In a breakaway attack, Conway played a one-two with Prince Buaben and fired low towards goal but MacDonald made a comfortable save.

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In 1995, Croat forces launched a massive attack on breakaway Serbs in their self-proclaimed capital of Knin.

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Authorities arrested three men this week in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia on charges of plotting the attack in a joint operation with Abkhazian security services, the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.

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The assassination on Sunday of Mullah Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban minister who was negotiating between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents -- an attack that has been claimed by a breakaway Taliban faction -- would seem to underline this point.

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