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20 relatives for an article: How To Start a New Country: Igbo majority wants Biafra: Today Afrin, tomorrow Manbij: stress test for democracy

1992 February 26: Khojaly Massacre

2014 February 27: Russia’s annexation of Crimea

1844 February 27: Dominican Republic Independence Day

1976 February 27: Proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

1947 February 28: 2.28 Incident in Taiwan

1992 March 1: Bosnia and Herzegovina Independence Day

589 March 1: Saint David’s, National Day of Wales

1878 March 3: Liberation Day in Bulgaria

March 5: St Piran’s Day, the national day in Cornwall

1991 March 5: Kurdish National Uprising in Iraq

1957 March 6: Ghana, 1st sub-Saharan African country to become independent from colonial rule

1944 March 8: Mass deportation of the Balkar people by Stalin’s Soviet Union

1959 March 10: Tibetan National Uprising Day

1990 March 11: Day of Re-Establishment of Lithuania’s Independence

1968 March 12: Independence Day in Mauritius

2005 March 13: Tunisian National Day of Internet Freedom

1855 March 14: International Circassian Language Day

1801 March 14: Mother Tongue Day in Estonia

461 March 17: Saint Patrick’s Day, Ireland

China’s overkill on Tibet keeps backfiring

Fishy Moroccan trade agreement limited from Western Sahara

Treaties Between the United States and Indigenous Nations, Explained

Native American residential community Kalapuya Ilihi aims to improve community, retention for Native students

7,000-Year-Old Native American Burial Site Found Underwater

Navajo Nation issues new emergency drought declaration

Honduras Arrests Alleged Mastermind Behind Berta Caceres’ Murder

When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’

Guaraní-Kaiowá: When Racism and Assimilation Puts an End to Childhood

‘Hong Kong is not China’ design studios to halt operations in March

How do you say ‘Happy St David’s Day’ in Welsh?

GPs and dentists will be exempt from Welsh language rules

St. David’s Day. Here’s What to Know About Wales’ National Day

Support for Plaid and independence up in latest St. David’s Day poll

Chaos lends boost to Amazigh reawakening in Libya

Behind Benin’s cotton harvest, worries over ‘monopoly’

Uganda govt wants more representation for minority groups

Finland becomes most attractive jurisdiction for mining investment

Baloch pro-freedom groups to work unitedly

Baloch youth tortured to death

On the dunes with St Piran

What is St Piran’s Day and how to say Happy St Piran’s Day in Cornish

Wedding singers arrested for singing in Kurdish

Iraq extends flight ban by 3 months for Kurdistan

Syrian Kurdish leader Salih Muslim arrested in Prague on Turkey’s request

Czechs release Syrian Kurdish politician, angering Turkey

UN chief Guterres criticized for accepting Syria in Decolonization Committee top post

Why are world leaders backing this brutal attack against Kurdish Afrin?

People across Kurdistan Region protest ongoing Turkish attacks on Afrin

“Today Afrin, tomorrow Manbij”, Erdogan says

No murder charges in case which ended Turkish-Kurdish peace process

Turkey Hands Suspended Jail Sentences to Three Academics Over Kurdish Letter

Kirkuk to hold provincial elections for the first time in 13 years

KRG on 27th anniversary of uprising: Will of Kurdistan’s people cannot be ignored

Norwegian emigration ‘higher than during era of migration to USA’

Films for Lithuanian Statehood Restoration Centenary

Fred Frederikse: Don’t mess with the Corsicans

U.S. Aircraft Carrier Visits Vietnam For The First Time Since The War

Tuareg militias battle Islamic State-loyal militants in northern Mali

U.S. Plans to Move Embassy to Jerusalem on Israel’s 70th Independence Day

Kersti Kaljulaid: A small country has only one natural resource – between our ears

Literature from Estonia: 16 Books to Get You Started

Orbán says migrants are like gypsies, but migrants are worse because they come from outside Hungary

Czech memorial to Romani genocide desecrated with pig’s head

Taiwan Independence referendum launched, backed by former presidents

Another ‘punished people’ documented – the Kola Norwegians destroyed by Stalin

Russian ‘mercenary’ gets state award from Putin for fighting in Donbas

Russia’s “ghost” armies and the “heroes of the Russian spring” in Ukraine

Ukraine’s Stolen History, Stolen Culture

Ukraine marks Day of Resistance to Occupation of Crimea

Nineteen people missing in Russian-occupied Crimea

NATO Representation to Ukraine: Peaceful reintegration of Crimea should be long-term priority for Ukraine

