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Search efforts for a missing Los Angeles woman who jumped into a river to rescue her sister in Sequoia National Park have been scaled down as river conditions become increasingly unsafe, park officials say.

Like many Western nations, including the UK, it has scaled down its investments in its military over many years.

Police recently scaled down their presence on picket lines, where they had been helping to ensure bin trucks could get out of the depots, to prevent waste piling up on city streets.

Collections were said to have been disrupted "due to industrial action by pickets" where police recently scaled down their presence.

Sugary desserts will also be scaled down as part of Welsh government plans to improve the nutritional balance of school meals.