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The presidential candidate for Senegal's governing coalition, former prime minister Amadou Ba, says he is "very confident" of a first-round election victory after voting in the capital Dakar. SOUNDBITE
Election officials count ballots in Lisbon for the legislative elections where, after eight years of socialist government, the center-right opposition is the favourite. Final opinion polls published on Friday put the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) narrowly ahead of the Socialist Party (PS) but short of an outright parliamentary majority, which could make the far-right Chega the kingmaker for a coalition government. IMAGES
Images of a polling station in Quito, Ecuador, as some 13.4 million Ecuadorians go to the polls on Sunday for local elections and a key referendum that will decide, among other things, whether the country agrees to the extradition of drug traffickers to the US. IMAGES
At Rome's Chigi Palace, during a handover bell ceremony, Giorgia Meloni formally takes over as Italy's first woman prime minister, a day after being sworn in as the leader of the country's most right-wing government since World War II. IMAGES
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi handed in his resignation on Thursday, the office of President Sergio Mattarella says, after his national unity coalition government crumbled. SOUNDBITE
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).