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With security certain to be a major issue at the 2004 Summer Games, seven countries with extensive counterterrorism experience have joined to offer training and intelligence to Greek law enforcement authorities. Full Story
Investigators are focusing on at least three members of the radical Earth Liberation Front as suspects in five arsons that have caused $7.4 million in damage, police say. Full Story
A chilling scenario of possible national collapse was presented Monday to US lawmakers by a group of prominent security experts, who warned that a biological terrorist attack on US soil could bring the country to the brink of disintegration. Full Story
A bomb has exploded at a paramilitary police barracks on the French island of Corsica injuring 14 people. The injured were having lunch when the bomb, left outside the barracks, blew a 10-metre hole in a room next door. Full Story
The Palestinian Authority tightened security in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Palestinians battled each other in a new twist to a 10-month-old uprising against Israeli occupation. Full Story
A major pre-dawn suicide attack by Tamil Tiger rebels closed Sri Lanka's only international airport on Tuesday, forcing passengers to scramble to safety in the dark and leaving aircraft burning on the tarmac. Full Story
Russia's military claimed credit on Monday for killing a senior rebel commander in separatist Chechnya, but other accounts said he was gunned down by a teenager avenging his father's death. Full Story
The Nepal government and Maoist rebels said on Monday they would stop all offensive action against each other to pave the way for peace talks to end a bloody rebellion in the impoverished Himalayan nation. Full Story
Security forces in India's violence-racked Kashmir state fanned out across the mountainous region on Monday to track down suspected militants who shot villagers dead during the weekend. Full Story
China's military is moving ahead with development of information warfare capabilities and appears to have orchestrated recent computer attacks on Taiwan, the top electronic warfare general here said. Full Story
A diplomat representing Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden should be praised for his services to Afghanistan and vowed never to deliver him to the United States, a news agency reported. Full Story
Four Yemenis were convicted Sunday and sentenced to between four and 15 years in prison for bombing the British Embassy last year – just one day after the deadly USS Cole attack. Full Story
Nepal's Maoist rebels gunned down 15 police officers in west Nepal, providing an immediate test for the government of new Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Full Story
Three explosive devices have gone off in the Greek capital, Athens, destroying an Italian diplomat's car and damaging four other vehicles parked outside two Italian car dealers' shops. Full Story
Leftist rebels freed 12 workers being held for ransom at a hydroelectric plant in Colombia, an army officer said Sunday. Rebels from the National Liberation Army, or ELN, released the workers in good health late Saturday, said army Maj. Carlos Martinez. Full Story
Indonesian lawmakers on Monday elected Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of the country's founding leader, as the fourth president in as many turbulent years, removing her disgraced predecessor from office for incompetence. Full Story
Israel said on Monday it would consider allowing more U.S. CIA staff to oversee a truce with the Palestinians after Group of Eight leaders urged Israel to allow in foreign observers to prevent more bloodshed. Full Story
The Burundi government said on Monday it was crushing the second coup attempt since April by soldiers opposed to the country's peace process and security sources said two soldiers were killed in the resulting violence. Full Story
About 150 anti-globalization protesters attacked the Italian and Canadian embassies in London overnight, smashing some windows and damaging a car, police said on Monday. Full Story
French police have arrested three men on suspicion of trafficking nuclear material after seizing five grams of enriched uranium used to make nuclear weapons, the newspaper Journal du Dimanche said on Sunday. Full Story
Marxist guerrillas bombarded a small town in southwestern Colombia, broke into the local jail and freed 61 inmates, the army and prison officials said on Sunday. Full Story
Bombs ripped through two passenger buses in Pakistan's volatile southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing one person and wounding several others, many of them seriously. Full Story
A small explosion was reported Friday outside a police station in Northern Ireland. Officers were investigating the explosion at the Royal Ulster Constabulary's Castlewellan base in County Down, south of Belfast. Shooting was also reported at the base late last night. Full Story
A bomb exploded in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on Thursday, wounding two people. Police quickly blamed criminal elements for the blast. Full Story
An apparent assassination attempt involving a 10-minute frenzy of grenades, rockets and gunfire against Itihi Ossetoumba Lekoundzo, defence minister of the Republic of Congo (ROC) was reported to have taken place on Wednesday in Brazzaville, according to AP. Full Story
At least 70 people were killed and 15 wounded when armed men attacked the north Angolan diamond-mining town of Chinguvu, close to the Congo border, Lusa reported on Monday. Quoting an unnamed military source who identified the attackers as UNITA, the news agency said about 100 rebels were involved in the Saturday assault on a…
The United States is expecting a terrorist attack orchestrated by the Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden soon, and has placed its forces in the Middle East on the highest level of alert. Full Story
Leaders of the world's richest nations assembled behind a steel cordon in the Italian port of Genoa on Friday for their annual summit as anti-globalization activists kicked off their first violent protests. Full Story
Suspected Jewish militants killed three Palestinians, including an infant, in a shooting that prompted an urgent appeal from the Palestinian Authority for foreign observers in the West Bank and Gaza. Full Story
A three-man European Union monitoring mission was missing in Macedonia on Friday and officials feared they might have been killed by a mine that blew their vehicle off the road. Full Story
