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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....
...Nibulon also shipped grain for 4,500 private farmers at farm-to-ship transport costs as low as $5 a tonne....
...SKW Piesteritz became one of the most high-profile casualties of the surge in gas prices when it shut down completely in August....
...The FT witnessed the artillery barrage in Ivanivske, which struck several cottages and a farm building, causing fires to break out....
...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....
...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...
...Gold told Mack he was investigating the wrong person and should fire Gilbert. “I said give us the proof, and we’ll investigate it....
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Some estimates put the number of casualties much higher....
...“Mali is a failed state....
...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”....
...Endangered finless porpoises, Irrawaddy dolphins and turtles have also been recent casualties of plastic ingestion in Thai waters....
...“Say there was a fire at Grange Farm,” Ms Murfitt speculates. “When they fill out the insurance claim, they will be asked if they are running a business from the property.”...
...In George V, the moment had met the man....
...state that sends beef and soybeans around the world....
...But relatives of those killed say police have in some cases opened fire during tokhang operations....
...US stocks wobbled initially but subsequently rallied, while gold was a major casualty as it slid to its lowest level since early August....
...There were Syrian media reports of casualties from the strikes, which could not be confirmed....
...Four teams were credibly threatening boycotts and CarMax, Mercedes and State Farm insurance had pulled their ads....
...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?...
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
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