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Tokyo, Sep 6 (EFE/EPA).- Tokyo's Nikkei Stock Average shot up 1.83 percent at the closing of the session on Monday after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced his sudden decision last Friday not to run for his ruling party's next general election. The Tokyo stock reacted to Suga's decision, soaring more than 531.78 points to close at 29,659.89. (Camera: KIMIMASA MAYAMA). SHOT LIST: PEDESTRIANS WALK PAST A DISPLAY SHOWING TOKYO'S NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE DURING AN AFTERNOON TRADING SESSION IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
Spanish Third Deputy Prime Minister and Communist candidate Yolanda Diaz casts her vote for the general election. Far-left party Podemos - a coalition partner since 2020 - has been absorbed this year by Sumar, a new formation led by the highly popular labour minister. IMAGES
Greece's Prime Minister and President of the New Democracy Party Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives at the Presidential Palace, where he will be welcomed by Greece's President Katerina Sakallaropoulou who has handed him the mandate to form a government. Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said he was seeking a new vote as soon as June 25 in order to obtain a ruling majority, a day after his party won national elections that failed to produce a single-party government. IMAGES
After losing the country's general election at the weekend, Finland's outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin tenders her government's resignation to President Sauli Niinisto in Helsinki. IMAGES
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin casts her vote in Tampere, Finland, ahead of the general elections on April 2. 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