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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....
...Companies would be banned from using zero-hours contracts or “fire and rehire” practices....
...The Cullinan II diamond is in the Imperial State Crown, made by Garrard for the coronation of King George VI in 1937, which King Charles III will also wear during the Westminster Abbey service....
...April Riding in Andalucia In 2019, George Scott pioneered riding trips through the Sierra Morena mountains of Andalucia and parts of Extremadura, where he was raised....
...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....
...George W Bush said he could “get a sense of his soul” and found Putin “straightforward and trustworthy”....
...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....
...Trump came down to celebrate with a “mortgage-burning” ceremony inspired by the one Trump held for a widower on a farm in Georgia in 1986....
...Concord Catering group, Prigozhin’s company, soon began to win lucrative contracts from the Russian state, making its founder rich and earning him the epithet “Putin’s chef”....
...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...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...It will rise 7ft taller than the Empire State Building....
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...They will have two payday lenders owned by the same company, on the same block, with different signs, pretending like they're different companies. So that's a model that is used....
...You use private companies that are there to make money, but then you use them to promote your strategic goals.”...
...Quick Fire Q&A For this week’s newsletter, I interviewed George Leimer, CEO of Rally, a five-year-old trading platform that turns collectibles such as baseball cards, Lamborghinis and yes, NFTs, into fractional...
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...bank-run, filling up the coffers of his Building and Loan company with one-dollar bills to a chorus of “Auld Lang Syne”....
...As they are picked earlier, white grapes tend to receive less exposure to smoke, so the reds will reveal the greatest effect in fire regions....
...The [state of the] contracting market in the UK was another.”...
...of George Floyd murder (FT) Japan’s largest farm lender to pour $90bn into ESG projects (Nikkei) Millennials spurred growth in sustainable investing for years....
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