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Images of a demonstration in Edinburgh in support of Scottish independence, after the UK's Supreme Court rejects Scotland's bid for a referedum. IMAGES
Supporters of Scottish independence gather outside the United Kingdom Supreme Court as a ruling is announced which reject's the Scottish Parliament's right to unilaterally call a referendum without the backing of the Westminster-based UK Parliament. IMAGES
The President of Britain's Supreme Court, Lord Robert Reed, announces the court's ruling that the Scottish Parliament cannot unilaterally legislate for a referendum on Scottish independence without the backing of the Westminster-based government of the United Kingdom, in a set-back for the Scottish National Party and those supporting a repeat of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. SOUNDBITE
Scotland's government intends to hold a second independence referendum on October 19, 2023, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says in an address to Parliament. IMAGES
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir pledges he would not return the country to war, in a speech marking 10 troubled years of independence. The world's newest nation, South Sudan declared independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. Just two years later it was plunged into a devastating civil war that claimed almost 400,000 lives and displaced four million people. SOUNDBITE
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