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<!-- -->Women, children and the elderly are subject to be evacuated first, said the Ukrainian rebel leader.Moscow: Eastern Ukraine's separatist pro-Moscow republics said they will begin evacuating civilians to Russia Friday as fears…

A Russian-backed separatist leader in eastern Ukraine announced the evacuation of his breakaway region's residents to southeast Russia on Friday after an increase in shelling. Announcing the move on social media, Denis Pushilin, head of…

<!-- -->The Kremlin said on Tuesday some of its troops were returning to base after exercises near Ukraine.Paris: France's foreign minister said on Tuesday that if Moscow recognised two Russian-backed breakaway regions in eastern…

The Russian parliament on Tuesday voted to urge President Vladimir Putin to recognize the independence of Ukraine’s separatist regions amid tensions with the West over Moscow’s troop build-up.The speaker of the Russian parliament’s lower…

LONDON: A British Sikh peer says that UK home secretary Priti Patel was “right” to say during a speech to a US think tank that "Sikh separatist extremism has caused considerable tensions in recent years”. A video of the speech Patel made to…

PARIS: France has ordered the closure of a mosque in the north of the country because of the radical nature of its imam's preaching, regional authorities told AFP on Tuesday. The mosque in Beauvais, a town of 50,000 people some 100…

PALE, Bosnia: Some Bosnian Serbs voice disquiet over separatist moves by political leader Milorad Dodik, fearing a relapse into chaos and even conflict as they struggle just to make ends meet in a country still scarred by the 1990s war.…

Issued on: 10/12/2021 - 08:53 New Caledonia is pushing ahead with a referendum on independence from France this weekend, despite concerns that a boycott by pro-independence parties…

SRINAGAR: Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was buried in a tightly controlled pre-dawn ceremony on Thursday (Sep 30) as Indian authorities imposed a lockdown across the disputed Himalayan region. The uncompromising campaigner…

MILAN: Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said on Saturday (Sep 25) he would be in Sardinia on Oct 4 to attend a court hearing on his European arrest warrant after being kept in police custody in Italy for less then 24 hours. A…