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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen recommends the bloc drop a plan to cut pesticide use in agriculture as a concession to protesting European farmers. The original proposal, put forward by her European Commission as part of the European Union's green transition, "has become a symbol of polarisation," she tells the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. SOUNDBITE
Representatives of the majority farming unions, Arnaud Rousseau (FNSEA) and Arnaud Gaillot (Jeunes Agriculteurs), arrive at Matignon to meet French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and obtain "concrete measures" to deal with farmers' anger. IMAGES
Images of soldiers patrolling the streets of Ecuador's capital, Quito, on armored vehicles after President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency. The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels that use its ports to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. IMAGES
The military is deployed in the surroundings of the Palacio de Carondelet, Ecuador's presidential palace after new President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency in response to a drug kingpin's escape from prison. Officials have announced that four police officers were kidnapped following Noboa's announcement. IMAGES
Images released by Ecuador's Armed Forces show military personnel and police officers carrying out a joint operation at the Zonal Penitentiary No 8 in the major port of Guayaquil. It comes amid the state of emergency declared in Ecuador on August 10, following the assassination of popular presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio ahead of the elections. The leader of one of Ecuador's most powerful criminal groups Los Choneros, known as 'Fito', is incarcerated at the penitentiary. IMAGES
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