The government blamed Anglophone separatists in the English-speaking region, which the separatists denied.
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In the 22014s it conducted a dirty-tricks campaign against Quebec separatists, which included manufacturing evidence that separatists were acquiring explosives.
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The area has been held by separatists since 2014, when pro-Russian separatists seized several cities in eastern Ukraine, including Yasynuvata.
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The military and a priest involved in negotiations blamed the abduction on anglophone separatists, but a spokesman for the separatists denied this.
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In a video shared by suspected armed separatists Simon said he and his deputy were kidnapped by separatists for planning independence celebrations.
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Many Spain watchers — even those who are not sympathetic to the Catalan separatists' cause — believe the images of violence help the separatists.
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My way of dividing the Santa Cruz women's community was that the very few separatists—trans-exclusionary separatists, because not all separatists were trans-exclusionary—but the few who were, called a meeting of the women's community in Santa Cruz.
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If we were really separatists, or if there were separatists somewhere in this region, would they not be fighting the Donetsk government instead?
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Separatists shrugged that rejection off, however, and Moscow suggested the Ukrainian government could now negotiate directly with the separatists, an offer Kiev spurned.
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Meanwhile, far-right foreign fighters who joined pro-Russian separatists saw the battle as defending the separatists' right to self-determination against Western imperialism.
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The talks also stalled over the separatists' role in the government, after the separatists asked for the vice-president position along with two major ministries.
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Inside the front lines in Ukraine's protracted war with Russian-backed separatists Inside the front lines in Ukraine's protracted war with Russian-backed separatists Despite two official cease-fires, the conflict between Russia-backed separatists and the Ukrainian Army in eastern Ukraine continues to drag on toward its third year.
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As the separatists made gains, the Saudi-led coalition intervened to defend the government, hitting an empty field at the presidential palace after the separatists took control of it.
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He is at war with Kurdish separatists in Turkey and is determined to keep those in Syria from gaining a larger foothold, which in turn could strengthen the separatists in Turkey.
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Earlier on Thursday, Southern Yemeni separatists brought in reinforcements to bolster their positions in Aden, a day after heavy fighting between the separatists and government forces with whom they were previously allied.
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Earlier on Thursday, Southern Yemeni separatists brought in reinforcements to bolster their positions in Aden, a day after heavy fighting between the separatists and government forces with whom they were previously allied.
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While the separatists charge that Mr. Rajoy is taking Spain back to the dark days of Franco, Madrid warns that the separatists have shifted from violating Spanish law to encouraging civil strife.
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Civilians flee East Ukraine town of Avdiivka as fighting with Russian-backed separatists escalates Civilians flee East Ukraine town of Avdiivka as fighting with Russian-backed separatists escalates This segment originally aired Feb.
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In Georgia and Ukraine, it provided direct support to separatists.
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Now the Separatists were as forgotten as their Jedi foes.
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Spain worries that Scottish independence would embolden separatists in Catalonia.
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QUEBEC'S proudly Francophone separatists may want to learn some Arabic.
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The UAE is close to separatists in Yemen and Somalia.
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Mr Torra's appointment may sap sympathy for the separatists abroad.
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Are these the same separatists as in the Prequel trilogy?
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The official did not know who rounded up the separatists.
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And the separatists on Monday focused mainly on Corbyn's shortcomings.
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Mr. Erdogan has also reignited a war against Kurdish separatists.
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He also made no mention of possible dialogue with separatists.
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He later fought with the same separatists loathed in Rivne.
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In some cases, Veneto separatists have clashed with the law.
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Some Iranian officials initially blamed Arab separatists for the Sept.
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At least one major faction of separatists condemned the kidnappings.
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Yemeni ministers publicly blamed the UAE for the separatists' success.
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Today, most French people see their Islamist compatriots as separatists.
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The separatists claimed to have looted weapons during the raid.
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The separatists usually attack energy infrastructure and the security forces.
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Separatists declared victory despite a participation of only 43 percent.
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As skirmishes with separatists continue, we visited a combat training center in Russia associated with the Night Wolves, a motorcycle club under U.S. sanctions for its support of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Tensions are again running high between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists: Kiev this week cut off cargo shipments from the breakaway regions until the separatists hand back control of businesses they have seized.
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A witness told Reuters the separatists were now inside the palace.
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Pakistan has accused old rival India of supporting the Baluchistan separatists.
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I stopped writing when they [the separatists] took away my accreditation.
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Divisions among the separatists have also conspired against forming a government.
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Absurdly, the Communist Party views the three men as dangerous separatists.
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The Ciudadanos and Catalan separatists are also expected to win seats.
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Right Sector is committed to ejecting Russian separatists from Ukrainian soil.
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Small talk wheeled around the different preferred methods for killing separatists.
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Because of what Santa Cruz is, there weren't many separatists around.
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Resource-rich Baluchistan has long been plagued by insurgencies by separatists.
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ISIS and Arab separatists have both claimed responsibility for the attack.
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China says Xinjiang faces a threat from Islamist militants and separatists.
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The separatists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir support independence.
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The Chinese government says it is fighting Islamist radicals and separatists.
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Suspicions focused on separatists who had vowed to disrupt the events.
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Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine are clashing with the country's military.
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Puigdemont later fled to Belgium, while other top separatists were jailed.
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But Turkey insists that the militia is linked to Kurdish separatists.
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Two other separatists corroborated his account, but declined to be identified.
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Zelensky is also dealing with a war against pro-Russian separatists.
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Armed soldiers escort them because they are frequently attacked by separatists.
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It was an obstacle for the separatists in the long term.
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They will have seen large demonstrations by both separatists and unionists.
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Tuareg separatists have seized a town in Mali's desert north from a pro-government ethnic Tuareg militia after days of fighting, the separatists and a local legislator close to the government side said on Wednesday.
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The big picture: The power-sharing deal calls for a new government to include the southern separatists and for Hadi to return to the temporary capital Aden, according to AP. The separatists' militias will also be disbanded.
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To write the book, I hung out with separatists of every stripe.
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Separatists, meanwhile, claimed two civilians were killed by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk.
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The battle of Naboo includes multiple phases between the clones and separatists.
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It's like the separatists in Catalonia, who are so fashionable these days.
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Large swathes of the Donbas region remain under the control of separatists.
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This week that was lifted as the separatists formed a new government.
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Last year Baloch separatists killed ten labourers helping to build Gwadar port.
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India has accused Pakistan of backing separatists by arming and training them.
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But in a surprising move, Catalan separatists voted against it on Thursday.
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The state's robust response to the separatists has halted the independence drive.
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Beijing says Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists.
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The separatists' ranks have swollen dramatically over the past half-dozen years.
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The Ukraine government views anyone who fought with the separatists as criminals.
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The Kremlin denies providing military support for the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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The fact that they were all separatists didn't bother me at all.
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The government of Yemen reached a power-sharing deal with southern separatists.
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Podemos has hitherto backed the separatists' demand for a referendum on independence.
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The election comes amid ongoing tensions between Ukrainian troops and eastern separatists.
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We were collectively labeled "terrorist collaborators" for gaining accreditation from the separatists.
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Armed separatists also face allegations of killing and kidnapping civilians and soldiers.
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Many blame India for supporting Tamil Tiger separatists during the civil war.
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Mr. Puigdemont and other separatists welcomed the end of Spain's extradition efforts.
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In 2014, a group of separatists was briefly arrested on terrorism charges.
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Tabàrnia has also accomplished what Catalan separatists have yet to achieve: independence.
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If someone wants to shoot, he can go and fight the separatists.
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"Are there any separatists here?" he asked in perfectly accented Québécois French.
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Two daily newspapers were closed for their unproven connections with the separatists.
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Ukraine fought back in June of 2940, routing the Russian-supported separatists.
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He's distanced himself from the separatists since they helped him gain power.
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Luck fell on the separatists' side as this new order took shape.
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Russia has denied backing the separatists, but Western officials have said otherwise.
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A war against Kurdish separatists spiraled into ever-greater levels of brutality.
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China has said Xinjiang is under threat from Islamist militants and separatists.
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Iran has blamed its Mideast archrival, Saudi Arabia, for funding Arab separatists.
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Separatists in the south have resisted heavy-handed responses from the military.
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As long as we remain there, the separatists won't stop their assault.
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Many southern separatists see the UAE as their most likely foreign ally.
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The Aden-based government and the separatists are both allies of the Saudi-led coalition, although the separatists are seen as friendlier with the United Arab Emirates while Hadi's main patron is Saudi Arabia, where he lives in exile.
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Madrid is also seeking the arrest of other Catalan separatists who are in Scotland, Belgium and Switzerland, where officials have so far questioned whether their legal systems require the separatists' extradition based on the rebellion charges brought by Spain.
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The UAE supports the anti-Houthi coalition but also backs the southern separatists.
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But a Casado government would also take a hard line against Catalan separatists.
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He said it was most likely to have been carried out by separatists.
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Rubio pointed to Russia's support for Ukrainian separatists that is destabilizing that country.
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Last week separatists staged a mass jail break, freeing more than 100 prisoners.
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The separatists have been dogged by infighting that has, on occasion, turned violent.
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But in 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and supported Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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They'd been fighting with Russian-backed separatists throughout the night, in freezing temperatures.
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This was the first such call by separatists seeking Kashmir's secession from India.
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Russia moved in and backed the separatists fighting Ukrainian forces for several months.
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The separatists' main strategy remains to try to mobilise Catalans and international opinion.
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Later, state media and government officials said they believed it was Arab separatists.
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Both the government and separatists have committed abuses, according to the U.S. ambassador.
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Beijing blamed that on separatists from China's restive far western region of Xinjiang.
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India accuses Pakistan of backing separatists and helping them sneak across the border.
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China has said that Xinjiang faces a threat from Islamist militants and separatists.
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When a federal constitution was proposed, both Houthis and southern separatists rejected it.
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Turkey brands the YPG as terrorists linked to militant Kurdish separatists at home.
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Police have linked the attacks to Muslim separatists operating in Thailand's far south.
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A hasty peace deal between Ukraine, Russia and the separatists halted the onslaught.
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Ukraine has been fighting a bloody war against Russian backed separatists since 2014.
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And pro-Russian separatists had already shot down other aircraft in the region.
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Opinion polls before the vote showed separatists and unionists running neck-and-neck.
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Before I went to the crash site, I obtained accreditation from the separatists.
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Russia denies sending its own troops or sophisticated weaponry to helping the separatists.
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But Ankara considers the YPG terrorists connected to outlawed Kurdish separatists in Turkey.
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Possible suspects include Chechen separatists and ISIS -- or a combination of the two.
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A war with Kurdish separatists has turned cities in the southeast into rubble.
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She has said she was captured by the separatists before the shelling occurred.
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Western support has held Ukraine together and confined separatists to two small enclaves.
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Some officials blamed Arab separatists for the assault, according to the news reports.
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The separatists followed the referendum with their declaration of a new Catalan republic.
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Months ago, military intelligence had warned that resurgent Tamil separatists wanted his assassination.
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The officer, Kulbhushan Jadhav, was accused of orchestrating attacks in Baluchistan through separatists.
