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Armenian voters look for their names on publicly displayed voter lists, at a precinct in Ararat on election day, 6 May 2012.

A voter collects his ballot papers at a polling station in Staro Sajmište, Belgrade, during the parliamentary elections and early presidential elections in Serbia, 6 May 2012.

Nearly 11,000 firearms surrendered by their owners were destroyed by the government as part of a programme to reduce the number of weapons in Argentina, officials said.

Francois Hollande has been elected France's first Socialist president in nearly two decades, beating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in a vote marked by anger over austerity measures, high unemployment and the country's lagging economy.

Nearly 14 months after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl, Japan is shutting down the last of its nuclear reactors.

A senior al-Qaeda leader, wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, has been killed in a Yemen air raid.

Greeks are voting Sunday in the first general election since the start of the country's debt crisis.

French people are voting in a crucial run-off in the country's presidential polls Sunday that could see a Socialist win for the first time since 1988.

Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said Sunday that some drug smugglers linked to the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists have been arrested, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Russia will keep backing the peaceful settlement plan in Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.