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By 94 votes in favour and 49 against, Senegalese MPs pass an amnesty law covering acts linked to deadly protests in the last three years, a controversial text aimed at calming the crisis sparked by the presidential election delay. IMAGES
Images of Pita Limjaroenrat in the parliament as he will again ask Thailand's parliament to endorse him as prime minister Wednesday but with little chance of wooing the military-appointed senators who scuttled his first bid. IMAGES
MPs arrive at the parliament as Thai reformist Pita Limjaroenrat faces a second uphill battle in a bid to become prime minister. IMAGES
Republicans in the US House of Representatives pass a bill that will raise the national borrowing limit, but only in conjunction with drastic spending cuts, as they seek to avert a potentially ruinous looming credit default. IMAGES
Newly elected Scottish National Party leader Humza Yousaf vows to ensure that the party's drive to achieve an independent Scotland is "in fifth gear". "The people of Scotland need independence now more than ever before and we will be the generation that delivers independence of Scotland," Yousaf says in his victory speech. IMAGES