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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 3

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Philippine counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, held a telephone conversation Wednesday to discuss bilateral ties and regional cooperation.

Xi said he met Duterte twice last year and reached important agreements with him, which led to the comprehensive rapprochement in bilateral ties. (China-Xi-Duterte)

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WASHINGTON -- FBI director James Comey on Wednesday defended his decision to announce new probe into then Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's newly-found emails before 2016 U.S. elections, saying he was facing a hard choice of "really bad or catastrophic" actions and he couldn't conceal. (US-Hillary Clinton)

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LONDON -- A British student has been found guilty of building a bomb and leaving it on a London metro train, local media reported on Wednesday.

Damon Smith, 20, from Rotherhithe in southeast London, had admitted perpetrating a bomb hoax but tried to defend himself by saying that he only intended to make a smoke bomb to scare people. (Britain-Bomb)

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodian immigration police arrested 60 Nigerians during a raid on a rented villa in Phnom Penh's Chamkarmon district on Wednesday, a senior police official said.

"They had illegally entered Cambodia for living and working," Major General Uk Heisela, chief of the General Department of Immigration (GDI)'s investigation and procedure department, told Xinhua, adding that none of them has a passport. (Nigeria-Cambodia)

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TEHRAN -- At least two miners were killed and 21 others injured in a coal mine explosion in the northern Iranian province of Golestan on Wednesday, Press TV reported.

Sadegh-Ali Moqaddam, head of the emergency department of Golestan Province, said that up to 50 people are believed to be trapped in the mine. (Iran-Mine Explosion) Endi