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"Hong Kong is not China" has become a favorite slogan of separatists here.
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The delay, he said, reflected international tensions between moderate and hard-line separatists.
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Separatists say that their supporters have been killed and tortured by the military.
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He did not specify if the people detained were military personnel or separatists.
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The military has peacefully arrested separatists who put down their weapons, he said.
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Large swathes of eastern Ukraine are under control of separatists backed by Russia.
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He thought the Maidan had been a positive event; they supported the separatists.
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Pakistan is predominantly Muslim and has historically supported Kashmir's separatists against Indian forces.
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Last week, the conflict between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists reignited.
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Twenty-three separatists have been killed in clashes with government troops since Nov.
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Today, it is being torn apart as separatists in Catalonia agitate for independence.
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The separatists were supported by Emirati airstrikes which targeted Yemeni troops last week.
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Catalan separatists face an uphill struggle to hold an independence referendum in 2017.
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Russia also denies arming pro-Moscow separatists battling Kiev's forces in eastern Ukraine.
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Fighting between Ukraine and Moscow-backed separatists has killed more than 10,000 people.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - A preliminary deal between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and southern separatists to end a power struggle in Aden will see the separatists included in a new technocrat cabinet and both sides' forces placed under government control, sources said.
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Belgium's prime minister, Charles Michel, who governs in coalition with Flemish separatists, as well as the head of the European Parliament's socialist parties, have both condemned the police action and called on Madrid to start a dialogue with the separatists.
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Separatists won a December election and chose fervent separatist Quim Torra as regional chief.
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Both sides -- Ukrainian troops and Russian-affiliated separatists -- were supposed to withdraw heavy weapons.
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Threats by the separatists disrupted voting in Cameroon's two Anglophone regions during the Oct.
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The shelling happened despite a ceasefire agreement reached with Russia-backed separatists last month.
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Saudi Arabia, the coalition leader, called for a summit after the separatists on Aug.
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But the brigade has now joined the separatists in their battle against the government.
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Pro-Russian separatists control a swathe of eastern Ukraine that they seized in 2014.
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Would-be separatists, notably the Kurds, might be convinced to remain within existing frontiers.
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The group is under U.S. sanctions for its support of separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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The Associated Press reports that the region's Arab separatists claimed responsibility for the attack.
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LGBTQ crypto targets that explosively large market of socialist lesbian separatists who love bitcoin.
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Catalan business is desperate for the separatists to renounce the unilateral road to independence.
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But surveys suggest other allies will be needed and Catalonia's separatists are an option.
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India's army declared a truce in its fight against separatists in the Kashmir Valley.
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The Arab separatists have previously only been known for bombing oil pipelines at night.
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In April, pro-Russian separatists declare independence and fighting breaks out in eastern Ukraine.
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So far, Nigeria has cooperated, deporting separatists including Julius Ayuk Tabe, a key leader.
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Furthermore, Sindelic reportedly fought in "Novorossiya" Ukraine on the side of Russian-backed separatists.
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That is the date at which a military conflict with Russia-backed separatists started.
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In Spain, they shared lies about Catalan separatists shutting down a child cancer center.
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Spanish national police, decried by separatists over their use of force at an Oct.
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But Ukraine's interior minister, Arsen Avakov, backed Myrotvorets, castigating the journalists as "liberal-separatists".
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India's homegrown threats, meanwhile, range from armed Christian separatists in Assam to Maoist rebels.
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The party has vowed to be much tougher on both Catalan separatists and migrants.
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Moscow has fought two wars with separatists in the neighboring Caucasus region of Chechnya.
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"Many of the separatists I saw in pictures and videos looked familiar," she writes.
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In cutting a deal with the separatists, Sanchez risks stepping into a political minefield.
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Officers used batons to push back the separatists and to keep the groups apart.
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Sri Lanka is still recovering from a long civil war waged by Tamil separatists.
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Mr. Puigdemont and other separatists claim that Spain cannot give them a fair trial.
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"There is a growing feeling of support toward the separatists and secession," she said.
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Those forces are linked to militant Kurdish separatists that Turkey has fought for decades.
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" She said separatists could not seek any mediation before returning to "legality and democracy.
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In Brussels, Mr. Puigdemont welcomed the chance for separatists to win the December elections.
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He has hired a Belgian lawyer who has in the past represented Basque separatists.
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"The most important reason to fight them is that they are separatists," he said.
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After the government's security forces opened fire on people at rallies, separatists armed themselves.
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For their part, separatists have taken up arms and have also turned to violence.
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Southeastern Iran is also the scene of unrest by separatists and Sunni militant groups.
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Moscow annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed separatists took control of parts of eastern Ukraine.
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Russia has denied providing support to the separatists, but U.S. officials have claimed otherwise.
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Syrian Kurds were oppressed under the Assad dynasty, which viewed them as potential separatists.
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The West also accuses Russia of backing separatists in eastern Ukraine, which Russia denies.
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The suit accused Moscow of illegally annexing Crimea and financing separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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The separatists also accuse Iran's Shiite theocracy of discriminating against its Sunni Arab citizens.
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The separatists accuse Iran's Persian-dominated government of discriminating against its ethnic Arab minority.
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That's what the Ukrainians call the locals who support the separatists in Donetsk province.
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Mali remains fragile, and the fundamental dispute between Tuareg separatists and Bamako is unresolved.
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Sri Lanka was for decades plagued by war between government forces and Tamil separatists.
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Southern separatists have fought alongside the formal government but are seeking a separate state.
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Putin's goal in Ukraine is far more than just to support pro-Russian separatists.
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And last year when protests by separatists turned violent, the president was in Switzerland.
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The connection is slow but the firepower of the Russian-backed separatists is clear.
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Uyghur separatists have been blamed for several terror attacks in China in recent years. 4.
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But he views Syrian Kurds as terrorists who are allied with Kurdish separatists in Turkey.
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Sanchez could then be re-elected prime minister without the backing of the Catalan separatists.
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He guided separatists not just in Ukraine, but in breakaway "republics" in Georgia as well.
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Muslim separatists have been fighting Indian forces in the Indian portion of Kashmir since 1989.
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The government has accused the activists of being armed separatists intent on destabilizing the country.
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Business would like a lower vote for separatists, but that would not dispel their worries.
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Cameroonian authorities say the English-speaking separatists pose a security threat that justifies their crackdown.
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Puigdemont and his fellow separatists claim that an illegal referendum on secession held on Oct.
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Witnesses who previously claimed to have seen him cavorting with Kurdish separatists withdrew their statements.
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Some of the separatists have long claimed, implausibly, that their battle is against Spanish "fascism".
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It also brought into focus the deep factional rifts dividing senior separatists in the LNR.
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In 1999, NATO intervened to stop a bloody Serb crackdown on Albanian separatists in Kosovo.
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But coalition partner Turkey considers them terrorists connected to Kurdish separatists within its own borders.
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Moscow denies direct involvement in the conflict and says it does not support the separatists.
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India accuses Muslim Pakistan of backing the separatists and helping them infiltrate Indian-ruled Kashmir.
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There is no doubt the separatists' popularity and ability to stir turmoil has grown, however.
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Hadi's government says it will not attend before separatists reverse what it calls their coup.
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Coalition member the UAE, which has armed and trained thousands of southern separatists, urged calm.
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The attack occurred in the city of Yasynuvata, which is controlled by Russian-led separatists.
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He had criticised a military offensive against Kurdish separatists and expressed sympathy with its victims.
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They were not separatists but supporters, like Moscow, of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
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NATO accuses Moscow of direct support for the separatists and for supplying weapons and troops.
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Mr. Rajoy is opposed to secession and has so far not negotiated with Catalan separatists.
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Tuareg separatists seized control in the north in 2012 before ceding power to Islamist militants.
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Drone footage showed two separatists were killed and dozens wounded in the clash, he said.
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On Monday, the Iraqi government carried out a military assault to wrest territory from separatists.
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They were trying to raise awareness of suffering; they were not Black Panthers or separatists.
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Separatists have demanded greater autonomy and a larger share of the region's natural resource wealth.
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There are blue triangles for the Ukrainian military, red diamonds for the Russian-backed separatists.
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A Ukrainian court also freed a senior Russian journalist accused of supporting pro-Russian separatists.
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Mr. Ngang and other separatists lament the lack of attention the crisis has received internationally.
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Even before last week's attacks, however, Catalan separatists were demanding more resources for the Mossos.
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And, after Canada's election, separatists in the western prairie provinces are calling again for #Wexit.
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Mr. Torra denounced the charges as a political fabrication to justify a clampdown on separatists.
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Ankara views the YPG as terrorists with links to militant Kurdish separatists in southeast Turkey.
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The west blames Russia for aiding the separatists and has imposed economic sanctions on Moscow.
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The separatists say Madrid is denying Catalans the democratic right to vote on their future.
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Madrid says the separatists are undermining democracy by flouting court rulings and violating the constitution.
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Putin's support to Russian-led separatists in the Donbas & failure to comply w Minsk Agreemts.
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Many of the soldiers who are fighting against Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine speak Russian.
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Ambazonia is the name the separatists have given to the homeland they hope to create.
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Biya's government has been accused of using its military to crack down on armed separatists.
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Trump has also sent weaponry to Ukraine for use against the Russia-backed separatists there.
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Turkey views the separatists as terrorists and has fought them for years on its territory.
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Turkey's government has accused those Kurdish groups of affiliations with militant Kurdish separatists in Turkey.
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Pro-Russian separatists seized government offices in the territory they control and eliminated local governance.
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The separatists' majority in the regional assembly mean Puigdemont would almost certainly win the vote.
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The Chinese government attributes scores of violent events, including bombings and assassinations, to Uighur separatists.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The refusal of Yemeni southern separatists to hand back control of Aden port has delayed a summit in Saudi Arabia that is due to discuss reshuffling Yemen's ousted government to include the separatists and end the stand-off, three Yemeni sources said.
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But on Wednesday his spending plans were voted down by Catalan separatists, whose support he needed.
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The separatists' move against Hadi could weaken the coalition's hand in any negotiations with the Houthis.
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But cooperation with the Socialists is unlikely to be uppermost in the separatists' minds this week.
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In addition to Ukrainian separatists the force includes, covertly, an estimated 5,000 Russian soldiers and officers.
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At least 12 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in an upsurge of fighting against Russian-backed separatists.
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The Unio de Pagesos, or the Catalan Farmers Union, have become proper folk heroes for separatists.
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For decades, Kashmiri separatists, some supported by banned Pakistani groups, have waged a campaign for independence.
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Pro-Russian separatists then took control of the city's of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
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The Socialists do favour dialogue with the separatists, but a referendum is not currently on offer.
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HE LED his country from near-bankruptcy to economic recovery, and faced down the Catalan separatists.
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Torra also wants Antoni Comin and Lluis Puig, separatists who fled to Belgium, in his Cabinet.
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But when a National Dialogue proposed a federal constitution, both Houthis and southern separatists rejected it.
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Moreover, its military is still fighting a war with Russian-backed separatists in the country's east.
