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Images from Germany's SPD party headquarters in Berlin where the party are running neck and neck with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives exit polls showed, in one of the most unpredictable elections in Europe's biggest economy in recent decades. Surveys published on public television after polling stations closed at 6pm (1600 GMT) found Merkel's Christian Democrats and their candidate Armin Laschet with around 24-25 percent of the vote, nearly tied with the Social Democrats on 25-26 percent. IMAGES
Peru's conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori had a 52.9% share of the vote while socialist rival Pedro Castillo had a 47.1% share, with 42% of the votes counted by early Monday morning. FRANCE 24's Thomas Nicolon has the latest.
The 2020 campaign is coming to an end tonight. In the East Coast of the country polls are starting to close. Battlegrounds like Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio will see results start to trickle in. Polls are also closed in Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and in most of North Carolina and Florida. CNN projects Trump will win the state of Indiana and its 11 electoral votes. Over 100 million Americans voted before the polls opened on November 3rd, 2020.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.