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Denmark’s foreign minister has summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen after the country’s national broadcaster reported that three people linked to President Donald Trump had been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Richard Hall, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
This could be an alternative to the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline that connects oil fields in Basra to Ceyhan, bypassing Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region entirely.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Drastic political changes have created an increasingly restricted environment for them in the semiautonomous Chinese city once regarded as a bastion of press freedom in Asia.
—Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist, says his 2019 revocation of Kashmir’s semiautonomous status ended a decades-long separatist insurgency and allowed tourism to flourish, a narrative that was shattered by the attack last month.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC news, 6 May 2025
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Richard Hall, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
This could be an alternative to the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline that connects oil fields in Basra to Ceyhan, bypassing Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region entirely.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Drastic political changes have created an increasingly restricted environment for them in the semiautonomous Chinese city once regarded as a bastion of press freedom in Asia.
—Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist, says his 2019 revocation of Kashmir’s semiautonomous status ended a decades-long separatist insurgency and allowed tourism to flourish, a narrative that was shattered by the attack last month.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC news, 6 May 2025
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According to experts, these advances highlight progress in core capabilities such as real-time control, terrain adaptation, and autonomous decision-making, with implications for search and rescue, industrial operations, logistics, and defense applications.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Apr. 2026
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Other areas of technology investment are going to creating autonomous supply chains as well as tech to help combat labor shortages and volatile shipping costs.—
Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Mark Travers,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2026
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The transaction is commercial, and thus the newsroom remains independent.—
Julian Baron,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Semiautonomous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semiautonomous. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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