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...“The option he chose did not prevent state capture.”...
...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....
...Home hunters have responded to higher mortgage rates by scrapping plans to buy and turning to the rental market instead....
...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.”...
...The admission came as the human and economic toll of the war became clearer, with civilian casualties rising fast in Ukraine and 874,000 people having fled abroad — a rate that the UN said would make it...
...“I wanted to be closer to the farms, and the best local farms and orchards are in the Hudson Valley,” Talbott says....
...A large-scale invasion would risk heavy Russian casualties and would run counter to Vladimir Putin’s preference for subterfuge and plausible deniability....
...At the time of Greensill’s administration in March, lawyers for the firm said it had about $5bn of exposure to Gupta-related companies....
...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”....
...A company official said: “The first shell hit to the rear of the ship on the port side . . . The second shell then hit port amidships.”...
...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...
...Her son, who made a fortune with the business process outsourcing company Webhelp, has poured €16m into this project and they are taking a strong interest....
...Paddock was a licensed hunter and small aircraft pilot....
...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....
...Of the 22 states my Model T spluttered and creaked through, this was the only one it didn’t break down in....
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