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Binali Yildirim arrives at the AKP Congress to succeed Ahmet Davvutoglu as head of the ruling party and the country's new prime minister, consolidating strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's grip on power. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, along with ministers Gerald Darmanin, Pap Ndiaye and Stanislas Guerini, arrive at ruling party Renaissance meetings, in Louan-Villegruis-Fontaine, in Seine-et-Marne. IMAGES
The ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) opens a congress where its leader, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seems set to be nominated to run for a sixth term. In power for 42 years, the leader appears to be preferred since party elite think his son Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, nicknamed "Teodorin", is not yet ready for the role. IMAGES
The new Maltese Prime Minister, Robert Abela, arrives at the Labour Party congress. Abela was elected after Joseph Muscat's downfall over the murder of an investigative journalist. IMAGES
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un was Monday given a new title -- chairman of the Workers' Party -- at a rare top-level meeting of the ruling party. IMAGES of the Congress
Vietnamese Communist Party's General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong arrives in Moscow for visit that seeks to boost Vietnam-Russia ties. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).