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05.06 09:52 MANILA (Reuters) - Soldiers killed 13 Muslim rebels and wounded dozens in heavy fighting in the southern Philippines on Friday, an army spokesman said, and thwarted a plot by the guerrillas to attack a farming village.

05.06 05:51 BEIJING (Reuters) - A bus caught fire in the southwestern province of Sichuan on Friday, killing at least 24 people, Xinhua news agency said.

05.06 03:31 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police found 11 bodies in an abandoned vehicle near the U.S. border on Thursday, some with their hands and legs cut off and left with threatening messages scrawled by suspected drug hit men.

05.06 01:20 BRUSSELS/THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Exit polls showed a Dutch anti-immigration party made gains on Thursday on the first day of a European Parliament election that is expected to punish governments struggling to cope with the global economic crisis.

04.06 23:17 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Exit polls showed a Dutch anti-immigration party made gains on Thursday in a European Parliament election that is expected to punish governments struggling to cope with the global economic crisis.

04.06 20:49 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the Netherlands voted Thursday in a European Parliament election which is expected to punish governments that have struggled to cope with the global economic crisis.

04.06 18:06 JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The bodies of 15 more illegal miners were brought to the surface on Thursday, raising the death toll from a fire at a disused gold mine to at least 76, the mine's owners said.

04.06 17:59 COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's navy said on Thursday it had intercepted a freighter funded by Tamil Tiger sympathizers bound for formerly rebel-held areas, which reached Sri Lankan waters three weeks after the rebels lost a 25-year war.

04.06 15:55 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Voting began in Britain and the Netherlands Thursday in a European Parliament election which is expected to punish governments that have struggled to cope with the global economic crisis.

04.06 15:11 LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - European Union states agreed on Thursday to share information on former detainees they plan to accept from Guantanamo Bay, a move that should help Washington close the center.

04.06 14:47 QALQILYA, West Bank (Reuters) - A policeman and three Hamas gunmen were killed Thursday when Palestinian forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas raided a West Bank house to arrest militants, the second such operation in the past week.

04.06 14:08 QALQILYA, West Bank (Reuters) - A policeman and a Hamas gunman were killed on Thursday when Palestinian forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas raided a West Bank house to arrest militants, the second such operation in the past week.

04.06 10:33 QALQILYA, West Bank (Reuters) - A policeman was killed on Thursday when Palestinian forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas mounted a raid in the West Bank to arrest Hamas militants, the second such operation in the past week.

04.06 09:58 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament election began on Thursday as British and Dutch voters kicked off a poll expected to register broad public concern over governments' handling of the global economic slowdown.

04.06 09:55 MILAN (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said an investigation for possible abuse of office over a scandal involving the use of state aircraft "means nothing" and would be shelved.

04.06 09:23 SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea put two U.S. journalists on trial on Thursday on charges of illegally entering the state with "hostile intent," in a case that could worsen tension with Washington after Pyongyang's nuclear test last week.