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- Félix Tshisekedi (pictured) is declared the winner of the 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election.
- Eight soldiers are arrested and two are killed after a failed coup attempt to oust Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
- Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople grants autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the ongoing schism within Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
- The China National Space Administration's Chang'e 4 becomes the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the Moon.
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