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The Catalan government on Oct. 3 published a decree creating a supervisory body for a referendum on independence from Spain on November 9, despite a court order that the vote be suspended.

Scotland rejected independence in a referendum that left the centuries-old United Kingdom intact

Scottish tennis star Andy Murray broke his silence over the independence referendum on Thursday by appearing to lend last-minute support to the "Yes" campaign as polling began.

Polling booths opened in Scotland's historic referendum on independence, with record numbers of Scots expected to cast their vote on whether to stay or leave the United Kingdom

Fired up by Scotland’s looming independence referendum, thousands of nationalists in Catalonia take to the streets for mass protests to demand their own vote on breaking away from Spain.

The British government is scrambling to respond to a lurch in the opinion polls towards a vote for Scottish independence this month by promising a range of new powers for Scotland if it chooses to stay within the United Kingdom.
   

Scotland's pro-independence leader Alex Salmond easily won a final TV debate on Monday night just over three weeks before a breakaway referendum, but it wasn't clear if this would help him catch up in the polls.
   

As the Commonwealth Games kicked off in Glasgow on Wednesday, the chief protagonists in Scotland's independence debate called an unofficial ceasefire, as voters said they would not be swayed by attempts to exploit the event for political ends.
      

Scotland's independence would be "cataclysmic"

Former Secretary General of NATO George Robertson has said that Scottish independence "would be cataclysmic for the West in an era of international turmoil."

A "debilitating divorce" after a "yes" vote in September would threaten the stability of the wider world, the BBC quoted him as saying.