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Labour Party leader Keir Starmer arrives to cast his ballot at a polling station in London, as Britain begins voting in local and mayoral elections that are expected to increase pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The polls are the last major electoral test before a general election that Sunak's Tory party, in power since 2010, seems destined to lose to Starmer's Labour opposition. IMAGES
The first people arrive to cast their ballots at polling stations in Westminster, central London, as Britain begins voting in local and mayoral elections that are expected to increase pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The polls are the last major electoral test before a general election that Sunak's Tory party, in power since 2010, seems destined to lose to the Labour opposition. IMAGES
The presidential candidate for Senegal's governing coalition, former prime minister Amadou Ba, says he is "very confident" of a first-round election victory after voting in the capital Dakar. SOUNDBITE
Election officials count ballots in Lisbon for the legislative elections where, after eight years of socialist government, the center-right opposition is the favourite. Final opinion polls published on Friday put the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) narrowly ahead of the Socialist Party (PS) but short of an outright parliamentary majority, which could make the far-right Chega the kingmaker for a coalition government. IMAGES
Images of a polling station in Quito, Ecuador, as some 13.4 million Ecuadorians go to the polls on Sunday for local elections and a key referendum that will decide, among other things, whether the country agrees to the extradition of drug traffickers to the US. 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).