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The world's biggest children's book award goes to a South African organisation promoting reading among children and young people. Rollo Ross reports.
Comedian and actor Bill Murray is awarded the Kennedy Center's annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Helena Williams reports.
The combination of the two winners Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, Hindu and Muslim, Indian and Pakistani, was chosen because they join in a common struggle for education and against extremism.
Osman Kavala, an imprisoned Turkish human rights defender, has been awarded the Council of Europe's Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize. As Ankara's bête noire, Kavala risked incurring the wrath of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In his absence, it was his wife, Ayse Bugra Kavala, who received the award from the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tiny Kox, in the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. IMAGES
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to imprisoned Iranian women's rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi, "for her fight against the opression of women in Iran", and "freedom for all" announces the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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