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Venezuela's Chavez says Castro is in 'great battle for life'
Associated Press
MUNICIPIO INDEPENDENCIA, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Thursday his close friend and ally Fidel Castro is in a ``great battle for life,'' but he also expressed optimism about the 79-year-old Cuban leader's recovery.
``From here, let's pray to God for Fidel and his recovery, and he's fighting a great battle,'' Chavez said in a televised speech from the eastern state of Anzoategui.

His statement was the most dire yet from a close Castro ally in describing the 79-year-old Cuban leader's condition.

Chavez said he had received a message from Castro on Wednesday ``that filled me with more optimism, with more faith.''

``Among other things Fidel told me ... 'I keep saying Chavez, God help Chavez and his friends,''' Chavez said.

``I wrote to him in my own handwriting last night, in the early morning, to send it with the messenger who was returning immediately: 'You are fighting a great battle every day, all these nights,''' Chavez said.

Castro said July 31 he was stepping a side temporarily, granting his powers to his brother Raul as head of the government and the Communist Party so he could recover from intestinal surgery.

Neither brother has been seen in public since then. Details of Castro's condition, his ailment and the surgical procedure he underwent are being treated as a ``state secret.''

Chavez said Thursday that in his letter to Castro, ``I told him, 'Here we're with you every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every night of that great battle for life that you are fighting from your heart, from your soul.'''

``It's a battle, and I know, Fidel, that we're going to win it, too. We are prevailing and we will prevail,'' Chavez said.

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Crude Oil, Gasoline Plunge on Terrorist Plot; U.S. Stocks Climb
Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell and gasoline plunged the most since September on speculation fuel demand will slow after U.K. authorities arrested 21 men planning to blow up airplanes. Stocks rose, helped by the lower energy prices and better-than-expected earnings.

Oil and gasoline also dropped today because BP Plc said it may keep part of the Prudhoe Bay oil field open. Oil surged on Aug. 7 when the company said it would shut all operations because of pipeline corrosion. In the three months after the Sept. 11 assault, oil fell 35 percent as the economy slowed and people traveled less.
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Bush says terrorist threat continues
News - Jueves 10 de agosto (16:12 hrs.)

"We've taken a lot of measures to protect the American people, but obviously we are not safe ... it is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America"

El Financiero en línea

Mexico City, august 10th.- United States President George W. Bush said Thursday that a foiled plot to blow up multiple flights from Britain to the United States shows "this nation is at war with Islamic fascists."

"This country is safer than it was prior to 9/11," Bush said from the tarmac at Austin Straubel Airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

"We've taken a lot of measures to protect the American people, but obviously we are not safe ... it is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America," he said.

Authorities in the United States tightened security in airports Thursday, after British officials said they foiled a terrorism plot to blow up flights between Great Britain and the United States.

In an announcement that tightened security on both sides of the Atlantic, British authorities said they've thwarted a terror plot to detonate liquid explosives on aircraft bound for the United States.

The British authorities said more than 20 people have been arrested, while terror threat alerts have been raised to their highest levels and hundreds of flights have been cancelled worldwide. (Information provided by Finsat)
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