Customers look at packages of pasta on sale in a supermarket in Milan, northern Italy, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Italians are calling for a pasta protest as food prices squeeze Europe. Grocery prices have risen more sharply in Europe than in other advanced economies from the U.S. to Japan, driven by higher energy and labor costs and the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
June 12, 2023
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