Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden&#039s al Qaeda network has collected millions of dollars in the past three years from the illicit sale of diamonds mined by rebels in Sierra Leone, The Washington Post reported on Friday. Full Story

California officials said Thursday they are beefing up security at the state&#039s suspension bridges after receiving a threat to destroy one of them. “We believe there is a credible threat that there will be an effort made between November 2nd and November 7th to destroy one of those bridges,” Gov. Gray Davis said. The National…

With preliminary tests finding no signs of anthrax at the workplace and home of a New York City hospital employee who died early Wednesday, investigators were trying to trace her recent movements to determine how she came into contact with the deadly spores. The 61-year-old woman’s death from inhalation anthrax was the fourth fatality in…

Public health officials scrambled yesterday to investigate the mysterious infection and death of a New York woman from inhalation anthrax, as experts warned Americans that the wave of bioterrorism could expand in coming days. Full Story

While authorities try to cope with the anthrax outbreak, federal and state officials are taking steps to prepare for a possible escalation of terrorism that experts say could include truck bombings and attacks on nuclear power plants as well as more hijackings. Full Story

The latest FBI warning sent to 18,000 law enforcement agencies could hardly be more vague: Some kind of terrorist attack might come, somewhere, sometime soon. Full Story

As the nation again stands on high alert, the FBI is searching for six men stopped by police in the Midwest last weekend but released — even though they possessed photos and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline, a senior law enforcement official said Tuesday. Full Story

Tom Ridge may have the toughest job in America. The newly appointed director of the White House Office of Homeland Security is expected to craft a “coordinated, integrated and comprehensive national strategy to combat domestic terrorism,” according to White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. To do so, he will need to harmonize the activities of more…

Thirteen people have been arrested in Spain in pre-dawn raids targeted on supporters of the Basque separatist group ETA. Police say those held are linked to groups that support ETA prisoners, but they are suspected of being active members themselves. Full Story

Palestinian gunmen opened fire overnight on an Israeli vehicle on the main approach road to Jerusalem&#039s Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus. Full Story

A gas leak triggered an explosion in a crowded steakhouse on the outskirts of Guatemala&#039s capital Tuesday, killing one person and seriously injuring 16 others. Full Story

After four months of trekking through Latin America, a British backpacker took a late-night bus in one of the most dangerous regions of Colombia. It was a risky move, and one that proved fatal. Full Story

An explosion rocked the home of a parliamentary deputy Wednesday, killing his niece and injuring three other family members, government officials said. The blast shook the home of Azgan Haklaj of the Democratic Party at 2 a.m., said Florjan Serjani of the Interior Ministry. The explosion killed Haklaj&#039s 26-year-old niece, Shote. Full Story

India said Thursday the Pakistani army had moved some offensive formations closer to the border including along a sensitive stretch in the bitterly disputed Kashmir region. Full Story

The Sept. 11 attacks have increased concerns that extremists would use weapons of mass destruction — including possibly nuclear weapons — against the United States, Undersecretary of State John Bolton said on Wednesday. Full Story

An Israeli missile strike killed two Palestinian militants in the West Bank on Thursday, hours before British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Israel to seek an end to year-long violence. Full Story

The government is increasing vigilance at the nation&#039s borders with better background checks and coordinated enforcement designed to bar suspected terrorists and their supporters. Full Story

Indonesia will freeze local assets and bank accounts of any groups suspected of having links to terrorist activities, the official Antara news agency reported on Wednesday. Full Story

Police said 20 people were killed on Tuesday in gunbattles in Indian Kashmir, where separatist violence has escalated since the start of U.S.-led strikes on Afghanistan. Full Story

American military officers are in the Philippines providing advice in the fight against a terrorist group linked to Osama bin Laden&#039s Al Qaeda network, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today. Full Story

A strong blast has severely damaged a community health center (Puskesmas) in the village of Bontobiraeng, Gowa regency, some 50 kilometers south of South Sulawesi&#039s capital Makassar, on Tuesday. Full Story

Maoist guerrillas of two different groups blew up a railroad station and a telephone exchange in the southern Andhra Pradesh state, police said. Armed rebels of the outlawed Peoples&#039 War Group burst into Koneru railroad station, asked the staff on duty to evacuate and then blasted it with explosives Sunday night, said Sujat Ali, the…

The United States, widening its offensive against terrorism, has released a new list of some 200 individuals it suspects of having links to September&#039s attacks, Britain&#039s financial regulator said on Tuesday. Full Story

The FBI issued its latest nationwide terrorist alert following “the convergence of information from credible sources,&#039&#039 Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Tuesday, material deemed related to Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaida network. Full Story

A Canadian tip-off helped lead to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft&#039s warning on Monday of possible new terrorist attacks, Canadian Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay said on Tuesday. Full Story

Shrugging off new terror threats, President Bush traveled to a packed and patriotic Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night to open the third game of baseball&#039s World Series with a perfect strike. Full Story

New York suffered its first case of inhalation anthrax on Tuesday and spores were detected in three more postal facilities in the Washington area and Florida as U.S. authorities battled to find those responsible for the germ warfare attacks. Full Story

The United States, fearing new terror of an unknown nature and fighting an anthrax outbreak of uncertain origin, held out the prospect on Tuesday of a Gulf War-style invasion to crush the Taliban and their al Qaeda allies in Afghanistan. Full Story

The United States should be on heightened alert in the coming days because of possible new terrorist action, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday afternoon. Full Story

The rash of anthrax contaminations in government buildings continued to spread Monday as officials announced that the potentially deadly bacteria had been discovered in mailrooms at the U.S. Supreme Court, the State Department and in the building that houses the Health and Human Services Department. At the State Department, officials told NBC News that spores…

