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Costa Ricans begin voting to elect one of two scandal-tainted presidential candidates in a country grappling with sky-high poverty and unemployment. IMAGES
Syrians in Damascus cast their votes in their fourth parliamentary election since civil war erupted in 2011, a poll expected to keep President Bashar al-Assad's ruling Baath party in power. More than 1,500 people are standing for 250 seats in the largely rubber-stamp parliament, after some 7,400 candidates withdrew in recent days, according to Syria's Supreme Judicial Elections Committee. IMAGES
Voters in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia head to the polls for France's most consequential legislative election of recent times. IMAGES
French voters in Montreal head to the polls for the second round of a high-stakes legislative election, with the far right expected to gain its biggest-ever presence in parliament. On Friday, final opinion polls predicted that Marine Le Pen's National Rally would fall short of winning an outright majority, with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance emerging with half the deputies it had before his gamble in calling the snap election. IMAGES
UK voters head to the polls in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's constituency, in a general election widely expected to emphatically return the opposition Labour party to power and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule. IMAGES