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German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds an election rally in the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, as Germany gears up for next month's general election. IMAGES
Members of the German Bundestag give Chancellor Angela Merkel a long standing ovation as she is due to leave office and to be replaced by Social Democrat Olaf Scholz. IMAGES
SPD candidate for the German chancellorship Olaf Scholz holds a final rally in Cologne ahead of the country's general election on September 26. The race boils down to a two-way contest between Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, the centrist finance minister, and Armin Laschet from Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats. IMAGES
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a rally ahead of the July 28 presidential election. Machado, who overwhelmingly won the opposition primary, was declared ineligible by a Maduro-aligned court. However, she refuses to step down despite being barred from public office for 15 years based on charges widely dismissed as spurious. IMAGES
President of the centre-right Social-Democratic Party Partido Social Democrata (PSD) since May 2022, Luis Montenegro holds his final rally ahead of the March 10 general election. The 51-year-old led its parliamentary group when it was in power from 2011 to 2015 and imposed severe austerity measures. Despite the far right's potential for depriving the PSD of a parliamentary majority, Luis Montenegro has insisted he will not accept entering into a coalition with Chega. 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).