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India election 2024: Vote counting underway

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Counting is underway after India's mammoth election.  The Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Modi is predicted to win a historic third term easily but early results are showing the opposition parties are doing better than expected. We'll get the latest from Delhi. 

We'll hear from our correspondent, who's on the campaign trail with Peter Magyar in eastern Hungary, ahead of this coming weekend's European parliament elections. 


Economic activity in Nigeria has been disrupted by an indefinite nationwide strike by public workers over failed negotiations on a minimum wage. We’ll head to Lagos for the latest.

Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa tells us why she feels social media is a threat to our freedom

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