This Travel Warning is being issued to update the security situation in Lebanon. During the recent increase in tensions in the Middle East, there have been a number of anti-U.S. demonstrations, some of them violent. Hizballah and Palestinian militants have also become more active along Lebanon`s southern border. Full Story

A state-sponsored campaign of political violence and intimidation has intensified in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe was re-elected to power almost two months ago, Zimbabwean human rights organisation said on Monday. Full Story

The governor of the north Madagascan province of Antsiranana on Tuesday officially proclaimed his territory a “sovereign state, independent within the confederation of Madagascar.” Full Story

Gunmen shot and killed a member of a Guatemalan human rights organization in a restaurant on Monday in what rights activists said was a political murder disguised as a robbery. Full Story

A U.N. Security Council mission opened closed-door talks with Congo`s President Joseph Kabila on Tuesday to revive efforts to end Africa`s biggest war after the main rebel group rejected a partial peace deal as a sham. Full Story

Colombia`s largest Marxist rebel force has released a kidnapped Italian engineer for humanitarian reasons after holding the man hostage for five months, the Italian Embassy in Bogota said on Monday. Full Story

American military experts have started arriving in Georgia to help the impoverished former Soviet state`s rag-tag army fight Islamic extremists as part of the U.S.-led campaign against terror. Full Story

Libya is ready to make a “substantial formal offer” to compensate families of the Lockerbie airliner bombing within a month, Time magazine said, but British relatives dismissed the move as political posturing. Full Story

Camp X-Ray was emptied on Monday as the U.S. military finished moving 300 al Qaeda and Taliban captives out of the hastily built chain-link cells and into a more permanent prison at the U.S. Naval Base in southeast Cuba. Full Story

In an aviation security milestone on Tuesday, the nation`s first team of federal screeners began checking airline passengers at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Full Story

U.S.-led special forces battled suspected al-Qaida militants in two firefights, killing up to four of them, near the border with Pakistan, a region where allied patrols have been hunting the remnants of Osama bin Laden`s terror network, the U.S. commander said Tuesday. Full Story

Systems administrator David Riebrandt`s first hint that intruders had hacked the military network came from telltale electronic footprints. Full Story

In the frantic days last October after anthrax attacks on targets in Florida, Washington and New York, Army personnel at commands across the country issued 14 different instructions on how to respond to suspicious mailings. A few offered conflicting advice. Some were simply wrong. Full Story

Higher education organizations have joined the fight to secure cyberspace by endorsing a framework for action. Full Story

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A million people could die if terrorists launch a biological attack that widely disperses smallpox, anthrax, ebola or other agents, according to a new study that analyzes the damage that could be caused by the use of weapons of mass destruction. Full Story Report Announcement at Brookings Institution

Lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui say the government wants to execute the man indicted as a Sept. 11 conspirator because he`s the only one available to get the ultimate penalty for the attacks. Full Story

The Federal Reserve Board is overseeing an effort by financial institutions to disperse people, records, and operations and to duplicate business functions at multiple sites – a change in strategy from the months following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when most companies relied on security guards checking IDs in downtown office lobbies. Full Story

Senate leaders said Sunday there is broad support for toppling Saddam Hussein but that it is too early to take military action against Iraq. Full Story

In a rare disagreement, White House and Justice Department officials are divided over whether to declare that local and state police departments have the power to track down illegal immigrants as a new tactic in the global war on terror. Full Story

A top Central Intelligence Agency official has warned Americans that a new terrorist attack is unavoidable, despite all efforts to prevent it and the fact that the CIA is now “stealing more secrets” than ever. Full Story

U.S. government officials say they issued recent alerts about possible terrorist attacks on shopping centers and East Coast financial institutions because information that a captured al Qaeda leader provided interrogators overlaps with other intelligence gathered by the government. Full Story

“Has anybody talked to you about lying?” instructor John Giersdorf asks his freshman class. “We expect you to lie a lot. Your job is to convince someone to do something that could get him executed for treason.” Full Story

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff visited a war-torn southern Philippine island Sunday and met U.S. troops training Filipino soldiers to better fight an al-Qaida-linked Muslim extremist group. Full Story

Muslim Abu Sayyaf rebels mocked a joint US-Philippine military campaign, saying the effort has failed to crush the gunmen halfway through its six-month timetable. Full Story

THE PARENTS of American couple held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf bandits expressed hope anew their children would be freed soon, but have remained tight-lipped as to the involvement of ransom for their release. Full Story

Muslim guerrillas with suspected links to the al Qaeda network have denied receiving a hefty ransom for the release of a U.S. missionary couple held for almost a year in the southern Philippines. Full Story

Pakistan said Monday no U.S. or other foreign troops were operating in the country to pursue militants fleeing from neighboring Afghanistan. Full Story

The FBI told passengers on a flight forced to return after takeoff that their plane was rerouted because several passengers of Middle Eastern descent had purchased one-way tickets for cash that day, passengers said Monday. Full Story

