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Retired NATO general Petr Pavel votes in the Czech presidential election run-off in which he is expected to beat billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babis. The victor will replace Milos Zeman, an outspoken and divisive politician who nursed close ties with Moscow before making a U-turn when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Former paratrooper Pavel topped final opinion polls with 58-59 percent support, compared with 41-42 percent for Babis. IMAGES
Maros Sefcovic, a long-time EU commissioner and candidate for Slovakia's presidential elections casts his vote at a polling station in Bratislava in the country's second round.
Smer-SD candidate Maros Sefcovic votes in Bratislava in the first round of Slovakia presidential election. IMAGES of Sefcovic voting
Slovakia's Supreme Court judge and presidential candidate Stefan Harabin votes in the first round of the country's election. IMAGES of Stefan Harabin voting
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Espoo as Finland elects its president. Some 4.3 million voters will have to choose between former conservative prime minister Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto, a Green Party MP running as an independent. The changing geopolitical landscape in Europe will be the main concern for the new head of state, who will lead the country's foreign policy together with the government and act as supreme commander of Finland's armed forces. IMAGES
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).