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Polling stations open in rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine and people cast their votes in Donetsk, as Kremlin-backed separatists choose their new leaders despite Western calls on Moscow not to sabotage peace talks. IMAGES
Pro-Russian rebels hold World War Two memorial at the destroyed monument to Soviet soldiers in Savur-Mohyla in eastern Ukraine. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Troops from the rebellious Wagner mercenary group are out in force in the city of Rostov-on-Don outside the army headquarters for Russia's southern military district, with passers-by stopping to look at the military vehicles. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin says his troops have taken control of the headquarters, Russia's main command centre for Ukraine operations, as well as an airbase in the city, vowing to topple Moscow's top military leaders. IMAGES
The largest Turkish opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), holds its last rally in Ankara in the final countdown to the toughest election challenge of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decade rule. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the CHP's leader and the six-party opposition's chosen candidate to challenge Erdogan, is currently leading in the polls with a slight advantage and within a whisker of breaking the 50-percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff on May 28. IMAGES
The EU pledges to hold war criminals to account after footage spread online allegedly showing the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by Russian forces. SOUNDBITE
The first official budget figures since Britain voted to leave the EU show a smaller-than-expected budget surplus. As post-referendum data continues to trickle in, attention is turning to what sort of access Britain will seek with its main trading partners in the EU. Kirsty Basset reports.
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