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...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...
...In recent months, both State Farm and Allstate have announced plans to stop writing new policies in fire-prone California....
...Big insurers such as State Farm and Allstate said recently they had suspended offering home insurance to new customers in California....
...Known in Kyiv as “Old Man River”, with a shock of white hair and a physique that looked like packed concrete, he grew up on a collective farm....
...“This affects all vehicles on four wheels and weighing more than 3-4 tonnes,” said one haulage operator in the southern state of Bavaria....
...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....
...The day ahead Economic data The latest weekly employment claim figures due today will continue a week of heightened scrutiny of the domestic jobs market and come ahead of the closely watched non-farm payrolls...
...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....
...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....
...After the continuous 10-minute slaughter, at least 379 lay dead and more than 1,000 wounded. Some estimates put the number of casualties much higher....
...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....
...economic stewardship, the latest poll by the Financial Times and the Peter G Peterson Foundation has found....
...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....
...“I look out across my bean field, and I know that every third row goes to China,” says Bill Wykes, who farms in a slim slice of the Illinois soyabean belt an hour and a half from Chicago, the city that grain...
...“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.”...
...Bismarck deemed the Coburgs “the stud farm of Europe” and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha sired from Queen Victoria children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren who would occupy palaces in Greece...
...power to international corporations. —————- The case for trade and the TPP has largely been won in Nebraska, a proud farm state that sends beef and soybeans around the world....
...Uy is now a businessman with a number of assets including a poultry farm, a stake in a cockfighting venture and an interest in a Honda dealership....
...US stocks wobbled initially but subsequently rallied, while gold was a major casualty as it slid to its lowest level since early August....
...Fighting flared in Israel’s northern borderlands on Thursday evening as the Jewish state’s forces bombed and shelled targets inside Syria in response to four rockets fired from the Golan region....
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