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Images show staff at a polling station in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana emptying voting boxes and starting the count of the ballots cast by residents during snap parliamentary elections. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced the early vote as part of a "modernisation" drive introduced after protests against fuel prices erupted in January last year. Tokayev's critics say the drive is designed to consolidate power. IMAGES
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the influential 1922 Committee of backbench MPs, is vague about whether one or two candidates would be likely to run for the Conservative Party leadership after the resignation of Liz Truss. “The party rules say there will be two candidates unless there is only one candidate" he says. SOUNDBITE
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's backbench 1922 Committee, announces that Rishi Sunak and Liza Truss have made it to the final ballot of Conservative members to decide who will replace Boris Johnson as the next party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with Penny Mordaunt knocked out. Sunak led the last of five ballots of Tory lawmakers, winning 137 votes, ahead of Truss on 113, while junior trade minister Penny Mordaunt was eliminated after getting 105 votes. IMAGES
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss launches her campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party, saying that she "can get things done" and "is ready to be prime minister from day one". SOUNDBITE
Re-elected president Emmanuel Macron's convoy arrives at his campaign headquarters in Paris. Bolstered by his re-election, La République En Marche and their allies hope to retain at least two-thirds of the capital's constituencies when MPs are elected in June. IMAGES
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen visits a concrete plant of the Eco Béton group in Gennevilliers, near Paris. Polls show Macron and Le Pen are in a much tighter race than in 2017. IMAGES
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