remains paralyzed because of the curfew imposed by the government and calls for a shutdown by separatist leaders.
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Moscow seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014 and has backed pro-Russian separatist rebels battling Kiev's forces in eastern Ukraine.
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In a speech after casting his vote in the capital Yaounde, Biya did not make specific reference to separatist violence.
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India says the United Nations has no role in Kashmir, where separatist militants have been battling Indian forces for years.
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The push for independence has created a political crisis that could potentially lead to more separatist movements across the continent.
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At least one was said to be a female member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group.
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They posed as Black Lives Matter activists, Muslim and Christian groups, and separatist organizations in Texas and other Southern states.
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The Kiev authorities have previously detained or deported several journalists for spreading anti-Ukrainian propaganda and supporting the separatist cause.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Akhmetov's DTEK Energy also said its largest mines in separatist regions had been taken under rebel control.
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In days of protest by pro-separatist youth, more than 36 people have been killed, nearly all by police gunfire.
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They followed the jailing last month of nine separatist leaders over their roles in a failed independence bid in 2017.
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Oriol Junqueras, the leader of Esquerra Republicana (Republican Left), the largest separatist party, is in jail, facing a similar charge.
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Such attacks were previously unheard of despite decades of separatist unrest and lawlessness that has given rise to Islamist sentiments.
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The only sympathizers that Catalonia can muster at this time are other failed separatist nationalists, such as those in Scotland.
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The threat has been driven by Russia's military involvement in Syria and separatist militancy in its disputed Northern Caucasus region.
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Russia and Ukraine have been sparring since Moscow annexed the Crimea peninsula in March 2014 amid pro-Russia separatist violence.
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Kadyrov and his father, Akhmad, were part of a separatist insurgency that fought Moscow's rule in Chechnya in the 248.5s.
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Puigdemont's Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) were seen winning 34 of those seats, ahead of two other separatist parties.
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Georgian leaders lobbied Francis over their efforts to reclaim territory now under the control of separatist groups supported by Russia.
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Puigdemont's Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) was seen winning 34 of those seats, ahead of two other separatist parties.
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Pro-separatist Catalan parties were going ahead this week with legal preparations for a disputed referendum on secession in October.
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An exit vote would also most likely reinvigorate separatist movements in Scotland and elsewhere, threatening the European Union with fragmentation.
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After 60 years of violence and more than 800 deaths, the basque separatist group ETA has formally announced its dissolution.
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India is trying to contain a separatist insurgency in its northernmost region that is more than a quarter-century old.
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Another was a football hooligan who Nick says sounded keen on transforming a Chelmsford council estate into a separatist state.
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Reports of human rights abuses by security forces often emerge from Papua, where a separatist movement has simmered for decades.
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The Dalai Lama himself has backed such an arrangement, repeatedly insisting that he is not a "separatist" despite Chinese accusations.
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Groups of young Basque nationalists traveled to Barcelona on the day of the referendum to learn from separatist organizers there.
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As of Friday night it was unclear whether separatist leaders — who hours earlier exulted at the independence declaration — would resist.
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Carme Forcadell, the separatist president of the Catalan Parliament, pledged on Saturday evening to defend "the sovereignty" of her assembly.
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China considers the Dalai Lama to be a dangerous separatist and has piled pressure on foreign governments to shun him.
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Conservatism is now less a political or philosophic movement and more a separatist subculture that participates in its own ostracism.
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Hoping to end the separatist challenge, Mr. Rajoy then called the election, which instead left Catalonia in a political deadlock.
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He managed to play his enemies off against each other as tribal warfare, separatist movements and Islamist militants destabilized Yemen.
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The poll, on the other hand, also showed separatist parties narrowly losing the parliamentary majority that they won in 2015.
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"We will start our incursion to save east of the Euphrates from the separatist terror group within days," he said.
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But the harsh responses are only fueling the separatist movements, potentially intensifying calls to break apart the nations, analysts say.
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Mr. Rajoy's government took administrative control of Catalonia, using emergency constitutional powers, shortly after the separatist lawmakers voted for independence.
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In June, NGO Human Rights Watch said the prospects for talks between the government and separatist leaders were very thin.
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But in 1963 in Quebec, members of a separatist paramilitary group stuck dynamite under the dress of her local statue.
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He fled to Belgium in October after Madrid imposed direct rule on the region after his separatist administration declared independence.
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In the beginning of 2012, a Tuareg separatist movement calling for a new state, "Azawad," swept down from the north.
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In mid-February, Mr. Putin decreed that Russia would recognize the passports issued by two separatist governments in eastern Ukraine.