Two Palestinian gunmen dressed as Israeli soldiers cut through the fence surrounding this small Jewish settlement this morning and attacked the residents while they were relaxing on the Sabbath, killing four, including a 5-year-old girl, the Israeli Army said. Full Story

U.S. special operations forces reportedly raided a mosque and religious school in this tribal border village Friday in an unsuccessful attempt to pin down al-Qaeda and Taliban militants who may have slipped into the country from Afghanistan. Full Story

The employees of the Navy`s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) are using collaboration software to help improve the health care they provide to 2.6 million active duty service members, retirees and dependents worldwide. Full Story

Leading Pentagon officials are putting the final touches on a military plan to invade Iraq, perhaps as soon as this summer, according to two senior administration officials. Full Story

New England communities, grappling with new security-related expenses after Sept. 11, are complaining to Congress that federal funding supplements fail two key tests: flexibility and retroactivity. Full Story

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is seeking feedback on a grants program that could provide state and local governments with $3.5 billion next year to help them prepare for terrorist attacks. Full Story

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, starting a trip to Afghanistan and its Central Asian neighbors, Friday predicted an imminent spring offensive by Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan. Full Story

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, starting a trip to Afghanistan and its Central Asian neighbors, Friday predicted an imminent spring offensive by Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan. Full Story

Afghanistan no longer rings with gunfire or rumbles under bombing runs, but U.S. and British military officials Friday cautioned against letting the guard down against the Taliban or al Qaeda. Full Story

One in five New Yorkers worries a great deal about a future terrorist attack on their city, compared with about one in seven people living in Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston, a survey released Friday found. Full Story

Trace amounts of anthrax were found on the ceiling of a postal sorting center where the deadly bacteria was found last year, a state official said Thursday. Full Story

Military officials said Thursday that the United States has won permission from Pakistani leaders to pursue al-Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan into the lawless tribal regions of Pakistan for the first time. Full Story

Former CIA and FBI director William Webster said Thursday that the United States should consider administering “truth drugs” to uncooperative al-Qaeda and Taliban captives at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere to try to obtain more details about terrorist operations. Full Story

The family of an abducted American missionary couple, Martin and Gracia Burnham, has confirmed it made a deal with the Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines who are holding them. Full Story

Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta unveiled a plan Wednesday to screen all checked airline baggage for explosives by the end of the year, but independent experts said the proposal was flawed. Full Story

The Transportation Security Administration will rely primarily on portable machines that look for traces of explosives — not more expensive devices that look for large amounts — to meet a Dec. 31 congressional deadline for screening all checked baggage. Full Story

At least 12 women and children were killed and 30 others injured when a powerful bomb ripped through a gathering of minority Shiite Muslims in Pakistan, the police said on Friday. Full Story

Recent allegations about the activities of republicans are “rapidly draining away the credibility” of the North`s government and the peace process, Mr David Trimble has said. Full Story

Youths who seized an oil rig off southern Nigeria released their last 43 hostages and left the rig peacefully Thursday, after the oil company agreed to discuss their demands, officials said. Nobody was harmed and the rig was “back to normal,” said Joe Jakpa, spokesman for Chevron Nigeria, a subsidiary of ChevronTexaco. Full Story

Nepal`s King Gyanendra escaped a brush with death when security forces detected two bombs planted by Maoist guerrillas in the path of his convoy, a national newspaper has reported. Full Story

An explosion damaged the house of a conservative mayor in southern France, but no one was injured, police said Friday. Full Story

A U.N. Security Council mission makes a fresh Congo peace push next week with the vast African country teetering between reconciliation and more war. Peace efforts hang in the balance after a partial settlement reached at talks last week was roundly rejected by Rwanda, the main anti-government protagonist in Africa`s biggest war. Full Story

Colombian police on Thursday seized 3.5 tonnes of explosives near Bogota they said Marxist rebels fighting in the country`s largely rural war planned to use in attacks on the capital. Police also arrested 17 suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia — known by its Spanish initials as FARC — in raids in…

In the last three fiscal years, only 23 of 56 states and other jurisdictions have received federal funds from a Justice Department program to supply biological, chemical and radiological response equipment for emergency officials. Full Story

U.S. intelligence officials believe the Chinese military is working to launch wide-scale cyber-attacks on American and Taiwanese computer networks, including Internet-linked military systems considered vulnerable to sabotage, according to a classified CIA report. Full Story

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The FBI (news – web sites) quietly warned its agents nationwide of unconfirmed information from a captured senior al-Qaida official that terrorists may be planning attacks against supermarkets or shopping centers, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Full Story

Covert U.S. military teams have been quietly participating in attacks on suspected al Qaeda hide-outs inside Pakistan in recent weeks, opening a new front in the battle along the Afghan-Pakistan border, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Full Story

Zacarias Moussaoui`s court-appointed lawyers asked a judge yesterday to determine that the alleged terrorist is mentally incompetent or to allow them out of the case because he believes they are part of a conspiracy to kill him. Full Story

The Spanish interior minister released details Wednesday on how alleged terrorist financiers, hiding behind a facade of respectability, used profits from their construction and real estate companies to fund Al Qaeda activities around the world. Full Story