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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a rally ahead of the July 28 presidential election. Machado, who overwhelmingly won the opposition primary, was declared ineligible by a Maduro-aligned court. However, she refuses to step down despite being barred from public office for 15 years based on charges widely dismissed as spurious. IMAGES
President of the centre-right Social-Democratic Party Partido Social Democrata (PSD) since May 2022, Luis Montenegro holds his final rally ahead of the March 10 general election. The 51-year-old led its parliamentary group when it was in power from 2011 to 2015 and imposed severe austerity measures. Despite the far right's potential for depriving the PSD of a parliamentary majority, Luis Montenegro has insisted he will not accept entering into a coalition with Chega. IMAGES
Scouts pack up and leave in buses in Buan-gun as organisers of the World Scout Jamboree asked host South Korea Monday to "urgently" evacuate tens of thousands of children from their campsite ahead of a typhoon, just days after a heatwave caused mass scout illnesses. IMAGES
Guatemalan center-left presidential candidate Sandra Torres, the ex-wife of deceased leftist former leftist president Alvaro Colom, attends her closing campaign rally ahead of the June 25 election. IMAGES
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin attends an honour guard ceremony in Seoul ahead of his meeting with his South Korean counterpart Lee Jong-sup and President Yoon Suk-yeol. The United States and South Korea will hold discussion-based exercises on addressing nuclear threats, Austin said Tuesday. IMAGES
Angola's MPLA (People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola) holds rally ahead of the country's upcoming elections. Eight political parties are on the ballot paper, but the real contest is between the ruling MPLA and its long standing rival and former rebel movement the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Stakes are high for MPLA which has been in power since 1975, now led by incumbent President Joao Lourenco who was first elected in 2017. IMAGES