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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....
...Cartography by Steven Bernard...
...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....
...“This affects all vehicles on four wheels and weighing more than 3-4 tonnes,” said one haulage operator in the southern state of Bavaria....
...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...
...wind farms....
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Across the invisible border, the Malian and Burkinabe states barely function, the general says. Swaths of territory have been overrun by terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda and Islamic State....
...While the US and southern European blazes captured most of the headlines, fires were raging in the remote Siberian republic of Sakha....
...Steven Marshall, the premier of South Australia, said a refinancing was the outcome that everyone in the state was hoping for and that he looked forward to the continuing transformation of the steelworks...
...The hotel occupies a part of the huge (374,000 sq m) González Byass winery and is named after the company’s signature fino sherry....
...Microsoft, itself a casualty of the attack, said it had identified more than 40 customers that had been singled out for precise and sophisticated targeting, many of which were cyber security and IT companies...
...Chiang Rai is among Thailand's most glorious provinces, with its rolling hills, forests, elephant camps, sparkling waters and top-quality farm produce....
...As head chef to schools, offices and gyms, Compass was admittedly bang in the line of fire. Half the canteens it once filled with the heady aroma of battered fish and chips are now empty....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Scott Bergstein, a realtor from Pittsburgh, took early retirement in 2012 and bought an olive farm with his wife Jessica near Cisternino in Puglia....
...But despite this difficult backdrop, FairFX continued to fire on all cylinders....
...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...
...This suggests that Friday's non-farm payrolls number will be close to meaningless and that we should all, as Steven suggests, wait until October 20 when the state by state data comes out....
...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....
...companies are unplugging from the state utility....
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