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London (AFP) – Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace for the final time as her coffin begins its journey to Westminster Hall, where the late monarch will lie in state. IMAGES

London (AFP) – IMAGES People set up their tents on the banks of the Thames and wait to pay their respects at the Queen’s coffin which will lie in state in parliament’s Westminster Hall until her funeral on Monday.

London (AFP) – IMAGES View of Westminster Hall where Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will lie in state until her funeral on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of Britons are expected in London to pay their last respects to the Queen.

London (AFP) – IMAGES Images of Buckingham Palace on the day that King Charles III will lead a procession of the coffin of his mother Queen Elizabeth II through London before hundreds of thousands of people pay their final respects.

Stockholm (AFP) – IMAGES The last votes are counted in the municipality of Stockholm after a days-long wait for the final results of a too-close-to-call general election, with an unprecedented right-wing and far-right bloc in position to wrest power from Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats.

London (AFP) – IMAGES Scenes outside Buckingham Palace in London as crowds wait for the procession of Queen Elizabeth’s coffin towards Westminster Hall where she will lie in state until her funeral. Police officers can be seen securing the route.

Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) (AFP) – IMAGES Pope Francis holds Holy Mass in the EXPO International Exhibition Center grounds in Nur-Sultan during the second day of his Apostolic visit to Kazakhstan.

London (AFP) – IMAGES The queues in London to see the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II lying in state in Westminster Hall snake around the Thames, with many of the visitors having camped overnight to be first in line to catch a glimpse of the late monarch.

Bangkok (AFP) – A Thai soldier killed two people and wounded one other in a shooting at a military facility in Bangkok on Wednesday, police and army officials said. In the aftermath of the shooting, police officers and soldiers guarded the gates of the facility, part of a large complex of military buildings in the north of the capital.

Jakarta (AFP) – Hundreds of protesters join a demonstration in the Indonesian capital Jakarta to oppose the government’s decision to raise fuel prices. The protests have lasted for several days and spread to different cities across the archipelago.

London (AFP) – Crowds gather in droves in London, to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II as her coffin arrives at Buckingham Palace. On Wednesday, the queen’s body will be borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage from her Buckingham Palace home to Westminster Hall where she will remain for four days until her funeral next week.

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Four years after the murder of her friend and outspoken black- and LGBTQ-rights campaigner Marielle Franco, Renata Souza carries on the slain Rio de Janeiro city councillor’s fight, running for reelection as a state lawmaker in Brazil’s October 2 elections.