To understand why the San Jose department of emergency services is considered one of the best prepared in the nation, consider its recent handling of an attack of confetti. Full Story

The FBI should be required to share information on efforts to fight terrorism with local law enforcement in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Monday. Full Story

What drove a rich Saudi boy to become a terrorist mastermind? After months of interviews, and gathering startling new testimony from al-Qaeda associates and enemies around the world, Afghanistan specialist Jason Burke sifts fact from rumour to provide the fullest account yet of the life of Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Armed with new authority from President Bush for a global campaign against al Qaeda, the Central Intelligence Agency is contemplating clandestine missions expressly aimed at killing specified individuals for the first time since the assassination scandals and consequent legal restraints of the 1970s. Full Story

The Basque separatist group E.T.A., becoming isolated since the Sept. 11 attacks and the Irish Republican Army&#039s decision to disarm, said today that it wanted peace but only if the governments in Madrid and Paris allowed a vote on independence for the region. Full Story

The food court was busy as the bomb went off. The authorities in the Philippines have blamed the Muslim-separatist group Abu Sayyaf for a bomb attack in a crowded shopping mall which killed at least 11 people. Interior Secretary Joey Lina said on Filipino television that the Abu Sayyaf were behind the attack although he…

Three people have died and at least 18 were wounded in a bomb explosion on a bus in the city of Quetta in south-western Pakistan, police say. The bomb went off as the bus was passing through a military district of the city. One report says it was hidden in a radio. Full Story

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he cannot rule out military action against Iraq in the US-led war on terrorism. He was speaking after the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Tariq Aziz, said he believed the US planned to attack 300 Iraqi targets with 1,000 missiles. Full Story

In a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer October 28, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reiterated that the war on terrorism will be a long process. Full Story

Amid speculation over a possible link between the anthrax cases in the United States and the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks, federal agents have tested cars owned by two of the suspected hijackers for anthrax but they showed no trace of spores, the FBI said on Monday. Full Story

‘- The U.S. Supreme Court convened on Monday at a different location for the first time since its building opened in 1935 after discovering anthrax in its basement mailroom. Full Story

‘- Israel completed its withdrawal of troops from Bethlehem on Monday, but said a pullout from other reoccupied Palestinian areas would depend on whether Israeli security demands were met. Full Story

U.S. bombers hit an area of caves and tunnels in eastern Afghanistan on Monday known as a hideout of Osama bin Laden, killing two people. Full Story

Pressure piled up on pro-British militias in Northern Ireland to give up their weapons after the province&#039s disarmament body confirmed the Irish Republican Army has scrapped part of its huge arsenal. Full Story

Three letters contaminated with anthrax all were dated the same day as the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington and contained anti-American and anti-Israel messages, officials said Tuesday. Full Story

The deadliest form of anthrax claimed the lives of two Washington postal workers and traces of the germ warfare agent were detected at a military facility that screens all mail bound for the White House, officials said on Tuesday. Full Story

The U.S. war on terrorism will likely cause more casualties at home than among troops overseas, Vice President Dick Cheney (news – web sites) said on Tuesday. Full Story

Officials project the cost of Baltimore&#039s anti-terrorism effort will exceed $9 million this fiscal year, a significant burden for a cash-poor city still struggling to cut crime. Full Story

It&#039s been a month and a half since terrorists turned American life upside down, and for many companies that do business throughout the nation and the world, business as usual has been grounded indefinitely. Full Story

John McCain called to try to talk me down. I put aside “Scourge,” the book I was reading about smallpox and listened. “There&#039s nothing wrong with being afraid,” the senator said in that soft, reassuring voice. “Every time I heard the guard&#039s key chain rattle when he came to my cell at an odd hour,…

The United States authorities have unveiled details of a huge new security operation aimed at curbing the spread of anthrax. It is very clear that their symptoms are suspicious and their deaths are likely due to anthrax The announcement came as the deaths of two postal workers in Washington DC who died from unexplained causes…

Commuter trains – once a symbol of Japan&#039s safety and efficiency – have come to represent something entirely different: danger. &#039It&#039s scary just to get to work every day,&#039 said Mr Miwa Sakaguchi, a 25-year-old office worker. &#039And things aren&#039t getting any better.&#039 Full Story

Two explosions have rocked the village of Tearce in north-western Macedonia, just hours after the country&#039s first ethnically mixed police units began patrolling there. Full Story

Bucking the trend of depressed business in the wake of terrorist attacks in the US, security firms are experiencing a boom. While Indonesia&#039s tourism and export sectors have suffered from the nationwide anti-US protests sweeping the country this month, at least one industry is experiencing a mini-boom, office and home security providers, industry sources said.…

The Irish Republican Army, in a historic move aimed at boosting the battered Northern Ireland peace process, has said it has started to disarm, British media reported Tuesday. Full Story

Britain said Tuesday U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan had destroyed nine al Qaeda training camps and severely damaged nine airfields and 24 military barracks. Full Story

Baton-wielding police beat back protesters demonstrating against a U.S. military presence in Pakistan Tuesday, injuring 14 people and arresting about 100. Full Story

Telephone wiretaps and listening devices planted in the apartment of a 33-year-old Tunisian here have produced evidence that a network of terrorist recruits trained at Osama bin Laden&#039s camps in Afghanistan has fanned out to a half-dozen European countries, according to Italian investigators. Full Story

At least 26 Abu Sayyaf gunmen and one soldier were killed yesterday while nine other government troops were wounded in fierce clashes in the southern Philippines, an army official said. Full Story

Three media offices in Indian-controlled Kashmir, including two US-based organisations, have received letters containing suspicious white powder, police sources said Monday. Full Story