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A day after 91 people were arrested for trespassing, French police are checking vehicles at the entrance to Rungis wholesale food market, a vital distribution hub for the capital region's 12 million people. French farmers' anger continues unabated, and the crisis is taking centre stage at a European summit to be attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
Angry French farmers dump tyres, apples, manure and soil in front of warehouses of retailler Supermarket U in the southwestern town of Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois. IMAGES
"My colleagues and I are acutely aware that high inflation imposes significant hardship as it erodes purchasing power," US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says in Washington. SOUNDBITE
French Ecology Minister Christophe Bechu and Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau are booed and hissed at at the Paris international Agricultural Show by around twenty people shouting "Fesneau resign" and holding up signs reading "Come back down to earth", as the two ministers are forced to leave the stand of Ademe, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency. IMAGES
French farmers block traffic around Paris's famed Arc de Triomphe monument with tractors and bales of hay. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talks with shopkeepers as he visits the market in Royan, a seaside town on France's Atlantic coast, before meeting local representatives of farmers, who are still unhappy despite the assurances he has given them. IMAGES