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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni votes in a polling station in a school South of Rome at the opening of the polls for the European elections. Polls suggest Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party looks set to claim 27 percent of the vote, equalling 22 seats, amid a broader surge of far-right groups across the EU. IMAGES
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrives in Kyiv, where she is expected to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Meloni, who took office in October, has repeatedly expressed a desire to visit Ukraine to demonstrate her government's support following Russia's invasion almost exactly one year ago. Meloni, who leads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, is also keen to distance herself from the more pro-Russian partners in her governing coalition. IMAGES
New postfascist Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni meets with EU Commission President von der Leyen in Brussels. IMAGES
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is sworn for a third term after worse-than-expected election results left him reliant on coalition partners to govern. Modi's Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled outright for the past decade but failed to repeat its previous two landslide wins this time around, defying analysts' expectations and exit polls. IMAGES
Newly-appointed Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Mustafa is sworn in at a ceremony in Ramallah presided over by Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas. IMAGES
Poland's President Andrzej Duda swears in former European Council president Donald Tusk as the country's new prime minister, putting an end to eight years of right-wing populist rule. Tusk, who previously served as prime minister in 2007-2014, has pledged to restore Poland's position in the European Union after rule-of-law infringements strained Warsaw ties with Brussels. IMAGES