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He referred to the protests as a "separatist movement," a common sentiment in China but a label the demonstrators deny.
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"We don't support separatist groups that subvert the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China," the company said in a statement.
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In recent years the government has been buffeted by uprisings in Sunni areas and a separatist push by the Kurds.
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The separatist group has led multiple protests across eastern parts of the country calling for a separate homeland for Biafrans.
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Protests erupted in Kashmir after security forces killed a popular separatist leader on July 8, catching New Delhi off guard.
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The elections also breathed new life into a Québécois separatist party previously believed to have been extinguished in the east.
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Mr. G., they said, had hired a veteran of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine to carry out the killing.
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Instead, the three main Catalan separatist parties retained a narrow majority, 70 seats, and took 47.5 percent of the vote.
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Dhand said that this week's exercises could allow Moscow to funnel more equipment to separatist factions installed in eastern Ukraine.
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BERLIN — At the outset, the German officers investigating the brazen daylight assassination of a former Chechen separatist commander were lucky.
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She is a European Parliament lawmaker for the left-wing Catalan separatist party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Catalonia's Republican Left).
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Until now, terror in Iran had been visited inside its borders by radical Iranian opposition organizations, or by separatist groups.
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But the Chinese government has long worried about the potential for extremists or separatist groups to carry out similar attacks.
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If the separatist groups are unable to overcome Madrid's legal obstacles, they are expected to call new elections this year.
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While militancy in the Indian-administered part has waned since the 1990s, public sympathy for the separatist cause remains strong.
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Another of the former separatist leaders said his most recent meeting with Surkov in Moscow was in November last year.
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow has fought two wars to quell a separatist Muslim rebellion in Chechnya.
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The current southern separatist movement grew out of a 2007 campaign demanding financial benefits for army officers and civil servants.
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Local separatist groups had called for a shutdown after a teacher arrested for alleged terror links died in police custody.
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Russia sided with separatist rebels when it fought a five-day war against Georgia over South Ossetia in August 2008.
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Ismail Rudwan, a senior official in the Islamist group, said the creation of "a separatist government ... will prolong Palestinian division".
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For decades Mindanao has been ravaged by a low-intensity separatist conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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The proceedings will be closely watched in Spain and in other European countries with separatist movements, like Britain and Belgium.
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Marriott International, the hotel chain, wants to be clear on this point: It does not support separatist elements in China.
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The draft law would declare separatist-controlled regions to be "occupied", allowing Kiev to use military troops in those territories.
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As Moscow prioritizes fuel stocks for separatist militias over the region's civilians, low-level opportunists tend to run most operations.
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The Donbass conflict between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed separatist forces has killed 13,000 people in the past five years.
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Beijing could easily hire emissaries fluent in the language, which has 60 million speakers, but it fears dialects are inherently separatist.
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The official, speaking in a video statement circulated by supporters of the separatist movement, said the group had met no resistance.
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China routinely denounces him as a dangerous separatist, although the Dalai Lama says he merely wants genuine autonomy for his homeland.
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" Quim Torra, the Catalan region&aposs current president and a fervent separatist, said the dropping of rebellion charges was "wonderful news.
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They see it as a fifth column for the Kremlin, used to harbor separatist fighters, store weapons and justify Russian expansionism.
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Eighteen fighters have been killed and 26 wounded since this week's uptick in violence, separatist military spokesman Eduard Basurin said Friday.
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Her husband was a lawmaker for separatist leader Carles Puigdemont's party, before resigning in 2016 to avoid complicating her political rise.
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Ocalan is the founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which launched a separatist insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984.
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Several former separatist leaders have fled the Donbass area, saying they feared for their lives after their comrades turned on them.
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It also denies accusations that it is fuelling the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine by supporting rebels with troops and weapons.
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"We have worked a lot to arrive at this result," said Almou Ag Mohamed, the spokesman for the CMA separatist coalition.
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Those forces were allied with the United States, but Erdoğan views them as being associated with Kurdish separatist groups within Turkey.
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What once started as a black separatist community became peacefully integrated with European immigrants who were also escaping poverty and hardships.
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In March, Facebook explicitly banned white nationalist and separatist content, bringing them within a few rhetorical feet of Ravelry's Trump ban.
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In a statement about the protests Benny Wenda, a Papuan separatist, linked the struggle against racism to the fight for independence.
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China depicts the Uighur people as a separatist and terrorist threat, and describes Islam as a mental illness fueling that threat.
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The court will also consider an appeal to release two separatist activists who were jailed last month in a sedition investigation.
