Landlocked and poor, its 3 million people include many descendants of the survivors of the genocide, though far more of them live in the diaspora of 7 million to 10 million, concentrated in Russia, the US and France – a split that has had a powerful effect on the politics of commemoration and the closely linked question of the troubled relations between Yerevan and Ankara.
The new Palestinian "reconciliation" government is first and foremost a response to an overwhelming popular desire to end the seven-year-old rift between Fatah and Hamas – a split that has inflicted deep scars on the Palestinian polity and threatened to leave Gaza in permanent secession from the West Bank.
B3 The View From Europe TENSIONS AMONG MUSLIMS -- The terror attacks in the United States seem to be widening a split that has long existed among Europe's Muslims: those who believe in an accommodation between Islam and life in the West and those drawn to a more radical view.
Now the terror attacks in the United States seem to be widening a split that has long existed among Europe's Muslims: those, like Ms. Mirza, who believe in an accommodation between Islam and life in the West and those, like her three attackers in the club, who are quick to see heresy.
It's a split that has given rise to centuries of bloodshed and divisions throughout the Muslim world.
Shia groups united in condemnation of Saudi Arabia while Sunni powers rallied behind the kingdom, hardening a sectarian split that has torn apart communities across the Middle East and nourished the jihadist ideology of Islamic State.
A8 Oppostition Split in Zimbabwe Leaders of Zimbabwe's sole democratic opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, decided to expel their president, Morgan Tsvangirai, over the weekend, deepening an internal split that has brought the party to the brink of insignificance.
"This might sound very old fashioned, but it's simply a return to the obvious split that has always existed.
Splits that have a parsimony score greater than a given number x in more than a given number y of the partial trees are filtered out.
But in San Francisco, a Federal District Court jury gave a split decision that had less impact than feared.
