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Iranians began voting across the country Friday in elections billed as vital to curbing conservative dominance in parliament and speeding up domestic reforms after a nuclear deal with world powers. IMAGES
Reformist presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian is surrounded by supporters as he arrives at a polling station in Tehran to cast his ballot. Iran's runoff election is pitting Pezeshkian against ultraconservative candidate Saeed Jalili. IMAGES
Ultraconservative presidential candidate Saeed Jalili casts his ballot in Iran's runoff election pitting him against reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian. The election follows the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month. IMAGES
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Espoo as Finland elects its president. Some 4.3 million voters will have to choose between former conservative prime minister Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto, a Green Party MP running as an independent. The changing geopolitical landscape in Europe will be the main concern for the new head of state, who will lead the country's foreign policy together with the government and act as supreme commander of Finland's armed forces. IMAGES
Ecuadorians begin voting in the second round of the presidential runoff between socialist Luisa Gonzalez, 45, and liberal candidate Daniel Noboa, 35, in the midst of a drug war and a series of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate. IMAGES