California Secessionist movement opens first "embassy" — and it's in Moscow California Secessionist movement opens first "embassy" — and it's in Moscow MOSCOW — The first foreign outpost of California's slapdash secessionist movement, Yes California, opened here on Sunday.
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"I will not be a secessionist or anti-secessionist mayor," Colau said after being sworn in, adding that she felt somewhat uncomfortable over the way she was re-elected.
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The economic crisis has certainly given momentum to the secessionist movement in Spain, just as the secessionist movements in other parts of Europe have gained momentum in recent years.
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Catalonia's main secessionist groups have called for widespread civil disobedience.
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"All this secessionist process is a folly," Mr. Rajoy said.
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This in turn would encourage secessionist movements like Catalonia's in Spain.
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But leaders of the secessionist campaign said a referendum on Oct.
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The secessionist fighters are calling for school boycotts in the areas.
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In the first imprisonment of senior secessionist figures since Catalonia's Oct.
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He was elected by the Catalan parliament&aposs secessionist lawmakers on Monday.
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Secessionist movements are looking to grab the moment in other Danish territories.
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Secessionist movements across three continents are vying to form new, independent states.
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The Pro Lombardia Indipendenza movement is the region's only active secessionist group.
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Secessionist fighters also stand accused of kidnapping and killing soldiers and civilians.
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Civil wars in Somalia and the secessionist states of Yugoslavia had already begun.
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Ethiopia has designated five groups, including two armed secessionist groups, as terrorist organizations.
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King Mumbere once led a state of sorts, founded by his secessionist father.
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Fringe secessionist movements in Alaska, California, and Vermont wield virtually no political influence.
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It has also revived a question: Is Quebec's secessionist movement experiencing a comeback?
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Puigdemont, who is backed by secessionist parliamentarians, has been unable to do that.
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The secessionist legacy is literally stitched into the fabric of the state flag.
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But the leaders of the secessionist campaign said a disputed referendum on Oct.
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Foreign secessionist groups can play into the Kremlin's hands both at home and abroad.
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European leaders fear it could spur secessionist ambitions in other parts of the continent.
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The Spanish government moved to put Catalonia's secessionist leaders on trial for alleged crimes.
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But it is the secessionist conflict in Catalonia that has provided his real opportunity.
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Mr. Puigdemont's reputation for unpredictability has grown with every turn of Catalonia's secessionist drama.
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Spain might suppress secessionist impulses more successfully by putting its own house in order.
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The central government has previously blocked secessionist challenges through appeals to Spain's Constitutional Court.
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Most of the founders of the Oromo Liberation Front, a secessionist rebel group, were Pentes.
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The would-be secessionist was born in Buffalo and moved to California as an adult.
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But this year, after months of secessionist turmoil, the celebrations were colored by political division.
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The United States sided with Abadi's Shi'ite-led government in rejecting the Kurds' secessionist move.
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Plus, EU members would likely veto the UK candidacy to avoid setting a secessionist precedent.
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The secessionist attempt has provoked the most serious institutional crisis to date in democratic Spain.
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He and other secessionist leaders face the charges for organizing an independence referendum on Oct.
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Polls show the vote is too close to call between secessionist and pro-unity parties.
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The growing secessionist movement has also worsened security in the West African nation this year.
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He corresponds with a relative who is part of a white nationalist, "Southern secessionist" group.
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Far from ending the secessionist conflict, the election has opened another uncertain chapter for Spain.
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Under Spanish national law, the vote has made secessionist parliamentarians vulnerable to arrest for sedition.
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The secessionist conflict has split Catalan society down the middle and weighed on national politics.
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Turkey, Iran and Syria fear that their restive Kurdish minorities will join in secessionist demands.
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The secessionist conflict has split Catalan society, but it has also helped reshape Spain's politics.
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But the secessionist dispute prevents Georgia and Abkhazia from working together properly to stop the pests.
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The split comes amid a major secessionist tussle between Madrid and Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia.
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Mr. Puigdemont risks decades in prison for rebellion should he push ahead with his secessionist plan.
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The secessionist conflict has cleaved Catalan society and helped reshape Spain's politics amid increased party fragmentation.
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Our Interpreter columnists look at the dilemma many secessionist movements face: popular will versus international recognition.
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And a secessionist group, the Baluchistan Liberation Army, has waged a low-level insurgency for years.
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And based on the elections in Catalonia, the secessionist threat will not go away unless cauterized.
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There is even evidence of Russian ties to secessionist movements in the United States and Europe.
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An avowed secessionist, Mr. Randall is eager to explain himself, welcoming a visitor onto his porch.
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On October 16 the central government also jailed two secessionist leaders, triggering further protests in Barcelona.
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The organizers of the earlier protest, grassroots groups Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) and Omnium Cultural, had hoped that, with pro-secessionist parties split over what strategy to adopt, it would refocus attention in the secessionist camp by drawing the largest crowd since the court verdicts were passed.
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On Friday, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy dismissed Catalonia's secessionist government, called a regional election for Dec.
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Meanwhile, the secessionist mood never went away, and we are once again tormented by white supremacist backlash.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalonia's secessionist movement aims to get over 50% of the region's vote in a Nov.
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government has vowed to strike down any further secessionist challenges in court.
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government says it will strike down any such secessionist challenges in court.
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The SDF blamed his previous abduction in April, which lasted a few hours, on Anglophone secessionist rebels.
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In the 1980s, a secessionist movement took shape, with young Kashmiris crossing into Pakistan for arms training.
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After a rigged local election in 1987, Kashmiris began a secessionist armed uprising with support from Pakistan.
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At the same time, Spain is struggling with a secessionist challenge in the northeastern region of Catalonia.
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The biggest immediate challenge for Mr. Sánchez is the secessionist movement in the autonomous province of Catalonia.
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Catalonia's secessionist push has led to an exodus of businesses from the region and hit Spanish assets.
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The developments mark the most significant escalations in the prolonged standoff over Catalonia's secessionist ambitions so far.
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Madrid said on Saturday that secessionist politicians, including Puigdemont, were free to take part in the election.
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FEW COUNTRIES erect monuments to their failed secessionist movements, particularly those premised on the right to enslave people.
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Yields have since eased as the secessionist Catalan leader has faced pressure to abandon plans to declare independence.
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His successor is Carles Puigdemont, an even more ardent secessionist who refused to swear allegiance to Spain's constitution.
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The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami effectively put paid to Aceh's secessionist movement—the last big, threatening separatist drive.
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As with almost all secessionist movements, pro-independence politics in Catalonia are driven by a predominantly socialist agenda.
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The ruling will leave the leaders of Catalonia's biggest secessionist groups behind bars during campaigning for the Dec.
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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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Subsequent reports showed that the Russian group created a Texas fan page, which disseminated pro-Texas secessionist messages.
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From Madrid, the region's secessionist drive is portrayed as an act of sedition deserving to be put down.
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Cho Ayaba, head of the Ambazonian Defense Force, one of the main Anglophone secessionist groups, disputed Tchiroma's death toll.
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The Catalan secessionist drive is Spain's worst political crisis since the military dictatorship of Francisco Franco ended in 1975.
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Aware that secessionist plotters wanted to prevent Lincoln's inauguration, army soldiers were dispatched along Pennsylvania Avenue as additional security.
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Montreal never recovered its position as Canada's leading business centre after the secessionist scare in the 268s and 22006s.
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Puigdemont fled Spain in October following an illegal and ineffective declaration of independence by secessionist lawmakers in northeastern Catalonia.
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The pressures on Mr. Sánchez have only mounted with the latest flare-up of the secessionist conflict in Catalonia.
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However, the outcome - played out against a secessionist crisis in Catalonia - has left Spain's political landscape even more divided.
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Secessionist Catalan politicians have pledged to unilaterally declare independence at Monday's session after staging an independence referendum last Sunday.
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For a fifth consecutive year, demonstrators used Catalonia's national day to raise the secessionist pressure on politicians in Madrid.
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One issue centered on the capability of Katangese secessionist forces and their foreign hires to attack Mr. Hammarskjold's plane.
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In local elections in December 22019, only 47.5 percent of the 4.4 million citizens who voted supported secessionist parties.
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Chinese state media responded on Wednesday by accusing the NBA of endorsing violence and peddling a "secessionist pipe dream".
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Last week, in a rare intervention, he accused Catalan secessionist leaders of shattering democratic principles and dividing their society.
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Sanchez was put forward as a candidate by secessionist parties as a substitute for Carles Puigdemont, the movement's figurehead.
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Some EU states are worried that talk of Catalan independence could fuel secessionist feelings in other parts of Europe.
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But the region enjoys enormous autonomy and generous handouts from Rome, which have helped dampen secessionist sentiment in the province.
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But the region enjoys enormous autonomy and generous handouts from Rome, which have helped dampen secessionist sentiments in the province.
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A call for widespread civil disobedience from the main civic groups behind the secessionist campaign failed to attract many followers.
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The constitutional court said it had agreed to consider a legal challenge filed by the anti-secessionist Catalan Socialist Party.
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A senior Catalan politician said on Tuesday secessionist leaders may call a snap election to try to break the deadlock.
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Carles Puigdemont's secessionist alliance was threatening to unravel, with the region's biggest grass-roots independence organization unhappy about his plan.
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Prosecutors have asked the courts to order the Catalan secessionist leaders to deposit 6.2 million euros to cover potential liabilities.
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" He reached down for his smartphone, and found an internet image supposedly representing the secessionist plans of the "Bengali Muslims.
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Instead, Mr. Rajoy chose to emphasize the success of the anti-secessionist party, Ciudadanos, led in Catalonia by Inés Arrimadas.
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He has not, however, offered to shelve his secessionist plan, which Spain's prime minister said was a condition for talks.
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The protesters used a megaphone and also plastered secessionist posters on his house, Mr. Monràs said in a telephone interview.
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Secessionist newspaper offices from Charleston to Richmond functioned as galleries for proposed flag designs of painted silk and cotton bunting.
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Spain&aposs state prosecutor said he would seek rebellion, sedition and embezzlement charges against members of the region&aposs secessionist government.
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In Somalia, Emirati cash has exacerbated the struggle between the internationally recognised federal government in Mogadishu and the restive, secessionist regions.
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Spooked by the attacks in Aden, one southern secessionist activist said he had moved to Sanaa, which is under Houthi control.
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A SECESSIONIST leader flies into exile, seeking protection after being threatened with a 30-year prison sentence for sedition and rebellion.
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As a Yugoslav army general he helped the Croatian Serbs carve out a short-lived secessionist enclave in Croatia in 1991.
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It also risks exacerbating the struggle between Somalia's weak, but internationally recognised federal government in Mogadishu and its restive, secessionist regions.
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In February, for example, The New York Times ran a story about Louis Marinelli, the president of secessionist movement Yes California.
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Spain's King Felipe VI, in a rare intervention, accused secessionist leaders on Tuesday of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society.
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Six decades later, Robert E. Lee killed the successors of Washington's army for the sake of a secessionist slave-holding empire.
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The young people of Nigeria's south have been growing increasingly fractious since a secessionist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was arrested last year.
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The Virginia Republican made the comments in April 2017 at an event in South Boston, Virginia, hosted by an unapologetic secessionist.
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For instance, one Russian troll farm tried to encourage U.S. "secessionist movements" in California and Texas, the New Knowledge report said.
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The projections also showed big gains for the far-right League, a formerly northern-based secessionist party run by Matteo Salvini.
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He clung to power while both political corruption and a secessionist conflict with the wealthy and powerful region of Catalonia festered.
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As the 2020 election approaches, a superficial national calm belies a series of brewing secessionist campaigns and potent localized conspiracy theories.
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By the end of 1991, with consumer goods scarce, secessionist movements mounting and Kremlin intrigue deepening, Mr. Gorbachev resigned as president.
