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Date: 20/05/2009
Western Sahara launches first ever TV channel
NEWS IN BRIEF. RASD-TV is to broadcast via satellite and deliver terrestrial signal from the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria.
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Date: 19/05/2009
They demand national and territorial self-government and official status granted for Tatar language in the Crimean peninsula · World Congress of Crimean Tatars opens in Bakhchisaray, an event widely attended by delegates representing Tatar diaspora · More than 200,000 Tatars were deported to Central Asia in May 1944.
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Date: 15/05/2009
Peoples and nations today: Tatarstan
DOSSIER. With 5.5 million people, Tatars are the second largest community in the Russian Federation after ethnic Russians. Most of them live in the Republic of Tatarstan, whose uneasy relations with Moscow make it one of the most singular political units within the Federation. In order to stop Tatarstan pro-independence tendencies, 'mother Russia' granted it wide self-government powers in the 90’s that are too often ignored.
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Date: 12/05/2009
New voices raised against 'blood bath' in Tamil Eelam
UN Secretary-General and British and US officials regret the high number of casualties caused by the final attack to the Tamil Tigers · Witnesses report today that a shell of the Sri Lankan army has destroyed a field hospital, leaving dozens of people dead.
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Date: 12/05/2009
Breton national anthem played for the first time in a Parisian stadium
NEWS IN BRIEF. Two Breton football teams, Guingamp and Rennes, played the French Cup final
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Date: 11/05/2009
Support to New Caledonian pro-independence parties grows in provincial elections
The pro-sovereignty bloc, headed by the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), wins 23 out of 54 seats, 5 more than in previous elections · It has regained representation in the South province · Next term should see progress in the implementation of the Nouméa Accord, which stipulates the holding of a self-determination referendum between 2014 and 2018.
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Date: 08/05/2009
Negotiations on a settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh slowly move forward
The Minsk Group, a special OSCE department to assist the negotiation process, believes there has been a “conceptual breakthrough” after Armenia and Azerbaijan presidents met last Wednesday · The Karabakh conflict is frozen since 1994.
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Date: 06/05/2009
Non-indigenous farmers and rice producers leave Raposa Serra do Sol
The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled last March that the reservation is a territory exclusively for use by the indigenous population · Big land owners affected by the decision think it is a 'legalised robbery', and have predicted hard times for the economy of the state of Roraima · The police and the army are clearing the area without using force.
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Date: 05/05/2009
Ibarretxe: ' Spanish political agenda will shape Basque political arena in the near future'
Former 'lehendakari' announces in the investiture that he retires from politics · Socialist Patxi López will be the new president after getting support from PP and UPyD · Lopez’s priorities are the fight against ETA and tackling economic crisis.
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Date: 04/05/2009
The Coptic community in Egypt, outraged by the forced cull of pigs
Cairo has implemented the measure to avoid an outbreak of swine flu · Copts, the largest Christian community of the country, are the main pork consumers in Egypt and own most of the pig farms · The World Health Organisation regards the measure as unnecessary.
