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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
"There is still a chance" of avoiding a government shutdown, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Dialogue between the US and China is "essential" and will help avoid miscalculations that could lead to conflict, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Saturday, after Beijing declined an invitation for a formal meeting between him and his Chinese counterpart. SOUNDBITE
Firefighters and rescue workers in Cambodia attend to the charred remains of a hotel-casino complex where a fire left several people dead, with a number of others on life support. The deadly blaze broke out late Wednesday night at the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino in Poipet, on the border with Thailand. IMAGES
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