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Nationalists point to the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec, where two independence bids failed, diminishing a once-vibrant secessionist movement.
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In McPherson's telling, Davis emerges as a leader deeply involved in the Confederate military strategy and fiercely committed to the secessionist cause.
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He's accused Sanchez of "high treason" for opening discussions with secessionist parties, and called for direct rule over the region from Madrid.
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In Madrid, 20 secessionist leaders had been summoned by two separate courts to testify over their role in holding a banned Oct.
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The courts have already told the Catalan secessionist leaders to deposit 6.2 million euros ($7.2 million) by Friday to cover potential liabilities.
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" Charles said he left the group about three years ago because it transitioned from a "fun secessionist movement to a racist one.
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"I cannot see the difference between a sanctuary state and a secessionist state," retired Marine Glenn Bernard said, according to the Tribune.
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Mr Sánchez has supported direct rule and has recently talked about toughening it if Catalonia's new secessionist president takes any unconstitutional step.
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The government considers it a "terrorist" organization, a designation is shares with two Ethiopian secessionist groups, Somalia's al Shabaab and al Qaeda.
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Support for the party erupted this year following a secessionist campaign in Catalonia, which prompted a nationalist backlash against Spain's autonomous regions.
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It also faces a southern secessionist movement, restive tribes and Islamic militants, while many services such as electricity and water are scarce.
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The European Union would have to choose between stopping Catalonia from rejoining the bloc, or risk encouraging secessionist movements in other countries.
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The BJP's standard appeal to Hindu-first Indian nationalism never found a wide audience in a hybrid state with occasionally secessionist tendencies.
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In October 2017, Catalonia unilaterally declared independence, prompting Madrid to intervene in the region by dismissing its parliament and arresting secessionist leaders.
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Mr. Hammarskjold was on a mission to end a secessionist war next door in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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That would give the secessionist camp just 67 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament, stripping them of the previous slim majority.
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Strong grip Biya's seventh term came despite mounting allegations of human rights abuses and an escalating secessionist movement threatening the nation's stability.
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Iraq has maintained its tough line toward the Kurds with support of neighbors Turkey and Iran, which strongly oppose the secessionist movement.
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The currency's rise this year had lost some momentum in recent days as political concerns, notably Spain's Catalan secessionist movement, have intensified.
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The SDF said Anglophone secessionist militants took him and tried to convince him to support their cause, though no one claimed responsibility.
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The election was seen as a bellwether for the Catalan secessionist movement, almost two years after its botched attempt to declare independence.
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The Spanish government said it would convene an urgent cabinet meeting on Saturday and take emergency measures to halt Catalonia's secessionist drive.
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On Monday, demonstrators pulled a statue of a secessionist soldier off its base in front of the old county courthouse in Durham.
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That is why many Catalans like me have concerns about the secessionist movement that now controls the government and the regional Parliament.
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Mr. Rajoy also warned Mr. Torra against leading Catalonia back into illegality by reviving a secessionist agenda that violates the Spanish Constitution.
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Biya maintains his iron grip on the Central African country despite a growing secessionist movement, which has worsened security in the nation.
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Jon Shadel traced the history of the secessionist movement in the LGBTQ community and asked whether these groups might be onto something.
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"We cannot go to the port," a Salafist fighter in the central Mansoura district says of another district controlled by secessionist militias.
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Constitutional scholars, however, say a U.S. state cannot break away, but this has not stopped hundreds of secessionist schemes throughout the nation's history.
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Protests taking place in central Barcelona on Thursday to support secessionist leaders as they testified in Madrid failed to attract a big crowd.
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She graduated from Cornell University in 1927 after studying under Photo-Secessionist Clarence White and soon after started her own business in Cleveland.
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In Vic, a town 22km (40 miles) north of Barcelona that is a hotbed of secessionist sentiment, all eight polling stations were open.
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Tens of thousands demonstrated recently in Barcelona, after a judge at the National Court ordered the pre-trial detention of two secessionist leaders.
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Secessionist parties won a regional election in December but they have since then failed to agree on how the region should be ruled.
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The narrow secessionist majority in the Catalan parliament opted to cast secret ballots, because they fear the legal consequences of breaching the constitution.
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The secessionist leadership is in disarray, and attention is now turning to a regional election called by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy for Dec.
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" And a statement from China's Taiwan Affairs Office quoted by Xinhua said it resolutely opposed "any form of secessionist activities seeking 'Taiwan independence.
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Spain is sensitive over the issue due to a secessionist movement in Catalonia, where in 2014, there was an informal ballot on independence.
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Robert E. Lee, who was a leader of the secessionist movement during the Civil War with the aim of preserving and expanding slavery.
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Their secessionist drive comes as the country prepares for a rerun of national elections on June 26, after six months of political deadlock.
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What's more, much like Scottish nationalism, the aims and aspiration of this leftist secessionist movement in Catalonia are on many levels deeply contradictory.
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Hill is the leader of the secessionist and white nationalist group "League of the South," which calls for the American South to secede.
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According to records from Virginia's Department of Elections, the event in which he praised secession was paid for by avowed secessionist George Randall.
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If the secessionist movement intensified or dragged on it could have an effect on economic outlook and financial stability in Spain, it said.
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Strike supporter Nuria Catalana, a 64-year-old nurse, said she had favored a pro-secessionist electoral pact, but understood the difficulties involved.
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Pointedly, the first person to talk after Puigdemont on Tuesday evening was Inés Arrimadas, leader of the anti-secessionist Citizens party in Catalonia.
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Far from the RNA's old secessionist strategy of the 22017s, Lumumba was forming coalitions where he could, with whoever would work with him.
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The regions have been gripped by violence since protests by the mainly Francophone country's Anglophone minority morphed into a secessionist movement last year.
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But Biya maintains his strong grip on the central African country despite the growing secessionist movement, which has worsened security in the nation.
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The ruling could provoke a strong reaction in Catalonia, where a secessionist push two years ago triggered Spain's biggest political crisis in decades.
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Separately, protesters in Spain called for the ouster of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez after he proposed talks over the secessionist movement in Catalonia.
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The decorated Ethiopian air force pilot had already spent eight years in captivity in Eritrea after secessionist rebels shot down his jet in 1984.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Moments before Catalonia's leader, Carles Puigdemont, baulked at declaring independence from Spain this week, cracks were already appearing in his secessionist ranks.
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On Monday, the Spanish government moved to put Catalonia's secessionist leaders on trial for alleged crimes that carry maximum sentences of decades in prison.
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An Eritrean secessionist movement helped overthrow a military regime in Addis Ababa in 1991 and the new Ethiopian government then gave Eritrea its independence.
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Anti-secessionist opposition parties are trying to change the laws, but have been stymied by the nationalist coalition of the regional president, Carles Puigdemont.
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It glowed brightly for a few minutes in the eyes of its beholders, secessionist Catalonians, before being snuffed out by Spain's government in Madrid.
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But other firms are unlikely to receive such a warm welcome from investors due to high debts, a secessionist war and a frail economy.
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In the election held on December 21 in this region of Northeastern Spain, Sílvia voted for the center-right secessionist party Junts per Catalunya.
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But when Jefferson's leadership decided on a strategy of using "the lawsuit option," Preston became disenchanted and decided to start his own secessionist movement.
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Vox promised not only to quash the secessionist challenge in Catalonia but also to recentralize Spain by removing the powers of its regional governments.
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Mr. Salvini has since been an indefatigable candidate for prime minister and an omnipresent media figure, while severing the party from its secessionist roots.
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But a majority want a referendum to be held, and protesters said the violent police crackdown against the ballot had energized the secessionist camp.
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Sessions defended the lawsuit, saying it was about preventing "nullification" of federal laws, which he compared to the secessionist movement during the Civil War.
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And once it becomes complicated how you split up the groups, as it is, say, in Iraq, that tends to weaken secessionist movements. Brexit.
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Some shouted pro-Catalan independence slogans while others displayed banners demanding the release of imprisoned pro-secessionist politicians and the return of those in exile.
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Erdoğan also initiated peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a secessionist group whose bloody insurgency has killed more than 22016,22019 people since 1984.
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Rajoy said his government had filed a legal bid to block to those reforms with the Constitutional Court, which has previously ruled against secessionist challenges.
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Amid escalating protests in Hong Kong, Chinese netizens on Saturday swept Facebook and Instagram to denounce secessionist posts and show support for Hong Kong police.
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Mr Puigdemont's push follows five years of secessionist agitation in Catalonia, one of Spain's richest regions, whose 7.5m people are 16% of the country's total.
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After the referendum, separatists were further inflamed by the jailing, pending trial for obstructing a police raid, of the leaders of two secessionist social movements.
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The Indian government, which put down an armed Sikh separatist revolt in the 1980s, is sensitive to any attempts to revive the Sikh secessionist movement.
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To complicate matters, 12 Catalan secessionist leaders went on trial at Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday over their role in a failed 2017 independence bid.
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In 2016, AggregateIQ paid uCampaign to create the campaign app for Vote Leave, the secessionist side of the British referendum on leaving the European Union.
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In many lands there is a sense of flux, from the secessionist yearnings of Catalonia in Spain to Britain's planned departure from the European Union.
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Since then, while they have remained behind bars, the secessionist conflict has festered and continued to split Catalan society, while also threatening Spain's political stability.
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The past weeks have seen heavy fighting in Yemen's south between government forces and southern secessionist militias armed and funded by the United Arab Emirates.
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Anything that interferes with that secessionist goal is cast as an obstacle to peace, as shown vividly by the UNSC vote on Friday, Dec. 23.
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Instead, the Popular Party and the anti-secessionist party Ciudadanos want to restore direct rule over Catalonia unless Mr. Torra fully abandons his independence ambitions.
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However, with many senior secessionist figures in jail or self-imposed exile in Belgium, the parliament is struggling to elect a head and start governing.
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More interesting though is the fact many were former militia of one sort or another (Muslim secessionist, Communist revolutionary, or any of several cause-based groups).
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Catalonia's secessionist leader faced increased pressure to abandon plans to declare the region independent from Spain, with France and Germany expressing support for the country's unity.
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Forcadell earlier told the Supreme Court that the declaration was not legally binding, according to court sources, in a comment that could undermine the secessionist push.
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Street protests have taken place against a decision by Hadi last week to sack Aidaroos al-Zubaidi, a secessionist and the UAE-backed governor of Aden.
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MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish judge ordered nine Catalan secessionist leaders to be held in custody on Thursday pending a potential trial over the region's independence push.
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Support for their cause is driven by dissatisfaction with France's mainstream parties, mirroring a trend that has spurred secessionist ambitions elsewhere in Europe, such as Catalonia.
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Although the secessionist movement has since gained momentum, it has also deeply split Catalan society, and Mr. Mas has seen support for his Convergence party decline.
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At the outset of his professional career, Hablik experimented with different color palettes while holding true to an Impressionist style championed by the Berlin Secessionist movement.
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A previous round of talks on the Catalan political situation - the first since the regional government embraced a secessionist agenda in 2012 - collapsed in late 2018.
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BARCELONA, Spain — Hundreds of thousands of Catalan independence backers rallied in downtown Barcelona Sunday to demand the release of secessionist leaders being held in pretrial detention.
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But this year, after months of secessionist turmoil, not even a festive day of books and roses was immune to the political divides of Catalan society.
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The government says the true figure is much lower and instead lays stress, as it always does, on terrorist and secessionist threats to the country's stability.
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Elsewhere, investors remained cautious over Catalonia's vote to separate from Spain with the region's secessionist leader saying he would declare independence "in a matter of days".
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The outcome has been mayhem in British politics; clamors for similar votes from other secessionist movements in Europe; and a major wobble in global financial markets.
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Those three groups would readily band together to oust Sánchez, who is seen by the right-wing opposition as too soft on the Catalan secessionist movement.
