Sentence examples for separatists over the from inspiring English sources

Kharkiv, the largest city in Ukraine's mainly Russian-speaking east, has been the scene of violent protests by separatists over the past year but is now firmly under government control and most residents remain loyal to Kiev.

BAKU/YEREVAN, April 3 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan said on Sunday it would stop fighting Armenian-backed separatists over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region after two days of clashes, but the other side denounced Baku's gesture as hollow and said violence was continuing.

Separatists took over the two eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk after Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in March.

At the same time, about 30 separatists took over the city council building in Alchevsk, about 50 miles east of Horlivka, Interfax-Ukraine said.

Voters in the Quebec City suburbs handed two safe seats for the separatists over to the Liberals, a Canada unity party.

Pro-Russia separatists have handed over the two black box flight recorders.

Celia W. Dugger (NYT) SRI LANKA: BODY HANDOVER -- The separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam handed over the bodies of 126 government soldiers killed in the rebels' successful drive to take the strategic military base at Elephant Pass, which connects the mainland to the Jaffna Peninsula, bringing the total death toll to 214.

One bystander said the Ukrainian army had moved on the police station believing that pro-Russia separatist forces had taken over the facility.

The zoo reopened in June after a 4bn CFA franc (£5.1m) renovation and a delay because of the crisis last year, when Tuareg separatists and hardline Islamists took over the north, precipitating a coup by disgruntled Malian officers in the capital.

Pro-Russian separatists handed over the plane's "black box" flight recorders to Malaysian investigators, who in turn passed them on to Dutch authorities.

Early on Tuesday, senior separatist leader Aleksander Borodai handed over the black boxes in the city of Donetsk.