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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev receives his counterpart and close ally, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during an official welcoming ceremony. IMAGES
Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong holds welcoming ceremony for the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi. IMAGES
Panama president Juan Carlos Varela and wife Lorena Castillo welcome Pope Francis to Panama, after he landed in the capital for the 2019 WYD. IMAGES
Panama's president-elect Jose Raul Mulino says he is "nobody's puppet," a reference to former president Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014), whom he replaced as a candidate after being convicted of money laundering and taking refuge in the Nicaraguan embassy. "I'm not here because someone put me here," he says to cheers from the crowd during his victory speech at a Panama City hotel. SOUNDBITE
Right-wing lawyer Jose Raul Mulino accepts victory as Panama's president-elect with 34% of the vote, nine points above his immediate follower, announced the Electoral Tribunal after 90% of the polling stations had been counted. "I accept the results expressed, which represent the will of the majority of Panamanians within our democracy," he says. SOUNDBITE