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"The secessionist activity in Taiwan has posed the greatest realistic threat to across strait relations and damaged the core interest of the Taiwan people," Wu said.
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But it is difficult to imagine Rajoy, whose popularity rose outside Catalonia after the previous deal failed, and Puigdemont, a lifelong secessionist, negotiating such a deal.
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BARCELONA, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Moments before Catalonia's leader, Carles Puigdemont, baulked at declaring independence from Spain this week, cracks were already appearing in his secessionist ranks.
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Spain is bent on stopping a secessionist movement by any means necessary, and made moves Thursday to crush a long-simmering independence bid from Catalan separatists.
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Their comments suggested that Mr. Salvini's efforts to transform his party from a northern secessionist movement into a force appealing to Italians everywhere had paid off.
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The case also raises questions about whether Europe has a unified conception of the rule of law, and how it will respond to other secessionist movements.
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Mr. Rajoy then called new elections for the regional Parliament, hoping to reshuffle the political deck and calculating that Catalan voters would punish the secessionist leaders.
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Mr. Salvini has successfully used the country's growing economic discontent as a vehicle to reach voters in the south, the formerly secessionist party's onetime enemy territory.
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But the most vociferous critics have been Turkey and Iran, both of which have Kurdish secessionist movements that they fear could be encouraged by the vote.
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In Catalonia, secessionist parties found the decision excessively harsh, motivated by vengeance, catered to Spanish nationalists, and all the more reason to work harder towards independence.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's secessionist leader on Tuesday postponed plans for a second independence referendum until the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union are clear.
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That warning was updated last October after a secessionist conflict in the Catalonia region spiraled into several nights of violence in Barcelona and other northeastern cities.
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Its domestic politics have long been volatile, overshadowed by a strained relationship with Russia, which has backed secessionist rebels since the 1990s and invaded in 2008.
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Ivo Tapang, spokesman for the Ambazonian Defence Force, one of the main Anglophone secessionist militias, confirmed that fighting had occurred in Nkambe, but disputed Badjeck's account.
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The growing secessionist movement fueled factional clashes among the Saudi-backed coalition earlier this year and has complicated the prospects of a peaceful resolution in Yemen.
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In another sign tensions would endure beyond the vote, secessionist groups and trade unions in Catalonia called a general strike for Tuesday, La Vanguardia newspaper said.
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King Felipe VI accused Catalan secessionist leaders of shattering democratic principles in a rare televised speech — itself a sign of the gravity of the crisis, analysts said.
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Resistance to the central government's imposition of direct control on Catalonia failed to materialise at the start of the week and the secessionist leadership is in disarray.
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While it may not propel secessionist forces back into regional government, it could end up sustaining their cause and thereby putting off investors over the longer term.
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Catalonia's secessionist drive is one of the thorniest issues facing Sanchez after he toppled center-right premier Mariano Rajoy last month in a vote of no-confidence.
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Secessionist feeling has simmered in the southeast since the Biafra separatist rebellion of 1967-70 that tipped Nigeria into civil war and killed around 1 million people.
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New Caledonia's secessionist uprising ended in 1988 when leaders of the indigenous Kanaks and French loyalist politicians agreed to hold a vote on independence a decade later.
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Their ambitions are relatively modest among the wave of secessionist movements that have sprung up in parts of Europe as its traditional political forces have lost traction.
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California, here we go ... That's the philosophy of a growing secessionist movement in the nation's biggest state, and it got a kick start after Tuesday's presidential election.
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The accusations have ratcheted up tensions in a country whose six decades of independence have been marked by long periods of military rule, coups and secessionist wars.
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Op-Ed Contributor LAGOS, Nigeria — Forty-six years ago this month, Nigeria's civil war came to an end with the surrender of the secessionist Republic of Biafra.
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Among the factors it cited were a hostile media and the Conservative Party's accusation that Labour might do a coalition deal with the secessionist Scottish National Party.
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The Catalonia issue has sent shockwaves across Europe, energizing regions with their own secessionist agenda while unnerving those fighting to keep the European Union from fracturing further.
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At the beginning of the Yemen war, the UAE prised from Iran's orbit a struggling secessionist movement which hopes to revive the former state of South Yemen.
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Vox's sudden surge in support appears to be a response to the party's hard-line stance against secessionist movements, such as the push for independence in Catalonia.
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The government finally crushed the secessionist group leading the fight in a brutal battle in 2009, in which tens of thousands were killed, most of them civilians.
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The government, with the backing of Spanish courts, has repeatedly blocked secessionist moves and has sued senior Catalan politicians on allegations that they have violated Spanish law.
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Secessionist sentiment simmered in the region since the Biafra separatist rebellion tipped the country into a 1967-70 civil war that killed an estimated 1 million people.
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Catalonia's separatist leader Carles Puigdemont looked likely to regain the leadership of Spain's northeastern region after preliminary results showed secessionist parties taking a majority in regional elections.
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Any solution that does not include the Five Star Movement or the League, the hard-right, formerly northern-based secessionist party, will raise questions of democratic legitimacy.
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The main secessionist group, the Catalan National Assembly, called on civil servants not to follow orders from the Spanish government and urged them to follow "peaceful resistance".
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Congressional Republicans, who had initially thought Johnson might be their ally — since he had been an anti-secessionist senator from Tennessee prior to the war — were shocked.
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Highlighting the splits, the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, does not support the secessionist movement and she bemoaned the damage inflicted on her city this past week.
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Mr. Rajoy has fought off Catalan pressure before, including five years ago, when Spain's economic crisis, and Catalonia's tax contributions to poorer regions, bolstered the secessionist movement.
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"As I speak, four members of the Defense and Security Forces on duty have been killed, murdered by terrorists on behalf of the secessionist movement," Tchiroma said.
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"I'm a secessionist because the federal government is anti-Christian and we're different culturally," explained Mr. Randall, a retired heavy equipment operator whose forebears include Confederate veterans.
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At the same time, the group's vice president withdrew from the group and said he would join a newly formed secessionist outfit called the California Freedom Coalition.
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"We have Cruz people, we have Bernie people, we have Trump people," said John Bergener, chair of the Divide NYS caucus, one of the upstate secessionist groups.
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That process began smoothly on Monday as employees ignored calls for civil disobedience and turned up for work, while secessionist parties agreed to stand in the December poll.
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As secessionist movements flourish in Europe, and climate change threatens to obliterate littoral states, the issue of what it means to be a nation is acquiring new salience.
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Scores of people were killed in Uganda in clashes between the army and supporters of a regional king, Charles Mumbere, who is accused of starting a secessionist movement.
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Some brandished white shields with a black cross—a symbol of the League of the South, a secessionist group that believes contemporary America is unacceptably "egalitarian and Marxist".
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Bekele, who denies all wrongdoing, was initially charged with involvement in terrorism and collusion with the secessionist Oromo Liberation Front, which the government has branded a terrorist group.
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Rajoy, who called the election after sacking the previous secessionist government, had hoped to mobilise hitherto quiescent supporters of union with Spain and deal separatism a decisive blow.
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But he also pushed the case for forging ahead with the stalled secessionist drive, saying the prison sentences for separatists would not deter a new vote on independence.
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But he also pushed the case for forging ahead with the stalled secessionist drive, saying the prison sentences for separatists would not deter a new vote on independence.
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He then held talks with armed forces chiefs who days later launched Operation Python Dance, which the military said was intended to reduce violent crime and "secessionist agitations".
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That is especially true here, at ground zero of the secessionist movement that is pushing for the region of Catalonia to break away from the rest of Spain.
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Abroad, Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, in an unexpectedly forceful move, said he would seek the removal of Catalonia's leader, Carles Puigdemont, to halt the region's secessionist movement.
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His first foreign assignment, in 1970, was to Lagos, Nigeria, where he began reporting on the famine in the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian civil war.
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Prosecutors have asked the courts to order Catalan secessionist leaders to deposit 6.2 million euros to cover potential liabilities but they have not sought preventive jail against them.
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"The more people vote, the greater bargaining power I will have," said Roberto Maroni, the president of Lombardy, whose party, the Northern League, once embraced a secessionist mantra.
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But the gunman, Luca Traini, ran for election last year not with a post-fascist and nationalist party, but as a representative of the formerly secessionist Northern League.
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Madrid has urged Catalans to accept its decision to dismiss their secessionist leadership and to take control of the region, which accounts for a fifth of Spain's economy.
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I thought of my uncle as I entered the museum in Richmond, which is across from the Jefferson Davis mansion, the former White House of the secessionist republic.
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The region has been plagued by violence for decades as the government fought the secessionist Ogaden National Liberation Front before both sides signed a peace deal last month.
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One person who is not in court is Carles Puigdemont, the former leader of Catalonia and a longstanding secessionist, who is living in self-imposed exile in Belgium.
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"I feel disgust watching Johnson," said Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the secessionist Scottish National Party, describing the prime minister as "untrustworthy, craven ... unfit for office in every sense".
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Mr. Salvini, whose party in Italy began as secessionist and worshipful of the pagan powers of the Po River, has spent years cultivating a relationship with Cardinal Burke.
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" Catalonia's leading secessionist group, the Catalan National Assembly, shot back at Madrid's takeover, ordering civil servants not to listen to Spain's government and instead respond with "peaceful resistance.
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Cuixart was speaking from Lledoners prison in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, about an hour's drive north of Barcelona, where he and six other secessionist leaders are serving their sentences.
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A pro-secessionist rally in Barcelona on Sunday attracted just a few hundred people, a long way from the hundreds of thousands to join pro-independence marches in October.
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The grim techniques of control that were honed during the terror were later used with disastrous effect against faraway secessionist movements: East Timor (now Timor-Leste), Aceh and Papua.
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An alternative, less likely scenario is that Puigdemont's ambiguity further angers the more radical elements of the secessionist movement, leading to its implosion and early regional elections in Catalonia.
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He made the decision to defect while sitting in an Addis Ababa jail cell on "false charges," he told me, of being a member of the Oromo secessionist movement.
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Still, an alliance between Podemos and the Socialists is unlikely not only because of strategic differences, but also because of Spain's main territorial dispute, the secessionist drive in Catalonia.
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King Felipe VI accused secessionist leaders of shattering democratic principles in a rare televised speech which, in itself, is a sign of the seriousness of the crisis, analysts said.
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Anti-immigration sentiment has grown so popular that the once-secessionist Northern League has dropped the word "Northern'" from its name as it looks for inroads to the south.
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It's also hard not to see that this secessionist effort is tinged with a heavy coat of the same right-wing reactionary outrage that simmers in the rural areas.
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But that's something EU leaders have been quick to shoot down, as no one in the EU leadership is interested in seeing other secessionist movements challenge their central governments.
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As the speech ended, Mr. Puigdemont did not receive any applause from the far-left secessionist lawmakers whose support has been crucial to keep the independence movement on course.
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They openly bullied and brawled with Union soldiers, joined secessionist secret societies, hurrahed Jefferson Davis and his generals, and voted into office the avowed enemies of the Lincoln administration.
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The same kind of misinformation and disinformation campaigns were found essentially after the Civil War — especially if you look at the secessionist movement, that's predicated on these same ideas.
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German police said on Sunday they had arrested former Catalan secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on a European arrest warrant issued by Spain.
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BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - Catalonia's secessionist leader faced increased pressure on Monday to abandon plans to declare independence from Spain, with France and Germany expressing support for the country's unity.
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That would prompt a backlash from the pro-secessionist parties that govern Catalonia, risking a repeat of the mass street protests and police crackdown after the northeastern region's 2017 vote.
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A Catalan legislator was quoted by El Mundo newspaper as saying secessionist parties in the Catalan parliament were discussing an independence declaration to be submitted to the assembly next Tuesday.
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Secessionist Catalan politicians have pledged to unilaterally declare independence at Monday's session after Sunday's referendum, banned by Madrid and marked by violent scenes where Spanish police sought to hinder voting.
