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Emmanuel Macron meets local political and economic leaders in the New Caledonia capital of Noumea, as the French President seeks ways to end more than a week of looting, arson and clashes that have left six people dead and hundreds injured in the Pacific territory. The unrest erupted over a French voting reform plan that indigenous Kanaks say will dilute their voice. IMAGES
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer arrives to cast his ballot at a polling station in London, as Britain begins voting in local and mayoral elections that are expected to increase pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The polls are the last major electoral test before a general election that Sunak's Tory party, in power since 2010, seems destined to lose to Starmer's Labour opposition. IMAGES
The first people arrive to cast their ballots at polling stations in Westminster, central London, as Britain begins voting in local and mayoral elections that are expected to increase pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The polls are the last major electoral test before a general election that Sunak's Tory party, in power since 2010, seems destined to lose to the Labour opposition. IMAGES
Around a hundred people gather in front of Paris secondary school Maurice-Ravel in support of its principal who resigned on Wednesday after receiving death threats following an altercation with a student demanding she remove her Muslim veil. French politicians from across the spectrum Wednesday have expressed dismay at the principal's resignation. IMAGES
The United States says that a Russian ban on US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty shows Moscow's efforts to deny open information. "It is quite clear that they do not want their people to have information about what the Russian regime does abroad, what the Russian regime does to its own people," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
French farmers dump tyres outside the administrative and tax centre in Laval, northwest France, as the government is due to make further announcements later today. IMAGES
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