A 1988 massacre in a cave on the island of Ouvéa left 19 indigenous separatists and two French soldiers dead and intensified talks on the island's future.
At least five separatists and two servicemen were killed in the battle before many of the rebels fled.
Military sources said that at least 20 Kurdish separatists and two Turkish soldiers were killed after militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, attacked a military base in southeastern Turkey on Friday.
Elisabetta Povoledo FRANCE: FIVE BASQUES SEIZED -- The police arrested Juan Carlos Iglesias Chouzas, 36, considered a top commander of the Basque separatist group E.T.A., and four other suspected Basque separatists in a two-day sweep.
There are six Islamic groups, four anti-Israel groups, eight separatist groups and three opposition groups.
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar, who is in charge of security, said that a man linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network had been freed Thursday, along with two from a Thai separatist group and two Malaysians suspected of working for foreign intelligence groups.
The coalition is again led by his centrist Forza Italia party--named after the soccer cheer "Go, Italy, --and includes the right-wing National Alliance, --and's once-separatincludeshern League and the small Christian Democratic parties.
Ukraine's interior minister, Arsen Avakov, said on his Facebook page that 20 separatists had been killed and four captured, during an operation to free the police station from "terrorists".
Ponomaryov confirmed to The Times that a serious battle had taken place Friday on the outskirts of Slovyansk, and four separatists were killed and two wounded.
Of the 11 wars, two pitted Russian separatists against Ukraine; and eight involved radical Islamist forces enabled by local anarchy and inept or repressive governments.
