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aitOpposition candidate Joseph Boakai votes in the general elections where even before polling stations opened at 0800 GMT, hundreds gathered in the early morning sunshine to wait for the polls to open in the capital of Monrovia. IMAGES
The ruling Broad Front candidate in Uruguay's presidential election concedes defeat to Luis Lacalle Pou of the center-right National Party on Twitter, bringing an end to 15 years of leftist rule. ANIMATED TWEET
Ex-finance minister Jose Antonio Meade, the presidential candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, concedes to anti-establishment leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who won the election, according to exit polls. SOUNDBITE
Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago. SOUNDBITE
Donald Trump formally accepts the Republican Party's nomination for president just days after surviving an assassination attempt during a campaign rally. "I am running to be President for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America," Trump tells the Republican convention in Milwaukee. SOUNDBITE
Former Peruvian presidential candidate and congresswoman Keiko Fujimori arrives at the courthouse as her trial for money laundering in the Odebrecht scandal continues. IMAGES