
India elections
Shock for India's Modi as opposition set to slash majority.
Official figures from India's general election show an alliance led by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, is poised to win a third term but with only a narrow parliamentary majority. We hear a conversation between three young Indians for their thoughts on the results. Divya Arya in Delhi takes us through a walkabout in the bureau in India with her colleagues who have been covering the election.
The BBC's Vanessa Buschscluter updates us on the story of gunmen who have killed the female mayor of a town in Mexico, just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation's first woman president.
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Presenter: Luke Jones
(Photo: India's Narendra Modi. Credit: Getty Images)
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