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While President Donald Trump busies himself with his apoplectic rejection of Joe Biden as president-elect, world leaders have swiftly moved on. In a sign of Biden's legitimacy, leaders of major democracies have stepped up to congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden in recent days. Doubtless salt to his wound, Trump's favorite network--Fox News--and media outlets across the board have also declared Biden the projected winner of the election. Business Insider reports that as a whole, EU leaders and even Israel and Turkey have congratulated Biden. Only Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Xing Ping, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro have yet to join in.
Guildford (United Kingdom), Dec 11 (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Neil Hall).- The leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, Jo Swinson, on Wednesday closed her campaign in the town of Guildford, southwest of London, in one of her last political acts in view of the general elections to be held on Thursday in the United Kingdom.FOOTAGE OF JO SWINSON'S CLOSING CAMPAIGN
President Hage Geingob arrives at his SWAPO party’s final rally in Namibia’s capital a few days before the election. More than 1,000 people cheered and stood on their feet as the president made his way into the Sam Nujoma stadium in Windhoek only a few days before the country goes to the polls on 27 November. IMAGES
Spain's centre-right Ciudadanos party holds a rally in Barcelona. Spain will hold a repeat general election on Sunday, its fourth in four years, in a further sign of chronic political instability since the parliament began fragmenting in December 2015. 39-year-old Albert Rivera's Ciudadanos party entered the national parliament in 2015, pledging to wipe out the traditional left-right divide. IMAGES
Spain's far-right Vox party leader Santiago Abascal attends a final campaign rally ahead of Sunday's election in which his far-right party looks set to make big gains, fuelled by its tough opposition to Catalan independence. IMAGES
At a summit in Brussels, UK Prime Minister Theresa May commits to working with EU leaders and the EU commission to resolve the outstanding issues in relation to the Northern Irish backstop. SOUNDBITE