French Farmers Mount Fuel Blockades
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Hundreds of angry French farmers mounted blockades around the country Monday to hold up fuel shipments in protest at soaring diesel and gasoline prices and to press their demands for government aid.
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France and Spain were hit on Tuesday by a dioxin contamination scare that has forced the closure of almost 200 Dutch farms after the cancer-causing toxin was found in animal feed.
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Several thousand taxi drivers staged protests across France Wednesday, disrupting traffic from Paris&#39; international airports over plans to open up their jobs to competition and scrap a fuel subsidy.
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Business & money: Â· Call to catch up with big energy crop producersÂ· Concerns over food supply are 'absolute nonsense'
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Guns and balaclavas appear in France's vineyards as despairing growers struggle for a living price for their wine.
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Channel ferry services are disrupted by a French fishermen's strike over fuel price rises.
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Algeria suffered a weekend of violent protests against government plans to raise gas prices, local press reports.
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France's wine harvest got underway in the southeastern Provence region as the country's growers struggle to beat back competition from abroad, the Provence wine industry association announced.
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The second day of a Maoist blockade of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu leads to petrol rationing and a rise in food prices.
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The French government on Saturday suspended the use of genetically modified corn crops in France while it awaits EU approval for a full ban.
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French ministers tried on Tuesday to calm  tensions following the government's decision to ban cultivation  of the sole genetically modified (GMO) crop grown in the  country, stressing that the move was temporary.
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France's conservative government is vowing not to buckle under pressure from the worst strikes for two years, but a tough battle is brewing after a week of protests which have strengthened the unions' resolve.
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Â· Farmers rally to back presidential programme  Â· Leadership blames clashes on US interference
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The government warns against illegal blockades as fuel protesters prepare for a day of action.
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ABENGOUROU, Ivory Coast  - Angry at graft and disorder in Ivory Coast's cocoa sector, farmer Anini Kouakou spoke out on national television earlier this year against corrupt officials he says are siphoning off farmers' cash.
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With agriculture running like a scalded bovine, DuPont offers a couple of lush opportunities.
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Demonstrators seized control of a natural gas facility in Bolivia on Friday in protest over the government's nationalization of the energy industry, which they say has not gone far enough, local radio reported.