Delegates at talks on Congo`s future have agreed to let President Joseph Kabila lead the transition to democracy in efforts to end a 3 1/2-year civil war and reunite their nation, a rebel official said Tuesday. Full Story

Colombian President Andres Pastrana urged the U.S. Congress in an opinion piece published Monday to allow U.S. anti-drug aid to his country to be used to fight his country`s guerrilla groups. Full Story

Former guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao has taken an unassailable lead in East Timor`s first presidential elections, according to preliminary results released Tuesday. Full Story

London-based Arabic newspapers said on Tuesday a group possibly linked to Osama bin Laden`s al Qaeda network had claimed responsibility for an explosion last week outside a Tunisian synagogue that killed 16 people. Full Story

A German trial of a group of Algerian men suspected of a bomb plot and links to the al Qaeda network got off to a chaotic start on Tuesday as a defendant disrupted proceedings by shouting that God would defend him. Full Story

U.S. companies that agree to impose tougher anti-terrorist safeguards will be rewarded with faster processing times at the USA`s borders, Bush administration officials are expected to announce Tuesday. Full Story

Declaring that “information is the friend of prevention,” Attorney General John Ashcroft has instructed six federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to do a better job of sharing information as they fight the war against terrorism. Full Story

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APRIL 15, 2002. NORTH KOREA. North Koreans are expected to turn out en masse for public rallies and celebrations marking the 90th birthday of deceased Great Leader Kim Il-sung. APRIL 15, 2002. SENEGAL. NEPAD summit begins in Dakar, continues through April 17. African presidents, representatives of international organisations including the United Nations and European Union,…

The Spanish authorities have arrested an Algerian man they suspect is al-Qaeda`s financial chief in the country. Full Story

When the Pentagon talks about training the new Afghan National Army, it doesn`t mean with its own soldiers. The Green Berets and other elite U. S. troops are needed elsewhere. Instead, the Defense Department is drawing up plans to use its commandos to jump-start the Afghan force, then hire private military contractors to finish the…

After a monthlong tribute, two pillars of light beamed skyward in memory of those killed in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center faded out as Saturday night yielded to Sunday morning. Full Story

A senior al Qaeda official who was seriously wounded during his capture in Pakistan last month has begun to talk to U.S. interrogators but has not provided any significant information, a Bush administration official said yesterday. Full Story

U.S. costs for the fighting in Afghanistan should be $10.2 billion this year, Congress` nonpartisan budget analyst is estimating, about one-third what President Bush wants for the Pentagon`s overall war against terrorism. Full Story

Defense: The accused terrorist is being denied attorney-client privilege in jail, his lawyers argue in a court motion. Full Story

Already protecting 95,000 miles of shoreline, the smallest U.S. military branch found itself on the homeland defense front lines after Sept. 11. Full Story

The head of international police body Interpol said on Friday a global terror database containing thousands of suspects` names and details of stolen passports was expected to be up and running within days. Full Story

This industrial city deep in the interior of Pakistan was never high on the list of places deemed likely to provide sanctuary to Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden`s terror network. Full Story

The Bush administration`s assault on Somalia`s biggest money-transfer company was swift and severe. Full Story

Nepal`s king on Sunday appealed for peace and unity in a New Year message to his nation, three days after more than 300 people were believed killed in the increasingly bloody communist revolt to topple him. Full Story

Secretary of State Colin Powell made a quick trip Monday to Lebanon seeking support for a crackdown on guerrillas who have been rocketing Israel from sanctuary in the southern part of the country. Full Story

President Hugo Chavez, newly restored to office after a botched coup attempt, told paratroopers who remained loyal to him “I will always be with you,” but also made a conciliatory gesture to opponents. Full Story

After a decades-long exodus of tens of thousands of Jews from Tunisia, Djerba`s grand rabbi is hopeful that the small Jewish community of this Mediterranean island has turned a corner and is poised to grow. Full Story

Election officials began counting votes Monday from East Timor`s first presidential polls as political leaders predicted a landslide victory for former resistance leader Xanana Gusmao. Full Story

Colombia`s leading candidate for the May 26 presidential elections survived an apparent assassination attempt on Sunday when a bomb exploded on his campaign route, killing three people and injuring at least 13 others, authorities said. Full Story

Police beat back protesters at the U.S. Embassy in Manila Monday as the top American commander in the region visited the remote southern island where his troops are helping Philippine soldiers fight Muslim guerrillas. Full Story

Oklahoma City, site of the deadliest assault on U.S. civilians before the Sept. 11 attacks, will mark the 7th anniversary of the bombing on Friday with an exhibit focusing on the shared experiences of people caught up in the two disasters. Full Story

The Israeli military operation in the West Bank is a sweeping counterinsurgency campaign that given enough time could reduce but not end bombing attacks by Palestinian militants, Israeli officials and American experts agree. Full Story

Outside New York and Washington, not many terrorist targets are as juicy as the Golden Gate Bridge. The grand Art Deco span with the killer views is a landmark known worldwide. Tourists gambol between its red towers year-round. And with more than 115,000 vehicles crossing daily, it`s a key link in a major commuter artery.…

