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The Brazilian government has responded to a week-long national truckers' strike, which led to fuel and food shortages across the country and ceded to protesters' demands yesterday. Diesel prices in Brazil were cut by 46 Brazilian cents ($0.13; £0.09) per litre. According to the daily Folha de Sao Paulo, the first five days of the strike have cost the country's economy an estimated $2.8 billion.