Exit polls in France show President Emmanuel Macron has won a commanding parliamentary majority after Sunday's election.
With more on this and other news from around the world we turn to Ro Aram…
Aram… after a strong victory in the first round of voting last week… Macron's Republic on the Move party looks set for a comfortable lead.
Could you run down the numbers for us?
Well Mark… With almost all votes counted... the LREM and its Modem allies won more than 300 seats in the 577-seat lower house.
This far exceeds the 289-seat threshold required to control the National Assembly.
The Socialists appear to have been crushed, with projections showing the current majority and its allies holding on to only 41 to 49 seats.
Pollsters also predict the conservative Republicans and their allies would form the largest opposition bloc with 125 to 131 seats.
Macron's presidential rival and far-right leader Marine Le Pen won a parliamentary seat for the first time and her National Front party clinched at least eight seats.
Voter turnout for both rounds of the general election was sharply down from 2012 and the second round was estimated to be around 42 percent - a record low.
Although the LREM's majority was lower than previously forecast, it still provides a strong mandate for the centrist president to pursue his pro-EU, business-friendly reform plans.