Three Pussy Riot Members Detained In Crimea

Ukraine to protect Crimean residents at UN Human Rights Council – Poroshenko

Join in Solidarity with Oleg Sentsov & other victims of Russia’s occupation of Crimea

Nuclear Threat Moves to Crimea

Crimean Tatar woman attacked for protesting Russia’s destruction of 16th century Khan’s Palace

Crimean Tatar Activist Suleyman Kadyrov Defiant In Face Of Ban On ‘Public Activities’

Russian Authorities ‘Scared,’ Says Convicted Crimean Tatar Activist Suleyman Kadyrov

Crimean Tatar tortured to death for silent protest – Hero of Ukraine and symbol of Russian lawlessness

Arrests with torture of ‘witnesses’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar facing life sentence for his faith & 5 other Crimean Muslims declared political prisoners

We must protect Crimea’s human rights defenders

Hurricane-hit Antigua and Barbuda to vote early

Pro-separatist Sikh Canadians praise Trudeau, slam Indian government and PM Modi

Sikh activism in Canada is not the Khalistani extremism of decades past

Australian actor on learning Irish to star in Black 47 Famine movie

Stormont officials say ‘no funding’ for north’s Irish language networks

Boris Johnson rounded-on by Irish politicians for saying Irish border is like Camden and Westminster

Switzerland has perfect way to deal with language barriers

Lombardy enterprise rises above Italy’s economic crisis

Elections talk brewing in Cook Islands

French Polynesia sinks floating island project

Marshall Islands to be first to issue own sovereign cryptocurrency

Igbo groups gather at Ojukwu’s home, insist on Biafra

Biafra: No politician in Buhari’s govt is more popular than Nnamdi Kanu – IPOB

Nigeria: Opinion poll shows overwhelming Igbo majority wants Biafra

New Zealand risks becoming a “strategic nincompoop” as China woos tiny Pacific islands

New Zealand’s National Party chooses indigenous Maori leader

Strong sense of cultural identity drives boom in Māori business

Bulgaria, Romania, Converging With EU Only ‘Structurally’

The Long-Running Headache of Minority Rule in Ethiopia

Eighty-eight MPs rebel as Ethiopia parliament ratifies state of emergency

Gang rapes and beheadings: U.N. details South Sudan horrors, blames government and rebels

UN warns that South Sudan faces new famine

South Sudan in Focus

More reliable internet connectivity to people of Palau

New airport terminal opens in Tuvalu

Burundi not ready for elections, United Nations says

Serbian FM offered arms to Burundi in exchange for revoking Kosovo recognition

‘Big Data’ Predictions Spur Detentions in China’s Xinjiang: Human Rights Watch

Call From Blacklisted Number Lands Uyghur Woman in Political Re-Education Camp

China upset as Interpol removes wanted alert for exiled Uighur leader Dolkun Isa

US-based Uighur journalist Gulchehra Hoja says China detained 20 relatives

Religion and politics in the Middle East: Is Kuwait showing the way ahead?

Armenia Scrapping Protocols To Normalize Relations With Turkey

Slovak Investigative Reporter, Girlfriend Killed

Macedonians Protest Name Change As PM Offers Greece Options

Montenegro To Open Two New Negotiating Chapters With EU

The Swiss own millions of guns, but have barely any gun deaths — here’s what they do differently from the US

Switzerland Is the Best Country in the World, Says 2018 Best Countries Report

Tonga police charge charge former PM in passport inquiry

20-Plus Insurers, Banks & Fund Firms Select Luxembourg as Post-Brexit HQs

Lesotho: Deputy Health Minister embroiled in drug-smuggling scandal

Slovenia appoints its first female deputy army chief

Why we have lessons to learn from Moldova

Why This Poor Country Has the World’s Best Internet

Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine Decry Russian Presence

EU ‘gravely concerned’ at death in custody in South Ossetia

10 Years After Putin’s Invasion, Russia Still Occupies Parts of Georgia

Abkhazian ‘residency permit’ enforced by threat of cutting off pensions

Are Eritrea government spies posing as refugee interpreters?

