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BEIRUT, Dec 3 (Reuters) - War planes from a U.S-led coalition carried out overnight strikes on oil-producing areas in an Islamic State-held part of eastern Syria, a group monitoring the war said on Thursday, after Britain said it had started raids for the first time.

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Britain has sent eight more warplanes to its base is Cyprus to join air strike missions against Islamic State in Syria, defence minister Michael Fallon said on Thursday.

CHENNAI, India, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The Indian military struggled to evacuate thousands of residents stranded in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on Thursday as the death toll from flooding rose to 269 after the heaviest cloudburst in over a century.

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - British bombers attacked oilfields in eastern Syria in the early hours of Thursday, defence minister Michael Fallon said, hours after parliament approved the bombing of Islamic State targets in the country.

* Crude oil imports seen at 1.2 mln tonnes in 2016 (Adds crude imports)

ZURICH, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Swiss alpine gear maker Mammut has made rope for mountain climbers in the land of the Matterhorn for 153 years, but after this year's surge in the franc currency it is moving production to the low-cost lowlands of the Czech Republic.

KOLWEZI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The beer flowed at a dimly-lit bar in the Congo copper mining town of Kolwezi, but it did little to lighten the mood.

* Saudi Arabia to propose OPEC cuts output by 1 mln bpd- report

* Australia imposes condition to prevent tax disputes (Adds government, Shell, BG comments)

PARIS, Dec 2 (Reuters) - European utilities executives meeting at the Paris Climate Conference know they are part of the problem. What they have not yet figured out is how to make money by being part of the solution to climate change.

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