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France's far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, who scored a close third-place finish in the first-round vote, casts his ballot in Marseille for the secound round of the presidential election. IMAGES
Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn votes in a general election that has been darkened by two jihadist attacks, leaving forecasters struggling on the eve of voting to predict an outcome. IMAGES of Jeremy Corbyn arriving to vote.
Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado arrives at Caracas polling station to cast her ballot, as the country votes between continuity in President Nicolas Maduro or change in rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia amid high tension following the incumbent's threat of a "bloodbath" if he loses. IMAGES
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad casts his vote in Syria's fourth parliamentary election since the civil war erupted in 2011, a poll expected to keep his 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
Biram Dah Abeid, a human rights activist and one of the incumbent president's main rivals votes in Nouakchott in Mauritania's presidential election. IMAGES