The foreign ministers of the G7 group said Hong Kong's vetting process for Sunday's vote undermined Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy under the "One Country, Two Systems" principle.
Polling stations in 154 village councils in the occupied West Bank are open until 7:00 pm, with some 405,000 people eligible to vote.
Five candidates are in the run for the top post in the West African nation, where dictator Yahya Jammeh ruled for 22 years.
Incumbent President Rumen Radev aims at cleaning Bulgaria's image as the EU's most corrupt member state, won 49.5 percent of the votes in the first round last week.
Chileans go to the ballot box for the fourth time in 18 months as the country's economic woes have worsened with the coronavirus epidemic, unemployment and skyrocketing foreign debt.
Khalifa Haftar’s announcement comes two days after the candidacy of Seif al Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late ruler Muammar Gaddafi, who is accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court.
The announcement comes weeks after the military junta sentenced a close aide of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 20 years in prison for treason.
Official partial results show Ortega, the Americas’ longest-serving leader, has won re-election with 75 percent of the vote in polls denounced by US President Joe Biden as a “sham”.
The elections are seen as key to a UN-backed roadmap to advance the peace process in the war-torn country.
Babis's main rivals are two groupings, one comprising the anti-establishment Pirate Party with the centrist Mayors and Independents, and the other being a three-party centre-right coalition called Together.
The vote was for 30 members of the 45-strong Shura Council, a body with limited powers that was previously appointed by the emir as an advisory chamber.
An exit poll by Ipsos Global pollster commissioned by the pro-opposition Mtavari TV has shown opposition parties won 61.4 percent of the votes, against 38.6 percent for the ruling party.
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