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out of Norway’s oil industry, with an immediate stop on exploration, while the Socialist Left and the far-left Red Party also seek to curtail the industry. Labour, however, and the agrarian Centre Party, both want to continue to explore for oil and gas, as do the major parties on the right. Labour will work with the other parties to seek solutions in parliament, Stoere said. Stoere said that as it supplies one third of Europe’s natural gas, Norway should continue to explore for more hydrocarbons. “We will continue to be a reliable partner, but also to take forward technological steps, cut emissions and live up to our ... obligations,” he said. The prime minister reiterated his campaign promise not to compromise on Norway’s Nato membership, its close partnership with the European Union, of which it is not a member, and on responsible economic management. – Reuters MEXICO CITY: At least 10 people were killed and 41 injured when a freight train collided with a double decker bus in central Mexico on Monday. Security camera footage shows the train smashing through the bus as it moves to cross the tracks in Atlacomulco, about 100km northwest of the capital Mexico City. There are no visible crossing gates in the video, which shows other traffic stopped and not crossing. “We have 41 injured and 10 deaths,” said civil protection official Adrian Hernandez. The bus driver was arrested and is in the custody of the local prosecutor’s office. – AFP ARMS FAIR BARS TEL AVIV OFFICIALS LONDON: A major arms fair opened yesterday here without the presence of Israeli officials. UK excluded the officials from the four day event, but not the 51 Israeli defence companies that are set to attend including major arms manufacturer Elbit. State-owned Rafael and Israel Aerospace Industries will also have exhibitions, making Israel the fifth largest national contingent after the UK, United States, Australia and Germany. Israeli companies exhibiting “should be investigated for crimes against humanity, not invited to profit from the unspeakable devastation they have caused in Gaza”, Campaign Against Arms Trade spokesperson Emily Apple said. – AFP ETHIOPIA BETS ON HYDROELECTRIC POWER GUBA: Ethiopia officially inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam yesterday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians. Ethiopia, the continent’s second most populous nation with over 120 million people, sees the US$5 billion (RM21 billion) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on a tributary of the River Nile as central to its economic ambitions. The dam’s power has gradually increased since the first turbine was turned on in 2022, reaching its maximum capacity of 5,150MW yesterday. That puts it among the 20 biggest hydroelectric dams in the world – about a quarter of the capacity of Three Gorges Dam. – Reuters 10 KILLED, 41 INJURED AFTER TRAIN HITS BUS

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A residential building collapses after an airstrike in Gaza City on Monday. – REUTERSPIC

Evacuation order triggers panic in Gaza City

the past week, I have resisted leaving, but now I will go to be with my daughter,” said Um Mohammad, a 55-year-old mother of six. The health authorities in Gaza announced they would evacuate Gaza City’s two main operational hospitals, Al Shifa and Al Ahli, adding that doctors would not leave patients unattended. Most Gazans have already been displaced several times since the war started in October 2023. Israel’s military offensive has killed over 64,000 Palestinians. Nearly the entire population has been internally displaced, much of the territory lies in ruins and a hunger crisis has grown far worse in recent months. The Israeli military has

me carefully: you have been warned: get out of there!” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The Israeli military airdropped leaflets with evacuation orders onto residents standing amid the rubble of Gaza City, where it has bombed residential towers to the ground in the past few days. The evacuation orders caused panic and confusion among residents of the strip’s largest urban centre, who say there is no safe place to go to escape bombardment and a humanitarian crisis. Some said they would have no choice but to leave for the south, but many said they would stay and there were no immediate signs of a mass exodus. “Despite the bombardment in ‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’,” he said in the letter seen by Reuters. “The government has not concluded that Israel is acting with that intent.” Lammy was foreign secretary from mid-2024 until Friday when he was replaced by Yvette Cooper and appointed deputy prime minister as part of a reshuffle. His letter added: “The high civilian casualties, including women and children, and the extensive destruction in Gaza, are utterly appalling. Israel must do much more to prevent and alleviate the suffering that this conflict is causing.” The long-held British government position has been that genocide should be determined by courts. The Gaza war has strained Britain-Israel relations. – Reuters

instructed residents in Gaza City to move to a designated “humanitarian zone” in the already overcrowded Al-Mawasi area along the coast in the south, where thousands of Palestinians have already been sheltering in tents. Israel has also regularly bombed the south. Um Samed, a 59-year-old mother of five, said the choice now was whether “to stay and die at home in Gaza City, or follow Israel orders and leave Gaza and die in the south”. Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Monday the military would unleash a “mighty hurricane” that would destroy Gaza if Hamas did not free the last hostages it holds and surrender. – Reuters

o Israel threatens ‘mighty hurricane’

GAZA: Palestinians living in the ruins of Gaza City were bombarded with Israeli leaflets yesterday ordering them out, after Israel said it was about to obliterate the area in an assault to wipe out Hamas. Residents of the city, home to a million Palestinians before the war, have been expecting an onslaught for weeks, since the Israeli government devised a plan to deal Hamas a fatal blow in what it says are the group’s last strongholds.

“I say to the residents of Gaza, take this opportunity and listen to Britain unable to see intent

Norway Labour prime minister re-elected

LONDON: Britain has not concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza despite appalling civilian suffering, according to a government letter. Israel has been widely accused of the crime, including by the world’s biggest group of genocide scholars, over its nearly two-year campaign in the Palestinian enclave that has killed more than 64,000 people according to local authorities. Israel rejects the accusation, citing its right to self-defence following the Oct 7, 2023, attack that killed 1,200 people and resulted in the capture of 251 hostages. David Lammy, Britain’s foreign minister until Friday, wrote in a letter dated Sept 1 to a parliamentary committee that the government had carefully considered the risk of genocide. “As per the Genocide Convention, the crime of genocide occurs only where there is specific

OSLO: Norway should continue to explore for oil and gas and remain a reliable energy supplier to Europe, the country’s newly re-elected Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere (pic) said yesterday, despite

country’s US$2 trillion (RM8.4 trillion) sovereign wealth fund. “It’s a good result. It’s a clear result. It demonstrates that centre-left social

democrats can win elections even when there are winds blowing from the right,” Stoere told reporters outside his official residence in Oslo. Since 2021, Labour had governed with the help of just two smaller parties, the agrarian Centre Party and the Socialist Left, but it must now also rely on the Greens and the far left Reds to win a majority for policies.

having to rely on the Green Party for support. The minority Labour Party government narrowly won a second term in power on Monday while the populist right wing achieved its best-ever election result, in a ballot dominated by concerns over rising living costs and wars in Ukraine and Gaza. With the

While all five parties agree Stoere should stay in office, they differ on policy priorities around energy, the environment and taxes. The Greens want a gradual phasing

left-wing victory, attention turns to how the loose bloc of five political parties, dubbed the “tutti frutti” coalition, will govern fiscal policy, oil and gas production and the