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Italy's new far-right government wins a vote of confidence at the Senate, after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni outlined a programme reaffirming her support for the EU, NATO and Ukraine and presenting herself as a steady hand to guide her country through turbulent times. IMAGES
The leader of Italy's 'Five Star Movement' and former Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, casts his vote in Rome during the country's legislative elections. Polls show the far-right 'Brothers of Italy' party, led by Giorgia Meloni, leading and looking set to form a coalition government with Matteo Salvini's anti-immigration 'League' and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's 'Forza Italia'. IMAGES
The US Senate votes in favor of a stopgap funding bill, in a rare show of cross-party unity to keep federal agencies running into 2022 and avert a costly holiday season government shutdown. With the clock ticking down to the 11:59 pm Friday deadline, the Senate votes by 69 to 28 to keep the lights on until February 18 with a resolution that had already advanced from the House of Representatives. IMAGES
Italian Prime minister Giuseppe Conte wins the first confidence vote in the lower chamber of the parliament with 321 votes, while 259 lawmakers voted against him. The vote was called in after the withdrawal of Matteo Renzi`s party from the governing coalition. IMAGES
Italy's new populist government won approval from the Senate Tuesday, passing the first of this week's two tests of power for the coalition. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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