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First, there are Chechen separatists who have mounted a wide range of terrorist attacks in Russia.
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Soon after, the town of Debaltseve fell to Russian-backed separatists after a devastating artillery assault.
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The conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists has cost nearly 10,000 lives since 2014.
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Russian separatists had been battling the Ukrainian army there since hostilities broke out in March 2014.
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The coalition has promised military action against the separatists if they do not vacate government sites.
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With the army and separatists in stalemate on the battlefield, peace can come only through talks.
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In the debate he promised to loosen the separatists' control over Catalan public television and radio.
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The state is, however, not solely responsible for the chaos; separatists share some of the blame.
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The sabotage of education is one reason why many Anglophones are growing angry at the separatists.
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It still supports some 90,000 Yemeni forces made up of southern separatists and coastal plain fighters.
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In particular, the Iranians point the finger at Riyadh for operations carried out by Kurdish separatists.
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It also said there were risks from separatists in the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang.
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But the Southern Transitional Council that leads the separatists may not have broad support outside Aden.
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Ukraine will soon have more lethal American-made weapons to help it fight Russian-backed separatists.
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Investigators said last September that the rocket was fired from territory held by pro-Russia separatists.
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The province has long been a battleground between the Pakistani security forces and ethnic Baluch separatists.
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Conscription can also mean serving in the south, where Muslim Malay separatists are fighting an insurgency.
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But Turkey considers them an extension of Kurdish separatists in its own borders and, thus, terrorists.
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No civilians were hurt, but separatists torched a house, a school and a hospital, said Aidi.
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Since Russia annexed Crimea and supported separatists in eastern Ukraine, Eastern Europe has felt increasingly vulnerable.
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She defended it as the only way to force separatists to respect the rule of law.
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The countries the separatists chose for refuge is important, because European nations have different criminal codes.
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Russia was fighting the second Chechen war, and Putin sought to portray Chechen separatists as terrorists.
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The federal government said those measures were necessary to stop separatists and militants from stirring trouble.
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Separatists have been accused of attacking soldiers at checkpoints and of gruesome killings of security forces.
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This month, two dozen public buses were attacked by separatists as they were leaving Anglophone areas.
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Recently, several schools in the area had opened even as separatists issued more threats against them.
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The separatists seek to restore the South Yemen republic which merged with the north in 1990.
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Separatists, who sponsored the referendum in Catalonia, Spain's wealthiest region, won it by a large margin.
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Separatists are waging a violent battle to break away and form their own country, called Ambazonia.
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The event "boosted the arrogance of the anti-China separatists," the embassy said in a statement.
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Several months ago, separatists in the Ambazonia Defense Forces took up arms to fight for sovereignty.
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The would-be victims are well known for volunteering to fight Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine.
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But Turkey regards the YPG as a terrorist organization closely allied to Kurdish separatists inside Turkey.
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Both countries fear that an independent Kurdish state could inflame separatists tensions with their Kurdish minorities.
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But Turkey, a NATO ally, saw those same Kurds as terrorists, allied with separatists inside Turkey.
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Critics of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy say that he had overreached in dealing with Catalan separatists.
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NATO intervened in Serbia to stop a bloody Serb crackdown against Kosovo Albanian separatists in 1999.
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Both the government and separatists circulated their own video on social media ahead of the verdict.
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The talks involve the previously stalled 2015 peace agreement between Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed separatists.
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Ukraine and its allies have accused Moscow of sending troops to the region and arming separatists.
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Violence continues in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian soldiers.
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Iran has blamed its Mideast archrival, the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for funding Arab separatists.
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To the south, violence has spiked in the Biafra region, where separatists are pushing to secede.
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Kyiv swapped dozens of prisoners on Sunday with Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine's breakaway eastern regions.
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Moscow denies deploying active service troops in Ukraine or providing direct military help to the separatists.
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Two soldiers were wounded on Tuesday and three separatists had been killed in clashes, the military said.
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Until Russia and the separatists it supports respect Ukraine's sovereignty and territory integrity this crisis will continue.
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Anti-Globalist Movement president Alexander Ionov denied Russia was promoting separatists to create discord in the West.
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Hundreds of people have died there in recent years in unrest the government blames on militant separatists.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has come under fire for being open to talks with Catalan separatists.
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Two of these attacks were attributed to ISIS while the others were carried out by Kurdish separatists.
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"Unlike the separatists, we neither want nor need frontiers, or walls," its leader Fernando Sanchez Costa said.
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Separatists want a vote to reunite the island, a century after the Irish Republic broke with London.
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Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and has supported separatists in the east of the country.
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First was the attempt last autumn by Catalan separatists to declare independence, threatening the unity of Spain.
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Since 2014, when conflicts with the Russian-backed separatists broke out, tensions have run high with Russia.
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Unfortunately for Mr Rajoy, Catalans returned the separatists to power again in the election on December 21st.
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By holding a referendum and then declaring independence, the separatists deliberately violated the constitution and the law.
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Rotenberg is under Western sanctions because of Crimea's annexation and Russia's support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Dagestan borders Chechnya, where Moscow fought two wars against Islamist separatists before regaining control of the region.
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Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan province, the scene of a low-level insurgency by Baloch separatists.
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At the time of the incident, pro-Russian separatists were fighting Ukrainian government forces in the region.
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These are not separatists — they have already voted to be independent and Kiev is not their government.
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The CCP views the term "East Turkestan" as politically sensitive, and those who use it as separatists.
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It opposes the formation of an independent Kurdish state in Iraq lest it encourage separatists at home.
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RIA cited the separatists' Moscow-based representative as saying more than 100 fighters were wounded, RIA reported.
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Moscow has fought two wars with separatists in Chechnya since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Turkey considers the YPG a terrorist group that's connected to the Kurdish separatists within its own borders.
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The separatists want to revive the former South Yemen republic which merged with the north in 1990.
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Ukraine and the West accuse Russia of supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine, a claim Russia vehemently denies.
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While the fighting eventually ended in a ceasefire, the separatists maintained their own autonomous and unrecognized governments.
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That ban was related to Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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In 1971, India closed its airspace to Pakistan over the hijacking of a plane by Kashmir separatists.
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Socialist officials countered that rejection of the budget showed they were not making concessions to Catalan separatists.
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Sarksyan also sought the participation of the separatists in the negotiations, but Azerbaijan was opposed to this.
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Flemish separatists who seek to secede from Belgium have been longstanding allies of the Catalan independence movement.
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"The government doesn't know what it is doing, and the separatists don't know what they are doing."
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Separatists, including armed radical elements, seek an independent state for the nation's Anglophone regions they call Ambazonia.
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Other factions in the country, including southern separatists, powerful tribes and Islamist groups, have also taken sides.
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It could get much worse, as chaos grows, armed separatists kill and soldiers inflict horrors on civilians.
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Far western Xinjiang faces a threat from Islamist militants and separatists, China has said in the past.
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Its leader, Santiago Abascal, has promised a firm hand against Catalan separatists and denigrated Islam and migrants.
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The separatists accuse a party allied to Hadi of being complicit in that strike, which it denies.
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And a conflict with Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine's eastern region has killed more than 10,000 people.
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In the chaotic aftermath, Russian-backed separatists seized the Crimea, a Ukrainian territory that Moscow later annexed.
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Moscow must also introduce a robust disarming and demobilization program for Russian-backed separatists in these regions.
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That finding contradicts Russia's suggestion that the aircraft was brought down by Ukraine's military, not the separatists.
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Unmik was deployed after war broke out in 1998 between Serbia and ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo.
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Wagner was sanctioned by the United States last year for its involvement with separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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However, Khorramshahr and the wider Khuzestan province have seen pipeline bombings by Arab separatists in the past.
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The security aid was approved by Congress to help Ukraine curb Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Ukraine has suffered two years of recession partly due to a costly conflict with pro-Russian separatists.
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In December, Trump agreed to provide lethal weaponry to Ukraine in Kiev's fight against Russian-backed separatists.
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It is possible that Kurdish separatists were trying to take advantage of disarray within the armed forces.
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International investigators believe it was downed by Russian-backed separatists who mistook it for a military aircraft.
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Mr. Casado has promised to halt concessions for Catalan separatists and to prevent the legalization of euthanasia.
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The separatists have called the arrests of the two leaders, Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sanchez, politically motivated.
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"There has been nobody in Europe who has supported the position of the separatists," Mr. Rajoy said.
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Separatists in Anglophone regions have been trying to form a new nation through peaceful channels for decades.
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Separatists have urged shops and schools to close to demonstrate the region's economic importance to the country.
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Separatists have vowed to do all they can to disrupt the vote, escalating an already volatile situation.
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Mr. Biya's government says the separatists are terrorists and has refused to open any dialogue with them.
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But they part ways with the younger cohort of separatists over what it means to be Chinese.
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Ukraine is currently locked in a bloody war with Russia-backed separatists that's killed over 15,000 people.
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The Kosovo camps were set up in 1999 after the war between Serbia and ethnic Albanian separatists.
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Southern separatists in Yemen seized the city of Aden from forces loyal to the internationally recognised government.
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Soon enough, the final question comes: So, whom do local people support — the separatists or the government?
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His support for the recent arrests of Catalan separatists and elected officials has emboldened the independence movement.
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But the current standoff with Catalan separatists is the most serious challenge he has faced to date.
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Many people in China view the Dalai Lama and his fellow Tibetan Buddhist exiles as dangerous separatists.
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Ankara views the Kurds as terrorists, indistinguishable from Kurdish separatists it is battling on its own soil.
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These include Ukraine negotiating directly with the separatists and granting autonomy to the eastern regions they control.
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They see them as indistinguishable from Kurdish separatists who have fought an insurgency inside Turkey for decades.
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Ukraine says Moscow is the one stirring trouble in eastern Ukraine by backing pro-Russian separatists there.
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The Trump administration has provided lethal support to Ukrainian troops battling Russian backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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But Ankara regards the group as linked to Kurdish separatists in Turkey that the government considers terrorists.
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Ukraine's government has accused Moscow of supporting pro-Russian separatists there, an allegation the Kremlin has denied.
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The same day, pro-Russian separatists accused Ukraine of killing a senior commander in a car bombing.
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MH17 was shot down over territory held by pro-Russia separatists, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
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The Chinese authorities have blamed the incidents on Muslim Uyghur separatists seeking to establish an independent state.
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Volker was appointed in 2017 to help resolve the war against Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine's east.
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Hostility in Ukraine between troops and Moscow-backed separatists has left 13,000 people dead, reports Al Jazeera.
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"Their support of the (separatists') coup d'etat by Catalonia is an enormous barrier (to cooperation)," he said.
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First came those who stood with the separatists, demanding the right to vote, carrying the Catalan flag.
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Given Mr. Rajoy's legal powers to stop the separatists from violating Spain's Constitution, Mr. Puigdemont must consider whether to provoke Mr. Rajoy into a full seizure of Catalonia — or try instead to declare independence first, which could alienate more moderate separatists who are concerned about escalating the conflict.
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But Hadi's government said it would not participate until the separatists cede control of sites they have seized.
