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The outgoing president of France's Les Républicains party in the southern region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA), Renaud Muselier, casts his ballot in Marseille for the first round of the regional and departmental elections. Muselier is running for re-election after teaming up with Emmanuel Macron's centrists. IMAGES
Democrat Doug Jones scored a stunning upset victory Tuesday in a fiercely contested US Senate race in conservative Alabama, dealing a monumental setback to President Donald Trump, whose candidate could not overcome damaging sexual misconduct accusations. SOUNDBITE of Roy Moore declining to concede victory to Jones
Outgoing President Macky Sall casts his ballot with his wife in the central western town of Fatick as Senegalese people vote for a new president in an unpredictable race following three years of turmoil and political crisis. IMAGES
Andre Ventura, leader of Portugal's far-right Chega party casts his vote in the general election. Final opinion polls show the centre-right Democratic Alliance narrowly ahead of the Socialist Party but short of an outright majority in parliament, which could make the far-right party Chega a kingmaker for forming a governing coalition. IMAGES
Voters cast their ballots in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina as polls open in the state's Republican primary in which former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and former United States President Donald Trump are going head-to-head in the race for the 2024 Republican Party’s presidential nomination. 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).