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Belgium’s ABEE seals $44 million battery plant deal in North Macedonia

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Belgium’s Avesta Battery and Energy Engineering (ABEE) on Monday signed a contract with North Macedonia to build a factory for the production of electric batteries for cars, the government said. The total investment will amount to 40 million euros ($44 million) and 600 jobs will be created in the trade zone of …

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UK PM Sunak speaks to ethics adviser over minister’s speeding offence

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke to his ethics adviser regarding the handling of a speeding offence by his interior minister, his spokesperson said on Monday, after calls for an investigation into whether she broke ministerial rules. Suella Braverman, who oversees the police and law enforcement, said on Monday she regretted the speeding …

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Regulators dust off rule books to tackle generative AI like ChatGPT

By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – As the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT accelerates, some regulators are relying on old laws to control a technology that could upend the way societies and businesses operate. The European Union is at the forefront of drafting new AI rules that …

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Britain’s opposition Labour sets new targets for ambulance waits

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour Party would pledge to improve ambulance response times and shorten waits for emergency treatment if they are in government, leader Keir Starmer said on Monday as he set out his party’s vision for the health service. Starmer’s Labour has a double-digit poll lead over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party …

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Russia launches overnight air attack on Ukraine’s Dnipro – governor

(Reuters) – Russia launched an overnight air attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, officials said early on Monday, with media reporting a series of blasts. It was not immediately known whether the blasts were air defence systems destroying their targets or Russian missiles or drones hitting their targets but the governor of the …

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