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APRIL 13, 2002. ETHIOPIA/ERITREA. Eritrea and Ethiopia will hear from a UN border commission the final decision on where their common border should lie. The final decision will be announced on April 13 in the Hague at the Peace Palace. APRIL 14, 2002. COMOROS. General elections. Prime Minister Hamada Madi intends to run for president,…

A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up at Jerusalem`s main outdoor market on Friday, killing at least four people in an attack that coincided with a peace mission by Secretary of State Colin Powell (news – web sites), police said. Full Story

A top al-Qaida official denied knowledge of who was behind the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States when interrogated shortly after his arrest here, Pakistani officials said Thursday. Full Story

A former White House adviser on counterterrorism was appointed Thursday as head of the agency that oversees Logan Airport. Full Story

An airline safety oversight system that came under close examination and severe criticism for not identifying maintenance problems at Alaska Airlines before the crash of Flight 261 is still not working properly, the Transportation Department`s inspector general has found. Full Story

A federal judge has given the Justice Department (news – web sites) until Tuesday to explain why it must use secret evidence, so far shown only to the judge, against an Islamic charity accused of having terrorist links. Full Story

A senior U.S. official said Washington helped pay ransom last month to Muslim guerrillas in the Philippines linked to Osama bin Laden, but the Manila government said on Friday that no such incident took place. Full Story

The trial in Pakistan of British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three alleged accomplices for the kidnap and murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl was adjourned for 10 days on Friday, lawyers said. Full Story

Israel has given the United States a cache of documents that Israeli officials say were captured in raids in the West Bank and establish that Yasir Arafat financed and oversaw terrorist attacks by Palestinian militants. Full Story

Federal authorities plan to share with state and local police information on tens of thousands of suspected terrorists to try to improve homeland defense, Justice Department (news – web sites) officials say. Full Story

Six months into the U.S. war on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist network, the largest manhunt in history appears to have reached a dead end. Full Story

There are six syllables President Bush really doesn`t want to say aloud: Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Gov. George E. Pataki plans to begin a sweeping program to sharpen security at New York City`s area airports, going beyond some new federal restrictions by requiring criminal background checks of workers in airport shops, the governor`s senior aides said today. He also wants to install fingerprint scanners quickly for all airport employees and do…

Major drug companies teamed up with the federal government today to make sure doctors obtain bioterrorism information from a powerful delivery device: their sales forces. Full Story

Six months after last fall`s deadly anthrax attacks, the Pentagon is scrambling to develop a new generation of vaccines to protect troops and perhaps the American populace from biological weapons. Full Story

VenezuelaU.S citizens should defer travel to Venezuela until further notice. There has been violence in Caracas between anti-government and pro-government protesters, as well as large demonstrations and disruptions of public services throughout the country. Full Story

Middle East UpdateThis Public Announcement is being updated to alert Americans to large demonstrations and other incidents, some of them violent, taking place throughout the region in response to the increased tensions and conflict in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza over the last few weeks. Full Story

Police believe they may have foiled plans for a terrorist attack in central London on the day of the Queen Mother`s funeral. Full Story

The mayor of a Lima suburb has received death threats that he says are from the Shining Path. Full Story

Amnesty International observers witnessed a vigilante band trying to burn a man alive outside the offices of a Nigerian state governor, the rights group said, in a report sounding an alarm over increasing vigilante killings here. An Amnesty delegation watched as members of the Bakassi Boys, an anti-crime, state-supported militia also known as the Anambra…

Thousands of Nepalese Maoist rebels killed 84 policemen in night-time raids that left more than 100 people dead and marked a bloody escalation of their six-year-old insurgency, officials said. Full Story

A Roman Catholic monk has been killed in political clashes in Madagascar`s third town of Fianarantsoa, according to the French news agency AFP. Full Story

In the latest anti-Semitic incident in France, a Jewish amateur soccer team was attacked during a training session in a Paris suburb, police said Thursday. Full Story

Thousands of people have joined rallies in East Timor`s capital Dili on the last day of its first ever presidential election campaign. Full Story

The Congolese army is to merge with rebels forces in a deal brokered by the government to end the country`s civil war. Full Story

Leftist Colombian rebels masquerading as police rescuers kidnapped 12 provincial lawmakers in a daring raid on the legislative assembly in the city of Cali on Thursday, luring victims into buses by announcing a bomb-threat, authorities said. Full Story

President Hugo Chavez resigned Friday under pressure from Venezuela’s military in the wake of violent protests against his administration’s oil policies which left at least 13 people dead and more than 100 others wounded. Pedro Carmona, head of Venezuela’s largest business association, announced he would head a transitional government to be installed later Friday. Full…

Intending it as a “good deed to serve Islam,” a born-again computer programmer in Pakistan has released an online-chat program with bells and whistles specifically designed for the Taliban. Taliban`s IslamicIRC Script, a customized version of the popular mIRC chat client, automatically connects users to two Islamic channels on the DALnet Internet Relay Chat (IRC)…

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APRIL 13, 2002. ETHIOPIA/ERITREA. Eritrea and Ethiopia will hear from a UN border commission the final decision on where their common border should lie. The final decision will be announced on April 13 in the Hague at the Peace Palace. APRIL 14, 2002. COMOROS. General elections. Prime Minister Hamada Madi intends to run for president,…