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More than 1,500 chefs from around the world along with thousands of fans of French cuisine were expected in Lyon on Friday to honour their "pope" Paul Bocuse, who died last Saturday aged 91. IMAGES (completes VID1133963_EN)
Activist Greta Thunberg says that a ruling by Europe's top rights court that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change is "only the beginning". SOUNDBITE
Europe's top rights court says Switzerland is not doing enough to tackle climate change, in the first such ruling on the responsibility of states in curbing global warming. SOUNDBITE
During a state visit to Sweden, French President Emmnauel Macron urges Europe to take 'bold' decisions to support Ukraine, regardless of what the US decides. While the US has sent tens of billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022, Republican lawmakers are growing reluctant to keep supporting Kyiv, saying it lacks a clear end game as the fighting grinds on. SOUNDBITE
Several hundred people gather in support of Israel outside the Council of Europe two days after Hamas's surprise attack. IMAGES
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