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Spain's King Felipe VI meets with the country's party leaders in a bid to break an impasse over the formation of a new government following inconclusive elections last month. Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has headed a caretaker government with reduced powers since a July 23 general election produced a hung parliament, in which a ruling majority cannot easily be formed. While his Socialist party finished second behind the conservative Popular Party (PP), it is better positioned as it has more potential partners. IMAGES
Guyana's leader, who heads the Caribbean bloc CARICOM, voices optimism at an emergency summit on finding a political solution in crisis-torn Haiti. "I'm very optimistic based on all the discussions today," President Irfaan Ali says. SOUNDBITE
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
Berlin, Sep 22 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Filip Singer) September general elections mark the farewell to the "Angela Merkel era", the undefeated leader who for 16 years led Germany through successive crises and who was able to win over the empathy of those who never voted for her and would never vote for her.FOOTAGE OF BERLIN AHEAD OF THE ELECTIONS.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier attend a ceremony in Berlin marking 75 years since the end of World War II. IMAGES
Cardi B's bid to make it as a politician has received backing from a very reputable source - US Senator Bernie Sanders.
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