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Lima (AFP) – Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori shows her finger with ink and her ID as she smiles to the press after voting on election day. IMAGES

Lima (AFP) – Peruvian presidential candidate Rafael Lopez Aliaga votes in Lima during Peru’s presidential elections, joining voters across the country as polls opened for a race featuring 35 candidates. IMAGES

Lima (AFP) – People cast their votes in Lima as polls open in Peru’s presidential and legislative elections, with crime and instability dominating a crowded race to choose the country’s ninth leader in a decade. IMAGES

Lima (AFP) – Election officials wait for people to be let into voting center in Lima to start voting in Peru’s presidential election. Polls open in Peru’s presidential and legislative elections, with crime-weary voters facing a dizzying choice of 35 candidates vying to be the country’s ninth leader in a decade. IMAGES

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko describes Donald Trump as a “man who destabilises the world” and accuses him of having plunged the world into “chaos” by triggering the war in Iran. Speaking at a press conference on sovereignty in Dakar, Sonko adds, “Mr Trump is not a man of peace.”

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he discussed the “practical plan” needed to resume shipping in the Strait of Hormuz with US President Donald Trump during a Gulf trip following the US-Iran ceasefire. Speaking at the conclusion of the visit, Starmer says he put forward the views of the Gulf states to Trump. “If the ceasefire is to hold, and we hope it will, it has to involve them,” he says, adding: “We spent most of the time on the call talking about the practical plan that’s going to be needed to get navigation through the Strait.”

Djibouti (AFP) – Polls open in Djibouti’s capital as the country’s president Ismail Omar Guelleh is expected to win reelection, extending his 27-year rule of the tiny, highly strategic Horn of Africa nation.

Nabatieh (Lebanon) (AFP) – Smoke billows as medics work to retrieve victims after an Israeli strike near a government facility in Nabatiyeh killed at least 10 members of the country’s State Security agency, a source from a government agency told AFP. The attack is one of many Israeli strikes on Lebanon in recent days, as the two sides begin bilateral negotiations to end the war that has left nearly 1,900 people in Lebanon dead.

Lima (AFP) – Keiko Fujimori, the once combative founder of the right-wing Popular Force party, closes her presidential campaign in Lima. The former congresswoman is attempting to break a three-election losing streak, which saw her defeated each time in the runoff. IMAGES

Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – Lebanon declares a national day of mourning after Israeli strikes pummelled the country on 8 April, killing more than 200 people and calling into question the ceasefire between the United States and Iran after conflicting messages about the country’s inclusion in the truce. While the US and Israel insist Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire deal, Iran has since said that Lebanon is an “inseparable part” of the agreement and other countries have urged the warring parties to extend the truce to Lebanon ahead of further peace talks in Pakistan.

Moscow (AFP) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that Russia “poses no threat to any country” and concerns raised by France’s top general are “absolutely unfounded”. France’s chief of the defence staff General Fabien Mandon said the possibility of a war with Russia in the next few years remained his “primary concern” as he defended efforts to ramp up defence spending.