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Election officials at a polling station in the northern city of Shamli pack and seal electronic voting machines as the first of seven voting stages closes in the world's biggest election. IMAGES
South Korea begins its nationwide coronavirus drive Friday as it seeks to inoculate 70 percent of its population within seven months to stamp out the outbreak. More than 5,000 medical staff at nursing homes and rehabilitation centres and their patients under 65 are set to receive their first doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on the first day of the campaign. IMAGES
The largest religious gathering anywhere on earth gets under way, with tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims congregating in India to bathe in sacred rivers for the Kumbh Mela. IMAGES
India inaugurates the world's biggest statue with pomp, fireworks and tight security amid an outcry among local groups over the cost of the 182 metre (600 feet) high reproduction of an Indian independence hero. IMAGES
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi shows reporters a massive 2,492-carat diamond -- the second largest in the world -- that was discovered in the north east of the country by a Canadian mining company. IMAGES
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