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Puigdemont, who fled Spain after leading Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, resumed his place at the helm of the Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia) after winning more than 90 percent of the ballots cast by party activists. Addressing a party congress in Calella near Barcelona via videolink, Puigdemont told his supporters that it was […]
A furious diplomatic row between India and Canada has pushed an otherwise fringe separatist campaign for an independent Sikh homeland in Punjab into the international spotlight. The “Khalistan” campaign dates back to India’s 1947 independence, and has been blamed for the assassination of a prime minister and the bombing of a passenger jet. It has […]