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Government repression - including ordering thousands of villagers in the Anglophone southwest to leave their homes - has driven support for a once-fringe secessionist movement, stoking a lethal cycle of violence.
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Catalonia's secessionist leader called for international mediation while Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he was seeking a joint response to the crisis after meeting leaders of other political parties.
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While the Basque nationalist movement has not been as much of a problem for the central government as Catalonia's secessionist push, it could potentially gather strength over the coming months.
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Now, for the second year in a row, the South Carolina Secessionist Party (SCSP) returned to the statehouse on the anniversary of the flag's removal to raise one in protest.
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The law was approved last week by the Barcelona parliament, which is still dominated by secessionist forces since elections last December which Madrid had hoped would stifle the independence movement.
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The region has been seen violent clashes between secessionist protesters and police in recent weeks, after courts handed heavy jail sentences to the leaders of the failed 2017 independence bid.
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The radicals got a boost on October 16th when a judge of the National Court in Madrid ordered the pre-trial detention of the leaders of two secessionist social movements.
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China says it adheres to a policy of non-interference in other countries internal affairs, but it generally takes a dim view of independence or secessionist movements around the world.
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Catalonia's secessionist push has plunged Spain into its worst political crisis in four decades, leading to a business exodus and reopened old wounds from the civil war in the 1930s.
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The separatist parties may now find themselves facing a difficult round of negotiations to decide who should lead Catalonia's government and how to put their secessionist project back on track.
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Who would have thought that Russians would be behind a pro-Texas fan page disseminating pro-secessionist Texas messages, or a "Blacktivist" page advocating for more protests against racial inequality?
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Many Americans watched transfixed as members of those groups marched down the street, barked out anti-Semitic chants and openly displayed the symbols of Nazi Germany and the secessionist South.
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Still, trying to make one language the sole language of public life can backfire, bolstering resentment among people who feel marginalized and, in the case of Spain, even secessionist pressure.
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All these apologies notwithstanding, Mr. López Obrador's demand touched a raw nerve in Spain, perhaps because it comes at a time of renewed nationalism and a secessionist challenge in Catalonia.
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Though it was declared illegal by Spanish courts and less than half Catalonia's eligible voters took part, the pro-secessionist regional government said the vote gave it a mandate for independence.
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SCL Group worked predominately with commercial clients until the late '90s, when the Indonesian government reportedly hired the organization for its psychological warfare expertise to respond to secessionist and religious violence.
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Now, it appears that the Lega party — despite its pro-Northern, secessionist reputation and roots — is winning voters from across Italy and many of these are coming from M5S' traditional heartland.
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Sanchez is now in such a strong position that some separatists regret that their camp triggered the election, including ex-lawmaker Carles Campuzano, who said secessionist deputies had had "decisive weight".
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The main secessionist group "Junts pel Si" (Together for Yes), backed by the smaller leftist CUP party, won a majority of seats in Catalonia's parliament in a regional election in 2015.
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Late last year, the company was hit by the economic fallout from Catalonia's secessionist push as its Barcelona-based Spanish subsidiary was boycotted by pharmacies in the rest of the country.
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But he reiterated on Tuesday that he was ruling out any moves toward independence by the region, and that its pro- and anti-secessionist factions needed to negotiate with each other.
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In December alone, the governor of Aden, a colonel in the southern secessionist movement that seeks independence from Yemen, and a senior militia leader fighting alongside the government, were all killed.
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Ada Colau, the left-wing but non-secessionist mayor of Barcelona, backed a regional general strike on October 3rd called to protest against police violence and "in defence of democratic liberties".
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READ MORE: The Brexit dumpster fire has killed every major EU secessionist movement Johnson's threats have sent the value of the pound plummeting and triggered a rash of resignations from Cabinet.
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Later on Friday, Moody's is scheduled to review Spain's sovereign rating, days after warning that political tensions between Madrid and the secessionist leadership in Catalonia were credit-negative for the sovereign.
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Thousands of Oromos, a minority group that makes up about a third of the population, have been jailed without trial on suspicion of supporting the Oromo Liberation Front, a secessionist group.
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Secessionist sentiment has simmered in the region since the Biafra separatist rebellion plunged Africa's most populous country into a civil war in 1967-70 that killed an estimated one million people.
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Secessionist sentiment has simmered in the region since the Biafra separatist rebellion tipped Africa's most populous country into a civil war in 1967-70 that killed an estimated one million people.
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Catalonia's separatist leader Carles Puigdemont was on track to regain the leadership of Spain's northeastern region after preliminary results showed a coalition of secessionist parties winning a majority in regional elections.
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While secessionist movements percolate around the world, from Catalonia to Kashmir, the independence issue was also sidelined in last year's provincial elections in Quebec for the first time in four decades.
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In Texas and other states, the Brexit vote came too late for U.S. secessionist to use it as a springboard to launch drives resulting in ballot measures for the November election.
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" Check out his latest work on the second storyline of Rebels (about the revolutionary war) and Briggs Land, which he'd describe as "a generation crime saga set within a secessionist community.
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Mr. Rajoy's government and other party leaders in Madrid have been urging Mr. Puigdemont to hold new elections rather than push ahead with his secessionist plan — so far to no avail.
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Some European officials are also worried that any softening in Spain's stance toward Catalan independence could fuel secessionist feelings among other groups in Europe such as Belgium's Flemings and Italy's Lombards.
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In August, he forwarded an email to journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and equated the South's rebellion to that of the American Revolution against England.
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The Five Star Movement, a web-based party that preaches direct, online democracy, and the League, the hard-right, formerly northern-based secessionist party, both dominated social media during the campaign.
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The result was a setback for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain, who had called the election in the hope that voters would deliver a decisive blow to the secessionist movement.
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Highlights: The defendants denied charges that they orchestrated violent acts during their unsuccessful secessionist push, and they argued that the Catalan conflict should be decided by politicians, not Spain's top judges.
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Mobilizing the news media, especially the widely read Charleston Mercury (even Lincoln was a subscriber), staging boisterous military displays and mass meetings, and establishing secessionist organizations, the disunionists advanced their cause.
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Secessionist sentiment has simmered in the southeast since the Biafra separatist rebellion plunged Africa's most populous country into a civil war in 1967-70 that killed an estimated one million people.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police said on Sunday they had arrested former Catalan secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on a European arrest warrant issued by Spain.
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Meanwhile, Bitcoin baron and Silicon Valley secessionist Balaji Srinivasan—one of Andreessen Horowitz's so-called "board partners"—visited Trump Tower in New York last Thursday to discuss the future of the FDA.
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The Catalan crisis has drawn interest in Quebec: last week, two members of Catalonia's secessionist Candidatura d'Unitat Popular (CUP) party spoke at an event organised by a left-leaning Quebec opposition party.
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" At another campaign event in 2017 hosted by an avowed secessionist who attended the disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Stewart again defended the Confederacy, saying, "Virginians, we think for ourselves.
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The narrow victory for Puigdemont's secessionist camp presents a fresh headache for the EU, which had defended the Spanish judiciary's pursuit of separatist leaders on grounds that they had violated Spain's constitution.
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MADRID — Catalonia is likely to convene new regional elections after a far-left party there voted Sunday against allowing Artur Mas to continue as leader of the region and its secessionist movement.
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Catalonia's secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont is due to address the region's parliament in Barcelona around 21 GMT and could ask the assembly to vote on a unilateral declaration of independence from Madrid.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Anglophone secessionists in Cameroon killed at least two gendarmes on Wednesday, two secessionist leaders and a security official said, signaling an escalation in their protracted dispute with the central government.
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The secessionist movement has existed for decades underground but has only recently started to gain widespread support in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest in response to the government's repression of protests.
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On Friday, Spain issued an arrest warrant for Puigdemont and four associates to answer charges of rebellion, sedition, misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust relating to their secessionist campaign.
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Last year courts stepped up their efforts against people who "instigated secessionist activities, led, organized and took part in terrorist groups and who spread video and audio products about terrorism", Zhou said.
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MADRID/BARCELONA, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Authorities in Madrid and Barcelona locked horns over whether two jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders were political prisoners, as their detention looked set to reignite secessionist protests.
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"A gang of secessionist rebels go to war with their paternal superpower" is the narrative backbone within two of this fall's biggest video games: Titanfall 2 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
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Valls, born in Barcelona to a Catalan father and Swiss-Italian mother, has said he would support Colau or Socialist candidate Jaume Collboni as mayor to avoid a secessionist taking the job.
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Catalonia's secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont was due to address the region's parliament in Barcelona later on Tuesday and could ask the assembly to vote on a unilateral declaration of independence from Madrid.
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The move comes a week after Ethiopia's parliament ruled that the group, along with the secessionist Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Ginbot 7 opposition movement, were no longer terrorist groups.
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The Spanish government will sack Catalonia's secessionist leadership and force the region into a new election, it decided on Saturday, unprecedented steps it said were needed to prevent the region breaking away.
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Despite being an autonomous province since 1972, giving it a greater level of self-determination - the region has a secessionist movement that would like to secede from Italy and reunify with Austria.
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Puigdemont went into self-imposed exile in Belgium last month after Spain's central government fired his secessionist administration, dissolved the Catalan parliament and called an election in the region for Dec 21.
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Madrid has urged Catalans to accept its decision to dismiss their secessionist leadership and to take control of the region, as the nation's biggest political crisis in decades enters a decisive week.
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BARCELONA — The leader of Catalonia said Wednesday night that he wanted a negotiated settlement to the region's conflict with the Spanish government, but he did not offer to shelve his secessionist plan.
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For Catalonia, a new round of turmoil, which now seems almost certain, could generate still more economic tremors, further undermining the secessionist claim that independence would increase the wealth of a region.
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He quickly brought secessionist states back into the Union and gave ex-Confederates a free hand in directing the South, which they used to impose slavery-like conditions on the formerly enslaved.
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Already anxious about Scotland's previous calls for independence, states like France, Italy and even Belgium have no interest in encouraging regional secessionist movements in places like Corsica, Lombardy, South Tyrol and Flanders.
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Myriad theories about the causes of the crash have emerged, including pilot miscalculations of altitude and the sudden appearance in the nighttime skies of a secessionist warplane flown by a mercenary pilot.
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But Catalans have had an up-and-down relationship with the Mossos, notably over the use of force, and the unit has increasingly been pulled into the politics of the secessionist drive.
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But any of these terms could apply to those who were marching in the streets, chanting racist and anti-Semitic slogans and displaying the symbols of Nazi Germany and the secessionist South.
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" The rare intervention from the 403-year-old monarch came as secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont said his government would declare independence "at the end of this week or the beginning of next.
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Puigdemont's PDeCAT party has failed to agree on a united ticket to contest the election with another secessionist party, the ERC, denting the pro-independence camp's hopes of pressing ahead after the election.
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But recent weeks have brought growing tensions between fellow gradualists and secessionist radicals in the SNP: this morning Angus Robertson, her ally, was announced as the winner of the party's deputy leadership contest.
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The secessionist movement in the wealthy northeastern region plunged Spain into its biggest political crisis in decades in 2017 when Catalonia unilaterally declared independence after holding a referendum that courts had ruled illegal.
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Amid the party atmosphere of a festival weekend, many in this secessionist stronghold are cheering the Catalan parliament&aposs declaration of independence from Spain, a country they don&apost regard as their own.
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The opposition's fraud accusations have heightened tensions in the region's most populous nation and biggest oil producer where six decades of independence have seen long periods of military rule, coups and secessionist wars.
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And for Abdillahi Mur, who played for Somaliland, a secessionist region of Somalia, it was a chance to prove his ancestral homeland is not as violence-ridden as the stereotypes would have it.
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Previous secessionist challenges in Catalonia, after the long-running independence drive began to gather more popular support during an economic crisis, were blocked by Spain's conservative government, which appealed to the Constitutional Court.
