A Palestinian suicide bomber killed eight people and Israel pressed on with an offensive that has sent the Palestinian death toll soaring, undermining hopes for Secretary of State Colin Powell`s peace mission. Full Story

The arrest of Osama bin Laden`s senior aide Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan stemmed from information gathered by U.S. interrogators of arrested Pakistanis in Kabul, an intelligence source said on Thursday. Full Story

The National Guard, which has patrolled Hartsfield International Airport since last fall, will work its last day Saturday. Full Story

An Egyptian detained in Britain is among four people charged by US authorities yesterday, accused of helping a jailed Islamic terrorist leader to communicate with his followers from his prison cell. Full Story

The Federal Aviation Administration mailed its regional pilots newsletter to one of the Sept. 11 hijackers just last month. Full Story

Two Afghan nuclear scientists, in the strongest indication yet that al Qaeda was trying to construct a nuclear bomb, have revealed how the terrorist group attempted to recruit them. Full Story

Saudi Arabia has joined Saddam Hussein in giving “blood money” to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers – a policy that could complicate relations between America and one of its principal Arab allies. Full Story

The FBI runs major risks of having its information systems infiltrated despite the agency`s recent overhaul efforts, top FBI officials said Tuesday. Full Story

Winning the war on terrorism requires a strategy similar to that used by the Detroit Red Wings coach, Gen. Richard Myers told a luncheon crowd of 400 people Tuesday in Livonia. Full Story

Stolen commercial radioactive devices could be used to make `dirty bombs.` Full Story

Whoever concocted the wispy white powder used in the anthrax attacks last autumn followed a recipe markedly different from the ones commonly used by scientists in the United States or any other country known to have biological weapons, according to law enforcement sources. Full Story

The United States could make it “impossible” for biological agents to be used as effective weapons of terror if the country spends $10 billion to $30 billion a year to revamp its ailing public health system, one of the nation`s leading biological defense experts told Global Security Newswire yesterday. Full Story

The Treasury Department`s chief information officer, Jim Flyzik, will take a new job starting April 21, advising homeland security chief Tom Ridge on information technology issues. Full Story

The Defense Department`s transformation programs were scrutinized on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as lawmakers sought ways to balance budgetary constraints with the military`s need to win the war on terror while also moving from the industrial age to the information age. Full Story

Members of the 2nd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team have spent a lot of time at Yankee Stadium, but they haven`t had any chances to relax and take in a ball game. Full Story

The wife of the owner of one of Bolivia`s main national newspapers El Diario has been killed in a car bomb explosion in La Paz. Full Story

One of Colombia`s biggest rebel groups has declared that oil companies working in the country are now “military targets”. Full Story

South Africa`s President, Thabo Mbeki, has put forward new power-sharing proposals to end the deadlock at peace talks on the Democratic Republic of Congo. Full Story

Three civilian volunteers attached to the Philippine army were killed and 13 people were wounded in two separate bomb blasts in the south of the country, officials said on Thursday. Full Story

Two Americans held by Muslim guerrillas in the southern Philippines were seen this week near a small town on the eastern coast of Basilan island, local officials said on Thursday. Full Story

In the face of indifference from police, universities said this week that they are having to employ security guards and even form self-defense teams to protect their 70,000 foreign students from racist attacks. Full Story

Sri Lanka welcomed remarks by the top Tamil rebel leader that he was committed to Norway`s peace bid even though he was not ready to give up arms immediately. Full Story

A truck filled with natural gas crashed into a wall surrounding a synagogue on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba on Thursday, killing five people and injuring about 20, the official news agency reported. Full Story

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Lloyd`s of London insurance market on Wednesday estimated its net loss from the attacks on the World Trade Center at 1.98 billion pounds ($2.85 billion), compared to an earlier 1.9 billion pound forecast. Full Story

A defense attorney with a reputation as a zealous advocate has become a defendant herself, accused of crossing the line by conspiring to help an imprisoned client relay messages to his radical Islamic followers. Full Story

Nine suspects have been arrested in recent attacks on international peacekeepers and an apparent assassination attempt against the defense minister, officials said Wednesday. Full Story

A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb on a bus in northern Israel during rush hour this morning, killing at least 8 people, a day after 13 Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush in the West Bank city of Jenin. Full Story

In the interest of boosting homeland security, ESRI – one of the leading companies in the geographic information system field – has set up a $2.3 million grant program to jump-start GIS initiatives in small cities and help set up crisis centers for local government agencies. Full Story

A shallow ditch is all that separates Boundary Road, which winds through the fields and farmhouses of this dairy community, from 0 Avenue, a similar rural highway that parallels it just 12 feet away — in Canada. Full Story

In a meeting today with business and labor leaders, President Bush will emphasize the possibility that jobs could be lost if the Senate does not act on terrorism insurance legislation, a senior administration official said. Full Story

