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...Backlash against Ukraine In the EU’s central and eastern European member states, there is growing discontent among farmers over the decision of Brussels in 2022 to suspend import duties and quotas on Ukrainian...
...may lie many years ahead....
...One night in 1889, the Phaeton caught fire and drifted across the lagoon of a remote Indian Ocean atoll....
...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....
...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....
...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”....
...Rich South Africans can often find a way around a crumbling state, relying on private electricity generators, private security and even private fire engines....
...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...
...One former senior official who now heads a major state-run company went so far as to apply for an Israeli passport while still in his post, and started making plans to leave the country, according to two...
...In a 1955 essay, he describes a Maine where “woods and fields encroach everywhere”, where his fire chief was also his barber, where in a small town “the white spire of its church against the pale-red sky...
...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....
...They were already pushing the White House to repeal a cap imposed by Donald Trump on a break for state and local taxes that mainly benefits the rich....
...In 2020, Lemonade, an insurance provider, and Vital Farms, an eggs producer, went public in the US as B-Corps....
...Where public investment is needed, it could come from sources such as Germany’s state-backed KfW development bank and new or existing public companies like the country’s national railway, which he says could...
...pile of juicy wood-roasted chicken from the nearby Snowdance farm....
...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....
...According to research by Nielsen, the data analysis company, black people are 37 per cent more likely than the general population to say they are influenced by word-of-mouth recommendations....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...There are some high-profile PBCs, such as Allbirds and Kickstarter, and we saw Lemonade and Vital Farms pull off IPOs lately. But no large listed company has adopted the model....
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