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Greenland, a vast autonomous Danish territory, is not in the EU, even though Denmark is.
BBC: Greenland rare earths: No special favours for EU
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Only Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory with high hopes for an oil-fuelled bonanza, is pressing ahead undaunted with plans to expand oil exploration.
ECONOMIST: Oil drilling in the Arctic
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They are also demanding a managed reversal of the Arabisation programme which drove thousands of Kurdish families from the areas south of the old green line that demarcated government-controlled territory from the Kurdish autonomous area.
ECONOMIST: The Kurds of northern Iraq
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The town is disputed between the government in Baghdad and ethnic Kurds, who inhabit a semi-autonomous region in the north and claim territory in four other nearby regions.
BBC: Iraq bomb: Many dead in Shia mosque in Tuz Khurmato
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The territory covered by this referendum has been functioning as an autonomous unit for five years, and in that time has brought in some non-oil investment, chiefly in agribusiness.
FORBES: Brief Update on Sudan
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The territory, once called the Dutch West Indies, became the semi-autonomous Netherlands Antilles in 1954.
BBC: Curacao profile
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Ms. MARCUS: No, the Kurdish government in Northern Iraq, which runs the autonomous Kurdistan region, is very much opposed to the PKK's presence on its territory.
NPR: McCain, Obama Tussle over Iraq
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But it has still to show that it can hold the territory it conquers in Swat, let alone in the Taliban's heartland in the semi-autonomous tribal areas.
ECONOMIST: Taking on Islamist militants exacts a terrible human toll