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Vehicle bombings are rare in the Philippines, despite decades of separatist and Islamist violence that have destabilized the southern Mindanao region.
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Resounding silence and a reluctance to openly reject the nationalist separatist ideology serves only to ignore the cause of the terrorism.
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Gwadar is located in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province, where a low-intensity separatist insurgency for nationhood has been bubbling for decades.
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Abu Sayyaf is a violent extremist group that split from the established Philippines separatist movement Moro National Liberation Front in 1991.
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That was threatened in 2017 when the separatist administration in Catalonia staged an unconstitutional referendum and a unilateral declaration of independence.
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Arrimadas does not have enough seats or allies to form a government, while separatist parties put together have a narrow majority.
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If the polls are right, the separatist block may fall short of the slender majority of seats it obtained in 2015.
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The United States has imposed sectoral sanctions against Russia's energy, banking and defense industries over Moscow's involvement in Ukraine's separatist conflict.
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Analysts say that separatist insurgents operating in Thailand's deep south use Malaysia as a base to launch and plan their attacks.
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The two countries also remain at odds over Russia's support for separatist elements in Ukraine, and annexation of the Crimean peninsula.
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Abascal is the son of a Basque politician from the PP who for decades faced death threats from separatist group ETA.
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It has run its own affairs with heavy military and financial backing from Armenia since a separatist war ended in 1994.
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Rajoy said he had "no alternative" to implement the unprecedented measures, stating that Puigdemont and his separatist cabinet were acting illegally.
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The latest round of tensions over Kashmir initially erupted in July when protests erupted after Indian forces killed a separatist leader.
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Lured by the promise of fresh peace talks, a gaggle of once-shadowy separatist groups has formed a common political wing.
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The army has long refused to countenance international mediation, one of the separatists' principal demands, for fear of legitimising separatist claims.
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A member of Lega Nord - a neo-fascist separatist movement- published a Facebook status calling for her to be raped publicly.
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If they seek a coalition partner on the left, that would likely require support from at least one Catalan separatist lawmaker.
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Pro-Russian separatist fighters of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic fly a drone near the front line in eastern Ukraine.
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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, leader of a moderate Kashmiri separatist faction, said protesters were for the first time ignoring calls to stop.
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The country is fighting a Russian-backed separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 10,000 people since 2014.
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After Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region and backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, the United States started several rounds of sanctions.
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A separatist movement existed for decades underground, with activists sometimes communicating by passing notes to bus drivers going through different towns.
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The government is confronting a growing separatist insurgency in the country's Anglophone regions as well as the threat from Boko Haram.
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They are victims of Tibet's remote and forbidding topography as well as of racial prejudice and the party's anti-separatist zeal.
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That would increase anger and frustration, boost separatist demands and make China's great revival as a "harmonious" nation ever more distant.
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Duterte said the idea of militias and soldiers fighting together had come from the leader of one of the separatist groups.
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Turkey calls it an offshoot of the P.K.K., a separatist organization that the State Department has designated as a terrorist group.
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A member of the separatist group based in Cameroon, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the people were taken into custody.
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A local official told Reuters the coalition had targeted separatist forces surrounding the nearly empty presidential palace in the Crater district.
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It's uncertain how far Spain will go in punishing the popular leader with the pro-separatist movement still commanding considerable support.
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At his closing rally, Vox leader Santiago Abascal pledged to suspend Catalonia's regional autonomy and ban separatist political parties if elected.
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Euronews reported that the party even hung a Catalan flag outside its headquarters recently in support of the Spanish separatist region.
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If the separatist block wins an absolute majority of votes it will press even harder for a legal referendum on independence.
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" During his speech, Xi said China had "achieved a great victory in frustrating the Taiwan independence movement and other separatist activities.
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Russia-backed separatists also accused Ukrainian forces of firing heavy weapons in violation of the peace agreement, separatist website DAN reported.
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Speaking at the Monday morning debate before the vote, Torra attempted to distance himself from the image of a radical separatist.
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These lists are nominally about who has interacted with the separatist rebels, but they create a wider — and more dangerous — precedent.
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The measure was also opposed in the far south, where there is a Muslim majority and a long-running separatist movement.
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Russian authorities again denied any connection with the plane's downing over an area of Ukraine held by pro-Russian separatist forces.
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It was the second strongest party in terms of share of the vote behind the more moderate Flemish separatist N-VA.
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He said members of the separatist group had been ordered to search communities in the region to uncover the kidnappers' hideout.
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But parliament last week suspended four jailed separatist lawmakers being tried over their role in Catalonia's failed independence bid in 2017.