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After forcing the replacement of Artur Mas as Catalonia's regional president in January, CUP lawmakers are threatening to scuttle a regional budget deal if other separatist parties do not accelerate the secessionist plan.
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The decision was opposed by unionist forces within the assembly, including liberal party Ciudadanos, which became the single biggest group in elections in December, but fell short of the secessionist coalition's narrow majority.
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However, the more likely outcome of recent secessionist events in Spain are greater centralization of power to the Spanish government with the support of the EU to put pressure on Catalans to concede.
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In response to a younger generation of leaders demanding radical change, Mr. Rajoy, 61, presented himself as a defender of Spanish unity and continuity, and an opponent of a secessionist challenge in Catalonia.
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CNN's KFile obtained a full copy of White's essay from Edward H. Sebesta, an expert of the Texas secessionist and neo-Confederate movements who is writing a book on the Texas Secession movement.
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Meantime, the secessionist movement is facing stiff competition from Ciudadanos, a key ally of Spain's ruling Popular Party led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, and a party that is strongly opposed to independence.
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The euro's gains were capped as traders awaited a speech at 1600 GMT from Catalonia's secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont to possibly declare the region's independence from Spain despite Madrid's warnings of counter-measures.
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"Puigdemont's arrest does not bridge the divisions between secessionist parties over what to do next," Antonio Barroso, a political analyst at consulting firm Teneo Intelligence in London, wrote in a note on Monday.
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It evolved into the CRPF with the enactment of an act in 1949, two years after India's independence, and was gradually expanded as it went on to tackle secessionist movements on India's borders.
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, with the support of the Spanish judiciary, has promised to block efforts to hold a referendum, and vowed to maintain Spanish unity and resist the secessionist push from Catalonia.
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Now, however, Mr. Rajoy's political survival is at stake — as well as the unity of Spain — as a secessionist challenge that he allowed to fester in Catalonia threatens to spiral out of control.
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Politicians have failed for years to resolve the secessionist conflict, and it has increasingly been left to judges to handle, while continuing to split Catalan society down the middle and fueling street violence.
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But the European Court ruled that as a member of the European Parliament, Mr. Junqueras had a degree of legal immunity — a decision that has wider repercussions for the longstanding Catalan secessionist movement.
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On Wednesday, an editorial in the official English-language China Daily accused Silver of "brazenly endorsing Morey's secessionist-supporting tweet" and giving "a shot to the arms of the rioters of Hong Kong".
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - One is a 19-year-old construction worker charged with aiding militants against Indian troops, the other is one of Kashmir's most prominent lawyers, accused of being "an incorrigible secessionist".
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He died while on a visit to help end a secessionist war in newly independent Congo, a former Belgian colony rich with strategically vital minerals, including uranium, coveted by the world's big powers.
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There needs to be a setting out of the conditions under which Catalonia could have a legal referendum on independence, similar to Canada's Clarity Act (enacted in response to secessionist sentiment in Quebec).
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Mr. Sánchez said before the protest that he was working "to resolve a crisis of state that the Popular Party aggravated while it was in office," particularly during the secessionist turmoil of 2017.
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A secessionist drive in the prosperous northern region of Catalonia has challenged both the country's territorial integrity and the core arrangements of the 1978 Constitution for Spain, one of Western Europe's youngest democracies.
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Mr. Mas on Saturday described his decision as "painful" and emphasized that he planned to remain in politics, even if he was no longer in charge of the regional government and its secessionist movement.
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The party appears to think that obligatory periods of forced instruction, sometimes lasting weeks or months, are a good way to tackle the Islamic extremism and secessionist thinking that it says threaten Xinjiang's stability.
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The attacks in the English-speaking city of Bamenda marked the worst fighting in recent years between secessionist militants and government forces in the central African state after a year of mostly peaceful protest.
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It includes Forza Italia (led by the former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi); the Northern League, which is critical of the EU and has secessionist roots; and a far-right party, the Brothers of Italy.
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In Nigeria, more than a thousand supporters of a southern secessionist movement took to the streets to welcome Trump, hoping he will end what they see as the "Islamization" of the West African nation.
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Spain's King Felipe VI on Tuesday accused Catalan secessionist leaders of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society while Catalonia's leader, Carles Puigdemont, said the region will declare independence in a matter of days.
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The Spanish government has urged Catalans to accept its decision to dismiss their secessionist leadership amid speculation that the regional President, Carlos Puigdemont, is planning to press ahead with a unilateral declaration of independence.
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Rajoy is backed by European Union leaders, though the Spanish police has been condemned by various groups for its heavy-handed measures in quelling secessionist sentiment since Catalonia's unofficial independence referendum on October 1.
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Polls show the contest between pro-secessionist and unionist (also known as constitutionalist, pro-Spain) parties is too close to call, leading to a possible hung parliament where no one party has a majority.
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Despite pleas for mediation, he and his region's independence bid were shunned and condemned, not only by Madrid but also by European Union officials wary of encouraging similarly minded secessionist movements around the Continent.
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BARCELONA, Spain — The standoff over Catalonia intensified significantly on Thursday as the Spanish government said it would take emergency measures to halt a secessionist drive in the economically vital and politically restive northeastern region.
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Mr. Rajoy said the Catalan government had never offered real dialogue but had instead tried to impose its secessionist project on Catalan citizens and the rest of the country in violation of Spain's Constitution.
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Roughly two dozen former colleagues are to face trial by the end of the year on charges tied to the secessionist efforts, including some who were denied bail and are in prison awaiting trial.
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain called the elections hoping to reshuffle the political deck, calculating that Catalan voters would punish the secessionist leaders who had provoked the country's worst constitutional crisis in decades.
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But as warrants for their arrests were being carried out, he announced his own call for the pro-slavery secessionist monuments to be pulled down and for the law protecting them to be repealed.
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MADRID, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A Spanish judge on Friday ordered the closure of web pages linked to Democratic Tsunami, a secretive Catalan group behind huge protests against the jailing of secessionist leaders, police said.
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Two secessionist leaders confirmed the movement carried out the first raid, late on Tuesday in the town of Mamfe, near the border with Nigeria in Cameroon's Southwest Region, in which four soldiers were killed.
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Mr. Salvini, who also serves as interior minister, is the leader of the League, a former secessionist movement that he has rebranded as a nationalist force by, among other tactics, stoking anti-immigration fears.
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Mr. Salvini, who also serves as interior minister, is the leader of the League, a former secessionist movement that he has rebranded as a nationalist force by, among other tactics, stoking anti-immigration fears.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government will dismiss Catalonia's secessionist leadership and force the region into a new election, it decided on Saturday, unprecedented steps it said were needed to prevent the region breaking away.
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Divisions within Yemen's heavily tribal society as well as secessionist sentiment among troops and leaders in the once-independent south make building a truly national army an almost impossible task for the UAE right now.
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Voters in Lombardy and Veneto, both run by the once openly secessionist Northern League, backed the party's autonomy bid by more than 95 percent, although in Lombardy less than half of the electorate turned out.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The main secessionist group in Catalonia, the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), on Friday called on civil servants not to follow orders from the Spanish government after Madrid authorized direct rule over the region.
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Rajoy, who called the elections after sacking the previous secessionist government, had hoped Catalonia's "silent majority" would deal separatism a decisive blow in what was a de facto independence referendum, but his hard line backfired.
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As the pair look for Lucy's family, they discover that the soldiers are actually an impromptu army sent by a coalition of Southern states, attempting to seize Bushwick as part of a Texas secessionist movement.
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Sanchez announced last week that he would nominate Iceta, the Catalan Socialist leader, as chief of the upper chamber of parliament, a move widely seen as a conciliatory signal to Catalonia and its secessionist groups.
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Internet connections were cut for three months, and earlier this week authorities announced a ban on broadcasts of a South Africa-based channel, SCBC, claiming it was a propaganda arm of an outlawed secessionist movement.
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The Spanish government apologised for the first time on Friday for the police use of violence.. Some EU states are worried that talk of Catalan independence could fuel secessionist feelings in other parts of Europe.
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MADRID – Fervent Catalan secessionist Quim Torra has been sworn in as the restive Spanish region&aposs new leader, with his demands for an independent Catalonia set to prolong a standoff with Spain&aposs national government.
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A credible and relatively calm poll would open a new chapter in the chequered political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been tarnished by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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A credible and relatively calm vote would open a new chapter in the chequered political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been tarnished by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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As I reported back in February, the secessionist California National Party has been making small ripples in the California political scene all year, including some (very limited) recognition from the actual California secretary of state.
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Basque staged modest protests over Madrid's violent crackdown on Catalonia's referendum, but the crisis has failed to rekindle secessionist fervor on the streets of Bilbao, the Basque capital nestled on the banks of the Nervion.
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A credible and relatively calm vote would open a new chapter in the checkered political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been tarnished by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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The secessionist uprising in the Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions, home to 5 million people, has cost hundreds of lives and forced thousands to flee either to the French-speaking regions or into neighboring Nigeria.
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In an annual report to China's largely rubber-stamp parliament, chief justice Zhou Qiang said Chinese courts in 2015 convicted 1,419 people for harming state security, including taking part in terrorist attacks and secessionist activities.
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The Spanish government apologized for the first time on Friday for the police use of violence.. Some EU states are worried that talk of Catalan independence could fuel secessionist feelings in other parts of Europe.
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Secessionist ambitions in Catalonia, which accounts for around a fifth of the country's economy and is home to Spain's second-biggest city Barcelona, are one of the thorniest issues facing Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
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But he faces an uphill task to maintain influence after he missed a deadline of midnight on Tuesday to agree a pro-secessionist pact for a regional election with his former vice president Oriol Junqueras.
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A secessionist movement turned violent in 2017 after the government cracked down on peaceful protests by teachers and lawyers in the English-speaking northwest and southwest, which complain of being marginalized by the Francophone majority.
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The euro briefly pared gains after Catalonia's secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont in parliament defended the region's independence from Spain after this month's vote, but he proposed to suspend the results to allow talks with Madrid.
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The central government invoked a constitutional law to take over the regional authority and called an election, however pro-secessionist parties won a majority and put Torra, a pro-independence activist, in as regional leader.
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The conundrum for Ciudadanos is how to balance its commitment to uprooting corruption with its pledge to safeguard Spain's political stability at a time when the government in Madrid continues to face a secessionist challenge.
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A credible and relatively calm poll would open a new chapter in the checkered political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been tarnished by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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Polls indicate that Salvini's League party, transformed from a northern secessionist movement into the national face of the xenophobic right, will get over 30 percent of the Italian vote, up from 6.2 percent in 2014.
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Thursday's outcome "completely defeats his idea that direct control over Catalonia and elections would really weaken the secessionist bloc," said Sandra León, a Spanish senior lecturer on politics at the University of York in Britain.
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The Catalan secessionist drive is the most serious existential challenge to a Western European country since the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, when voters in the end decided to stay part of the United Kingdom.
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The populist parties it produced — the Five Star Movement, a party developed on the internet, and the League, a formerly northern secessionist movement — to varying degrees both blame the euro for depriving Italy of sovereignty.
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A known critic of the secessionist agenda who had resigned as Catalan government business counselor just before the independence declaration, Vila called for a new election in the region, something regional government head Torra opposes.
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Underlining fears that some independence supporters are becoming disillusioned with mainstream secessionist parties, police last month arrested seven activists on charges of bomb-making and preparing violent acts for around the time of the verdict.
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The case comes as the secessionist drive in Catalonia enters another critical phase, with the separatist government pledging to hold a binding independence referendum in September, over the strenuous objections of the government in Madrid.
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Puigdemont's party, Together for Catalonia, took the most seats in December's snap election, a vote Madrid mistakenly hoped would stem the long-building secessionist tide of Catalonians wanting to break away from Spain's economic woes.
