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US Vice President Kamala Harris says she is "forever grateful" to President Joe Biden as she addresses the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. IMAGES
Images show Rwandan opposition politician Victoire Ingabire arriving at the Kigali High Court where she was applying for her civil rights to be restored, including the right to stand as a presidential candidate in the elections on July 15. The court, however, rejected her application. IMAGES
Early voters head to a Dublin polling station to take part in a double referendum on proposals to modernise constitutional references to the make-up of a family and women's "duties in the home". All the major political parties support a "Yes-Yes" vote, which falls on International Women's Day. IMAGES
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
Staff at a polling station in Guatemala City start counting votes in the Guatemalan presidential runoff between reformist outsider Bernardo Arevalo and former first lady Sandra Torres. IMAGES