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Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday dismissed opposition criticism of the country's general election as "illegitimate" as she celebrated securing her fifth term in power. "The election was free and fair" she told reporters, in her first comments since the vote on Sunday, insisting that "those who want to criticise can criticise". SOUNDBITE
Presidential candidate for the Beijing-friendly main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party Hou Yu-ih casts his vote in Taiwan's elections. IMAGES
Polls open in Dhaka in an election guaranteed to give Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina her fifth term in office, after a boycott by opposition parties whose ranks have been decimated by mass arrests. IMAGES
Bangladesh's opposition holds a rally ahead of Sunday's general election, which guarantees PM Sheikh Hasina her fifth term in office after a boycott by opposition parties. IMAGES
aitOpposition candidate Joseph Boakai votes in the general elections where even before polling stations opened at 0800 GMT, hundreds gathered in the early morning sunshine to wait for the polls to open in the capital of Monrovia. 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).