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Street performers in the Spanish town of Ibi pelted each other with flour and eggs all the while setting off firecrackers and smokebombs as they took part in the annual Els Enfarinats, one of the largest food fights in the world. The annual festival, which dates back more than 200 years, sees participants dressed in military uniforms stage a mock coup d'etat, throwing eggs, flour and smoke bombs at each other.
Representatives of the majority farming unions, Arnaud Rousseau (FNSEA) and Arnaud Gaillot (Jeunes Agriculteurs), arrive at Matignon to meet French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and obtain "concrete measures" to deal with farmers' anger. IMAGES
French unions call for mass protests and strike after French retail group Casino announced to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. At the group's headquarters in Saint-Etienne, in east-central France, employees are demonstrating the potential dismantling of their store. IMAGES
Employees at French retailer Casino are demonstrating outside the group's headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine, south of Paris. Unions called for the protest as thefood retail group has declared itself to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. The group owns several supermarket chains such as Monoprix, Franprix, Exito, Pao de Acucar... 200,000 employees work for the Casino group worldwide including 50,000 in France. IMAGES
Inside the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul, the organisation overseeing the grain exports, the Ukrainian and Russian delegations monitor the first shipment of Ukrainian grain as it leaves the port of Odessa under a deal aimed at relieving a global food crisis following Russia's invasion of its neighbour. The vessel was carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn, according to Ukraine's infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov. IMAGES
Images of the first McDonald's in Russia, which opened in 1990 on Pushkinskaya Square in downtown Moscow, as the fast food company announces the temporary closure of all its restaurants in Russia in response to Moscow's ongoing military operation in Ukraine. IMAGES
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