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Tropical Storm Chris weakens north of Puerto Rico

Miami, Aug 3, 2006 - Tropical Storm Chris has weakened north of Puerto Rico, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Thursday.

Aug 3, 2006

Russia urges Iran to heed UN resolution on uranium enrichment

Moscow, Aug 3, 2006 - Russia urged Iran on Thursday to heed a United Nations Security Council resolution giving the Islamic republic until the end of the month to suspend uranium enrichment activities.

Aug 3, 2006

Swedish nuclear capacity halved, reactor inciden to be probed

Stockholm, Aug 3, 2006 - Sweden's nuclear energy capacity was cut to half on Thursday after the authorities shut down five of the country's 10 reactors, four of them in connection with a potentially dangerous failure at a nuclear power plant last week.

Aug 3, 2006

Landslides threaten planned pipeline in Russia: ministry

Moscow, Aug 3, 2006 - Russia on Thursday said it wanted to halt construction of an oil and gas pipeline on Sakhalin Island in the far east of the country because of the risk of landslide damage.

Aug 3, 2006

Spanish jazz homage to New Orleans

Madrid, Aug 3, 2006 - Spain's eastern city of Alicante will Friday host a jazz tribute to the city of New Orleans, which last August was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, organisers of the Xabia Jazz Festival said.

Aug 3, 2006

Swedish nuclear capacity halved, reactor incident probed

Stockholm, Aug 3, 2006 - Sweden's nuclear energy capacity was cut to half on Thursday after the authorities shut down five of the country's 10 reactors, four of them in connection with a potentially dangerous failure at a nuclear power plant last week.

Aug 3, 2006

Evacuations, transport havoc as typhoon hits China

Beijing, Aug 3, 2006 - Typhoon Prapiroon slammed into southern China Thursday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people as the region braced for destruction.

Aug 3, 2006

Crude oil prices slip on fading US hurricane fears, Lebanon peace hope

London, Aug 3, 2006 - World oil prices fell on Thursday as concerns eased about a tropical storm off the US Gulf coast, where many American oil rigs and platforms are based, and hopes increased for an end to fighting between Israel and Lebanon, analysts said.

Aug 3, 2006

India okays state oil firm’s Colombia venture

New Delhi, Aug 3, 2006 - The Indian government gave the go ahead Thursday to state-run oil firm OGNC for the joint acquisition of a US oil firm in Colombia along with China's largest oil company, a report said.

Aug 3, 2006

Long-distance swimmer makes trunk call to Blair

London, Aug 3, 2006 - A lawyer trying to become the first person to swim the full length of Britain's famous River Thames waded ashore in London Thursday to call on Prime Minister Tony Blair to tackle climate change.

Aug 3, 2006

French heatwave death toll rises as southern Europe swelters on

Paris, Aug 3, 2006 - More than 100 people died in France as a result of the heatwave in July, the authorities said on Thursday, as southern Europe continued to swelter in soaring temperatures.

Aug 3, 2006

Four Canadian soldiers killed, 10 wounded in Afghanistan attacks

Ottawa, Aug 3, 2006 - Four Canadian soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in three separate attacks on NATO forces Thursday in southern Afghanistan, Canadian defence department officials said.

Aug 3, 2006

Auto makers, Apple team up to make iPod-friendly cars

San Francisco, Aug 3, 2006 - Mazda, General Motors and Ford Motor Company have teamed up with Apple Computer to build iPod-friendly cars and trucks, the maker of the world's top-selling MP3 players said on Thursday.

Aug 3, 2006

Nasrallah threatens to hit Tel Aviv if Beirut struck

Beirut, Aug 3, 2006 - Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday vowed that his guerrillas would strike at Israel's commercial capital of Tel Aviv if Beirut was hit by air strikes, drawing Israeli threats to destroy all Lebanese infrastructure.

Aug 3, 2006

Three Palestinians wounded in Israeli air raid

Gaza City, Aug 3, 2006 - Three Palestinians were wounded Thursday, two of them seriously, by an Israeli air strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian hospital sources said.

Aug 3, 2006

Israeli air raid kills young woman in Baalbek

Baalbek, Lebanon, Aug 3, 2006 - A young woman was killed and three other civilians were wounded late Thursday in an Israeli air strike near the eastern Lebanese town of Baalbek, a day after a commando raid captured five alleged Hezbollah militants, police said.

Aug 3, 2006