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The separatists will shrink their own armed forces by the number of servicemen employed at the Russian base.
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In May it called the protesters separatists, though most are not, and suggested that they were foreign agents.
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He said he supported the talks but they should include the southern separatists because they control the ground.
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The separatists have moved into the interior minister's house after he was evacuated by coalition forces, officials said.
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Tymoshenko said her team would increase worldwide diplomatic pressure on Russia to stop Moscow's support of the separatists.
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Ethnic Arab separatists and the jihadists of Islamic State issued competing claims to have carried out the attack.
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Basques did not, though mainly because of political competition between the terrorist separatists of ETA and moderate nationalists.
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Shortly after the annexation, a war broke out in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists.
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The country is uneasy, rocked by the failed coup and murderous bombing campaigns of jihadists and Kurdish separatists.
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Instead some of the alleged separatists had sourced as much as 60% of the curriculum in Uyghur literature.
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But the separatists broke with the government when they seized its temporary base of Aden on Aug. 10.
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At the time of the disaster, Ukrainian government forces were engaged in heavy fighting with pro-Russian separatists.
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Moscow has fought two wars with separatists in the mainly Muslim internal republic since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
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But hard-right Flemish separatists did well in a general election in Belgium, held on the same day.
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A cease-fire took hold here in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and the government on Sept.
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In a recent propaganda video, Tibet's government accused "two-faced" Communist Party members of secretly working with separatists.
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The separatists aim to restore the independent state of Southern Yemen, which united with northern Yemen in 1990.
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This in turn came after an unconstitutional independence referendum organised by the separatists and marred by police violence.
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In quick succession it has crushed one group of separatists (the barbaric IS) and hobbled another (the Kurds).
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Elsewhere in town were followers of the late shah, Azeri separatists and other oddballs with little popular backing.
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But Mr Erdogan fears this would strengthen the group further, emboldening Turkey's own Kurdish separatists in the process.
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A month later, separatists launched the first guerrilla attacks on security forces, killing four over a few days.
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Kiev for its part says Moscow is the one that is still stirring tensions among pro-Russian separatists.
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Separatists, backed by Russia, controlled a swathe of territory in the east and Ukraine's security forces were dysfunctional.
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Under Poroshenko the army, backed by volunteer militias, pushed the separatists out of several towns and contained them.
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It is located in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions in areas bordering territory seized by pro-Russian separatists.
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At least 300 separatists, most of them from that group have been arrested in the past three weeks.
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At the Pentagon, Mattis noted the "severe casualties" Ukraine has suffered in its conflict with Russian-backed separatists.
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The apparent fizzling out of the Catalan separatists' violent confrontation with the Spanish government might be a precedent.
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Savchenko, a military pilot, had volunteered to fight with a ground unit against the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Still, New Delhi has stuck to its tough line, demanding an end to violence before talking with separatists.
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" Barlerin also accused Anglophone separatists of committing "murders of gendarmes, kidnapping of government officials, and burning of schools.
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Local Khuzestan separatists — the province is ethnically Arab rather than Persian — have claimed responsibility and also denied it.
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But the excessive zeal and force employed by Madrid-controlled police has almost certainly boosted the separatists' cause.
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Mr Sall, Senegal's president, is no friend of Mr Jammeh, who sheltered armed separatists from Senegal's Casamance region.
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Turkey considers the Kurdish forces, known as the YPG, as terrorists that are an extension of Kurdish separatists.
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Last October, Catalan separatists declared independence from Spain after the prosperous region's then government organized a disputed referendum.
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Replacing Mr. Leung when his term ends in March would help mend ties between Beijing and the separatists.
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Amnesty International in 2016 accused Nigeria's security forces of killing at least 150 Biafra separatists at peaceful rallies.
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On May 7, the website Mirotvorets ("Peacemaker"), courtesy of anonymous hackers, published part of the separatists' accreditation records.
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Among the competitors the group was killing were Turkey's avowed enemies: Kurdish separatists sheltering in Syria and Iraq.
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There is no love lost between the separatists and Hadi's government, which they accuse of mismanagement and corruption.
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Separatists are active in Belgium's Flanders region, and France's Corsica has long been home to a secessionist movement.
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Actions of both security forces and armed separatists in southern Cameroon have been condemned by human rights groups.
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Separatists have carried out kidnappings and targeted killings of police officers and local officials, and have burned schools.
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Catalan separatists say they are entitled to an independent state because of the region's distinct language and culture.
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Separatists in Scotland and Quebec held referendums after years of political campaigning, but both votes went against independence.
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A group of separatists who occupied the Campanile in St. Mark's Square in 1997 was sentenced to prison.
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In June 2014, the Aidar Battalion was stationed in eastern Ukraine, in direct combat with pro-Russian separatists.
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" On a road leading to the Lledoners prison, separatists have painted yellow signs calling for "Freedom" and "Independence.
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Separatists have imposed a school boycott as part of their protest against President Paul Biya's French-speaking government.
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The officials have accused separatists of launching attacks from civilian bases and putting lives of innocents at risk.
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Early in the year, Russian-led separatists initiated the largest series of cease-fire violations since early 22016.
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Separatists in Cameroon's English-speaking regions have been fighting with government forces and government-backed militias for years.
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One of the coalition's most dangerous fault-lines runs between the normally northern-based government and southern separatists.
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But the police did not ask for identification papers, and they exchanged handshakes and jokes with the separatists.
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The separatists hold most of the seats in their regional parliament (without having won a majority of votes).
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The NATO-Russia Council hasn't met since the Kremlin annexed Crimea and began supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Rasool had been accused of having ties to a terrorist group while covering Turkish clashes with Kurdish separatists.
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On Sunday, Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine completed a large-scale prisoner swap.
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Spain's acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez, seeking Parliament's backing to form a government, received renewed support from separatists.
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Fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine erupted soon after Crimea changed hands.
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Earlier the Ukrainian military and Russia-backed separatists accused each other of launching a new wave of shelling.
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Ethnic Baluch separatists are also battling what they call unfair exploitation of the province's gas and other resources.
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Ukraine uses the aid in its efforts against Russian separatists, part of a long-term conflict with Russia.
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The move led to a bloody conflict between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists in the country's eastern region.
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And Russia is still backing separatists in eastern Ukraine, while still unjustly holding many other Ukrainians in custody.
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That year, Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and backed pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine, incurring Western sanctions.
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After Crimea's annexation, pro-Russia demonstrations in Donbass escalated into armed conflict between separatists and the Ukrainian government.
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Mr. Modi embraced a militaristic approach and shunned a political process involving dialogue with the separatists in Kashmir.
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The separatists were retaliating against Mr. Sánchez because he would not agree to a referendum on Catalan independence.
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So Catalan separatists are now banking on political victimhood as the best strategy for rebooting the independence project.
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Some are motivated by white nationalism, while others have been aggrieved black separatists, radicalized Islamists and conspiracy theorists.
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On Sunday, Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine completed a large-scale prisoner swap.
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"After that, the separatists presumed we were preparing to launch an offensive and started attacking us," Naumov added.
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Hundreds have died in unrest in recent years in Xinjiang, blamed by Beijing on Islamist extremists and separatists.
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Russian-backed separatists, on the other hand, have reportedly been known to send Ukrainian forces intimidating text messages.
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Prime Minister Sanchez has been accused of pandering to Catalan separatists by promising talks on independence if they backed his budget bill (they didn't) but said this weekend that he would act with "strength and proportion" against any attempt by Catalan separatists to repeat their 23 push for independence, Reuters reported.
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This victory lap is a far cry from the Putin of 2014, who became an international pariah after annexing Crimea, propping up separatists in Ukraine war-torn Donbass region, and catching the blame after those separatists shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, the worst attack on an airliner since 9/11.
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In a swift and largely nonviolent operation that came a day after Iraqi forces reclaimed the contested city of Kirkuk from the Kurdish separatists, Baghdad's troops occupied all oil-producing facilities that the separatists had held for three years, and which had become critical to the Kurdish autonomous region's economic vitality.
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" He said Russia "will continue I think to be a proxy for separatists to sustain their interests in Ukraine.
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To this day, pro-Russian separatists – and surely Russian military personnel not in uniform – are battling the Ukrainian army.
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That's likely to keep Indian border forces on high alert, which raises concerns of clashes between separatists and authorities.
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The separatists were jailed while Puigdemont and other collaborators fled the country to avoid summons by a Spanish judge.
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Azerbaijan was fighting Armenian-backed separatists for a third day on Monday over the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Peter fled Kembong, a stronghold of the independence movement hours after separatists killed four paramilitary gendarmes there last month.
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It has been nearly three years since Russian-backed separatists seized chunks of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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Sri Lanka suspended training at Ratmalana during the peak of the civil war with Tamil separatists fearing air attacks.
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That matters: the best way to defeat separatists is to make Spain as a whole more effective and attractive.
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Fighting between government forces and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has killed more than 10,000 people since 2014.
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There are Islamists, Muslim separatists, communists, private posses belonging to local politicians, feuding tribes and gangs of common criminals.
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Abu Dhabi, which says the alliance remains strong, has urged dialogue but has not asked separatists to cede control.
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Pakistan denies sending fighters into Indian-administered Kashmir but voices support for separatists seeking to end Indian rule there.
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In 1999, when new election laws were approved, the government was battling separatists in Aceh, East Timor and Papua.
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The precedent set in Catalonia will affect other would-be separatists, from Scotland to the Donbas region of Ukraine.
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Were Ms Lam to revive such attempts, opponents would be condemned not simply as democrats but as dangerous separatists.
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For separatists, the EU once looked like the net that would guarantee their safety as they leapt into freedom.
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The exodus slowed after Madrid imposed direct rule in late October and the jailing of separatists in early November.
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Dagestan borders Chechnya, where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and religious extremists since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
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Although expelled from Aden, Mr Mohsin and Islah still have bases in the south that can threaten the separatists.
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UAE-backed southern separatists, who are undermining Hadi and his Islamist allies in the south, also want a say.
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Gunfire erupted Sunday after separatists with the Southern Transitional Council (STC) took control of the city's main government building.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Muslim separatists have been waging an insurgency campaign in southern Thailand.
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Muslim separatists have been waging a violent campaign against Indian rule since the late 1980s in Indian-held Kashmir.
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Opinion polls before the vote had shown separatists and unionists running neck-and-neck in the wealthy Spanish region.
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Azerbaijan and Armenian-backed separatists fought for a third day on Monday over the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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This makes it almost impossible for David Duke and other separatists to accurately assess eligibility of their desired membership.
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"It is Moscow's actions in Crimea, their support for separatists in Ukraine and their snap exercises that concern us".
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His comments contradicted a police statement last month linking the tourist town attacks to separatists in the far south.
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Separatists told Reuters that they were responsible for an improvised bomb that last month wounded three policemen in Bamenda.
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That should be enough to form a government, with the support or abstention of Catalan separatists and Basque nationalists.
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In fact it was Russia that ejected Ukraine from its customs union, annexed Crimea and supported separatists in Donbas.
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Heorhiy Tuka, Ukraine's deputy minister for issues relating to rebel territories, dismissed the separatists' threat to seize the companies.
