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Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES
Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) holds its closing rally for presidential candidate and current Vice-President Lai Ching-te, on the eve of an election that China has warned could take the island of 23 million people closer to war. Tens of thousands of people have flocked to noisy rallies of the main candidates as they make a last push for votes. IMAGES
Robert Costello, a lawyer and former legal advisor to Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, leaves the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, as a grand jury weighs an investigation over hush money paid to a porn actress. IMAGES
Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party celebrate as presidential candidate Bola Tinubu wins the most votes in Nigeria's election, almost certainly securing him the presidency of Africa's most populous democracy, according to final results. IMAGES
Scotland's First Minister and leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, reacts to the UK Supreme Court ruling against her parliament's unilateral right to call an independence referendum, saying the next general election is "both the first and most obvious opportunity to seek...a de-facto referendum". Sturgeon, speaking shortly after the court delivered its ruling, also says "we must, and we will, find another democratic, lawful and constitutional means by which the Scottish people can express their will." SOUNDBITE
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