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EVENING STATEMENT Puigdemont's comments appeared after Spain's King Felipe VI accused secessionist leaders on Tuesday of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society, as tens of thousands protested against a violent police crackdown on Sunday's vote.
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Spain fell sharply in a recent annual Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit, which cited Spain's use of force in an attempt to stop the referendum going ahead and a repressive treatment of secessionist politicians.
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The court's decision means Puigdemont, who left Spain last month after Madrid fired his secessionist government and dissolved the Catalan parliament, is free to campaign for independence in an election in the region on Dec 21.
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The defendants did not agree with the application of Article 155, which stripped the regional government of its power after the secessionist ruling, but accepted it, their lawyer said in a statement to the Supreme Court.
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Catalonia's secessionist push has plunged Spain into its worst political crisis in four decades, triggered a business exodus, forced Madrid to cut its economic forecast and reopened old wounds from Spain's civil war in the 1930s.
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Ginbot 7 is among five groups Addis Ababa has blacklisted under anti-terror legislation, alongside the secessionist groups Oromo Liberation Front and the Ogaden National Liberation Front, as well as al Qaeda and Somalia's al Shabaab.
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Prosecutors accused him of colluding with a member of Ginbot 7, which the government has designated a "terrorist" organization, alongside two domestic secessionist groups, as well as Islamist groups al Shabaab and al Qaeda in Somalia.
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Seven of the convicts had their life sentences reduced to jail terms ranging from 19.5 years to 20 years, including people convicted of instigating "secessionist activities" or participating in terror attacks, Xinhua said late on Tuesday.
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Positioning itself as vehemently anti-secessionist, it has berated the caretaker Socialist government for making deals with separatists to win their backing in parliament over the past year, and for failing to maintain order in Catalonia.
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Spain's representative in northeast Catalonia, which accounts for a fifth of the national economy, made the apology just as Catalonia's secessionist leader appeared to inch away from a plan to declare independence as early as Monday.
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Or when soldiers killed members of the small secessionist pro-Biafran movement who were protesting the arrest of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, a little-known figure whose continued incarceration has elevated him to a minor martyr.
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It was the story of Biafra—the secessionist republic in Igboland, in eastern Nigeria, which existed for three years in the late nineteen-sixties, through civil war and widespread starvation, before surrendering to the Nigerian government.
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The main secessionist group, the Catalan National Assembly, has urged civil servants not to follow orders from the Spanish government and to mount "peaceful resistance" while a pro-independence trade union, the CSC, called a strike.
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Since 2012, the governing politicians in Madrid and Barcelona have talked past each other rather than negotiating, allowing a dispute that initially focused on Catalan demands for better tax treatment to spiral into a secessionist challenge.
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Short of a surprisingly crushing victory by the unionists, any other outcome is unlikely to extinguish generations-old secessionist feelings that reached a boiling point this year in a region with a distinct language and culture.
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Pablo Iglesias, the leader of the far-left Unidas Podemos party, argued that "there is a territorial problem in Spain, not only Catalonia," where a secessionist push in 2017 set off the country's biggest political crisis.
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READ: The Brexit dumpster fire has killed every major EU secessionist movement The move, announced while British MPs were on vacation, has triggered outrage, with opponents viewing it as a cynical attempt to manipulate parliamentary democracy.
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The Spanish Supreme Court found 12 Catalan secessionist leaders guilty of a different combination of charges including sedition, misuse of public funds and disobedience for their roles in the failed push for independence two years ago.
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A reboot has been necessary because, with so many of its figureheads in prison — and former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont in exile in Brussels — there has been something of a leadership vacuum for the secessionist cause.
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The secessionist movement would act on "the will that the citizens express themselves democratically at the ballot box, and we are convinced that sooner or later the Spanish Socialist party will accept this way," Sanchez said.
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Conversely, the cheery story of Aceh's surprisingly rapid rebound from the 2004 tsunami turns out to have a lot to do with the central government reaching a generous peace accord with the local secessionist rebel group.
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To add a shock of color, a contemporary painted rope urn in Yves Klein blue by the French designer Christian Astuguevieille rests on a small table by the early 20th-century Vienna Secessionist architect Josef Hoffmann.
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The secessionist movement, split between three parties of differing political stripes, won a majority of seats, but less than half of the votes, making it hard to argue that there is broad backing for leaving Spain.
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A calm reaction to the election result could open a new chapter in the turbulent political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been marred by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
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The main secessionist group, the Catalan National Assembly, has urged civil servants not to follow orders from the central government and to mount "peaceful resistance", while the pro-independence trade union CSC has called a strike.
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Those leaders are increasingly fearful that a fledgling independence or secessionist movement in Hong Kong could spread, and a Beijing official based in the city warned at the weekend that further trouble could threaten its vaunted autonomy.
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In addition to the release of political prisoners, parliament in June legalized two secessionist groups - the Oromo Liberation Front and the Ogaden National Liberation Front - and the exiled opposition movement 'Ginbot 7', all previously considered terrorist groups.
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The chaotic state of Britain's opposition Labour Party—which bafflingly opted not to debate Brexit at its conference last week—and the secessionist orientation of its second opposition force, the Scottish National Party, do not help matters.
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The move came after one of the most tumultuous days in the country&aposs recent history, as the national parliament in Madrid approved unprecedented constitutional measures to halt the secessionist drive by the regional parliament in Barcelona.
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Spanish markets recoiled at a surprise result that is also a setback for the European Union, which must now brace for more secessionist noise as it grapples with the disruption of Brexit and simmering east European discontent.
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The region has been plagued by violence for the last three decades, in which the government fought the secessionist Ogaden National Liberation Front before the group declared a unilateral ceasefire this month in the wake of reforms.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese courts convicted more than 1,400 people last year for harming national security, including taking part in terrorism and secessionist activities, China's top judge said on Sunday, double a broadly equivalent number given for 2014.
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Over the past year, both the conservative Popular Party and the anti-secessionist Ciudadanos party struggled to adjust to Mr. Abascal's challenge, not unlike the way Donald Trump's rise disconcerted the Republican Party in the United States.
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The African Union, to which the rest of the world tends to acquiesce on such matters, has consistently refused to acknowledge Somaliland because to do so – at least according to their logic – might encourage secessionist states elsewhere.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - The Spanish government has urged Catalans to accept Madrid's decision to dismiss their secessionist leadership and to take control of the restive region, as the nation's biggest political crisis in decades enters a decisive week.
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Both Mr. Rajoy and Mr. García Albiol highlighted the negative financial consequences of the secessionist conflict and assured Catalan voters that they would help return the region to economic health by beating the separatist parties next month.
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But Madrid would offer no guarantee that it would not clamp down on the region, Mr. Puigdemont said, as he immediately faced a revolt in his own ranks from secessionist hard-liners who called him a traitor.
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CRACKS IN PRO-INDEPENDENCE CAMP According to Spanish media, Puigdemont is ready to call an election if the government drops Article 155, releases two senior secessionist leaders who are in jail and removes national police from Catalonia.
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If Corsica's nationalists have their way, this rugged, cantankerous island that for centuries has been going its own way would become Europe's next big secessionist tug of war, alongside Spain's dispute with Catalonia, or Britain's with Scotland.
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The decision to suspend Monday's parliamentary session, which the court said was because it had agreed to consider a legal challenge filed by the anti-secessionist Catalan Socialist Party, had already thrown the independence bid into doubt.
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News Analysis BARCELONA — The standoff over Catalonia's independence drive has now reached a sobering moment for Spain with the central government's announcement this weekend that it would take the drastic step of removing the region's secessionist leaders.
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Mr. Hammarskjold, a 56-year-old Swedish diplomat considered one of the most successful leaders of the United Nations, was on a mission to help settle a secessionist war in newly independent Congo, a former Belgian colony.
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Mr. Sánchez mentioned on Tuesday that Spain needed to contend with a prolonged secessionist conflict in Catalonia as well as an anticipated economic slowdown after several years of steady growth following a European banking bailout in 2012.
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BARCELONA, Spain — The trial of a former leader of Catalonia charged with civil disobedience for organizing an independence vote in 2014 began on Monday and was met with another act of defiance from the region's secessionist movement.
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On Wednesday, Miquel Iceta, the leader of the Socialist Party of Catalonia, called on the regional government to abandon plans for the October referendum and stop fueling a secessionist conflict, "which will lead us all toward disaster."
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"President Anastasiades expressed his absolute support and solidarity of Cyprus to the Spanish Prime Minister and his Government towards the efforts he is exerting for a united Spain, and against the secessionist attempts by Catalonia," it said.
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Experts on civil wars who have considered a larger sample of conflicts could've told Wright that civil wars in rich democracies, excluding secessionist terror campaigns like ETA's in Spain or the IRA's in the UK, basically never happen.
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But months of brinkmanship lie ahead, with no guarantee that they and a second secessionist party, Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) with seven seats, will get much of what they want regarding a referendum or any move towards independence.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former Catalan education minister Clara Ponsati will fight an international order for her extradition to Spain from Scotland, arguing that as a secessionist leader she is not guaranteed a fair trial, her lawyer said on Monday.
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Spain&aposs state prosecutor said Monday that he would seek charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement against members of Catalonia&aposs ousted secessionist government, pushing the crisis over the region&aposs independence declaration into an uncertain new phase.
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The conciliatory gesture from Spain's representative in Catalonia, which accounts for a fifth of the national economy, came just as the region's secessionist leader appeared to inch away from a plan to declare independence as early as Monday.
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Fueled by questions of cultural identity and economic malaise, secessionist sentiment has skyrocketed to reach roughly half of the 7.5 million residents of Catalonia, a prosperous region that is proud of its Catalan language spoken along with Spanish.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Secessionist parties in the Catalan parliament are discussing an independence declaration that will be submitted to the regional assembly next Tuesday, a pro-independence Catalan legislator was quoted as saying by El Mundo newspaper on Friday.
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While Hadi may wish to extend his writ to Sanaa, the army commanders who have built up southern forces and made progress against al Qaeda and Islamic State are veteran secessionist guerrillas with no interest in the North.
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Bougainville Island was roiled by a bloody secessionist conflict that lasted over a decade from the late 1980s, fired by a campaign of sabotage by landowners angry about the distribution of benefits from the giant Panguna copper mine.
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In its November report, the Bank of Spain said that in the worst case scenario, the political uncertainty caused by an illegal secessionist drive could reduce Spanish economic growth by 2.5 percentage points between end-2017 and 2019.
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A military operation launched in September in the nearby southeast region, to reduce violent crime and "secessionist agitations", prompted claims that locals were harassed and that the home of a separatist leader was besieged, which the army denied.
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The name "Calhoun" is mostly remembered today in association with our ardently secessionist seventh vice president, John C. Calhoun, a fiery orator who fashioned his conviction that slavery was a "positive good" into the ideology of states' rights.
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It has drawn outrage from human rights advocates and riled secessionist groups that have taken up arms in English-speaking areas of the country and say that they, too, have suffered abuses at the hands of the military.
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Indeed, the forcible steps by the central government have now left Catalan civil servants and politicians with the painful choice of sticking to their secessionist plans and defying Madrid's direct administration or facing the potential of criminal charges.
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BARCELONA, Spain — A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Friday ordered five Catalan politicians to be detained without bail, a decision that reignited tensions in the region as the central government struggled to quell the secessionist movement in Catalonia.
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Even as the government dealt with the emergency of another secessionist movement, this one in Catalonia, the Spanish authorities, working in close cooperation with French and other police forces, continued to arrest ETA members and seize hidden weapons.
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The issue threatens to divide the NBA between support for free speech and attempts to appease angry U.S. lawmakers and the Chinese government, which has slammed the NBA in official state-run newspapers for supposedly supporting "secessionist" protesters.