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Protests by separatists prompted a violent crackdown by Cameroon's military last year in which troops opened fire on demonstrators.
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The separatists accuse a party allied to Hadi of being complicit in the Houthi missile strike, which it denies.
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From Catalonia to Taiwan, separatists are increasingly mounting pressure on national governments who face the possibility of new breakups.
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Western leaders have urged Russia to use its influence on the separatists in east Ukraine to stop the violence.
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In 1620, European Christian separatists escaping religious persecution sailed here and started up their colonies by doing the same.
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In February, an army spokesman told Reuters separatists had killed 22 soldiers and policemen in the previous five months.
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The separatists, backed by coalition member the United Arab Emirates, are a major component in the anti-Houthi alliance.
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The West accuses Russia - which seized Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in March 2014 - of backing the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Ukraine is heavily reliant on US assistance amid the ongoing conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas region.
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The cease-fire agreed to 18 months ago between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists has been steadily eroding.
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The missile strike killed 36 Security Belt soldiers, who are part of the southern separatists, at a military parade.
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Why it matters: The U.S. position remains that areas controlled by Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine belong to Ukraine.
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Observers and groups monitoring the south said they were seeing signs of restlessness amongst a younger generation of separatists.
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Ukraine operates around 20 coal mines, while a further 60 are in Ukrainian territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists.
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These nationalists demure about mere separatists and purportedly reject white supremacy, but fold both sub-groups into their commentariat.
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Of course, now there is the situation with the action in Crimea and Russia's support of separatists in Donetsk.
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Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has rejected any dialogue with the separatists unless they abandon plans for secession.
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Our correspondent went to the Basque region to see whether the Catalan separatists had inspired secessionists elsewhere in Spain.
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Carles Puigdemont, the regional president, is expected to address the Catalan Parliament on Tuesday, when separatists could declare independence.
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In widening the issue, the separatists have won more sympathy for their cause than they had before the vote.
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Mr. Rajoy, who has stood firm against the separatists, has a battery of potential emergency measures available to him.
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In return, the Russian leader could make concessions over eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists control swathes of territory.
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But the separatists seek independence and turned on the government in early August and captured Aden, its interim base.
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On Thursday, the separatists organized a rally in Aden where thousands of Yemenis gathered in support of the UAE.
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He called Sunday's election when his budget failed to get through parliament after Catalan separatists refused to back it.
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The police attributed the attacks to separatists who have long pushed for an independent Papua, The Associated Press reported.
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A long civil war with southern separatists ended in 2005 and South Sudan became an independent country in 2011.
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Ethnic Baluch separatists, demanding greater autonomy and rights, have clashed with security forces in a long-simmering insurgency there.
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Mr. Hadi was not in Aden when the clashes between his loyalists and the Southern Transitional Council separatists began.
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Cho Ayaba, commander in chief of one group of separatists, said he considered the elections illegal within Anglophone areas.
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Separatists have been accused of killing soldiers and carrying out violence against regular citizens who don't support their actions.
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The fighting between the southern separatists and the government in Aden illustrates the complexity of the conflict in Yemen.
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The Katangese separatists were supported by Western political and mining interests not eager to see Mr. Hammarskjold's diplomacy succeed.
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In all, Spain's attorney general is seeking to prosecute 20 Catalan separatists, including Carles Puigdemont, the deposed regional leader.
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Mr. Sánchez faces a difficult task in Catalonia; Spain's judiciary is prosecuting former leaders of the separatists for rebellion.
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Its members have guaranteed that a coalition of separatists hold a majority of the seats in Catalonia's regional parliament.
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The state media has depicted them as violent separatists, even though most protesters say they are uninterested in independence.
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Spanish separatists sentenced: The Supreme Court today sentenced former leaders of the Catalan independence movement to lengthy prison terms.
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The attack — the worst mass murder in Canadian history — was planned from Vancouver by a group of Sikh separatists.
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The path to peace is not a simple one with regular skirmishes between separatists and Ukrainian troops taking place.
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Throughout, he avoided any moral comparison between the separatists who held Slovyansk and the Ukrainian forces arrayed against them.
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The money, approved by the U.S. Congress to help U.S. ally Ukraine combat Russia-backed separatists, was later provided.
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The conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists has claimed nearly 10,000 lives since it erupted in 2014.
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Biya's government has been accused of using its military to crack down on armed separatists and killing English speakers.
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Singh said India was "pained" by the unrest in Kashmir, but lashed out at separatists for refusing to talk.
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They remain far apart on the timing of elections to determine the status of territory currently controlled by separatists.
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If you'll recall, five years ago Russia seized the region from Ukraine with the help of pro-Russian separatists.
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The Houthis have been trying to wrest Dhale Province from the southern separatists for years, but without much success.
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Moscow has consistently denied any involvement in the disaster, but Western countries and experts have blamed Russian-backed separatists.
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The pressure tactics allegedly included withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russian-backed separatists.
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Ukraine has been locked in a conflict with pro-Russia separatists in the country's eastern Donbass region since 2014.
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Hundreds of people have died in Xinjiang in recent years in violence blamed by Beijing on separatists and Islamists.
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The separatists sought to take advantage of the global media coverage to promote their bid for independence from Spain.
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The pressure tactics allegedly included withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia-backed separatists.
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The separatists did not immediately comment on the latest incident but each side blames the other for recent violence.
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Officials said the separatists had been firing mortars from positions inside residential zones, making it difficult to fight back.
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Ukraine is at war with Russian-backed separatists in two eastern provinces and considers the United States an ally.
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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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A peace deal between government forces and the separatists was signed on Tuesday in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
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The separatists were using this equipment in the fight against government forces, who are also armed with US weapons.
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All the while they stoked hatred against such enemies of rising India as Kashmiri separatists and their Pakistani supporters.
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Pakistan denies this and says it only provides diplomatic and moral support to non-violent separatists in the region.
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When it was my turn, I asked about the brutal war against separatists in the southern province of Chechnya.
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Duterte said he understood why Muslim separatists had fought the government, but could not comprehend Islamic State's radical doctrine.
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Rather than dialogue and compromise, the separatists appear to desire intolerance and intransigence — maybe even a dose of violence.
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Ukraine has fought against pro-Russia separatists for more than five years, after Russian troops invaded the Crimean peninsula.
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Russia is allied to Israel's nemesis Iran in Syria while Moscow's support for separatists in Ukraine draws NATO's ire.
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Rajoy, reportedly, was unwilling to do so without a full renunciation of independence on the part of the separatists.
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The political nature of their lyrics also adds an interesting dimension, as the band are self-declared Québécois separatists.
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But the separatists seek independence and turned on the government in early August and captured Aden, its interim base.
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Two diametrically opposed categories accounted for the largest share of last year's surge: the Ku Klux Klan and black separatists.
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Soon after, the Trump administration said it was considering supplying defensive weapons to Ukraine to counter the Russian-backed separatists.
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"Despite the abuses and provocations by armed separatists, the government should never be attacking civilians and burning villages," Segun said.
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The separatists have taken up arms over the past year in an attempt to create a nation they call Ambazonia.
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Ukraine and European powers are unlikely to support a referendum in the Donbass region, where pro-Russian separatists hold sway.
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The conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists has claimed more than 10,000 lives since it erupted in 2014.
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Germany has been instrumental in brokering a fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists.
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That's unlikely, given the confidence of Kurdish separatists in the north in addition to the mess ISIS will leave behind.
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Catalonia's 2m or so separatists recall Spanish riot police baton-walloping citizens waiting to vote in a referendum on independence.
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"We won't forget the contempt" the separatists showed for those who disagree with them, says Nuria Marín, L'Hospitalet's Socialist mayor.
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Ukraine, politically disorganized and militarily weak, has relied heavily on the United States in its struggle with Russian-backed separatists.
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Western officials say there has been slow progress in carrying out a peace deal between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists.
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The Muftis and Abdullahs often frustrated their handlers in Delhi, but they are not separatists—unlike many more popular leaders.
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Separatists in Balochistan have for decades been fighting the central government, bombing gas and transport infrastructure and raiding security posts.
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As Mr. Trump froze military aid to Ukraine, the country was already struggling in its fight against Russian-backed separatists.
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Turkey believes the YPG is aligned with Kurdish separatists who have fought a decades-long insurrection against the Turkish government.
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Saudi Arabia, leader of a military coalition that includes the separatists, called for a summit after southern forces on Aug.
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A kidnapping would mark a change in tactics for the separatists who have focused on ambushing police and army checkpoints.
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The latter has fallen on hard times, particularly since 2014, when Russian-backed separatists seized nearby parts of eastern Ukraine.
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He pointed to previous parallels drawn by Chinese officials between Hong Kong independence advocates and "separatists" in Tibet and Taiwan.
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However, Russian listings largely dried up after Russia annexed Crimea and backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, prompting the Western sanctions.
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In Pakistan, Chinese diplomats have been murdered by Baloch separatists who see Chinese development as a threat to their lands.
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Fearing separatists in the region would declare independence, as they did on October 27th, he shifted its headquarters to Madrid.
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This is a propaganda gift for the separatists, who claim, unfairly, that Spain's judiciary is a holdover from Franco's dictatorship.
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The separatists have chased many government workers and forced the closure of man schools, timber and palm oil processing factories.
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The second half of the book portrays businessmen, historians and physicists who headed east to combat the Russian-backed separatists.
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Separatists have to be won over, not crushed, said Felipe González, a former prime minister, warning of "government by judges".
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Michela A. G. Iaccarino spent two years in Ukraine documenting the conflict between Russian-supported separatists and pro-Ukrainian forces.
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In 1971, India closed its airspace to Pakistan in a row over the hijacking of a plane by Kashmir separatists.
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Senior separatists, he wrote, "cannot take that level of decision" — a thinly-veiled allegation of Moscow's involvement in Dryomov's death.
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Backed by the Russian military, the separatists in eastern Ukraine have had the benefit of using more sophisticated Russian drones.
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An uprising by Biafran separatists in neighboring Nigeria in the 1960s sparked a civil war that killed around 1 million.
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The one convincing rejection came from Muslim-majority provinces in the south, where separatists wage a long-running guerrilla war.
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The coal-fired power plants are hamstrung by inadequate fuel supplies from the coal mines controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
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In 2017, the US Treasury Department sanctioned Wagner for recruiting and sending soldiers to fight along separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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We meet immigrant strivers and no-nonsense survivors and radical separatists, but that doesn't get at who these people are.
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"We cannot go and meet...if (the separatists) stay in control of Aden and don't withdraw from positions," he said.
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Peace talks between Thailand's government and Muslim separatists ended on Friday with no breakthrough but an agreement to meet again.
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In 2015 Russia even hosted a "separatists' convention" in Moscow, attended by secessionists from Northern Ireland and Catalonia (and Hawaii).
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European sanctions, however, remain much more narrowly focused on Russia's occupation of Crimea and support for separatists in Eastern Ukraine.
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Rajapaksa, 70, oversaw the military defeat of Tamil separatists under his brother and then president Mahinda Rajapaksa 10 years ago.
