Catalonia former president and leader of the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia Artur Mas addresses supporters in Barcelona as Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont (left) looks on.
Taiwan's new president urged China to "drop the baggage of history" in an otherwise conciliatory inauguration speech that Beijing's Communist Party rulers had been watching for any move towards independence.
Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin to mark the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, a rebellion against British rule that paved the way for independence.
