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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
UK leader Rishi Sunak meets NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in Warsaw where he will announce £500 million ($617 million) in additional military funding for Kyiv in its more-than two-year battle against Russia's full-scale invasion, according to his Downing Street office. IMAGES
Ecuador's police arrest a gang leader accused in a failed plot to assassinate Ecuador's attorney general, three months after escaping from prison, according to officials. Fabricio Colon Pico, a leader of the Los Lobos gang, was one of the country's most wanted men. IMAGES
Images at the start of the trial against Bjorn Hoecke, head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia, who appears in court for publicly using a banned Nazi slogan. He stands accused of twice using the phrase "Alles fuer Deutschland" ("Everything for Germany"), once a motto of the so-called Sturmabteilung paramilitary group that played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. IMAGES
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer meets Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on his visit to the United States, which has voiced growing frustration at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a meeting with Audrey Azoulay, director general of UNESCO, the UN cultural organisation, during his visit to Paris. IMAGES
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