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Diabierna 14 OctOber 2022

Bomb threat leads to evacuation of Norway gas plant

COPENHAGEN, Den- pened in international wa-
mark (AP) — A bomb ters off the Baltic coastline of Norwegian broadcaster NRK
threat against a natural both Sweden and Denmark later said a man, known for
gas processing facility in but within the countries’ having made similar threats
central Norway forced exclusive economic zone. over several years, had been
the site’s evacuation and The damaged Nord Stream detained. NRK added that
briefly halted operations, pipelines discharged huge ma,n who was not identified,
police said Thursday, add- amounts of methane, a po- previously had been convict-
ing later that the threat tent greenhouse gas, into the ed in several similar cases.
wasn’t credible. air.
Nyhamna is 375 kilometers
The incident came amid Gas from Norway’s Ormen (233 miles) northwest of
heighten security on key en- Lange deepwater facility off Oslo. It is Norway’s second-
ergy, internet and power in- the coast — which supplies largest gas field and is operat-
frastructures following last around 20% of UK’s gas ed by the Norwegian branch
month’s underwater explo- needs — is piped along the of Shell.
sions that ruptured two natu- seabed to the onshore Ny-
ral gas pipelines in the Baltic hamna facility, which was dence that the bomb threat the police for similar circum- Shell later told Norwegian
Sea that were built to deliver evacuated. The gas is then against the Ormen Lange fa- stances and the case is being news agency NTB that work-
Russian gas to Germany. exported to the U.K. cility was real.” investigated further,” said po- ers had returned to the site
lice spokesman Per Åge Fer- and production had resumed.
The blasts and ruptures hap- Police said there was “no evi- “The perpetrator is known to stad.

China accuses US of ‘Cold War thinking’ in security strategy

BEIJING (AP) — The “out-competing China” in other neighbors with an in- ogy by developing its own
Chinese government on political alliances and “global creasingly assertive foreign creators of processor chips,
Thursday accused Wash- governance” as well as busi- policy and growing military. artificial intelligence, aero-
ington of “Cold War think- ness, technology and military space and other know-how.
ing” and appealed for ef- affairs. China’s multibillion-dollar Beijing is pressing Chinese
forts to repair strained re- Belt and Road Initiative to companies to reduce reli-
lations after President Joe U.S.-Chinese relations are at build ports, railways and oth- ance on global supply chains
Biden released a national their lowest level in decades, er infrastructure across Asia by using domestic vendors
security strategy that calls strained by disputes over and Africa has fed concern whenever possible, even if
for “out-competing Chi- technology, security, Taiwan in Washington, Moscow and that increases costs.
na” and blocking its ef- and human rights. other capitals that Beijing is
forts to reshape global af- trying to build its strategic “We know the cost of Russia’s
fairs. “Cold War thinking and ze- influence and undermine and great power competi- weaponization of trade as a
ro-sum games, sensationaliz- theirs. tion.” tool of geopolitical coercion,
The foreign ministry also ac- ing geopolitical conflicts and and we must mitigate similar
cused Washington of trade great power competition are China, with the second- Mao criticized the “weap- vulnerabilities to countries
protectionism after Treasury unpopular and unconstruc- largest global economy and onization of economic and like China,” Yellen said in
Secretary Janet Yellen said the tive,” said Foreign Ministry military, is the “only com- trade issues” after Yellen said Washington.
United States would rein- spokesperson Mao Ning. petitor with both the intent Wednesday the United States
force its global supply chains She called on Washington to reshape the international was trying to reduce reliance The United States should
to guard against “geopolitical to “meet China halfway and order and, increasingly, the on China and other Asian “abandon unilateralism and
coercion” by China, Russia promote China-U.S. rela- economic, diplomatic, mili- suppliers of semiconductors, protectionism,” Mao said,
and other governments. tions back to a healthy and tary and technological power electric vehicle batteries, so- and work with “the interna-
stable track.” to do it,” the document says. lar panels and other technol- tional community to main-
Biden’s document Wednes- ogy. tain the security and smooth
day accused China of trying The White House document Mao, speaking at a regular flow of the industrial and
to “erode U.S. alliances” and calls for the United States news briefing, said China was President Xi Jinping’s gov- supply chain.”
“create more permissive con- to “maintain a competitive a “defender of the world or- ernment is spending heavily
ditions for its own authori- edge” over China, which has der” and rejected “sensation- to reduce its need for U.S.
tarian model.” It called for antagonized Japan, India and alizing geopolitical conflicts and other Western technol-

Ukraine gets more air defense pledges as Russia hits cities

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — southern city of Mykolaiv, ish government announced
Ukraine’s allies com- while heavy artillery dam- it would provide missiles for
mitted to supplying the aged more than 30 houses, a advanced NASAM anti-air-
country with advanced hospital, a kindergarten and craft systems that the Penta-
air defense systems as other buildings in Nikopol, gon plans to send to Ukraine
Russian forces attacked a city located across a river in the coming weeks. The
the Kyiv region with ka- from the Russian-occupied U.K. also is sending hun-
mikaze drones and fired Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power dreds of aerial drones for
missiles at civilian targets Plant. information-gathering and
elsewhere Thursday as logistics support, plus 18
payback for the bombing Russia intensified its bom- howitzer artillery guns.
of a strategic bridge link- bardment of civilian areas in
ing Russia with annexed recent weeks as its military Other NATO defense min-
Crimea. lost ground in multiple oc- ers urged him to escalate the isters meeting in Brussels
cupied regions of Ukraine campaign further to punish Responding to Zelenskyy’s this week promised to supply
Missile strikes killed at least that President Vladimir Putin the invaded country for the repeated pleas for more ef- systems offering medium- to
three people and destroyed illegally claimed as Russian Crimea bridge attack. fective air defenses, the Brit- long-range defense against
an apartment building in the territory. Putin’s support- missile attacks.