51.   China called Thursday for foreign support in its fight against Muslim separatists, saying it had evidence that they had links to terrorists abroad.

52.   China has been fighting Muslim separatists for years in the western region of Xinjiang.

53.   China has fought Muslim separatists for years in its western region of Xinjiang.

54.   China is fighting Muslim separatists who are waging a campaign of assassination and bombings in its western region of Xinjiang.

55.   Chinese authorities accused Muslim separatists of bombing three buses in Urumqi, capital of the restive Xinjiang region, last February.

56.   Deadly riots between Muslim separatists and Chinese swept a city in far western China and the long persecuted dissident community has bestirred.

57.   Davao is in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao, home to several Muslim separatists groups, and is regularly on alert for bomb attacks.

58.   Counterinsurgent militias sponsored by the government are violating human rights as they fight Muslim separatists in Jammu-Kashmir state, an international human rights group charged Sunday.

59.   Demonstrators accused the Pakistan government of selling out Muslim separatists fighting in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where a secessionist uprising has been raging for more than a decade.

60.   Diplomats seek the help of pro-separatist groups Friday to free the two Americans and two Britons taken hostage by Muslim separatists.