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The separatists' threat to national unity has fuelled the rise of Vox, which wants to limit Spain's sweeping regional autonomy.
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In October 2017 separatists responded by proclaiming the independent state of "Ambazonia", named after Ambas bay in the south-west.
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The provisional measures Ukraine requests include a freeze on providing money, weapons, vehicles, equipment, training or personnel to the separatists.
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Ukraine accuses Russia of sending the tanks, and the U.S. says Moscow is arming, training and fighting alongside the separatists.
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The question was whether Shanahan supported providing lethal defensive aid to Ukraine, which has been fighting separatists backed by Russia.
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The sanctions were imposed following Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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There have reportedly been a sharp uptick in attacks by separatists, and rebels have reported increased shelling by government forces.
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Officials say there is a campaign by separatists there who want to set up an independent state called East Turkestan.
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In addition to reissuing the arrest warrants for the fugitive separatists, it also jailed without bail five still in Spain.
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Destruction and damage are widespread after five years of conflict over eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists.
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The separatists are a fractious group, and they have already struggled in the past to agree on tactics and strategy.
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Our correspondent in Barcelona writes that the separatists now find themselves facing the difficult task of forming a new government.
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Pakistan maintains that the insurgency in the disputed region is being fought by Muslim separatists from India's side of Kashmir.
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Separatists, including Mr. Puigdemont, the former Catalan leader, have argued that Spain's judiciary jailed Catalan leaders unjustifiably on political grounds.
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Separatists said the six people were killed during what they said was a raid by troops on Mr. Kanu's home.
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Farther to the south, violence spikes from time to time in the Biafra region, where separatists are pushing to secede.
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Mr. Rajoy accuses the separatists of encouraging civil disobedience, while Mr. Puigdemont compares the Madrid-ordered clampdown to Franco's authoritarianism.
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Catalan separatists, on the other hand, are warning that it could be a show trial by deeply politicized Spanish judges.
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Separatists hoped those so-called ghost towns would put pressure on the government by curtailing economic activity in the area.
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Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates has empowered the separatists, relying on them, and others, to win battles on the ground.
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Ukraine, Western countries and NATO accuse Russia of sending troops and heavy weapons to prop up separatists in the Donbass.
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The investigators refrained from blaming Russian soldiers directly for firing the missile, which could have been launched by Ukrainian separatists.
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But the nominal battlefront cuts across them: Whereas Donetsk is under the control of separatists, Marinka is under the government's.
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Demonstrators during a protest against the jailing of Catalan separatists at El Prat airport in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, Oct.
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Turkey sees both groups as linked to Kurdish separatists who have fought a decade-long insurgency against the Turkish government.
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The target was southern separatists, who had seized the city of Aden from Yemen's internationally recognised government a day earlier.
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Western governments say Russia is arming the separatists and the United States Army has previously trained and equipped Ukrainian soldiers.
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The Cameroon government has been accused of using its military to crack down on armed separatists and killing English speakers.
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Daoud warned there could be an upsurge in attacks by armed separatists, who he said have threatened to disrupt elections.
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Separatists are waging violence against civilians in the Kashmir Valley, in a bid to bring the region to a halt.
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Among the questions is whether Trump held up military aid to Ukraine, which is battling Russia-backed separatists, as leverage.
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In Ankara's eyes, Syrian Kurds are virtually indistinguishable from Kurdish separatists in Turkey, a group it has long considered terrorists.
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Peace deal An agreement between the Saudi-backed forces and the UAE-supported separatists was signed in Riyadh on Tuesday.
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Serbs from the RS have returned the favor by fighting on the side of the Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine.
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The fraying of ties between the separatists and the government presents yet another division that hampers Yemen's path to peace.
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Officials say they face a determined campaign by separatists who want to set up an independent state called East Turkestan.
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There is a strong movement in Scotland seeking independence from the United Kingdom, while Catalan separatists in Spain remain active.
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Turkey sees both groups as linked to Kurdish separatists that have fought a decade's long insurgency against the Turkish government.
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For the past month, opposition lawmakers and military veterans have blocked rail traffic from territory held by Russia-backed separatists.
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Odessa borders the breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova, which is controlled by Moscow-backed separatists and Russian armed forces.
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Some Muslim separatists that have battled militias and government forces for years have allied with the army to fight ISIS.
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Fighting between Russia-backed separatists and Kiev's military continues sporadically, but front lines have remained mostly unchanged since last fall.
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He echoes critics who call his church a tool used by Moscow to justify Russian expansionism and support the separatists.
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Moscow provided military help for the separatists, according to evidence gathered by Reuters, although Russian officials have denied providing material support.
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The separatists are nominally allied with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in a Saudi-backed coalition battling the Iran-aligned Houthis.
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Russia's relations with Ukraine have been fraught since Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014 and backed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Reuters could not independently confirm that and the Interfax news agency cited separatists as denying there had been any unusual escalation.
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If broader political talks on a transitional ruling body materialize they would have to include Yemen's fractious parties, including southern separatists.
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Today, a smouldering civil war afflicts much of English-speaking Cameroon, with tit-for-tat atrocities by security forces and separatists.
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In Donbas they have been creeping forward, seizing positions in the "grey zone" occupied by separatists in violation of the agreements.
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A ceasefire there eventually took hold, but only after Russian-backed separatists overran a besieged town after the deal was reached.
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That month, separatists said they'd taken control of the strategic port city of Aden after days of fighting with government forces.
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That has drawn suspicion and ire from both sides, including from progressive separatists who might otherwise be part of her base.
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A more reasonable concern is that ethnic-Malay separatists from Thailand's southern-most states might seek to disrupt the coming pageantry.
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Faced with an enemy within and separatists and terrorists without, Mr Erdogan had a duty to strike back, say AK politicians.
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His speech mentioned those he said wanted to "break" Spain, an apparent reference to Sanchez's offer of dialog with Catalan separatists.
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It has since inspired a new generation of racial separatists, including Richard Spencer and the alt-right in the United States.
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In exchange for appointments as governors, the oligarchs agreed to deploy their wealth to finance private militias to fight the separatists.
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On an official visit to Kiev, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson joined his Ukrainian counterpart in condemning the separatists' latest acts.
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They also called for an end to the fighting between the government and separatists in English-speaking parts of the country.
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During his first decade in power, Turkey's strongman offered the Kurds new cultural rights and launched peace talks with the separatists.
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The separatists pose the biggest challenge yet to the 35-year rule of Biya, who will seek re-election this year.
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Ag Ghali is a renegade Tuareg commander and has ties to the separatists, but Ansar Dine was excluded from the agreement.
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Photos of clashes between police and protesters were accompanied by captions that accused "Hong Kong separatists" of organizing attacks on police.
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Ukraine was in many ways unprepared for the war against the Russian-backed separatists of the DNR in the country's east.
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Ukraine is battling Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in a conflict that erupted after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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Over the past two years the only thing the Catalan separatists have wanted to talk about is a referendum on independence.
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Their anger has grown toward a government they feel no longer represents them, which could provide the separatists with easy recruits.
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Ambazonia is the name separatists have given to the English-speaking area they want to become independent from French-speaking Cameroon.
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Ukrainian troops are fighting Russian-backed separatists in the Donbass region in a conflict that has killed 13,000 people since 2014.
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Stoltenberg said any meeting would have to address the conflict between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Photos of clashes between police and protesters were accompanied by captions that accused "Hong Kong separatists" of organising attacks on police.
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But then fierce clashes broke out between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists for control over the nearby Donetsk Airport.
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Kiev and NATO say Moscow has fueled the fighting by supporting the separatists with troops and weapons, a charge it denies.
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The ruling raised the stakes in Madrid's efforts to contain separatists in Catalonia, where a banned referendum backed independence last year.
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Puigdemont and fellow separatists have all denied any wrongdoing, saying the plebiscite gave them the authority to break away from Spain.
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The West imposed sanctions on Russia two years ago over its annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Beijing says the camps are re-education and training facilities that have stopped attacks previously blamed on Islamist militants and separatists.
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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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Seven of the 70 separatists elected on Sunday are either in jail or in exile on allegations of sedition and rebellion.
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Last week, Dutere appealed to Muslim separatists and the Maoists to join the government fight against the Islamic State-linked militants.
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The plane was flying over an area held by pro-Russian separatists who want to take the region out of Ukraine.
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China has labeled Mr. Isa, who fled the country in 1994, a terrorist, accusing him of aiding violent separatists in Xinjiang.
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" Bosch, who is also an Esquerra city council leader in Barcelona, said that the only red line for separatists was "democracy.
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Still, China does not want to bend to the protesters, whom the state news media have depicted as lawless, spoiled separatists.
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It's far from clear that the European Union would welcome Scotland back, for fear of encouraging separatists in places like Catalonia.
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The money, approved by the U.S. Congress to help U.S. ally Ukraine combat Russia-backed separatists, was later provided to Ukraine.
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Relations between the U.S. and Russia have been strained since the Kremlin invaded eastern Ukraine and began supporting pro-Russian separatists.
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Mindanao - roiled for decades by Islamic separatists, communist rebels, and warlords – was fertile ground for Islamic State's ideology to take root.
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To many other Catalans and Spaniards, the separatists' antics constituted an attempted coup that posed a deadly threat to their country.
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His speech mentioned those he said wanted to "break" Spain, an apparent reference to Sanchez's offer of dialogue with Catalan separatists.
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But the women who came to our shelter weren't thinking about being separatists—they were thinking about falling in love again.
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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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"Here, Russia must assert its influence on the separatists," spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement, describing Merkel's message to Putin.
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Ukraine has been battling Russian-backed separatists in the country's east since 2014, with fighting grinding on despite a cease-fire.
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Over the last month, Rajoy's government has been uncompromising with Catalonia's separatists following the region's illegal independence referendum on October 1.
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It also wants Kiev to do more to implement a peace deal covering eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists hold sway.
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US assistance to Ukraine is vital as it contends with an ongoing conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas region.
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Relations between Washington and Moscow have been tense since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea and began supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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The money, approved by the US Congress to help US ally Ukraine combat Russia-backed separatists, was later provided to Ukraine.
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Moscow has waged two wars against separatists in its predominantly Muslim region since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Russia invaded Crimea and has backed separatists elsewhere in eastern Ukraine since 2014, a move that prompted international backlash and isolation.
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The combination of Socialists, Podemos and a few regional parties, minus Catalonia's separatists, would leave him at least one seat short.
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Yatseniuk's resignation comes at a tense time during the Ukrainian government's ongoing conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east.
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More than 10,000 people have been killed since 2014 in fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine.
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Istanbul, the country's largest and most cosmopolitan city, has been repeatedly targeted amid twin terror campaigns from IS and Kurdish separatists.
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ISIS still hasn't taken responsibility, and Turkey has been attacked by both Islamic State militants and Kurdish separatists in recent months.
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Russian officials, who deny supporting separatists involved in the conflict, have said that supplying Ukraine with weapons would stall peace efforts.
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The flight was shot out of the sky over territory held by pro-Russian separatists, killing all 298 people on board.