How Oman’s Dhofar region doubled for the Red Planet

US Embassy in Cuba to reduce staff indefinitely after ‘health attacks’

Sierra Leone: Can the “Lion Mountain” Ever Roar Again?

Sierra Leone 2018 general elections: Background to fifth polls since 1996

Ocean warming threatens to drown Costa Rica’s whale tourism

Albania’s Chams want Greek apology for wartime expulsion

Wife of ex-president of Honduras arrested on graft charges

Security guards working at Trump’s luxury hotel in Panama turn violent

Lawmakers question Trump ties to Panama project linked to laundering, trafficking

Maldives opposition protesters arrested after court validates emergency rule

China’s ocean observation station at Maldives not a submarine base

Death Toll Climbs as Aftershocks Rattle Earthquake-Hit Papua New Guinea

Kashmir villagers fleeing bullets from two nations

Russian Billionaire linked to Trump, Manafort Has New Cyprus Passport

Robin McAlpine says independence movement can’t win on slogans alone as release of blueprint for Scottish independence is announced

How To Start a New Country … the timeline for an independent Scotland (Part I)

Part II: How To Start a New Country … the timeline for an independent Scotland

How To Start a New Country … Independence: The Strategy

EU nationals ‘to lose their right to vote in post-Brexit indyref2’

Nicola Sturgeon leads poll of ‘Britain’s most influential women

Spray-Painting For Putin in the Komi Republic

Tatar political prisoner Rafis Kashapov: I will continue to denounce Russia’s criminal government

In Chechnya, a new ski resort can’t overshadow accusations of human rights abuses

Dagestan: A Return to the Empire?

New Circassian scholarship — between homeland and diaspora

What’s With the New Cambodia Military Drills Near Laos?

Juncker: Normalisation deal with Kosovo is key for Serbia’s EU bid

Uproar as Rwanda to shut 700 churches over safety, hygiene

Namibia to Ready Black-Ownership Law by Year-End, President Says

Calls to set a date and question for independence vote in New Caledonia

Leading anti-slavery activist Biram Ould Abeid arrested in Mauritania

Botswana blames Congo’s humanitarian crisis on Kabila

English FA charges Guardiola for political Catalonia ribbon

Pep Guardiola’s jet searched for ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont

Protests greet King Felipe of Spain at Mobile World Congress 2018

‘Political prisoners’ artwork disallowed in Madrid to go on display in Lleida

Pep Guardiola vows to keep wearing Catalan yellow ribbon

Lawyers call for investigation into Spain’s human rights infringements in Catalonia

Madrid threatens more direct rule if jailed Jordi Sànchez becomes Catalan president

Foreign tourist spending increases by 11% in January

Case against Catalan independence extended up to 18 months

Puigdemont gives way to jailed Jordi Sànchez as president

Jobless numbers in Catalonia fall in February

Court sentences Catalan rapper Pablo Hasél to 2 years in prison for lyrics and tweets

Puigdemont v Spain: Catalan president takes case to UN human rights committee

Spain ‘will not consent’ to swearing in Sànchez from prison

CUP not to vote for Sànchez as Catalan president

78% of business executives in Catalonia foresee sales increase in 2018

Parliament speaker proposes Jordi Sànchez as presidential candidate

Sànchez calls for unity from jail

Low trust in justice system, political parties; crime main concern of Maltese

El Salvador’s military not opening archives for missing kids

The ‘silent massacre’ killing El Salvador’s sugarcane workers

Equatorial Guinea drops charges against anti-govt cartoonist

Equatorial Guinea court bans opposition party, jails activists

A helicopter bank robbery helps explain why cash is dying in Sweden

How Sweden’s startups became Europe’s digital vikings

Mauritius pitches itself as African gateway to Indian investors

Liberia’s stress test for democracy

Icelandic language battles threat of ‘digital extinction’

Denmark’s Prince Nikolai Just Made His Runway Debut and Is Now Signed to a Modeling Agency

Hmong: Preserving Identity Through Cultural Heritage

Brittany & Kurdistan: Shared Values Between Two Unrepresented Nations