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The first voters in Marseille cast their ballots as polling stations open in mainland France for the presidential run-off vote between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen. IMAGES
National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen takes selfies with activists as she arrives outside the polling station where she is voting in Hénin-Beaumont, Pas-de-Calais. IMAGES
Google launched a verification platform dubbed 'CrossCheck' at the French Development Agency's headquarters in Paris on Tuesday, aimed at combatting fake news. The partnership between First Draft and the Google News Lab will work in collaboration with 17 newsrooms, including Agence France-Presse (AFP), BuzzFeed News, France Televisions and Le Monde, among others. The CrossCheck launch comes as France prepares to hold presidential elections this summer.
Supporters of opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye celebrate in Dakar as their candidate begins to take a comfortable lead in the first round of Senegal's presidential election. With vote counting still underway, anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye appearS ahead of the governing coalition's former prime minister, Amadou Ba, according to provisional results from individual polling stations broadcast by local media and on social networks. IMAGES
Polls have closed and the vote counting begins in polling stations in the Senegalese capital. Volunteers open up sealed ballot boxes and start counting the ballot papers from the first round of the country's presidential election. IMAGES
Senegalese voters cast their ballot at a polling station in Dakar to elect a new president in an unpredictable race following three years of turmoil and political crisis. IMAGES
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