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Indian director Payal Kapadia says she hopes it "won't take another thirty years" for an Indian film to win a prize at Cannes after she was awarded the Grand Prix for the film "All We Imagine as Light." SOUNDBITE
Police and bulldozers continue to demolish tin huts of the Talus 2 shantytown on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte as part of a long-promised operation to combat substandard housing and illegal migration. IMAGES
Thousands take to the street in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib to mark ten years since the nationwide anti-government protests that sparked the country's devastating civil war. IMAGES
Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the World Meterological Organization, says the last 10 years have been the warmest since 1850. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron enjoys local produce at a picnic in the southern town of Saint-Pierre on France's Reunion island as his four-day tour of Mayotte and Reunion island draws to a close. IMAGES
Amazon chief Jezz Bezos pledges the retail giant will meet its emissions targets taken under the Paris climate accord 10 years ahead of schedule. We want to use our scope and our scale to lead the way," Bezos told a news conference in the US capital, announcing the firm would acquire 100,000 electric delivery vans to help cut its carbon fooptprint. The world's richest man, Bezos said Amazon would be the first signatory to the 2015 Paris deal to commit to meet its targets, a decade early, with other companies to follow suit. SOUNDBITE