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WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday formally unveiled his administration's ramped-up plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants and declared climate change the greatest threat facing the world.

WASHINGTON - U.S. factory activity slips and consumer spending advances at its slowest pace in four months, pointing to some loss of momentum in economy. (USA-ECONOMY/ (WRAPUP 3), moving shortly, by Lucia Mutikani, 700 words)

CURITIBA, Brazil, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Brazilian federal police on Monday arrested former government minister Jose Dirceu, one of the most senior members of the ruling Workers' Party to be detained so far in a corruption scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras.

MOSCOW, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Russian gas sales to Europe jumped to an all-time high in July, gas export monopoly Gazprom said on Monday, as European customers capitalised on a steep fall in prices.

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Alpha Natural Resources Inc, one of the largest U.S.

BUCHAREST, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Romanian prosecutors said on Monday they have indicted Russia's Petrotel Lukoil refinery in Romania, its Russian director-general and three other officials for money-laundering in a 2 billion euro ($2.19 billion) criminal probe.

BAGHDAD, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on Monday it would pay a portion of its revenue from direct crude oil sales to producers, in an apparent attempt to reassure foreign oil companies operating in the northern region.

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Clean energy company NextEra Energy Partners said it would buy NET Midstream, a privately held company that develops natural gas pipeline assets, in a deal valued at $2.1 billion.

KHARTOUM, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Sudan said on Monday it could freeze court verdicts against armed rebels if they agree to join national reconciliation talks, a renewed attempt by the government to end fighting that has long mired the country.

LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The biggest losers from the current price war between OPEC and the shale producers seem set to be producers outside the Middle East and North America caught in the cross-fire.

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