Former US President Barack Obama advised Muslims concerned about the ongoing conflict in Palestine not to trust Republican candidate Donald Trump, citing Trump's 2017 strict restrictions on immigration from Muslim countries.

In the presidential elections held in Tunisia, the current president of the country, Qais Said, won with 90.69 percent of votes. The level of participation in the elections was 28.8 percent.

Karim Garbi, a Tunisian rapper known as K2Rhym, who wants to run for the Tunisian presidential elections in October, was sentenced in absentia to 4 years in prison and a $1,600 fine for forging documents.

The second round of presidential elections in Iran ended with the victory of Masoud Pezeshkian, representative of the reformist bloc. 53.6% of voters voted for Masud Pezeshkian. The 69-year-old politician was born in the west of Iran in an ethnic Azerbaijani family.

Voting for the second round of the presidential election has begun in Iran. In it, two candidates are competing for the presidency, 69-year-old former health minister, reformist Masoud Pezeshkiyan, and 58-year-old representative of the Iranian leader in the Supreme National Security Council, conservative Saeed Jalili. In polls conducted on July 3, 49.5 percent of participants said they would vote for the reformist candidate Pezeshkian. 43.9 percent of voters preferred the conservative candidate Said Jalili.

Early presidential elections were held in Iran today, June 28. Four candidates - three conservatives and one reformist - competed for this post in the Persian country.

The former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has decided to run again for the position of the supreme government, the state television of the Islamic Republic reports. Earlier, it was known that one of the candidates in the upcoming elections will be a woman.

According to the results of reviewing 80% of the protocols for the Russian presidential elections, Putin received 87.15% of the votes.

The President of the European Union Council, Charles Michel, was the first to "congratulate" Putin. "I congratulate Vladimir Putin in advance, who will win the elections in Russia, because there is no opposition, no, no freedom, no choice in Russia," he wrote. During the election process, cases such as burning of ballots and "pouring of zelyonka" are observed by citizens of the Russian Federation.

Presidential elections have begun in Russia, which for the first time in the country's history will be held over three days - on March 15, 16 and 17. Elections will also be held in the occupied Crimea and the Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine - Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.