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Papua is one of Indonesia's poorest areas and President Joko Widodo after coming to power in 2014 pledged to speed up its development and ease media restrictions in the area, where there has been a simmering secessionist movement.
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MADRID — Tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday called for the ouster of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain and denounced his proposal for talks to try to ease the tensions around the simmering secessionist conflict in Catalonia.
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His party, which started as a secessionist northern party, has also seen wider regional election success in the last year and in the European Parliament elections in late May the party won 29 seats, compared to M5S' 14 seats.
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The detention of the secessionist leaders and Puigdemont's flight to Belgium make it difficult for leading figures from the independence movement to stand in a snap election in the wealthy region called by the Spanish government for Dec. 21.
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Puigdemont's PDeCAT and another secessionist party said at the weekend they might run on a combined ticket, but would need to make a decision on any formal alliance - which might also include other parties - by a deadline of Tuesday.
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The Igbo are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa's most populous nation, and their historical grievances carry over after the Nigerian Civil War, which started in 1967 and was largely fought to repress the Igbo secessionist movement.
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Densely forested Cabinda is separated from the rest of Angola by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and has a distinct ethnic make-up that has fueled a low-grade guerrilla secessionist campaign since independence from Portugal in 1975.
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The investiture that parliament's speaker announced for Friday - but which Spain's Supreme Court seems likely to block - would mark Catalonia's fourth attempt to choose a president since a loose alliance of secessionist groups won an election there in December.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Secessionist leaders in Catalonia may call a snap election in an attempt to break the deadlock with Madrid over independence, a senior local politician said on Tuesday, but Spanish authorities made clear that would not be enough.
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Other charges are the misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust relating to the secessionist campaign, which has thrown Spain into a political crisis just as its economy has recovered from a sharp downturn and banking stress.
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Authorities arrested Mancho Bibixy, a radio presenter in the English-speaking Northwest Region, and dozens of fellow activists last year as part of a crack down on a budding Anglophone secessionist movement by President Paul Biya's predominantly Francophone government.
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Mr. Rajoy said afterward that he would use Article 2155 to oust the Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, after Mr. Puigdemont refused to withdraw his secessionist plan and warned that Catalonia's separatist lawmakers could vote a unilateral declaration of independence.
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READ: The Brexit dumpster fire has killed every major EU secessionist movement The pound plummeted to its lowest level in 34 years Tuesday, fears of a recession continue to mount, and numerous legal challenges to Johnson's strategy rumble on.
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But this time Mr. Rajoy will be politically weakened, even at a national level, after having lost his bet that a sufficiently large majority of Catalans would rally behind his call for Spanish unity to block the secessionist challenge.
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Though the Northern League harbored secessionist aspirations when it first emerged on the Italian political scene some three decades ago, the party has muted its tone, and the referendum was not a call for a break away from Italy.
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STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Catalan separatist leaders Carles Puigdemont and Antoni Comin took their seats in the European Parliament on Monday, vowing to force their secessionist cause onto Europe's agenda just days after Spain repeated its call for their arrest.
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Catalan secessionist parties on Tuesday failed to agree on a united ticket to contest the December election, making it more difficult to rule the region after the vote and press ahead with their collective bid to split from Spain.
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The ruling could reignite tension over a Catalan secessionist push two years ago which triggered the country's worst political crisis in decades, and further complicate Spanish politics in the run-up to the fourth national election in four years.
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He loved the 20th-century avant-garde, like secessionist art and Dadaism; he loved the tension between the old and new ideas of the art world, and how certain art was rejected as if it were corrupting or dangerous.
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With Catalan secessionist politicians dangling the possibility of a unilateral declaration of independence on Tuesday, more than 350,000 people took to the streets of Barcelona over the weekend to make clear that they want to remain part of Spain.
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According to a comprehensive official survey released last week, a coalition between ERC and PdeCat would have won between 60 and 63 seats, while CUP would have won eight or nine seats under such a scenario, virtually guaranteeing a secessionist majority.
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"The defendants have played an active role by propelling the carefully designed secessionist process and overcoming all kinds of obstacles that could make them deviate from their final objective," the judge said in the ruling that sent the defendants to jail.
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Civil rights activist Jordi Cuixart and eight others were last week convicted of sedition over their failed 2017 independence bid and jailed for up to 13 years, terms that convulsed Spain's political landscape and added new impetus to the secessionist movement.
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MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - The secessionist leader of Catalonia called for international mediation on Monday in the region's dispute with Madrid, a day after hundreds of people were hurt as police swung truncheons and fired rubber bullets to disrupt an independence referendum.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's King Felipe VI on Tuesday accused Catalan secessionist leaders of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society, as thousands took to the streets to protest against a violent police crackdown against the banned independence referendum held on Sunday.
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" At another campaign event in 2017 hosted by an avowed secessionist who attended the disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Stewart again defended the Confederacy, saying, "Virginians, we think for ourselves... And if the established order is wrong, we rebel.
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Breakingviews - Twin tailwinds help Ryanair weather pilot crisis Spain's foreign minister said he would be surprised if Belgium granted political asylum to Catalan secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont, who turned up there following Madrid's dismissal and takeover of Catalonia's regional government.
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The secessionist parties might trigger an early election in Catalonia in an attempt to give the vote greater legitimacy, but the most likely scenario is that the result leads to renewed demands for greater fiscal autonomy from the central government.
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Among them was Jordi Turull, a close ally of Puigdemont who was put forward on Thursday to become the next regional president, although he failed to obtain enough votes after a small far-left secessionist group broke ranks and abstained.
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Attorney General Jose Manuael Maza called for the charges Monday, according to Reuters, to be brought against the region's secessionist leaders including former President Carles Puigdemont, his deputy Oriol Junqueras, the Catalan government and members of parliament, including Speaker Carme Forcadell.
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Still, the Catalan secessionist drive is a difficult sociopolitical, constitutional and moral issue, and it remains to be seen how Spain and the EU democracy lecturers to the Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia) will deal with that.
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Lega started out as a northern Italian secessionist movement but campaigned at a national level ahead of the March election, benefiting from the public's general frustration with austerity, low employment rates and the immigration that Italy has experienced in recent years.
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The claim that Lee "opposed both slavery and secession" would likely come as a great surprise to the Confederate general, who waged a five-year war against the United States on behalf of a secessionist rebellion that sought to preserve slavery.
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Yet any final decision, which must be made at the national level, will not be taken lightly in a country whose unity has been challenged by the secessionist movement in Catalonia, and whose central government is paralyzed by a fragmented Parliament.
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After meeting Puigdemont in Berlin, where he is currently waiting for Germany to rule on a Spanish request to extradite him, a spokesman for the secessionist group in the regional parliament said they wanted to install him by May 14.
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FRANKFURT, Nov 9 (Reuters) - German generic drugmaker Stada became the latest international company to grapple with the economic fallout from Catalonia's secessionist push, saying its Barcelona-based Spanish subsidiary was being boycotted by pharmacies in the rest of the country.
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The announcement came as Spanish prosecutors sought to reactivate a European arrest warrant for Puigdemont, after the secessionist leader left the sanctuary of Belgium, where he has lived in self-imposed exile for the past three months, for the first time.
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The sudden death of Mr. Maza deprives Spain of its top prosecutor as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is working to halt a secessionist movement in Catalonia and to get Spain's judiciary to prosecute separatist leaders for illegally declaring the region's independence.
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"Taking a serious note of misuse of social media, there have been continuous reports of misuse of social media sites by the miscreants to propagate the secessionist ideology and to promote unlawful activities," the region's police said in a statement.
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Before August 2018 the Somali region was the most ill-treated place in all of Ethiopia, tyrannised by its then state president, Abdi Mohamed Omar, who had waged a scorched-earth campaign against secessionist rebels for more than a decade.
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As an alternative to direct intervention, the government in Madrid is also considering using other legislation to take control of Catalonia's security forces in the event of a violent backlash against sentences imposed on the secessionist leaders, the parliamentary source said.
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The election cemented his place as one of Africa's longest- serving leaders, but allegations of ballot stuffing and intimidation loomed over his victory, and turnout was low because of a secessionist uprising in the Anglophone regions in which hundreds have died.
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As tensions rose Friday ahead of an imminent confrontation between Madrid and Barcelona, Rajoy called on all Spaniards to remain calm, as Catalan secessionist leaders called on civil servants in the region to respond to orders from Madrid with peaceful resistance.
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Spain's withdrawal of the arrest warrant offered a clear illustration of the difficulties the country has had trying to persuade its EU partners to cooperate with its attempts to bring former members of Catalonia's regional government to trial over the secessionist campaign.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Catalonia's president has no choice but to suspend secession since it is unlikely anyone will recognize the Spanish region on the basis of a disputed referendum, a former British diplomat who has advised the Catalans and other secessionist movements said.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Catalan secessionist parties on Tuesday failed to agree on a united ticket to contest a December snap regional election, making it more difficult to rule the region after the vote and press ahead with their collective bid to split from Spain.
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Although the respective voter bases of the M5S and Lega look different, and M5S voters in the south may find a deal with a formerly secessionist party hard to stomach, the two have voted together more often than not in the last parliament.
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The three secessionist parties have 65 seats in the regional parliament, the same as its unionist parties, which could lead to a tie in Thursday's vote on Iceta's nomination - and that would mean it could not proceed, according to the chamber's rules.
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Cho Ayaba, a leading member of the Ambazonian Governing Council, a separatist body established to create an independent state called Ambazonia, said secessionist militants killed three gendarmes in two coordinated attacks in Bamenda, the capital of the predominantly English-speaking Northwest region.
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But in the past week the two main Catalan secessionist parties, ERC and JxCat, have softened their stance, showing some willingness to help support a second term for Sanchez and stave off a right-wing government that would include hardline nationalists Vox.
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In an interview with Belgian daily Le Soir, Carles Puigdemont was asked if a non-secessionist option was on the table to resolve a crisis triggered when Spain took over control of the region after its parliament declared independence on Oct. 27.
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UMUAHIA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A secessionist leader seeking independence from Nigeria has been missing since an alleged military raid more than two weeks ago left his house in the city of Umuahia riddled with bullet holes, its windows smashed and doors hanging off hinges.
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Catalonia's regional leader, Carles Puigdemont, recently pledged to hold an independence referendum by next September, even as some other leading Catalan politicians are facing criminal lawsuits for earlier efforts to hold secessionist votes that had been declared illegal by the Spanish judiciary.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The two main Catalan secessionist parties on Tuesday voted against each other in the regional parliament for the first time in three years, a sign that tensions over the strategy to adopt toward Spain's central government are becoming more serious.
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He may also be trying to push Mr. Rajoy to fulfill his pledge to put an end to the secessionist challenge, which could in turn help galvanize Catalonia's independence movement if Mr. Rajoy uses emergency measures to reduce the region's level of autonomy.
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Within an hour, the Spanish Senate in Madrid voted 214 to 47 to invoke Article 155 of Spain's Constitution, granting Mr. Rajoy extraordinary powers to seize direct administrative control over the region and remove secessionist politicians, including Mr. Puigdemont, the Catalan leader.
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In his time in office, a secessionist movement championed by a group called the Indigenous People of Biafra has gained steam in the southeast of the country, 50 years after a civil war over the same issue left one million people dead.
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On Wednesday, the 12 defendants took center stage, delivering closing statements during which they repeatedly denied charges that they orchestrated violent acts during their unsuccessful secessionist push, which culminated in an unconstitutional referendum followed by a declaration of independence in October 2017.
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It is certainly possible that Scotland will leave the UK—a possibility only hamstrung by the likelihood the EU would expect it to adopt the Euro, and the disinclination of Spain to make it easy for a small secessionist state to prosper.
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The photographer Sammy Baloji, the best-known contemporary artist from Lubumbashi and a founder of Picha, the collective that runs the biennial, explained that the Parliament building was originally a theater, before the Katanga secessionist regime in the early 1960s took it over.
