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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....
...The WaterWheel Network online platform enables data centres and others to farm out computing power to AI companies training large language models....
...Scaringe told a local radio station that the Normal area, with a diverse economy that includes agriculture, universities and the headquarters of the State Farm insurance company, was different from other...
...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....
...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”....
...“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....
...Other possible sites are in the neighbouring state of Gujarat and the southern state of Karnataka. India has vowed to spend $30bn to overhaul its tech industry and build local chip supply chains....
...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....
...(I went to two weddings in two different states last week and I’m still recovering.)...
...This included its cut from App Store purchases, which came under fire again on Thursday....
...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....
...Another southern province, Tien Giang, in the farm-heavy Mekong Delta, found 400 cases at six companies hosting sleepovers, the state Voice of Vietnam radio broadcaster reported on August 8....
...Some companies own both electricity retailers and power plants, balancing the risks....
...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....
...Nine out of ten festival organisers said that their companies were at risk without government intervention....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Politicians and businessmen hailed it as a huge vote of confidence in the country’s auto and tech sectors and the industrial potential of Brandenburg, the somewhat sleepy state that surrounds Berlin....
...It added that it monitors its supply chain with satellite technology, geo-referenced farm data and government records to ensure cattle are not sourced from deforested farms....
...It was a chance to “imbue them with the company’s ethos and spirit”....
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