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UK voters head to the polls in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's constituency, in a general election widely expected to emphatically return the opposition Labour party to power and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule. IMAGES
New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he is "not prepared to continue" with the Rwanda deportation plan of his Conservative predecessors. Speaking the day after his Labour Party secured a landslide election victory, Starmer says the plan "was never a deterrent, almost the opposite." SOUNDBITE
The new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at Downing Street in London after Britain's head of state, King Charles III, officially appointed the Labour leader during an audience at Buckingham Palace. IMAGES
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak casts his vote in his Yorkshire constituency just half an hour after polls open in Britain's general election. Sunak's Conservative party is behind in the polls, and has been warning voters not to let the opposition Labour Party achieve what it calls a 'super majority'. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak criticises the Labour Party's plan to set up a firm called "Great British Energy" to invest in renewable power, and their proposal that no new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences should be approved. "As far as I can tell, all this new policy is is a logo," he says. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.
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