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23 November 2015
الاردن: مجلس النواب يقر مشروع قانون اللامركزية
![A Syrian pro-government fighter walks near the Kweyris military air base in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Nov. 11. Syria’s army broke a more than year-long jihadist siege of a military air base in the country’s north, scoring its first major breakthrough since Russia’s air campaign began. (photo credit: AFP/Getty Images) A Syrian pro-government fighter walks near the Kweyris military air base in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Nov. 11. Syria’s army broke a more than year-long jihadist siege of a military air base in the country’s north, scoring its first major breakthrough since Russia’s air campaign began. (photo credit: AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/syria_-_afp_0.jpg)
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18 November 2015
Op-Ed: Syria doesn't need a "Dayton accord", and the role of ancient ethnic hatreds is misunderstood
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12 November 2015
Catalonia presses ahead with secession plans despite constitutional court decision suspending the process
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9 November 2015
Catalan parliament to vote on independent laws signalling secession from Madrid
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6 November 2015
Spain's constitutional court gives go ahead for Catalonia's pro-independence proposal
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2 November 2015
Ban Ki-moon states that the UN does not recognise Catalonia's right to self-determination
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Voices From The Field
30 October 2015
Vision 2016 in Autumn 2015: What can still be achieved in the Somali peace- and state-building process?
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27 October 2015
Op-Ed: Why Nepal’s Janajatis Feel Betrayed by the New Constitution
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19 October 2015
Zambia MPs to begin debate on constitution
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14 October 2015
IGAD calls for suspension of unilateral decentralisation in South Sudan, stating that it violates the peace deal
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