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French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, along with ministers Gerald Darmanin, Pap Ndiaye and Stanislas Guerini, arrive at ruling party Renaissance meetings, in Louan-Villegruis-Fontaine, in Seine-et-Marne. IMAGES
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
Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists gather outside the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, northeastern France, which is due to rule in three separate cases to decide wether states are doing enough in the face of climate change. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES
Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) holds its closing rally for presidential candidate and current Vice-President Lai Ching-te, on the eve of an election that China has warned could take the island of 23 million people closer to war. Tens of thousands of people have flocked to noisy rallies of the main candidates as they make a last push for votes. IMAGES