IRAN: Tehran’s Guardian Council today approved the country’s hard-line parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and five others to run in the country’s June 28 presidential election following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others.

The council again barred former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from running in the election.

EUROPEAN UNION: Tens of millions across the European Union went to the polls today for the final day of elections for the European Parliament.