The Bush administration has informed Moscow that Washington is curtailing many new disarmament projects because of concern about Russia`s compliance with treaties banning chemical and biological weapons, according to senior administration officials. Full Story

The escalation of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel makes an attack by a lone bomber on a target inside the United States a “serious threat,” according to American intelligence. Full Story

Thousands of Angolans sang and danced through the rutted streets of the capital last week to celebrate a cease-fire that may finally end nearly a quarter-century of war. But even as the nation rejoiced, it was clear that its fragile peace rested uneasily on the shoulders of one man. Full Story

A sudden wave of bombings struck Colombia`s capital Tuesday, when several low-level blasts went off in downtown Bogota, injuring a 6-year-old girl and signaling the possible start of an urban terror campaign that had been feared since the collapse of peace talks here. Full Story

Terrorists killed five people, including three children, in an attack on the house of an alleged informer in Kashmir, police said Wednesday. Full Story

Tamil Tiger rebel leader in Sri Lanka Velupillai Prabhakaran is due to hold a rare press conference in a few hours` time in the rebel-controlled town of Kilinochchi. Full Story

Taliban leaders have warned Afghans not to help U.S. forces or their allies and insist they will face consequences if they ignore the pleas. Full Story

Iran is secretly training Islamic terrorists from Uzbekistan for future operations in Central Asia, according to U.S. intelligence officials. Full Story

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge says all 50 U.S. states must develop local, regional, and then statewide comprehensive plans to thwart terrorism. Full Story

An attorney and three other people were indicted Tuesday on charges they helped an Islamic militant imprisoned in the United States communicate with his followers in Egypt. Full Story

The man accused of plotting to fly an aircraft into the Rialto Towers has been released from jail. Full Story

Hoping to better track foreign visitors and keep out would-be terrorists, immigration officials are tightening student visa rules and proposing shorter U.S. trips for tourists and business travelers. Full Story

Nearly three-quarters of the nation`s nuclear reactor sites are seeking a delay in fully responding to tighter security regulations, a watchdog group said yesterday. Full Story

Asserting that it was time for the Asia-Pacific countries to jointly confront terrorism, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday committed India`s partnership to the region on security issues and said the entire region has crucial stakes in protecting common commercial lanes, combating piracy, choking off narco trade and curbing gun running. Full Story

The Justice Department has failed to distribute more than half the hundreds of millions of dollars available to state and local governments for anti-terrorism programs since 1998, according to a report Monday by the department`s inspector general. Full Story

Guests staying at the traditional hotel haunts of the business traveller maybe unaware of many of the measures taken to increase security since the terrorist attacks of September 11 – but they are in place nevertheless. Leading groups such as Six Continents and Marriott are on heightened alert, constantly reviewing their security status and tailoring…

Everyone from commuters to school kids is paying a price for rising insurance costs , due in part to the recent spike in terrorism-coverage rates. Full Story

American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp was sued for more than $50 million on Monday by the husband of a highly paid portfolio manager who was killed on Sept. 11 in her World Trade Center office. Full Story

A Delta Air Lines terminal was shut down for part of Monday morning at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport because a carry-on bag that appeared to contain a knife may have gotten past security. Full Story

The cost of bolstering airport security is mounting rapidly, and this year alone could run more than triple what has been budgeted, congressional and aviation industry officials say. Full Story

In the six months that the National Guard has been on patrol at the Philadelphia International Airport, they have actually seen little that has alarmed them. Full Story

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Logan International Airport has experienced double the number of terminal evacuations because of security breaches than similar-sized airports, according to federal statistics provided to the Globe. Full Story

The U.S. military hasn`t tracked down Osama bin Laden during its six-month war in Afghanistan, but it has made it harder for his al-Qaida terrorist network to operate – and that`s better than nothing, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said. Full Story

Coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks on America dominated the Pulitzer Prizes awarded on Monday, with The New York Times winning a record seven of the 14 journalism awards. Full Story

Potential suspects with the scientific expertise to carry out last year`s deadly anthrax attacks are believed to number in the “thousands,” far more than the dozens previously reported, a senior federal law enforcement official said Monday. Full Story

An Algerian man and two roommates who were arrested in Detroit a week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were planning to conduct holy war against the United States, a federal prosecutor said in court Friday. Full Story

The U.S. government`s much-touted financial war on terrorism has been hamstrung by bitter turf battles among federal agencies, questionable evidence against targeted Middle Eastern groups and a lack of cooperation by foreign allies, senior government officials said. Full Story

Since the shock of Sept. 11, President Bush has pursued a sharply focused foreign policy agenda with single-minded zeal: Terrorism was civilization`s mortal enemy, he said, and his historic mission was to stamp it out, beginning in Afghanistan and moving on to Iraq. Full Story

A team of American soldiers completed a sweep today of a large cave network believed to have been used recently by Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, carrying away photos, dossiers and vials containing an unidentified white powder. Full Story