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Rafael Catalá, the Spanish justice minister, told a news conference on Tuesday morning that the separatists were misrepresenting the court decision.
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In the 2000s, China suffered a string of attacks which the government said were perpetrated by Uighur separatists backed from abroad.
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The party considers Uighurs, the Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to the nominally autonomous region of Xinjiang, to be dangerous separatists.
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The Spanish attorney general wants to prosecute 20 separatists, including Mr. Puigdemont, on charges of organizing an unconstitutional referendum on Oct.
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At the time, Ukrainian separatists had been targeting government aircraft at altitudes only slightly lower than those used by commercial jetliners.
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Russia continues to support separatists in Ukraine where thousands of people already lost their lives and almost 2 million were displaced.
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The separatists won 70 of the 135 seats in the regional parliament, narrowly maintaining the majority that they won in 2015.
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Pakistani officials have accused their country's neighboring archival, India, of funding and fueling the Baluch separatists, a charge India has denied.
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Now a sniper and eight or nine other separatists had moved beneath a bridge about three-quarters of a mile away.
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So far Cameroon's government has refused to engage in meaningful dialogue with separatists, largely because it flat-out rejects losing territory.
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To Western eyes, those fighting against the Russian-backed separatists in the east would seem to occupy a higher moral ground.
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Relations between Washington and Moscow have been tense since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and began supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Wagner, which is under US sanctions for supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine, has several hundred contractors in Syria, according to analysts.
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The tiny region borders Chechnya, where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and religious extremists since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
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Ukraine has long requested the weapons to bolster its fight against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern part of the country.
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Turkey has criticized its American allies for working with the Kurds, whom it views as allies of Kurdish separatists inside Turkey.
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"The separatists," he grumbled, referring to Muslims in another part of this state, Jammu and Kashmir, who want independence from India.
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Moscow-backed separatists then launched an uprising in eastern Ukraine, leading to a conflict which has persisted despite a 2015 ceasefire.
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The United States and the European Union have imposed sanctions on Mr. Malofeev for funding Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Separatists say they have done nothing wrong and the trial was political, the government says the trial strictly followed the law.
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The Philippines has been fighting twin insurgencies from Maoist-led rebels and Muslim separatists in the south for nearly 50 years.
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Emboldened by 2011 anti-government Arab Spring protests that had forced Saleh to step down, southern separatists now want full independence.
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Over the following two years, the separatists forged an uneasy alliance with Hadi's government, and the Saudi-Emirati coalition backing it.
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Ukraine has been locked in a bloody war with Russia-backed separatists that has killed more than 13,000 people since 2014.
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But later, state media and government officials seemed to come to the consensus that Arab separatists in the region were responsible.
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Privatisations have stuttered, while escalation of the conflict with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine risked derailing a fragile growth recovery.
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The separatists also argue that the defendants should stand trial in Barcelona, not Madrid, claiming that the Spanish courts are biased.
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Before he started his election campaign, Mr. Raisani was mostly known for working with the military to fight the Baloch separatists.
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Moscow later backed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine in a conflict in which more than 10,000 people have been killed.
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Drawing on the queer radicalism of lesbian separatists from the 1970s, Roberts digs into a particularly niche utopian zeitgeist: van culture.
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Separatists have for decades campaigned against what they see as the unfair exploitation of resources, in particular natural gas and minerals.
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It also wants Kiev to do more to implement a peace deal covering eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists hold sway.
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NATO has recently sent more troops to places such as Poland, as Russian-backed separatists continue to battle Ukrainian troops in Ukraine.
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On Thursday, Ukraine said it reported 67 separate attacks and incidents blamed on Russian-backed separatists in the last 24 hours alone.
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The separatists and the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi are nominally united in their battle against the Houthis.
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More than 43,000 Cameroonians have fled as refugees to Nigeria to escape the government crackdown on the separatists, say local aid officials.
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And the third category is related to Putin's backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine and annexation of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
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But its special forces subsequently played a pivotal role in seizing Crimea and supporting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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The prince has also backed separatists in Somalia, helping to stand up both Puntland, by funding its Maritime Police Force, and Somaliland.
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But by then, the separatists, who are seeking full independence from Azerbaijan, had taken control of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding provinces.
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One was a BAE Caiman that was used by separatists in the fight for Shabwah, southern Yemen, against government forces in August.
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During those years, war-torn, impoverished Mindanao spawned a plethora of armed groups: some Muslim separatists, some communists, some simply violent criminals.
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Several past leaders of the separatists have fled the region, saying they feared for their lives after their comrades turned on them.
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Trump had withheld $391 million in security aid to Ukraine passed by Congress to help counter Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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The parcels have now been stopped by the separatists, and Mr Akhmetov's 56,000 well-paid miners and workers have lost their income.
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To get the budget approved in Congress, Mr Sánchez needs not just Podemos and the Basque nationalists but also the Catalan separatists.
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A Ukrainian service member shoots a heavy machine gun during combat with Russian-backed separatists near the town of Dokuchayevsk, July 183.
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Russia still has western sanctions imposed on it linked to its backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.
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Regions with large ethnic-minority populations, such as Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, have long been regarded as breeding grounds for separatists.
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In east Ukraine, meanwhile, U.S. officials said Moscow had continued supplying heavy weapons to pro-Russia separatists amid a surge in fighting.
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They requested greater NATO support following Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014 and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Uighur separatists have staged attacks in China, and Uighur fighters have gone abroad to join jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS.
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In Ukraine last year, drones operated by Russian separatists (or perhaps by Russian special forces) attacked several ammunition dumps with incendiary grenades.
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The civil war is complicated by other parties, including loyalists of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh, southern separatists and Al Qaeda.
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The Spanish government denies it is prosecuting the Catalan separatists for their political beliefs and says their actions violated the Spanish constitution.
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Stopping children going to school is a favored tactic of anglophone separatists, who say schools are being used to spread government propaganda.
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That conflict, which pitted Tamil-speaking Hindu separatists against the government, which is dominated by Sinhala-speaking Buddhists, left perhaps 70,000 dead.
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A high turnout of 76% on a warm spring day helped the Catalan separatists too, who won 22 seats, up from 17.
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Broadcasters 112 Ukraine and Inter TV were chastised for airing interviews with locals in the east who expressed support for the separatists.
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" He acknowledged that Catalan separatists have no support from European governments, but insisted that "we have plenty of support from European citizens.
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The Kremlin said earlier on Wednesday that Russian forces were not present in eastern Ukraine, which is controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
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A war in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces has killed more than 10,000 people in three years.
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Some militants in Dagestan, which borders Chechnya, where Moscow led two wars against separatists in 1990s, have sworn allegiance to Islamic State.
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In 2014, Russia was ousted from the then-Group of Eight after annexing Crimea and supporting pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Last year, the United States sold Ukraine the Javelin anti-tank missile system to help bolster its fight against Russian-backed separatists.
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The two countries' relationship is already badly strained because of Russia's decision to annex Crimea and support pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
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The theory, backed by US intelligence, was that separatists could have shot down the plane believing it belonged to the Ukrainian military.
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Turkey has faced a repeated barrage of terror attacks in recent weeks, which have been linked to both ISIS and Kurdish separatists.
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His greatest fear is that Syria's Kurds might carve out their own state, from where they could inspire Kurdish separatists inside Turkey.
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But violence in Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, is now fanning separatists' hopes for a revival of their cause.
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Miquel Iceta, the Socialists' top politician in Catalonia, told Reuters that dialogue with the separatists still had to be on the cards.
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Even among the separatists, the two main parties, the left-wing ERC and center-right Junts per Catalonia, are split on strategy.
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The AP noted Polish security concerns following Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the Kremlin's support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Relations between the two neighbours have been fraught over a conflict between pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine and Ukrainian government forces.
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It is surrounded by Islamic rebel groups, communist separatists and kidnap-for-ransom gangs that operate over vast stretches of the countryside.
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He called a snap election in February after failing to win the support he needed from Catalan separatists to pass his budget.
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The Spanish prime minister, wary of Catalan separatists, was also in Brussels on Wednesday and threw cold water on Scottish EU membership.
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Beijing has said that it offers the Uighurs a wide range of freedoms, including economic development, and it called the separatists terrorists.
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The ongoing military conflict with Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region of Ukraine has claimed more than 13,000 lives to date.
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She had joined a volunteer militia when the fighting kicked off between the Ukrainian Army and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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But tension flared last year after protests in the regions turned violent, with armed separatists calling for a country of their own.
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The Supreme Court had ruled that the jailed separatists could collect their papers and attend Tuesday's opening sessions before returning to prison.
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Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and has backed separatists in the country's industrial east fighting Ukrainian government forces.
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Schools, colleges and businesses in the Kashmir valley closed in answer to a strike call from separatists in protest at the killings.
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Since the annexation and Russia's military intervention in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine has exchanged hundreds of prisoners with Russia and pro-Russian separatists.
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Under their own laws, Catalan separatists had pledged to make the official vote result binding within 48 hours and unilaterally declare independence.
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The separatists must now decide whether to declare independence despite the resistance of Madrid and of leading politicians in the European Union.
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Mr. Puigdemont accused the king of endorsing the "catastrophic" policies of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy instead of offering dialogue with Catalan separatists.
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The 30-year conflict between the Turkish government and Kurdish PKK separatists also erupted again last July after a two-year ceasefire.
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But the final blow to his dream came when Russian-backed separatists seized his hometown in 2014 during the eastern Ukraine war.
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India has continued to host the Dalai Lama and his fellow Tibetan Buddhist exiles even though China condemns them as dangerous separatists.
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Unless the separatists succumb to their internal tensions and legal problems, that victory will only make Ciudadanos the main opposition in Catalonia.
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The talks went nowhere, and instead the separatists helped vote down Mr. Sánchez's budget in February, forcing him into a snap election.
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Mr. Sánchez was right to try to reason with Catalan separatists, and the election showed that this need not be politically fatal.
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"Local people are not completely satisfied," said Essar Nori, a lawmaker for Gwadar, adding that the separatists were tapping into that dissatisfaction.
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The ruling, which was condemned by Catalan separatists, pointed to the complications of the campaign, which officially opens Tuesday, before the Dec.
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The former official, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, oversaw the final stages of a quarter-century-long conflict with Tamil separatists that ended in 2009.
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Mali has been in chaos since 2012 when jihadist fighters hijacked an insurrection by Tuareg separatists to seize Mali's entire desert north.
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One of the main challenges for Mr. Sánchez will be Catalonia, where Mr. Rajoy had been at loggerheads with separatists for years.
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Separatists say they are fighting to overturn years of poor representation in the government, which is centered in the French-speaking capital.
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Separatists accused the government of orchestrating the kidnapping in an effort to turn people against them, a charge that government officials denied.
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Yemen's foreign minister accused the United Arab Emirates, which backs the separatists, of carrying out air strikes on government positions in Aden.
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ADEN (Reuters) - The Yemeni government's information minister said on Twitter on Wednesday that government forces have captured Aden's airport from southern separatists.
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In four days of days of fighting between the southern separatists and the president's forces, 40 people were killed and 260 injured.
