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...In recent months, both State Farm and Allstate have announced plans to stop writing new policies in fire-prone California....
...Ukraine’s national identity has hardened itself amid the fires of invasion; the state has consolidated its authority; and Kyiv last month received the green light to start EU entry talks, although full membership...
...Big insurers such as State Farm and Allstate said recently they had suspended offering home insurance to new customers in California....
...But Vadatursky says he still seeks to “pay people their salaries, not to fire them, and save the team”. Around 80 per cent of Ukrainian companies say the same, according to central bank surveys....
...SKW Piesteritz became one of the most high-profile casualties of the surge in gas prices when it shut down completely in August....
...Photographs posted on social media showed a damaged farm vehicle lying on its side next to a large crater. Local media reported the casualties were farm workers....
...Gold told Mack he was investigating the wrong person and should fire Gilbert. “I said give us the proof, and we’ll investigate it....
...With his own work off limits in China and recently censored in Hong Kong, Ai is coruscating about western museums such as the Pompidou, Tate and the V&A that have been paid millions by state-owned companies...
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...You use private companies that are there to make money, but then you use them to promote your strategic goals.”...
...Former president Jimmy Carter wrote in the New York Times that he fears for the future of American democracy....
...In a report last year, Greenpeace, the environmental pressure group, said seven out of 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were affected by haze generated by fires in Indonesia...
...There are other clues that Compass does not see that elusive V-shaped recovery....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...With companies such as Coca-Cola and Amazon banging at its door, the state government relented a week later on bottles of drinking water over 200ml, medical packaging, wrapping materials thicker than 50...
...Some farmers, like Home Farm’s Brian and Jennifer Aldridge, have set up family investment companies to control when assets are received, and by whom....
...to this article Charter for companies to impose their preferences / From Helen Sutch...
...“That approach is tantamount . . . to pouring gasoline on the fire,” said Ashton Carter, US defence secretary....
...Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with archive shots – Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm, for example....
...It was Kyle Carter, owner of a real estate company where Cole had interviewed with another executive. “He said, ‘Hey, I heard you are coming to work for my company.’ I said, ‘You heard that?’”...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Peter Rabbit has a fling in the Scottish Highlands in the company of a redoubtable relative, Finlay McBurney....
...Italy V Ireland....
...Dalian is home to part of China’s strategic petroleum reserves and at one point the fire threatened a tank farm in the port, a possible reason for such high-level concern....
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