Among the 369 people arrested were a dozen crack soldiers from the Meridian Squadron, the main breakaway force that backed Mr Speight's seizure of Parliament on May 19th.

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Yet the only loyalist faction to have actually handed over any guns remains the breakaway Mid Ulster based Loyalist Volunteer Force.

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Mr Ivanov, on a visit to Georgia this week, also refused to close his country's remaining military bases there, and insisted that a Russian-dominated peacekeeping force should remain in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia that is backed by the Kremlin.

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It is unclear whether a 200-strong EU force will be able to patrol inside the breakaway regions.

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But Beijing sees the island as a breakaway province which should be reunified with the mainland, by force if necessary.

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He steered Georgia closer to the West and took the country into a disastrous war with Russia in 2008 when he tried to bring about the return of the breakaway territory of South Ossetia, where Russia kept a peacekeeping force.

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He became a liberalizing force in the Republican Party, and in 1912 he helped Theodore Roosevelt found the breakaway Progressive Party.

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