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Members and supporters of South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party (DP) cheer as they watch a broadcast of an exit poll after Wednesday's parliamentary election. The DP and a small allied party were forecast to win up to 197 seats in the 300-member parliament, the poll shows, with the ruling People Power Party and its satellite set to secure between 85 and 99 seats -- down from the 114 they held in the last parliament. IMAGES
In his first speech of the year, UK opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer says an election is "one thing that we can be sure is coming", adding that he is "ready for it" as the Labour leader outlines his party's election year pitch. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call a general election at some point in 2024, but exactly when is becoming a source of increasingly fevered speculation among political observers. SOUNDBITE
Turkish MPs are taking the oath in Parliament. Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP party and its allies have a majority of the 600 seats in parliament following the parliamentery elections on 14 May. Erdogan is set to be sworn in on Saturday as head of state after winning a historic runoff election to extend his two-decade rule for another five years. IMAGES
Several hundred people protest to the sound of pots and pans in front of the city halls of Paris, Rennes and Marseille to mark the first anniversary of French President Emmanuel Macron's re-election to a second five-year term. IMAGES
Little movement is seen in the streets of Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu, placed under curfew as the Somali parliament elects the next president. MPs vote in a tent inside Mogadishu's airport complex, held under tight security by the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), with dozens of candidates vying for the position in the troubled nation as it battles an Islamist insurgency and the threat of famine. 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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