1.   The company also bought the rights to operate two thermal plants and four hydroelectric plants near Ust-Kamenogorsk, in eastern Kazakhstan.

2.   The drought forced its affiliates to use more-expensive thermal plants to generate power instead of hydroelectric plants.

3.   As an alternative, Seoul is reportedly considering giving the North some surplus coal for its thermal plants.

4.   As an alternative, the South reportedly is considering giving the North some surplus coal for its thermal plants.

5.   Civilians were reportedly wounded in the central Serbian town of Krusevac, where a factory and a thermal heating plant were hit, Serbian TV said.

6.   Civilians were wounded in the central Serbian town of Krusevac, where a factory and a thermal heating plant were hit, Serbian TV said.

7.   It said China will close hundreds of small thermal plants in the next three years to cut down on air pollution.

8.   NATO blasted a thermal heating plant in the New Belgrade district, a modern industrial-residential complex across the Sava River from the center of the Yugoslav capital.

9.   Noxious odor spread from the area of the thermal plant, according to witnesses in the area.

10.   Noxious odor spread from the area of the thermal plant, according to witnesses.