A helicopter from the Venezuela's Army takes part in a military parade to celebrate the 207th anniversary of Venezuela's independence in Caracas, Venezuela July 5, 2018. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)
A policewoman reacts as she falls off from a motorcycle while taking part in a rehearsal for Independence Day celebrations, in Ahmedabad, India August 4, 2017. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)
Members of a dance troupe participate in the Cabildo de Getsemani parade as part of the 208th Independence celebrations in Cartagena, Colombia, 10 November 2019. (Photo by Ricardo Maldonado Rozo/EPA/EFE)
A worker sprays disinfectant at Independence Square during a disinfection operation, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kuala Lumpur on October 17, 2020. (Photo by Lim Huey Teng/Reuters)
A pro-independence protester sits in front of Catalonia's regional parliament as lawmakers vote inside, in Barcelona, January 16, 2014. (Photo by Albert Gea/Reuters)
Lianah Flores with Coca Cola cans in her hair attends the Fourth of July Independence Day holiday parade during hot weather in Huntington Beach, California on July 4, 2024. (Photo by Etienne Laurent/Reuters)
A team from Woody's Ice Cream shop wrangle a large inflatable dinosaur down the street during the Independence Day Parade in Fairfax, Virginia July 4, 2015. Americans marched in star-spangled parades, ran relay races, gathered for fireworks shows and crowned a new world hot dog eating champion as they celebrated Independence Day in traditional style on Saturday. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
A Spanish national police officer uses his club to hit a protester during a demonstration called the Catalan pro-independence left youth group “Arran” on October 19, 2019 in Barcelona, a day after nearly 200 people were hurt in another night of violent clashes in Catalonia. The deterioration came on the fifth consecutive day of protests in the Catalan capital and elsewhere over a Spanish court's jailing of nine separatist leaders on sedition charges over a failed independence bid two years ago. (Photo by Josep Lago/AFP Photo)