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French retail giant Carrefour has started putting stickers on products that have shrunk in size but cost the same or even more to warn customers against "shrinkflation" - ahead of new contract talks that are set to begin soon. This as the government is planning to temporarily lift a ban on retailers selling fuels at below-cost, to help households struggling to cope with stubbornly high inflation.
Hartmut Fey, a resident of the small German border village of Lauterbach has been buying his morning pastry in France "for decades". Now, with the border closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, he's doing what he can to keep up the tradition of buying his daily bread - once even picking up a bag from his baker using a fishing rod for a funny social media video. Fortunately, such extreme lengths are not entirely necessary. French baker Myriam Jansem-Boualit takes orders by phone for the croissants and baguettes made in her bakery located in the former French customs outpost in Carling, and delivers them to customers at the border crossing.
Coronavirus pandemic: supermarkets turn to French farmers to supply food. Down To Earth's Mairead Dundas reports.
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South Korea has done it, so has Peru and Indonesia. These countries have engaged in something known as gastrodiplomacy.
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.
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