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Ireland's parliament votes in favour of Simon Harris as the country's new prime minister, replacing Leo Varadkar after he abruptly quit last month citing personal and political reasons. Harris, 37, will become Ireland's youngest ever prime minister when he is formally installed in the role at a meeting with President Michael D. Higgins. IMAGES
Images of Prime minister Kaja Kallas in her party headquarters (Reform Party, centre-right) just before the vote results in Tallinn, Estonia, as the country voted on Sunday to elect its new parliament in an election that could strengthen the far-right nationalists, a party that campaigned on opposition to new arms shipments to Ukraine. IMAGES
Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel's prime minister following a vote in parliament that brought in the most right-wing government in the country's history. IMAGES
The UK's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves Downing street ahead of his first session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs). He will face off against opposition lawmakers for the first time as the leader of the Conservative Party in a likely raucous parliamentary session following weeks of political turmoil. IMAGES
On the second day of funeral rituals following a mass killing at a nursery in Na Klang district, Thailand, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha pays homage to the victims in a temple close to the nursery. Former police officer Panya Khamrab, armed with a pistol and a long knife, killed 36 people, including 24 children, in the eastern province of Nong Bua Lam Phu on Thursday in one of Thailand's worst mass killings. 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).