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Labour Party leader Keir Starmer arrives to cast his ballot at a polling station in London, as Britain begins voting in local and mayoral elections that are expected to increase pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The polls are the last major electoral test before a general election that Sunak's Tory party, in power since 2010, seems destined to lose to Starmer's Labour opposition. IMAGES
Opposition leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, Nelson Chamisa, goes to the ballot box to cast his vote in the Zimbabwean elections. After voting he addresses the press outside, accusing the government of a "clear and deliberate ploy" of withholding ballot papers for "other candidates" in urban areas such as Harare. IMAGES
Former leftist prime minister Alexis Tsipras casts his vote in the second round of Greece's general elections at a polling station in Athens, with the leader of the opposition Syriza party facing an uphill battle to overturn a more than 20 percentage point deficit against conservative front-runner Kyriakos Mitsotakis. IMAGES
The leader of Turkey's opposition, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, casts his vote at a polling station in Ankara. Polls suggest the 74-year-old secular opposition leader is within touching distance of breaking the 50-percent threshold needed to win in the first round. IMAGES
The leader of Turkey's opposition, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, casts his vote at a polling station in Ankara. Polls suggest the 74-year-old secular opposition leader is within touching distance of breaking the 50-percent threshold needed to win in the first round. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).