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It has also been reluctant to assert it in some areas, so as to avoid fuelling separatist sentiment in the east.
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On Tuesday, separatist officials said shelling from the Ukrainian government side had hit Zaitseve as well as western suburbs of Donetsk.
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Earlier this week, a judge from Spain's national court ordered prison without bail for two separatist leaders, pending a sedition trial.
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Last week, however, separatist lawmakers could not agree on the latest candidate to replace Mr. Puigdemont as regional leader, Jordi Turull.
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But he continued his efforts to promote the Catalan separatist cause internationally, traveling to Switzerland and Finland to attend conferences there.
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That day it faced Athletic Bilbao, a team from the Basque region that has its own sizable segment of separatist fans.
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Ukraine says Russia then engineered quasi-separatist uprisings across a belt of eastern Ukraine that escalated into a full-scale conflict.
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Francisco Franco's dictatorship, a separatist group known as E.T.A. pressed for Basque independence with a violent campaign of bombings and assassinations.
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The Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance, a separatist group that operates in the region, began fighting for independence in 1982.
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Right-wing politicians accused Mr. Sánchez of treason for trying to negotiate with separatist politicians in Catalonia; the talks got nowhere.
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But it remains volatile and tense as a result of intrigue by militants, separatist attacks, and smuggling and human trafficking networks.
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Separatist leaders accused Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of triggering a state of emergency rather than negotiating the terms of a vote.
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The turning point came Thursday afternoon when the Basque nationalists agreed to join Catalan separatist lawmakers in voting against Mr. Rajoy.
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Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2014, annexed Crimea and shortly thereafter instigated a separatist movement in Mr. Yanukovych's home region, Donetsk.
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In May, Catalan lawmakers narrowly elected as president Quim Torra, a separatist who was not under indictment by the Spanish authorities.
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But unlike others, it has struggled to tamp down street protests, which persist over the war in the country's separatist east.
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About 1,200 police officers have flown to the region which has a heavy military presence due to decades of separatist conflicts.
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India has battled separatist militants in its part of Kashmir since the late 1980s, accusing Muslim Pakistan of supporting the insurgents.
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Brown fled a situation in Cameroon in which government forces were battling separatist groups and in the process killing civilians indiscriminately.
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For years, the Anglophone separatist movement was largely waged from abroad by activists who fled the country during protests decades ago.
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Still, many in the crowd held Catalan separatist flags and booed every time the monarch's face appeared on the big screens.
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Ukraine's attempt to restore its sovereignty and control over the provinces turned into a war between government forces and separatist militias.
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Chechnya's ruling elite has many enemies among the Russian military, which sees Mr. Kadyrov as a separatist who was unduly promoted.
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The province began instituting Shariah law in 2001 after gaining autonomy in an attempt to end a long-running separatist war.
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The Turkish government has long insisted that the Kurdish militia is closely linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, a separatist group.
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A separatist group called Jaish al-Adl, or Army of Justice, has claimed responsibility, according to state-run news agency IRNA.
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As the highway nears Avdiivka, about 21.5km (510 mi) from the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, it becomes too treacherous to continue.
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Lesbian lands are separatist intentional communities, most of which were formed by women during the 1970s "back-to-the-land" movement.
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That issue is complicated by the fact that the most radical Catalan separatist party wants nothing to do with the currency.
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Authorities detained dozens of activists overnight and put separatist leaders under house arrest to stop them from staging the protest march.
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He is likely to get that after securing a commitment from Catalonia's largest separatist party, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, to abstain.
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Unrest surged last July after Burhan Muzaffar Wani, a charismatic, 22-year-old separatist militant, was killed by Indian security forces.
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As he prepares to take office, Mr. Sánchez finds himself once again in an unwieldy relationship with the Catalan separatist lawmakers.
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The two would discuss the right of self-determination and an amnesty for the jailed and self-exiled Catalan separatist leaders.
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It has been wracked by violence amid a government crackdown on the separatist Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), active since 1984.
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Meanwhile separatist leaders of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) have ditched their weapons and plan to contest elections next year.
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He implied that Mr Morey had endorsed a "separatist movement" in Hong Kong, which Mr Tsai called a "third-rail" issue.
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Spanish officials have responded to separatist propaganda, stressing that their country is an advanced democracy committed to the rule of law.
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However, the older Mengal added that his son had been active in supporting Pakistani security forces in battling Baluch separatist groups.
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The four countries have met regularly since 2014 to try to resolve the separatist conflict, which has killed some 10,000 people.
