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Images of the Atanasio Girardot International Bridge closed and guarded by police on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, days before the presidential elections. Caracas ordered the armed forces to close the border between Friday 26 July and Monday 29 July to "guarantee the inviolability of the border and prevent the activities of persons who could pose a threat to security" as Venezuelans are expected to vote in presidential elections on July 28. IMAGES
President Paul Kagame holds his final rally ahead of the legislative and presidential elections next week. Long-time leader Kagame is widely expected to extend his iron grip on the Great Lakes nation. IMAGES
France's main employers' organisation, the MEDEF, is holding hearings with party and coalition leaders ahead of the snap parliamentary elections. The leader of the centrist Horizons party, Edouard Philippe, is the first to be heard. IMAGES
Mexico's ruling party candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, arrives at the Zocalo Square in the capital, where thousands of supporters gather for her closing rally ahead of the country's vote on June 2. IMAGES
Jorge Alvarez Maynez, presidential candidate for the Citizens' Movement Party, arrives at the National Electoral Institute (INE) headquarters in Mexico City for the first debate ahead of the presidential elections on June 2. IMAGES
Xochitl Galves, presidential candidate of the opposition parties PRD, PRI and PAN, arrives at the National Electoral Institute (INE) headquarters in Mexico City for the first debate ahead of the presidential elections on June 2. IMAGES