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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....
...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....
...But there are also new extravagances: outdoor showers, safes bolted into the floor and a residents-only restaurant by Todd English, the James Beard Award-winning chef....
...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...
...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....
...The operatives — widely believed by the US government to be part of Russia’s SVR — hacked software from the US company SolarWinds in order to breach government and company email systems....
...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”....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...company bosses is an unlikely beach read....
...There’s been dinner with Prince Charles; breakfast with Todd Stern, US climate envoy, countless chats with people such as Tony Hayward, chairman of the Glencore mining company....
...The cost of the feedstock for a typical Iowa ethanol plant is now close to $4 per bushel, down from $7 a year ago, according to Iowa State University....
...Atkinson’s protagonist, Ursula Todd, sometimes senses she has travelled the same paths before. We see those other Ursulas, each born in 1910, as they live (and die)....
...Italy V Ireland....
...Dalian is home to part of China’s strategic petroleum reserves and at one point the fire threatened a tank farm in the port, a possible reason for such high-level concern....
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