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South Africa's ruling African National Congress could lose major cities at local elections this week, including places it has held virtually unchallenged since the end of white-minority rule 22 years ago. Mana Rabiee reports.
Voters head to the polls as Eswatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy, holds legislative elections which, despite recent deadly pro-democracy demonstrations, are unlikely to change the political landscape in this tightly controlled kingdom. IMAGES
Argentinians cast their votes at a polling station in Tigre in the country's primary election, a bellwether for who could be the next president, and what this could mean for an economy clobbered by triple-digit inflation. IMAGES
Outgoing president of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei casts his vote in the country's presidential elections. Many voters doubt the election will fix the country's severe problems with poverty, crime and corruption. IMAGES
The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, announces that "the governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has taken that decision that it is prudent that South Africa should pull out of the ICC". Ramaphosa says the decision, which follows a weekend meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), was reached "largely" because of what is perceived as the court's unfair treatment of certain countries. The ICC issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March meaning Pretoria, due to host the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa bloc summit this year, would have to detain him on arrival. SOUNDBITE
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).
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