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PARIS, FRANCE – JANUARY 13: A customer leaves a Carrefour supermarket on January 13, 2021 in Paris, France. French retailer Carrefour today confirmed “very preliminary” discussions with Canadian Couche-Tard, a fuel supply and distribution group, for a “friendly” merger project. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

Seeing a ‘sovereignty’ threat (and pasta risk), France opposes Carrefour takeover

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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 06: Protesters supporting U.S. President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building during demonstrations in the nation’s capital. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

World leaders are aghast at ‘disgraceful scenes’ of Trump supporters storming U.S. Capitol

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PARIS, FRANCE – MAY 04: A banner with word: “vaccine” and a French flag to support to caregivers are hung on a balcony as the lockdown continues due to the coronavirus outbreak (COVID 19) on May, 04, 2020 in Paris’ suburb at Saint-Mande, France. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to many countries across the world, claiming over 250,000 lives and infecting over 3.6 million people. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

France’s vaunted health system fails its greatest test in generations: The COVID-19 vaccine rollout

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PARIS, FRANCE – DECEMBER 16: French President Emmanuel Macron (L) welcomes Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa prior to their meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace on December 16, 2020 in Paris, France. In January 2021, Portugal will take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.<br />
Portugal will assume the six-month rotating EU Council presidency on 1 January 2021, being the fourth time that Lisbon held the role since joining the then European Economic Community in 1986. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

France’s Macron tests positive, and now Europe is scrambling to put the lid on a potential COVID cluster

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Big Chocolate-Cocoa Beans-Ivory Coast

Big Chocolate’s trip to the Supreme Court could have big implications for corporations

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Swiss-based multinationals such as Glencore Plc face a controversial referendum measure that would hold all companies legally liable for abuses that result from their business operations anywhere in the world. Wire photography: Alessandro Della Bella—Bloomberg via Getty Images

In a historic vote, the Swiss will determine if multinationals should be held liable for global abuses

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Cocoa farmers break cocoa pods in a plantation near Guiglo, western Ivory Coast, on October 10, 2020. – Last week President of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara anounced an increase of the price of cocoa from from 825 to 1,000 CFA francs (from $1.48 to $1.79) a kilo ahead of the country’s October 31, 2020, presidential election. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP) (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)

The Supreme Court will decide: Can Big Chocolate be blamed for child slavery?

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Calros Ghosn Press Conference Reaction in Japan

Japan’s jailing of Carlos Ghosn was overly ‘harsh’ and compromises their case, U.N. rights lawyers say

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PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 28: French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean Yves Le Drian leaves the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet meeting on October 28, 2020 in Paris, France. (Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images)

Even if Biden wins, European leaders warn rebuilding relationships will take time

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Sylvain, who used to work on the plantation of his uncle, shows the machete he used for the cocoa harvest in the village of Konan Yaokro, Ivory Coast, 1 December 2017. Amangoua plants cocoa on three hectars. Most chocolate in Germany comes from Weste Africa, where more and more children work in the cocoa plantations. Photo: Jürgen Bätz/dpa

Big Chocolate’s child-labor problem is still far from fixed

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PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 14: People enjoy a drink in a cafe terrace as French President Emmanuel Macron deploys curfew amid accelerating coronavirus epidemic on October 14, 2020 in Paris, France. French President Emmanuel Macron announced on television this evening a curfew for Ile-de-France and eight metropolises between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Saturday to tackle a second wave of the coronavirus outbreak across France. Bars and restaurants in Paris and the inner suburbs will close their doors at 9 p.m. from October 17, for a period of one month. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

‘A curfew at nine o’clock is like closing restaurants’: For the French, the latest COVID measures cross a line

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An employee loads larvae into a sorting oven inside the Ynsect insect farm in Dole, France. Ynsect has been a hot target for investors in 2020.

With backing from Hollywood, French startup Ÿnsect plans to bring edible insects to America

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United Airlines is among a small group of airline that have agreed to trial Cathay passengers who have volunteered to trial a new COVID tracking system for air passengers based on QR codes technology. The platform is called CommonPass and is scheduled to debut on Thursday.

The tech startup trying to restore our faith in COVID-free air travel

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Following a bombshell revelation that Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19 is unnerving America’s biggest trading partners. Wire photography: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS—AFP via Getty Images

Why Trump’s COVID diagnosis spooks America’s trading partners

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Foot Traffic: JioMart, Reliance’s retail outfit, supports tens of thousands of mom-and-pop shops that view Amazon and Walmart as threats.

Will India’s Jio be the next tech giant?

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