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One theory is that the DC-6 may have been attacked or harassed by a French-built Fouga Magister fighter jet operated by secessionist forces in the southern Congolese province of Katanga, who were resisting Mr. Hammarskjold's efforts to end their rebellion.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The former head of Spain's Catalonia region was barred from public office for two years on Monday for staging an informal referendum on independence in 2014 at a time when secessionist leaders are trying to drum up support for a fresh ballot.
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On Tuesday, Puigdemont's PDeCAT party failed to agree on a united ticket to contest a regional election with another secessionist party, making it difficult for the pro-independence camp to govern Catalonia after the vote and press ahead with its bid to split from Spain.
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"The imminent start of the trial of the secessionist politicians (on February 12) has put the Catalan issue again under the spotlight, leading to protests by the pro-independence movement and increasing the pressure on separatist parties to toughen their stance towards Madrid," he said.
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An Emirati-backed rout of al Qaeda militants at their base in the port of Mukalla in April cheered southerners, but bombing attacks continue to target security leaders and bases, while regional rifts and squabbles over strategy among secessionist leaders cloud the way forward.
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A more likely scenario is that Russia might try to undermine the governments of the Baltic states, which have significant Russian-speaking populations, through the techniques of "hybrid warfare" it has honed in Ukraine: disinformation, encouragement of secessionist elements, cyber-disruption and so on.
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No Russian secessionist organizations were invited, but there were numerous representatives from the small states involved in the frozen conflicts that Russia stokes along its borders to ensure that countries like Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Armenia do not fall entirely out of its orbit.
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In Yemen — mired in conflict since Saudi Arabia launched an air war in 2015 against the Houthi movement that controls the capital — a southern Yemeni secessionist council armed by the UAE opposes the internationally recognized government because it includes the Qatar-backed Muslim Brotherhood.
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But it's not just the Russian secessionist-style building (one of the capital Belgrade's most-recognizable landmarks, with famous guests including Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Frank Sinatra, Indira Gandhi, Julia Roberts, and more) that's legendary, I found — it's the unbelievably helpful staff.
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When he called the snap election, Mr. Rajoy pledged to return Catalonia quickly to "normality," as well as to end the secessionist threat, but he warned this month that he would extend direct rule over Catalonia to prevent Mr. Puigdemont from returning to power.
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A Madrid High Court judge asked Belgium to arrest Puigdemont and four associates after they ignored a court order to return to Spain on Thursday to answer charges of rebellion, sedition, misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust relating to their secessionist campaign.
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But this month, Spain's attorney general formally charged him and other secessionist leaders with rebellion and misuse of public funds, among other crimes, for their role in the referendum last year that had been declared unconstitutional, and in the declaration of independence that followed.
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Elisenda Paluzie, chairwoman of Assemblea Nacional Catalana, the grassroots organizations behind the protest, told Reuters this had been the "hardest" secessionist protest to put together since they started in 2012 because of the separatists parties' divisions and the lack of a clear road-map.
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Spain has recently undergone both a test and a reaffirmation of its democratic system of government, as our Supreme Court came to a verdict in the trial of Catalan secessionist leaders for their participation in the process that led to the illegal referendum of 2900.
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Two years after holding an independence referendum and unilaterally declaring independence in defiance of the Spanish state — then failing to gain recognition for la república and being forced to watch political leaders jailed or exiled — Catalonia's secessionist movement has resurfaced with a major splash.
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The West African nation is battling a Boko Haram insurgency in the north, while a secessionist movement is destabilizing the two Anglophone regions of the largely French-speaking nation which was born from the unification of a former British and a former French colony.
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Casado said that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had been "irresponsible" to accept the support from secessionist parties that wanted to "break the unity of Spain" and that a PP-led government, should the party win a forthcoming general election, would not allow Spain to be divided.
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The answer is essentially that, owing to the precarious situation in Somalia – a country that harbours a whole host of secessionist movements and is criss-crossed with ethnic and tribal faultlines – the global establishment has decided that officially recognising Somaliland could set off a regional powder keg.
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His former deputy, Oriol Junqueras, is contesting the election (as leader of the alliance between the Catalan Republican Left party - the ERC) from prison as he too faces sedition charges and has been refused bail by a judge who feared he would repeat his secessionist activities.
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The ousted president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, has apparently fled to Belgium in the wake of the Spanish region's disastrous bid for independence — just hours after Spanish Attorney General José Manuel Maza called for charges to be filed against Catalonia's secessionist leaders for sedition and rebellion.
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"If the already ugly situation worsens, with the violence and unrest threatening to spiral out of control under the orchestration of secessionist-minded troublemakers, the armed forces stationed in the SAR will have no reason to sit on their hands," said the government-run English-language newspaper.
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On February 22, 2017, Bree Newsome -- the woman arrested for scaling a 30-foot flagpole and removing a Confederate flag at the South Carolina statehouse in 2015 -- was addressing a crowd that included members of Black Lives Matter as well as protesters from the state's Secessionist Party.
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The Socialists, the main opposition, said on Friday they would back special measures to impose central rule on the region to thwart the secessionist-minded Catalan government and end a crisis that has unsettled the euro and hurt confidence in the euro zone's fourth-largest economy.
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Mr. Mas converted himself into the leader of the Catalan secessionist drive in 2012, after a fallout with Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, over whether Catalonia should be granted more tax benefits as part of a system that redistributes tax income from richer regions like Catalonia to poorer ones.
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Mr. Mas converted himself into the leader of the Catalan secessionist drive in 2012 after a fallout with Mr. Rajoy over whether Catalonia should be granted more tax benefits, as part of a Spanish fiscal system that redistributes tax income from richer regions like Catalonia to poorer ones.
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But he said there was no widespread support for violence in Catalonia and it would be wrong to draw any comparisons between Catalan separatism and ETA, the Basque secessionist group that ended its campaign of violence in 2018 after killing more than 850 people over almost half a century.
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While the Philharmonic's morning concert was in the gilded Musikverein — where golden, topless caryatids seem to hold up the balconies and the richly coffered ceiling is even more dazzling than the crystal chandeliers — the Symphony's evening concert was in the stately Konzerthaus, with its Secessionist and Art Nouveau touches.
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"We intend to mimic that process here in California by putting an independence referendum on the ballot so we can exercise our right to self-determination and vote to leave or remain part of the American Union," said Louis Marinelli, president of the secessionist group, the Yes California Independence Campaign.
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The two biggest secessionist coalitions, Together for Catalonia and Republican Left of Catalonia, which together got 66 seats and are expected to form the new regional government, have stated in their party platforms the need to negotiate with Madrid and have rejected the idea of a unilateral solution to the conflict.
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Whoever wins the election will have to focus on dealing with restlessness from secessionist parties in Catalonia and further bids for independence, managing a countering force of nationalist sentiment and the rise of anti-immigrant populism (that has drawn disaffected voters to Vox) and boosting the economy and job creation.
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READ MORE: The Brexit dumpster fire has killed every major EU secessionist movement Many British politicians warn that even the drastic step of fresh elections in October would fail to bring any kind of clarity to the crisis, which has created a new and enduring faultline in the country's politics.
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From the arches of the surrounding colonnade came models dressed in glamorous daytime looks that incorporated laminated leather coats, matching silk shirt and pants sets with Secessionist-inspired embroideries and endless iterations of fringe; a few sheath dresses were so heavily beaded you could hear them rustling from the rafters.
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Liu Weidong, a research fellow at the Institute of American Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the Chinese army would resume its military probes circling the island and send more military vessels and airplanes if any "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces perceive the U.S bill as a pro-independence signal.
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Protests in Spain: Two days before the start of a landmark trial of 12 Catalan separatist leaders, tens of thousands of right-leaning protesters gathered in Madrid on Sunday, calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and denouncing his proposal for talks to ease the secessionist conflict in Catalonia.
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"From the Kremlin's perspective, supporting these kind of networking opportunities, whether for fringe political parties across Europe or secessionist movements across Europe and the United States, is to support opposition in countries that the Kremlin sees as competitors," said Alina Polyakova, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Atlantic Council think tank.
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In 1860, when Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, visited the United States on the eve of the Civil War, hundreds of thousands gathered to see him in cities from Boston to Richmond, Va., which would soon be the secessionist capital, said Elisa Tamarkin, a scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Such a portrayal overlooks the social complexities and growing cleavages within the region of Catalonia itself, the lack of agreement in Madrid about how to respond to the secessionist movement, and the extent to which the debate over secession has also provoked irrational emotions that cannot be explained in political or economic terms.
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"If Silver thinks endorsing the indiscriminate violence the radical Hong Kong protesters are resorting to in their bid to 'liberate' the city, a secessionist pipe dream they are peddling to justify their summer hooliganism, is supporting freedom of expression then he should think again," read an editorial in China Daily published Wednesday.
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In September, a landmark survey commissioned by the Montaigne Institute found that 28 percent of French Muslims had adopted values "clearly opposed to the values of the republic," with a mix of "authoritarian" and "secessionist" views, including support for polygamy and the niqab, or full-face veil, and opposition to laws enforcing secularism.
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In a speech, he acknowledged Jackson's record as a slaveholder but paid tribute to the "political transformation" he had brought to American democracy, bringing power to the people while emphasizing the indivisibility of the Union, a stance Johnson contrasted with the states' rights ideology of another Southerner, the secessionist John C. Calhoun.
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In the 1980s, Sottsass' own design firm, Sottsass Associati, began releasing a Bitossi-produced line of totems, but the original 2 still stand as symbols of the designer's rebellion against the sober gestures of Modernism, as well as his idiosyncratic take on such progenitors as ancient Vedic diagrams and the Vienna Secessionist Josef Hoffmann.
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While no indications exist of a direct Russian government hand in Mr. Marinelli's organization, a group that is nominally independent but nonetheless state financed, and supports only causes that dovetail with the Kremlin's foreign policy, paid for a hotel room in Moscow during a congress of secessionist groups from around the world in September 2016.
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ETA's use of violence backfired, ensuring now that "the Basque secessionist project will not make any substantial progress until the legacy of deaths and economic losses becomes a distant memory," said Diego Muro, a Spanish lecturer in international relations at the Handa Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland.
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Sceptical voters might have wondered exactly what Ms Le Pen's policy on France's euro membership is; how Ms Petry hopes to integrate the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have already reached Germany; or how Italy's secessionist Northern League (represented by its leader Matteo Salvini) can respond to the challenge of its more successful populist rival, Beppe Grillo's 5-Star Movement.
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Among them is the psychological damage incurred by people of color forced to encounter these symbols in the course of their daily lives, the tolerance on the part of the United States government in the continued enshrinement and veneration of a violent secessionist faction that threatened the country, and the more general power and impact of art in the public sphere.
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Moore continued to promote conspiracy theories about Obama's birthplace and posted racist memes on his Facebook page attacking African Americans who knelt during the national anthem, and his largest donor and "good friend" Michael Peroutka is an admitted secessionist who sits on the board of the League of the South, a recognized hate group calling for a white-only southern nation.
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These stores bulk-import vintage T-shirts from thrift stores and rag houses across the United States, and Japanese youth looking for unique items with English lettering can end up brandishing American political garments and accessories — such as Brock Adams and other obscure politicians' campaign buttons and, in more jarring examples, "Rush is Right" baseball caps and pro-secessionist Confederate flag shirts.
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Potential reasons: domestic political jockeying in the UK and other EU member states, fears in the rest of the EU about setting secessionist precedents, and mercantilist desires to redirect investment in key sectors away from the UK. Also, negotiations are unlikely to take place in a collaborative spirit if the UK delegation were led by politicians hostile to the EU. It takes two to tango.
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A Facebook page with suspected Russian ties asked a Texas secessionist group to participate in a number of anti-Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE protests in November 2016, Business Insider reported Thursday, citing the group's president.
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