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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Reports claiming that Shiranti Rajapaksa, the wife of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, left Sri Lanka despite having been summoned
by Our Correspondnent in Colombo A significant disclosure was made during yesterday’s court proceedings into Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terrorist attacks, when Additional Solicitor
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When Austrian electronics manufacturer AT&S began considering Malaysia for its next-generation substrate plant in 2020, Penang appeared the obvious destination. But there was one problem: there was not enough land. The company
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A co-founder of Anthropic has called for companies developing artificial intelligence to be legally required to provide a mechanism capable of shutting down AI systems, as concerns grow over the potential risks posed by rapidly advancing technology. Jack Clark told the BBC that a
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