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Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti says in an interview with AFP he hopes to normalise relations with the country's arch-rival Serbia this year, following several rounds of failed talks between the two sides. "Normalisation of relations with Serbia I wish for this year, for 2024, and in the next years and decades I want to come out victorious on issues like social inequality, climate change and security threats," Kurti tells AFP. SOUNDBITE
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal condemned the "crocodile tears" of government opposition MPs, to farmers, who are stepping up their actions in France and elsewhere in Europe, protesting in particular against financial burdens and environmental standards deemed too onerous. SOUNDBITE
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina casts her ballot in an election guaranteed to give her a fifth term in office, after a boycott by opposition parties. IMAGES
Mathilde Panot, President of LFI (France Unbowed) parliamentary group at the National Assembly, and Manuel Bompard, coordinator of France Unbowed, arrive at Matignon, where French Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, has been meeting parties and groups since the start of the week ahead of the parliamentary session. IMAGES
Anti-government demonstrators rally in Belgrade as Serbia's opposition calls for the resignation of top officials following a string of back-to-back mass shootings earlier this month. Several opposition parties had called the protest after back-to-back shootings whose victims included nine students and a security guard at an elementary school in the capital. IMAGES