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The Iraqi Oil Ministry says oil production has increased to its highest levels since the United States led invasion in 2003. A ministry spokesman said Iraq was producing around 2.5 million barrels a day. That's around 3% of global demand. Our business reporter Mark GREgory reports.

We appear to be seeing a sustained but gradually increased production has been going on since the start of the year. So a quite period of time and since we've one fairly simple fact behind that, and that is improved security on the key pipeline that takes oil from Iraq's nothern oil fields to Turkey. This is really the only major supply route for get oil out of oil fields that have about 1/3 of all Iraq's oil reserves to the markets. These fields have been almost out of action and now they are back in action, and that's produced this sustained improvement.

An opinion poll carried out for the BBC suggests a vast majority of people in Basra in Southern Iraq believe the presence of British troops there has been bad for the province. Britain has been in charge of security in Basra since 2003, but is handing it over to the Iraqi authorities on Sunday. From Basra, here is Andrew North.

This huge airfield on the outskirts of Basra is where most British troops are now based since they pulled out of their last base in the city three months ago. But few Iraqis in the city are thanking them for what they left behind. People we've talked should say Shiite militias have become more powerful there and are waging a campaign of intimidation and violence against women. Across the city, anonymous warnings have been appearing, threatening women who don't comply with Islamic dress codes. More than forty have been killed in the past few months and most point the finger at militia extremists.

Negotiators of the Climate Change Conference in Bali say they've sketched out an agreement that breaks the deadlock which kept them negotiating into the night. The United States was blocking European Union demands for the final text to spell out targets for industrialized countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by up to 40%. From Bali, Roger Harrabin reports.

The key numbers on how much rich nations should be forced to cut their greenhouse gas emissions are still, I understand, in the final text, but may eventually be reduced to a footnote. There are two other targets that Europe wanted to see in. One, a target for peaking of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 or thereabouts, we are not clear whether that's gonna make it through or not. The other target was a long term 2050 target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and it's not clear whether that's going to make it or not.

Prosecuters in the United States say two men have pleaded guilty to plotting attacks on military facilities in Jewish sites in Southern California. Police said the two US citizens Kevin James and Levar Washington were members of a radical Islamic group formed in prison in California ten years ago. Two other men, one of the Pakistani national, have also been charged in connection with the plot.

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The Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has expressed outrage at European Union proposals on the future of his breakaway province, Kosovo.
He accused the EU of trying to create a puppet state on Serbian soil and decleared this would set a dangerous president. His comments came after a meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels where the French President Nicholas Sarkozy said everyone believed that independence for Kosovo from Serbia was inevitable. Earlier, the Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said an EU offer to accelerate Serb membersip of the organization would never be accepted.

"This government of the Republic of Serbia simply does not see the issues of the future of the status of Kosovo and the European Union. As things that might be swapped in any way and that one of them can be used as compensation. The tradeoff is out of the question, we cannot exchange our territory for our European future."

The dissident General fighting government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo says he's ready for a political solution to the conflict. He also said the Congolese government must first disarm the Rwandan Hutu rebels, whom he accuses of terrorizing ethnic Tutsis in the region. General Laurent Nkunda, himself a Tutsi, was speaking to the BBC in his first interviews since his troops recaptured a territory lost in a recent government offensive.

"We say it for a long that the war cannot finish a political problem. Political problems asked for political solution. We must disarm those negative forces and allow our locals to live in the peace."

The giant Internet company Google says it's developing its own online encyclopedia, which is likely to become a rival to Wikipedia. The new site will be called Knol. Unlike Wikipedia where anyone can edit an article on any subject, Knol's articles will be written by named individuals. Authors may let Google post advertisments on the pages and will share the revenue.

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