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Sucharita Tyagi, Vox, 3 July 2024
That mission quickly went sideways when fighting broke out between that coalition and rebels from the Permanent Strategic Framework, an ethnically Tuareg separatist group.
—Christopher Michael Faulkner, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
Puigdemont’s brief appearance on Spanish soil and an escape worthy of a crime caper film angered conservative opponents already upset about Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s amnesty for separatists in exchange for support for his minority government.
—Reuters, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024
Those released from Western prisons at Putin’s insistence included an assassin convicted of murdering a Chechen separatist in Germany, an intelligence officer suspected of funneling U.S. military technology to Russia and a hacker convicted of breaking into more than 500 businesses.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 2 Aug. 2024
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Most severely, he was labeled an anti-national separatist by Kangana Ranaut, a prominent actor-turned-politician.
—Sucharita Tyagi, Vox, 3 July 2024
That mission quickly went sideways when fighting broke out between that coalition and rebels from the Permanent Strategic Framework, an ethnically Tuareg separatist group.
—Christopher Michael Faulkner, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
Puigdemont’s brief appearance on Spanish soil and an escape worthy of a crime caper film angered conservative opponents already upset about Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s amnesty for separatists in exchange for support for his minority government.
—Reuters, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024
Those released from Western prisons at Putin’s insistence included an assassin convicted of murdering a Chechen separatist in Germany, an intelligence officer suspected of funneling U.S. military technology to Russia and a hacker convicted of breaking into more than 500 businesses.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Separatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separatist. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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