The Islamic militants who use Canada as a safe haven have been having a rough time lately. One by one, these self-styled holy warriors have been picked up by police in Britain, France, the United States and Germany, caught up in the American-led legal assault on the Osama bin Laden terrorist empire. Full Story
Thousands of protesters, many wearing protective body padding, have started arriving in the Italian city of Genoa ahead of the G8 summit due to begin on Friday. Full Story
Five people were seriously wounded in a powerful explosion in the center of the southern Russian city of Stavropol on Tuesday. One of the versions the investigators are working on is that the blast was timed to coincide with the trial in Stavropol of a group of members of the so-called Wahabbi Islamic movement who…
Maoist rebels have thrown a human shield of women and children around their 70 police hostages, officials said. Army troops had closed in on the kidnappers in the mountainous Rolpa district of west Nepal but were hobbled by orders orders to exercise maximum restraint and avoid bloodshed, the officials said. Full Story
The US oil and gas mining company, ExxonMobil Indonesia, resumed its operations in Arun village in northern Aceh on Wednesday after a five-month suspension due to security problems. Full Story
A four-day “civil disobedience movement” was launched Thursday in India's northeastern state of Manipur in a bid to rollback a government ceasefire extension with local rebels. Full Story
Two explosions damaged property and wounded at least one person in the Macedonian capital early on Thursday after leaders of the divided republic's dominant ethnic group lashed out at Western peace proposals. Full Story
Concern over Middle East violence pushed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the top of the Group of Eight agenda on Thursday, leading big power foreign ministers to call on the sides to let outside monitors oversee a truce. Full Story
The United States issued a warning on Wednesday that “terrorists'' could be about to attack American targets in the Arabian peninsula. Full Story
Israel said on Wednesday it had bolstered its forces in the West Bank as a warning signal to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to stop anti-Israeli attacks but an invasion of areas he controls was not imminent. Full Story
The Nepalese government on Tuesday warned Maoist rebels holding 70 policemen hostage that they risk an attack if the policemen are not freed. Full Story
Two rocket explosions rocked the provincial capital on Monday, police said. However, no one was killed or injured in the attacks, Deputy Commissioner Quetta, Arif Elahi said. Full Story
The Government plans to set up a special unit of the country's Self-Defence Forces to counter hit-and-run sabotage strikes on its nuclear power plants in the wake of a domestic terror attack and incursions into Japanese waters by North Korean spy vessels. Full Story
A continuing wave of anti-abortion terrorism in the United States has forced clinics to employ security measures befitting military installations. Full Story
Emergency workers want to save everyone. After a 10-car pileup on the freeway, ambulances roll and everyone is rushed to the emergency room. It's standard procedure. If a terrorist unleashes a biological weapon, things change. If the attack strikes hundreds or thousands of people, there would be no time for prolonged efforts to save every…
Doctors have voiced fears that the murder of a security guard inside a Melbourne abortion clinic marked the onset of US-style anti-abortion terrorism. Full Story
An Algerian man under arrest in London has been charged by U.S. authorities with involvement in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport ahead of the 2000 millennium celebration, federal officials said on Monday. Full Story
Israeli soldiers and police stood guard at crowded public places across the country on Tuesday, anticipating further Palestinian militant attacks after a suicide bomber killed two soldiers at a train station. Full Story
Protestants hurled petrol and blast bombs toward a Roman Catholic area early on Tuesday in a fresh flare-up of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast, police said. Full Story
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Armed Islamic militants killed 11 people and wounded five others in an overnight attack, Algerian security forces said in a statement. Full Story
MI5 agents posed as Arabs working for Saddam Hussein in an elaborate undercover operation to catch and arrest suspected ringleaders of the Real IRA. Full Story
Attorney General John Ashcroft said the Justice Department is working to forge new tools to combat terrorism on domestic soil – a threat he calls the agency's top priority. Full Story
Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They seem to believe that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States and that it is becoming more widespread and lethal. They are likely to think that the United States is the most…
An Algerian man was convicted on Friday of federal conspiracy charges for his role in a failed plot to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport ahead of the 2000 millennium celebration. Full Story
A parcel bomb exploded in Genoa on Monday, puncturing a huge security operation set up to prepare the city for the arrival of some of the world's most powerful leaders for the Group of Eight (G8) summit this week. Full Story
Two Palestinians were killed in an explosion in Jerusalem early on Monday while preparing a bomb near a stadium where Israel's Maccabiah Games, or Jewish Olympics, are to open later in the day, police said. Full Story
Nepali security forces have tracked down about 70 policemen kidnapped by Maoist rebels and are trying to rescue them without bloodshed, Home (Interior) Secretary Srikanta Regmi told Reuters on Sunday. Full Story
Rwanda's army said it captured the leader of one of the country's main ethnic Hutu rebel groups on Sunday, dealing a blow to a two-month insurgency that has triggered some of the country's bloodiest fighting in years. Full Story
The Northern Ireland peace agreement was on “life support'' and on hold for weeks on Sunday as proposals were readied to push forward police reform, disarmament and troop cuts in the British province. Full Story
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