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Senegalese were on Friday urged to turn out and show their opposition to a last-minute delay of presidential polls, in a test of the balance of power between President Macky Sall and opponents. On Monday parliament backed Sall's sudden decision to postpone the February 25 election by 10 months, sparking a fierce opposition backlash and international concern.

US President Joe Biden's memory under scrutiny in wake of bombshell report following a special counsel investigation.

A hostage situation on a train in the west of Switzerland on Thursday night ended with the suspect killed by the police and the hostages safely freed.

The UK sale of sets, costumes and props from the hit Netflix drama "The Crown" was due to end Thursday after several showpiece items smashed estimates and netted tens of thousands of pounds. Hundreds of items -- from a signed script to a sports car -- featured in the award-winning show went under the hammer in a two-day London auction that included a live sale Wednesday.

Rescuers used their bare hands and shovels to dig through mud on Thursday in a desperate search for survivors of a landslide in the Philippines as the death toll rose to 10, officials said. Two days after the rain-induced landslide hit the mountainous gold-mining village of Masara on southern Mindanao island, searchers were in a race against time and weather.

Pakistanis turning out early for Thursday's election said they believe their votes count, despite allegations of rigging in the nation's most fractious poll in recent history. "I believe in democracy and I think my vote matters," said 22-year-old psychology student Haleema Shafiq, among the first to vote in the capital Islamabad.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world is entering "an age of chaos".

With his father King Charles III undergoing treatment for cancer and his wife recovering from surgery, Britain's Prince William will return to royal frontline duties on Wednesday. The king's shock cancer diagnosis announced on Monday, and Catherine's abdominal operation have left William shouldering a heavy royal burden.

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, who took office last August, has frequently voiced his opposition to the recreational use of the drug and said it should only be allowed for medicinal use. There was fresh pressure from the public last weekend after attendees of British rock band Coldplay's shows in Bangkok complained on social media saying "the entire concert smelled like marijuana"