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For one thing, after decades of decolonization and ethnic sorting, there are simply fewer separatist movements clamoring for their own countries.
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Vox has gone as far as to call for abolishing altogether Spain's system of regional autonomy and outlawing separatist political parties.
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The trial of the 12 separatist Catalan leaders is likely to keep the Catalan issue front and center of the campaign.
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Russia essentially controls two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, where a war that began in 2014 has claimed about 13,000 lives.
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The heads of separatist movements in Scotland, Catalonia and Texas are cheering the decision as a boost for their movements, too.
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The Ahwaz National Resistance, an Iranian ethnic Arab separatist movement, and Islamic State have both claimed responsibility, though without presenting evidence.
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In response to the new report, the government condemned separatist attacks and defended its security forces, saying all alleged atrocities are investigated.
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The unidentified Ukrainian man in turn hired an acquaintance who had fought in the separatist war in eastern Ukraine as the gunman.
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His rule has been marred by numerous reports of extrajudicial killings and torture in the republic which saw two devastating separatist wars.
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Grabovsky was representing Alexander Alexandrov, who was captured along with fellow Russian serviceman Yevgeny Yerofeyev last May in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine.
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While they said poor weather conditions were largely to blame, they also pointed to the separatist unrest as likely compounding the shortfall.
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Pakistan has in the past accused India of supporting the separatist insurgents in Baluchistan, which is on the Afghan and Iranian borders.
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According to Sunday night's count, he would require one Catalan separatist lawmaker to abstain but some seats were too close to call.
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These changes have left the separatist movement "disoriented", without a clear strategy and increasingly split, says an adviser to Mr Sánchez's administration.
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Almost every building in its medieval town square has a banner calling for "democracy" and the release of the detained separatist leaders.
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But the book does tell us he was a Separatist — that is, he was on the losing side in the Clone Wars.
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"If (all separatist votes)... have to go to jail, we will go but I don't think we would all fit," she said.
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The armed group police say is behind the shootings has up to 30 "separatist" members led by a man named Sabinus Waker.
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Domestically, Turkey has been at war with a separatist Kurdish insurgency in the form of the PKK emboldened by wins in Syria.
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Facebook, which the attacker used to broadcast the shooting, moved to make white nationalist and separatist content a violation of its rules.
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A separatist movement has simmered for decades in Papua, where there have been frequent complaints of rights abuses by Indonesian security forces.
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One of the main separatist forces operating in the area, the Ambazonian Defence Force (ADF), could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Set in the near future, "Bacurau" opens in a fictional separatist and self-sufficient town of that name in Brazil's mountainous interior.
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Then, as now, such luminaries surely bestowed intellectual heft (and perhaps an air of respectability) on what — essentially — were radical separatist movements.
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The PKK launched a separatist insurgency in southeast Turkey in 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
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Ciudadanos, which was formed in Catalonia, has always had two souls: one liberal and the other anti-separatist and thus Spanish nationalist.
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Although the ministry did not specify the group, the term "separatist terrorist organization" usually refers to the Kurdistan worker's party, or PKK.
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Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists lead in the polls, but would likely need the support of separatist parties to form a government.
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The Catalan parliament approved Mr Torra, a hardline separatist who has made disagreeable remarks about Spaniards, by a margin of one vote.
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Players are fighting an enemy that's much closer to home: a gun-hoarding cult whose imagery evokes separatist militias and fundamentalist Christianity.
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In 2014 the National Liberation Front of Corsica, a separatist militant group, gave up their 40-year war against the French state.
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MOSCOW – Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine say an accidental grenade explosion on a bus has killed one teenager and wounded three others.
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Pakistan, battling Islamist militants as well as separatist guerrillas in parts of the country, has promised to ensure security for the project.
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A separatist coalition won the elections but without enough parliamentary seats to form a new government without the support of CUP lawmakers.
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There is also a case to be made that granting secession has merely served to fuel the claims of other separatist movements.
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Russia bears the brunt of the blame for failing to rein in its separatist allies in the area and secure a ceasefire.
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The movement has been met with repeated warnings from Chinese officials, including President Xi Jinping, that separatist activity would not be tolerated.
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Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Kiev in 2014 and backed separatist rebels in Donetsk and Luhansk industrial regions.
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It also includes intercepted phone calls of separatist fighters asking for a BUK to defend their forces against intense Ukrainian air strikes.
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Still, the overall number of hate groups has increased, largely due to increases in anti-Muslim groups and black separatist groups. 7.
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Anglophone activists have called for renewed protest on Sunday after thousands took to the streets last week, with some hoisting separatist flags.
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