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Images of the closing of a polling station in Saint-Junien, in south-western central France, and the start of the vote count, as turnout in the European elections in France reached 45.26% at 5pm, according to the French Interior Ministry. IMAGES
Polls close in Athens as election officials begin counting ballots to determine the results of the European elections. The vote comes as the continent is confronted with Russia's war in Ukraine, global trade and industrial tensions marked by US-China rivalry, a climate emergency and a West that within months may have to adapt to a new Donald Trump presidency. IMAGES 1ST IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will not allow the European Court of Human Rights to block the government's planned policy of deporting migrants to Rwanda. Speaking after the UK Supreme Court ruled the policy unlawful, he says he will introduce "emergency legislation" to designate Rwanda a safe country. "If the (European Court of Human Rights) chooses to intervene against the express wishes of parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get the flights off" he says. SOUNDBITE
Fires in Greece this summer will burn an area of at least 150,000 hectares (370,600), the Greek prime minister says including a large fire in the north which has been burning for nearly two weeks. The area ravaged by fires "will exceed 1,500,000,000 square metres (150,000 hectares)... the most serious one was the one at Dadia forest", says Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the forest fire that the EU has branded the largest ever recorded in the bloc. SOUNDBITE
Images of migrants and US border security in El Paso, Texas, United States, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico as Title 42 expires at 11:59 pm Thursday. For more than three years, the health provision has allowed immigration authorities to swiftly send back migrants encountered at the border to their home countries or Mexico for pandemic-related reasons. IMAGES
Dozens of migrants camp at the US-Mexico Border in Tijuana as they wait for the expiration of the so-called Title 42, a strict protocol implemented by Donald Trump to deny entry to migrants and expel asylum seekers based on the Covid pandemic emergency. President Biden's administration is officially lifting Title 42 on May 11. IMAGES