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Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Espoo as Finland elects its president. Some 4.3 million voters will have to choose between former conservative prime minister Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto, a Green Party MP running as an independent. The changing geopolitical landscape in Europe will be the main concern for the new head of state, who will lead the country's foreign policy together with the government and act as supreme commander of Finland's armed forces. IMAGES
People vote at a polling station in Raleigh as in-person early voting in the US presidential election starts in the battleground state of North Carolina. IMAGES
People cast their ballots in Houston as in-person early voting starts in the state of Texas ahead of November's US presidential election. IMAGES
Tunisians begin voting in a presidential runoff pitting conservative law professor Kais Saied against media magnate Nabil Karoui, who was released from prison just days earlier. IMAGE
Polling stations across Costa Rica opened early Sunday for a presidential election that has split the country between Fabricio Alvarado, an ultra-conservative evangelical preacher who slams gay rights, and Carlos Alvarado (no relation), a former minister from the center-left ruling party. The result will decide who rules the small Central American nation of five million people for the next four years. IMAGES