Pakistani investigators are looking for three men in connection with a suicide bomb attack that killed 15 people, including 11 French nationals. The three men are believed to have bought the car used in the attack. Full Story

Rebel forces in Liberia are now in control of many areas of the strategically important town of Gbarnga, including the police station. Full Story

Despite repeated vows by President Bush to force Saddam Hussein from power, Bush administration officials are still at odds over which Iraqi opposition groups the United States should support, American officials and Iraqi opposition leaders say. Full Story

Palestinian gunmen, some waving or flashing V-signs, walked out of the Church of the Nativity on Friday, marking the end of a 39-day standoff with Israeli troops at one of Christianity`s holiest shrines. Full Story

The 13 arrived in a grey-painted C-130 Hercules aircraft under a European-brokered deal to end their 38-day standoff with the Israeli army. They had left the church earlier on Friday. The Palestinian fighters, one of whom was taken by stretcher from the plane to a waiting ambulance, walked off the plane and boarded a bus…

Congolese rebel movement representatives will brief President Thabo Mbeki in Cape Town this morning on their plans to advance the peace process in their war-torn country. Full Story

The Colombian authorities have launched an investigation into expenditure at the anti-narcotics police after the US suspended aid to the unit, alleging that some $2m had been diverted from a bank account provided to cover administrative expenses. Full Story

British troops in eastern Afghanistan have found anti-tank and anti-aircraft ammunition in caves that local residents said were used by al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, a senior British commander said Thursday. The airport in Jalalabad, meanwhile, came under missile attack late Wednesday in an apparent new outburst of factional fighting in the east of the country.…

Federal agents searching a Falls Church address in connection with a student testing and visa scam found a flight manual, flight school brochures, a hand-drawn diagram of a plane hitting the World Trade Center and a datebook that contained only one entry — on Sept. 11, according to government sources and court documents unsealed this…

On the day last month when the FBI`s attention was focused on threats that terrorists might strike banks in the Northeast, a two-page personnel announcement from headquarters didn`t get much notice. Full Story

Doctors and the public poorly understand the dangers of the smallpox vaccine and need to be better informed if vaccinations are to be reintroduced after an absence of 30 years, federal health officials and infectious disease experts said here today. Full Story

The Federal Reserve said on Thursday it found traces of anthrax in about 20 pieces of its mail at an outside facility, but a U.S. official quickly said that the preliminary test could be wrong or due to cross-contamination from earlier incidents. Full Story

Researchers said on Thursday they had compared the genetic sequence of the anthrax that killed a Florida man to a standard laboratory strain, and found differences that may or may not help in the investigation of last fall`s anthrax attacks. Full Story

A common pest-control agent used to kill termites and fumigate citrus for shipment overseas could also be used to clean anthrax spores out of buildings, a researcher says. Full Story

If pilots get guns, flight attendants want 16-inch metal batons, the union for flight attendants told Congress. Full Story

Federal officials said yesterday that they are working on a plan that would allow private aircraft to return to Reagan National Airport as early as next month, ending a ban in effect for security reasons following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story

The spy in the sky could get even closer. It could soon be looking over your shoulder. Airbus, the European jetmaker, is contemplating a set of tiny, concealed cameras above its passenger seats. At the flick of a switch – whether the lights are on or off – a wary pilot could spot a potential…

Bomb-sniffing dogs and Danish explosives experts arrived Wednesday in Greenland to inspect a Seattle-bound jetliner diverted to the Arctic island after threatening messages were found at the Seattle airport and a nearby restaurant. Full Story

Police have adapted their methods to fight the new breed of cyber-criminal, with computer forensics experts often replacing the men in white coats at the scene of a crime. In Britain, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is responsible for tackling e-crime, an umbrella term for a vastly differing range of offences, including hacking, fraud,…

A “cyber jihad” could be launched against the West as terrorists moved from the real world to an Internet-based virtual world, a US expert warned today. Michele Zanini, a consultant with the think-tank McKinsey and Company, said terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda were already making huge use of the web for communications, propaganda, recruitment and…

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The FBI zeroed in on 21-year-old Luke Helder as the suspect in the string of pipe-bomb attacks after his father called police about a disturbing letter in which his son warned, “Mailboxes are exploding,” authorities said Wednesday. Full Story

Dogged by questions about its readiness to meet the next terrorist threat, the Office of Homeland Security opened its doors Wednesday to showcase its new high-tech headquarters. Full Story

The staff director of the Congressional panel investigating the government`s handling of the Sept. 11 attacks was forced to resign last month because he did not alert the committee that he had hired an employee who was being investigated for failing a C.I.A. polygraph exam, government officials said today. Full Story

Iraq is making preparations to hold a referendum on the post of president this year, the official al-Iraq newspaper said Thursday. Full Story

Israel`s security cabinet gave the green light for military reprisals Thursday following a suicide bombing that killed 15 people, but kept the Palestinians waiting nervously for the first major strike. Full Story

Syria has been given permission to work an Iraqi oil field under an agreement covering fossil fuels, according to the weekly Al-Zawra, quoting an unidentified Iraqi oil source. Full Story

More than 250 suspected Islamic militants were arrested Thursday as U.S. and French investigators joined Pakistanis to look for possible links between al-Qaida terrorists and a bombing that killed 14 people, including 11 French engineers. Full Story

A remote-controlled bomb exploded Thursday as a Victory Day parade marched down the main street of this Caspian Sea port town near Chechnya. At least 32 people died, including 12 children, and 150 were injured as the town celebrated the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany. Full Story

A bomb exploded outside two American-based fast-food restaurants early Thursday, leaving extensive damage but injuring no one, police said. Full Story

