A vegan restaurant - The Mango Tree in Taunton, Somerset - has been forced by the cost of living crisis to start serving meat. As the economic realities started to bite, the restaurant took the desperate measure of including meat dishes on its menu to attract a wider set of customers. The restaurant said it had no other choice and that if it hadn't changed its menu it would have had to close forever.

However, some of its former supporters have hit out saying "selling meat is worse than closing"

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💬 Erdogan considers West's policy on Ukraine wrong, says it is aimed at provoking

⚡️⚡️Russia сan't be underestimated, West should have thought about energy crisis in advance: Erdogan

Putin explains why Russia's recognition of the Donbass republics is legitimate

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🇷🇸 If Serbia hadn't stockpiled Russian gas, there would be a catastrophe in the country now, Serbia's President Vucic says

Although Russian fertilizers and food were exempt from sanctions, there are restrictions on logistics, ship freights, money wiring and insurance, making the situation difficult and "tricky", Putin says

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💭 Did we build Nord Stream 2 for nothing?

Putin: We don’t build anything for nothing

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🌈 Amazing footage from 462-meter Lakhta Center (the tallest building in Europe) shows a rainbow appearing in the skies over Russia's Saint Petersburg

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🎵🇬🇧 "You're getting a bit of Dr. Dre": UK Health Secretary Therese Coffey's interview has been interrupted by her music alarm

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📹 Hillary Clinton revealed how she left her daughter Chelsea at the Kremlin in Moscow

"Craziest vacation memory": the former US Secretary of State said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that she and her husband Bill Clinton once accidentally left their daughter at the Kremlin during a state visit to Russia.

“I hope she [Chelsea] doesn’t remember this because it was pretty traumatic,” Clinton said.

"We took her to Russia when we went on a state visit when Bill was president, and there were the formal goodbyes so Bill and I were ushered into the Beast, the big limousine, to head to the airport, not knowing that we had left her behind," she added.

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🤪 Paws off the wheel: Man is arrested after letting a dog ‘drive’ his car

🇮🇱 A 35-year-old resident of the Arab village of Ein Naqquba near Jerusalem was arrested and taken for interrogation on suspicion of "reckless driving" after he published a picture of his dog “driving” his car on social media. The vehicle in the video is seen navigating narrow streets

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Putin, commenting on the appointment of Britain's latest PM Truss, said that the procedure for electing a new head of government in the UK is far from democratic

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❗During the past day the Ukrainian military has lost four tanks, other equipment and more than 150 soldiers in the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction, Russia's Ministry of Defense says

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🤷‍♂️ Elon Musk reportedly delayed buying Twitter for $44bn in May because he feared Vladimir Putin would declare World War III on the Victory Day

According to texts between the billionaire entrepreneur and his bankers revealed in a court hearing, Musk said that it “wouldn’t make sense to buy Twitter if we’re heading into World War III”.

Twitter lawyers use Musk's messages to argue that the billionaire wants cancel his $44 billion purchase of the social network for personal reasons, but not fear of fake accounts on Twitter.

“Let’s slow down just a few days. [Vladimir] Putin’s speech tomorrow is extremely important,” Musk wrote on May 8.

👉Meanwhile Vladimir Putin on May 9

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❗US delegation of lawmakers to visit Taiwan Sept. 7-9

⚡German Defense Ministry: “We have handed over to Ukraine an ‘incredible amount’ of weapons from the Bundeswehr reserve, but I will say at this point quite clearly: we have reached the limit”

🇬🇧 The TV program This Morning has scrapped energy and household bill cash prizes after public backlash