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Tractors are blocking the A6 motorway to Paris at Chilly-Mazarin, about 20 kilometers from Paris and around ten kilometres from the Rungis international market that farmers want to disrupt. 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
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges wealthy nations to tax fossil fuel companies and use the proceeds to compensate for damage from climate change and provide relief over rising prices. "Let's tell it like it is -- our world is addicted to fossil fuels. It's time for an intervention. We need to hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers to account," Guterres says in an address to open the UN General Assembly. SOUNDBITE
Sudanese demonstrators burn car tyres blocking roads as they gather on the streets of the capital, Khartoum, to protest against the detentions of civilian members of Sudan's ruling council and ministers in the transitional government. IMAGES
From white-linen tablecloth restaurants to a local burger joint, potatoes for food service make up an estimated 55% of all potato crops sold in the US. But according to Business Insider, American farmers are now stuck with billions of pounds of potatoes they can't sell--or easily dispose of. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the closure of hundreds of thousands of restaurants and other cooked food outlets. That meant potato orders to farmers virtually stopped, leading farms across the country with piles of rotting produce. In Idaho, for example, the going rate for a sack of potatoes has gone from $12 to $3--and it takes a rate of at least $5 a sack for most farmers to break even. All in all, an estimated 1.5 billion pounds of potatoes are trapped in the supply chain across the US.
On Friday morning DoorDash released its filing to go public. In the filing DoorDash said in the filing that, in the first nine months of 2020, it generated revenue of $1.9 billion. That's compared to $587 million the year before. CEO Tony Xu said DoorDash is all about helping brick and mortar businesses succeed. "Helping brick-and-mortar businesses compete, succeed, and flourish in these rapidly changing times is the core problem we are trying to solve." Business Insider reports that DoorDash filed a form S-1 for IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.