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China needs further action to stop water pollution - vice premier

BEIJING, Aug 30 (Reuters) - China faces a "formidable task" to clean up its rivers and lakes and needs a fundamental change in attitudes to prioritise the environment over economic development at all cost, vice premier Wang Yang said.

Brazil's crafty Senate boss helps keep Rousseff afloat

BRASILIA, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Renan Calheiros took an Air Force jet to get hair implants and was accused of letting a lobbyist pay child support to a journalist he had an affair and a child with.

UPDATE 2-Fire at Saudi oil workers compound kills 11, injures more than 200

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A fire swept through an oil workers' residential compound in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, killing 11 people and injuring over 200 others of various nationalities, some critically, the Civil Defence agency said.

Fire at Saudi Arabian oil workers compound kills one, injures 30

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A fire at an oil workers residential compound in Saudi Arabia on Sunday claimed one casualty and injured 30 more of various nationalities, civil defence authorities said.

Brazilian weekly says Lula lobbied for Odebrecht in Cuba

BRASILIA, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A Brazilian news magazine has accused former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of acting as lobbyist in Cuba for Brazil's largest engineering firm Odebrecht, which built the container terminal at the Cuban port of Mariel.

UPDATE 1-Algeria to cut spending by 9 pct next year over oil price slump

ALGIERS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Algeria's government said on Saturday it will cut spending by 9 percent next year due to the drastic fall in global oil prices as the OPEC petroleum and gas producer tries to counter the drop in energy revenues that account for 60 percent of its budget.

Hollande, Merkel, Putin back ceasefire plan for eastern Ukraine-France

PARIS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - France, Germany and Russia back plans for a complete ceasefire in eastern Ukraine from Sept. 1, the French presidency said after their respective leaders spoke by telephone on Saturday.

Obama heads north to Alaska, where drilling decision looms large

WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday defended his decision to allow Royal Dutch Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean under what he said were rigorous standards, fending off criticism by environmental groups.

China passes new pollution law, sets sights on coal consumption cap

BEIJING, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Legislators have approved amendments to China's 15-year-old air pollution law that grant the state new powers to punish offenders and create a legal framework to cap coal consumption, the Asian giant's biggest source of smog.

Venezuela's Maduro to visit China, Vietnam for finance deals

CARACAS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday said he will visit China and Vietnam to sign economic and financing deals, as the OPEC nation struggles to make ends meet at a time of low oil prices.

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