A suspect in an alleged scheme to obtain fraudulent student visas had flight manuals, a drawing of a plane striking one of the World Trade Center towers and a date book with a lone entry: Sept. 11, according to court documents. Full Story

All that is left today of the church in this riverbank hamlet are four bullet-scarred walls. The roof was blown off. The wooden pews are splintered, the statue of Jesus smashed to pieces. The floor is covered with blood and maggots, evidence of the worst loss of civilian life in a single day in Colombia`s…

Philippine and Western intelligence officials have identified an Indonesian man apprehended at Manila`s international airport with bomb-making equipment as a leader of a Muslim extremist group that helped train al Qaeda operatives, sources familiar with the investigation said. Full Story

A man convicted in the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 filed the first federal lawsuit today challenging a controversial rule that allows the Justice Department to eavesdrop on conversations between lawyers and inmates to prevent future acts of terrorism. Full Story

In some of the strongest public criticism of the FBI since Sept. 11, Democratic senators yesterday upbraided the bureau for not aggressively pursuing an internal report last July that suspected terrorists might be enrolling in U.S. aviation schools. Full Story

Pirate attacks surged worldwide in the first three months of 2002, with Africa rivaling Southeast Asia for the first time as a high-risk region. Full Story

Underscoring the growing concerns about Iran, the Bush administration has decided to impose new sanctions on Chinese, Armenian and Moldovan companies accused of aiding Tehran`s alleged programs seeking weapons of mass destruction, a senior U.S. official said yesterday. Full Story

The spiritual leader of Hamas said Israel`s military operation in the West Bank had not crippled the organization and on Wednesday vowed additional attacks against Israel. Sheik Ahmed Yassin remarks came in an interview with The Associated Press a day after the group carried out a suicide bombing south of Tel Aviv that killed 15…

Palestinian security forces have arrested 14 members of the Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip after President Yasser Arafat ordered measures to foil attacks on Israeli civilians, a security official has said. Full Story

Heavy fighting is raging between Liberian Government forces and rebels known as Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (Lurd) near the central town of Gbarnga. Thousands of people are fleeing the city – which used to serve as the headquarters of President Charles Taylor`s forces when he was a rebel leader. Full Story

At least 350 fighters and civilians have been killed in clashes between rebels and government troops in western Nepal, according to the country`s state radio. It said some 250 Maoist rebels and villagers and more than 100 soldiers and police officers died in fighting over the past few days near the village of Gam. Full…

Maoist rebels in Nepal have announced a unilateral ceasefire from next week. In an unsigned statement e-mailed to newspapers in the capital, Kathmandu, the rebels said the cease-fire would begin on Wednesday and last for a month. Full Story

Pakistan`s Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Thursday by those accused of the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl against transferring the trial away from Karachi, a prosecution lawyer said. Full Story

At an urgent session in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin demanded that the criminals who committed a terrorist act in Kaspiisk (a city in Dagestan, Russia`s North-Caucasian republic) should be “identified, accused and punished as soon as possible”. Full Story

Sri Lankan Prime Minster Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the government must pursue an indefinite ceasefire agreement it signed with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels despite violations committed by the rebels. Full Story

Sudanese authorities have ordered civilians to vacate areas in the south, currently occupied by Uganda`s Lord Resistance Army (LRA) rebels as fighting intensifies, the New Vision newspaper reported on Wednesday. Full Story

Postal investigators say a chance extra run through sorting machines by the anthrax-tainted letter sent last fall to Senator Patrick J. Leahy may explain why its clumps of spores were smaller and more dangerous than those in a letter mailed the same day to Senator Tom Daschle. Full Story

For those who witnessed the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon last year, the sounds of chaos that filled the building`s center courtyard this morning may have been a vivid reminder of that tragic day. Full Story

If suspected mailbox bomber Luke John Helder was looking for attention, he`s getting it not only from the FBI. He`s also getting noticed in a big way on the World Wide Web. Full Story

The South Korean government will deploy new biological agent-detection technology during the World Cup. The Defence Ministry has announced it will deploy 30 mobile units in 10 cities hosting matches. Full Story

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FBI agents and Nevada state troopers yesterday apprehended a troubled 21-year-old art student from Minnesota wanted in connection with the series of pipe bombs left in rural mailboxes across the Midwest, officials said. Full Story

A 21-year-old college art student accused of planting a series of pipe bombs in rural mailboxes across the U.S. Midwest in a campaign of “domestic terror” was being held in a Nevada jail cell on Wednesday and is expected to face a slew of criminal charges. Full Story

The FBI said Wednesday that 21-year-old college student Luke Helder confessed to planting 18 pipe bombs in rural mailboxes in five states. Six people were injured in the spree. Full Story

In a rambling manifesto arguing that ghosts exist and marijuana be legalized, the college art student charged with planting pipe bombs across the U.S. heartland wrote that he and others may die “to change all of you for the better.” Full Story

In a move to strengthen security at the nation`s entry points following the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress on Wednesday approved legislation beefing up efforts to screen visitors and track foreign students. Full Story

A senior Senate Republican yesterday called for an immediate shake-up of Interior Department law enforcement operations in response to findings that officials did little to meet requests for assistance after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story

The federal Environmental Protection Agency will lead an effort to clean up and test apartments south of Canal Street in Lower Manhattan that were fouled by the dust and ash from the destruction of the World Trade Center, a person who was briefed on the plan said. Full Story

The Bush administration is creating a screening process for some foreign graduate students who want to do sensitive study that could be put to terrorist uses against the United States. Full Story

A U.S. official said on Wednesday he could not confirm whether the United States and Iran, adversaries since the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, have held secret talks but said it was public knowledge that their officials talk in international forums about Afghanistan. Full Story