1.   Phetchaburi is a province southeast of Bangkok that is known for having a large number of professional gunmen.

2.   APTV has dramatic pictures of the first massacre in San Carlos de Garoa, in the Colombian southeast Meta province.

3.   Several days later, guerrillas also abducted police Maj. Roberto Bernal, a former intelligence officer, in Bacon town in Sorsogon province southeast of Manila.

4.   Seven people were killed by landslides and floods following eight days of rain in provinces southeast of Manila, the provincial disaster office said Friday.

5.   Six people were killed and another was missing in a landslide caused by torrential rains that lashed Nanping city in southeast Fujian province, Xinhua said.

6.   The judge in southeast Alicante province said the Spaniard gets the animal on weekends and his ex-wife has custody during the week.

7.   The military recently stepped up offensives on guerrillas in the southeast provinces.

8.   The three work for the US oil company Walsh, which operates in the Pastaza province southeast of Quito.

9.   Three former Taliban ministers have surrendered to Afghan authorities in southeast Kandahar province, a spokesman for provincial governor Haji Gul Agha said Tuesday.

10.   Kabila had boldy predicted Friday that Lubumbashi, a cobalt and copper mining hub that is the capital of southeast Shaba province, would fall on Monday.