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Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, was being hailed across the country as a national hero for finally crushing the much-hated separatists.
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The separatists can run, too, they noted, and both those who support independence and those who oppose will cast ballots this time.
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He said security forces heard the racket and executed them after deciding they were separatists, who are rumored to be heavy smokers.
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Putin upped the ante in March, annexing Crimea, with its Russian majority, and backing separatists in eastern Ukraine with weapons and troops.
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At the time, the Trump administration had frozen $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine for its fight against Russian-backed separatists.
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Anglophone revolt Separatists in English-speaking regions of Cameroon have been fighting with government forces and government-backed militias for several years.
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Mr. Putin's government has also armed Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, fomenting a civil war that has dragged on for five years.
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Lengthy prison terms for nine separatists who led a secession attempt in 2017 have fueled protests across the region before national elections.
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No one has taken responsibility for the mass abductions, but government forces and separatists groups have blamed each other for the incident.
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"He is at least keeping the demons of nationalism under control, while the Catalan separatists are unleashing forces that they cannot control."
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The former Soviet republic has been fighting Russian-backed separatists, and the Trump administration temporarily withheld $21960 million from Ukraine this summer.
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The revelations added urgency to questions about Mr. Trump's dealings with Ukraine, which is battling Russian-controlled separatists in the country's east.
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It also found that Trump held back $391 million in congressionally approved aid that Ukraine needed to defend against Russia-backed separatists.
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Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who had previously fought alongside anti-Moscow separatists in the province of Chechnya, was shot dead in Berlin in August.
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The government is seeking the support of separatists who are talking peace with the government to root out groups with extremist agendas.
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Chinese officials say separatists and religious extremists are responsible for the unrest, though they decline to release specific evidence of operational groups.
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The war in eastern Ukraine began in early 2014 and skirmishes continue between Russian separatists and forces loyal to the Ukrainian government.
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The OSCE is monitoring a fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces still regularly exchange fire.
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More than 13,000 people have died in the conflict against separatists and Ukraine has lost control of parts of its industrial heartland.
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Mr. Puigdemont and other separatists are waging a high-stakes battle with the Spanish government over independence, touched off by an Oct.
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But for the victimhood strategy to succeed, the separatists need a better foil in Madrid than Mr. Sánchez and his Socialist government.
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In recent weeks, the Russians and separatists have sent waves of soldiers at us, and attacked with tanks and heavy-caliber artillery.
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A close U.S. ally seeking membership of NATO, it accuses Russia of propping up separatists in two breakaway regions on its territory.
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These are the two biggest weak points for alt-tech platforms, and so far, nobody's released a full-fledged ecosystem for internet separatists.
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Guided by these principles, the Separatists manage to combine some mainstream Christian theology with liberal or secularist views on many public policy issues.
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There have been several terrorist attacks in Turkey in the recent months, which Turkish officials attributed to Kurdish separatists and the Islamic State.
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Mattis is publicly wary of Russia, and Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has criticized Russia for supporting Ukrainian separatists.
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China blames the violence in Xinjiang on Islamist extremists and separatists, some of whom it says have links to groups outside the country.
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"We've heard reports from different sources about everyone from anarchists to black separatists to just regular Trump followers, anti-Trump followers," he said.
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Moreover, Russia's brash flouting of international norms, including its annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, sits uneasily with China.
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In the days leading up to the vote, Catalan separatists and the Spanish government were locked in a game of cat and mouse.
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Ukrainian officials acknowledge that some of their troops had moved forward, but said the separatists responded by opening fire with heavy artillery unprovoked.
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He has also been engaged in a struggle with separatists in Catalonia, taking an approach that critics contend has prolonged the political deadlock.
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Tapper also recalls a mostly forgotten invasion of the Capitol by armed Puerto Rican separatists that yielded the casualties described in this novel.
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Washington and the EU imposed sanctions in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea and backing for the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Instead, the Kremlin created an ersatz civil war, absurdly portraying the Kiev government as a "fascist" regime and the separatists as freedom fighters.
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Last week, an American Baptist missionary was shot dead in an area that has seen fighting between the army and separatists in Bamenda.
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The energy sub-index closed 2.2% higher as crude prices rose following a weekend attack on a Saudi oil facility by Yemeni separatists.
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Chechnya has produced many of these fighters following the two Chechen Wars that began in the 1990s, pitting Russian forces against Chechen separatists.
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The anti-tank missiles are seen by Ukrainians as a critical weapon in helping to combat Russian-backed separatists in the country's east.
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They seem to be acquiescing in the break-up of Yemen, if not pushing for it, by forming an alliance with southern separatists.
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Spain's King Felipe arrived in Catalonia's capital for the first time since October's illegal independence referendum, and separatists gave him a hostile reception.
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In India's new strategic calculus, fanning a smoldering Baluch resistance is tit-for-tat for Pakistan's support of separatists in India-administered Kashmir.
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Russia fought two wars against Chechen separatists in the North Causcasus in the 1990s, and more recently has fought Islamist insurgents in Dagestan.
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Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces are engaged in a long-running conflict in the east which has killed more than 10,000 people.
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One of the parties the socialists might make a deal with include the Catalan separatists who pushed the unsuccessful independence movement in 2017.
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But such an assemblage will be able to govern only if it can rely on the abstention of Catalan separatists on big votes.
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Though his name was eminently dumb, Dooku managed to persuade a whole bunch of planets to leave the Republic; these were the Separatists.
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The Donbass region in eastern Ukraine is still gripped by unrest prompted by a conflict between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian government.
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That's on top of Western sanctions on Moscow over the annexation of Crimea, and its involvement with pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine.
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The Pentagon and State Department have developed plans to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia-backed separatists, the Wall St Journal reports.
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After Russia's annexation of Crimea she joined Aidar, one of the most controversial "voluntary" battalions fighting the separatists in the east of Ukraine.
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Russia fought two wars against Chechen separatists in the North Caucasus in the 1990s, and more recently has fought Islamist insurgents in Dagestan.
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Before his murder, he was allegedly working on a report detailing the Kremlin's role in supplying weapons to Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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He suggested that the national team should recruit players from the regions of eastern Ukraine currently under the control of Russian-backed separatists.
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Fighting was raging between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces when the aircraft was downed over the rebel-held territory of Donetsk.
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A security source said at least three armed separatists were shot dead by security forces in the northwest English-speaking town of Bamenda.
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Since the suicide attack, hundreds of separatists have been arrested, and dozens of militants and civilians killed in what the authorities term "encounters".
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It is the closest Ukrainian government-controlled city to Donetsk and Luhansk, the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
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A firmer rejection came from the three Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand's far south, where separatists have waged a long-running guerrilla war.
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Another angle: The drama in Washington is weakening Mr. Zelensky's position as he seeks to end his country's conflict with Russian-backed separatists.
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And Turkey's worries about Kurdish separatists are not unfounded, as proved by two recent suicide bombings in Ankara claimed by secular Kurdish militants.
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Neither country wants to allow the birth of a Kurdish state that could inspire and lend material assistance to their own Kurdish separatists.
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Residents said fighting has ended since the separatists seized government military bases and surrounded the nearly empty presidential palace in Aden on Saturday.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Yemen's Saudi-backed government signed an agreement with southern separatists on Tuesday to end a power struggle in southern Yemen.
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In June, three bystanders were killed and a child wounded when Papua separatists fired at a plane transporting security personnel for regional polls.
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The Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities are ruled with an iron fist as Beijing suspects them of being separatists and national-security threats.
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Mr. Ionov, who evoked Gandhi as a role model in calling for peaceful independence transitions, described Russian separatists as terrorists funded from abroad.
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Turkey had already been hit by repeated suicide bombings over the past year and is struggling to contain an insurgency by Kurdish separatists.
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The administration should demand the full withdrawal of Russian support for the Donbass separatists and the restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity and control.
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Beijing blames the bloodshed on Islamist militants and separatists, though rights groups say the unrest is more a reaction to repressive Chinese policies.
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At the time, Nemtsov was allegedly working on a report detailing the Kremlin's role in supplying weapons to Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Russia has been under U.S. and EU sanctions over its annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine for two years.
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The region's stocks fell Friday, after Catalonia's separatists appeared set to regain power in the region, following local elections that took place Thursday.
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Sanctions were imposed on Russia after its annexation of Crimea and its assistance to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine two years ago.
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The Ukrainian military on Tuesday accused pro-Russian separatists of deliberately firing more than 40 times from multiple-launch rocket systems at Novoluhanske.
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Ukraine wants Russia to return the annexed Crimea region and wants pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine to hand back control of territory.
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Both VTB and Gazprom Investholding's parent, Gazprom, are under United States sanctions stemming from Russia's support of separatists in eastern Ukraine in 22015.
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For Mr. Segura, the mixed reaction was also because of the acknowledgment, even among separatists, that many Catalans still do not want independence.
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The city is not exactly comparable to London — which favored remaining in the European Union — since Barcelona is still home to many separatists.
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Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and continues to support Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine, aggression that the West has condemned.
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In the decade up to 2014, the security forces struggled with a series of violent antigovernment attacks for which they blamed Uighur separatists.
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The couple had become minor celebrities in Ukraine for being ethnic Chechen volunteers in the war in eastern Ukraine against Russian-aligned separatists.
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Russia is already under U.S. and European sanctions over its 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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It is also a difficult time for the Catalan separatists, who appear to be running out of options within the country's political framework.
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It's uncertain who will be seated in the hemicycle, and whether the ineligible separatists will try to pass their seats to substitute candidates.
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Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and since then Moscow-backed separatists have taken control of a swath of the country that borders Russia.
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American officials said at the time that they believed the missile battery had most likely been provided by Russia to pro-Russian separatists.
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The separatists won about 47 percent of the votes but secured 70 of the 135 seats in the regional Parliament, a narrow majority.
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Moscow responded that year by seizing Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and backing pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has killed 10,000 people.
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During its civil war, fought against separatists from the Tamil minority, Sinhalese felt outnumbered because of the large Tamil community in nearby India.
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Our diplomatic correspondent gathered reactions from across the European Union: bloc officials and member countries fear encouraging separatists, sowing even more economic uncertainty.
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"Any attempt to violate this ban will result in military enforcement," meaning action from the Ambazonian Defense Forces faction of separatists he leads.
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One resident, who did not want his name published for safety reasons, said the actions of separatists most likely saved more civilian lives.
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The meeting was postponed once over Turkey's objections to inviting Kurdish groups that the Turks see as allied with Kurdish separatists in Turkey.
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Mr. Sánchez was elected promising to restore the political dialogue with Catalan separatists, and he met with Mr. Torra shortly after taking office.
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Just last week, the United States condemned a deal for a joint military force the Russians made with the separatists in South Ossetia.
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The conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has claimed more than 10,000 lives since it erupted in 2014.
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He ran away from Mile 16 after seeing the corpse of his neighbor, a farmer, caught in the crossfire between separatists and soldiers.
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But it was during a more recent conflict — Sri Lanka's brutal 26-year civil war with ethnic Tamil separatists — that China became indispensable.
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