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Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) holds its closing rally for presidential candidate and current Vice-President Lai Ching-te, on the eve of an election that China has warned could take the island of 23 million people closer to war. Tens of thousands of people have flocked to noisy rallies of the main candidates as they make a last push for votes. IMAGES
"Having received 457,519 votes in the election, I hereby declare Adama Barrow duly elected to serve as president of the Republic of The Gambia," Gambia's Independent Electoral Commission Chairman Alieu Momarr Njai says in Banjul. SOUNDBITE
President Adama Barrow casts his ballot as Gambians vote in the first presidential election in the tiny West African nation since former dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile. The voting will be closely watched as a test of the democratic transition in The Gambia, where Jammeh ruled for 22 years after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1994. The ex-autocrat was forced into exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after Adama Barrow, then a relative unknown, defeated him at the ballot box. IMAGES
Gambia's President Adama Barrow holds the last rally of his re-election bid. Gambians will go to the polls to pick a president, in the West African country's first elections since ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile nearly five years ago. IMAGES
Democrat supporters await the first results of the election at a watch party in Oakland, California, Kamala Harris's hometown.
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