Paris
No ketchup: French schoolchildren will no longer be able to drown their meals in that quintessentially American condiment, ketchup. Under new dietary guidelines for schools, ketchup will be available only once a week—the day that French fries are served. The change was ostensibly made as part of a fight against obesity. Mayonnaise, which is far more caloric, will also be rationed, but kids can still eat as many baguettes as they want. “Cafeterias have a public-health mission, but also an educative mission,” said Christophe Hébert, chairman of the National Association of Directors of Collective Restaurants. “We have to ensure children become familiar with French recipes so that they can hand them down to the following generation.”
Kiev, Ukraine
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Opposition leader jailed: A Ukrainian court this week sentenced former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office, after a trial widely condemned as politically motivated. The court found that Tymoshenko had agreed to pay too much for Ukraine’s purchase of natural gas from Russia. Tymoshenko, who was one of the pro-Western leaders of the 2004 Orange Revolution, which brought democracy to Ukraine, has been a target of the increasingly repressive President Viktor Yanukovych since he defeated her in the 2010 presidential election. “Don’t give up,” she told supporters. “Fight, and we will overcome the authoritarian regime with our strength.” The U.S. criticized the sentence, and the E.U. said it might cancel a planned trade agree
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