separatist
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Carney said he had spoken Tuesday to Quebec's incoming separatist premier, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, a 49-year-old lawyer known by his initials, PSPP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
India, too, knows that stable ties with Bangladesh are vital to security in its north-east, where several ethnic separatist groups operate.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
But in the wake of the Gorton and Denton by-election in February she said it was "appalling that separatist campaigning was carried out in Urdu by the Green Party".
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The West African country remains in a security crisis more than a week after an alliance of jihadists and separatist rebels launched their nationwide raids.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
A few minutes before the bell rang, a student asked what role mental disorders might have played in separatist movements.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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When a judge dealt another blow to separatists in May, Smith appealed the ruling and called the referendum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
While she is correct that the separatists who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620 eschewed the pejorative term Puritan, she errantly suggests that they called themselves Pilgrims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Malian opposition figures and military personnel have been detained or abducted following large-scale attacks by jihadists and separatists on junta positions, security, legal and family sources told AFP on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Mali's authorities also said they had partnered with the armed forces in neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso to carry out air strikes against the jihadists and separatists.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Initial allegiances shifted as the war went on, but in the end, all six of the Iroquois nations were seen as a threat to the separatists.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Canada - Introductory
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