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Emmanuel Macron lays flowers at a monument for Armenian priest Komitas in a ceremony marking the Armenian genocide in Paris. The centrist is the clear favourite to become France's youngest-ever president after topping Sunday's ballot with 23.75 percent of votes, ahead of National Front (FN) leader Le Pen on 21.53 percent. IMAGES of Macron laying flowers
On the last day of Russia's presidential elections, set to cement Vladimir Putin's grip on power, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny widow, Yulia Navalnaya, tells the press after voting at the Russian embassy in Berlin that Putin is "a killer" and a "gangster. Crowds had earlier chanted: "Yulia, Yulia, we're with you," as she entered to cast her ballot. Alexei Navalny was Putin's most prominent rival, and died in an Arctic prison last month in mysterious circumstances. SOUNDBITE
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, arrives to vote at the Russian embassy in Berlin thronged by supporter after calling for voters to spoil their ballots in protest at Russia's stage-managed presidential election. The election is set to hand President Vladimir Putin another six years in the Kremlin, with Navalny, Putin's most prominent critic, dead in opaque circumstances in an Arctic prison last month. IMAGES
Hundreds gather outside the Russian embassy in Berlin to protest against Russia's invasion in Ukraine on the last day of a presidential election guaranteed to see Vladimir Putin win another six-year term. IMAGES
Turkey's social democrat opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kiliçdaroglu votes for the run-off in a historic presidential election that pits him against head of state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. IMAGES
The largest Turkish opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), holds its last rally in Ankara in the final countdown to the toughest election challenge of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decade rule. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the CHP's leader and the six-party opposition's chosen candidate to challenge Erdogan, is currently leading in the polls with a slight advantage and within a whisker of breaking the 50-percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff on May 28. IMAGES