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Football fans are dancing and enjoying during the afternoon at Taksim Square in Istanbul, a few hours before Manchester City-Inter Milan Champions League final kick-off. IMAGES
The leader of Turkey's ultra nationalist Victory Party, Umit Ozdag, and opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu sign an agreement protocol for the runoff presidential election. Opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu vows to send all refugees back home within two years if he is elected president on Sunday. IMAGES
The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, announces that "the governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has taken that decision that it is prudent that South Africa should pull out of the ICC". Ramaphosa says the decision, which follows a weekend meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), was reached "largely" because of what is perceived as the court's unfair treatment of certain countries. The ICC issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March meaning Pretoria, due to host the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa bloc summit this year, would have to detain him on arrival. SOUNDBITE
Inside the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul, the organisation overseeing the grain exports, the Ukrainian and Russian delegations monitor the first shipment of Ukrainian grain as it leaves the port of Odessa under a deal aimed at relieving a global food crisis following Russia's invasion of its neighbour. The vessel was carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn, according to Ukraine's infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov. IMAGES
The Presidential votes are still being counted. The vote from Alaska is in and president Donald Trump handily defeats Joe Biden, 64% to 32%. Alaska has voted for a Republican president in every election since 1968. There are two down-ballot races in Alaska this election: one in the House, one in the Senate. Business Insider reports that all three members of Alaska's congressional delegation are Republican.
One of the busiest commercial streets in Istanbul, Istiklal Avenue, is deserted as a curfew is imposed in 31 cities in the country. IMAGES
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