Rescuers carry an injured victim of an earthquake in Ludian county in Zhaotong, China’s Yunnan province.

6 Aug 2014, 12:00 am0

Rescuers carry an injured victim of an earthquake in Ludian county in Zhaotong, China's Yunnan province.

The fight to save, not shut: Tale of a McDonald’s in France

AFP, Marseille :For decades, McDonald’s was the brand French people loved to hate. From the 1970s it was accused of being the exporter of “mal bouffe” (“bad food”) to the land of fine dining, blamed for introducing millions of French people to high-calorie American fast-food.It was also resisted as a symbol of US economic and cultural imperialism, particularly by leftwingers, in a country that remains suspicious of globalisation — and more eager than most to defend its own language and...

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