Champagne growers struggle as pandemic takes fizz out of bubbly sales
Covid-19 slump leads to bitter dispute between vineyard owners and champagne houses
Macron dealt big blow as ecology minister quits on live radio
Shock departure of Nicholas Hulot damages French president’s green credentials
China slaps seasonal fishing ban on Yellow River due to overfishing
River devastated by effects of economic expansion considered cradle of Chinese civilisation
Brazilian police raid meat plants in bribery investigation
Sinn Féin calls for a halt on Brazilian beef imports to Europe in wake of scandal
Strain of bird flu found in Ireland still unconfirmed
Mass culls of poultry announced in France as the disease spreads across Europe
Former agriculture department head appointed to Elivia board
Tom Moran appointed to French beef processor board as nominee of Dawn Meats
Netanyahu struggling to form coalition
Surprise move by Avigdor Lieberman shifts focus to another right-wing Israeli party
EU ‘shot itself in foot’ with Russia sanctions - Hungary PM
Sanctions policy in West ‘causes more harm to us than to Russia’, says Viktor Orban
Anti-government activists seize Ukraine justice ministry
Rallies and clashes spread as security services warn of danger to nuclear power plants writes Dan McLaughlin in Kiev
Unrest spreads in Ukraine as opposition reject concessions
Police unit leaves building in central Kiev after siege by demonstrators
Ukraine’s embattled president offers PM post to opposition
Protesters to be considered ‘extremists’ if they refuse to leave central Kiev
Man dies of new bird flu strain in China
Strain of bird flu previously unknown in humans now detected in nine cases
Chinese seek answers as more floating pig carcasses found in ‘hog wash scandal’
Shanghai officials insist water quality ‘normal’ despite discovery of 15,000 pigs in river
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