Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taleban militia have criticised as “unfair” the convictions in New York of four men over the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Full Story

Ahmed Ressam, who refused to tell authorities anything after his 1999 arrest with explosives at a ferry landing in Washington State, told authorities he planned to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, the Los Angeles Times reported in Wednesday&#039s editions. Full Story

Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs were due to meet again on Wednesday after failing at their first talks in a month to find ways of stopping the daily outbreaks of deadly violence. Full Story

Macedonia said it would hold fire on Wednesday in its fight against ethnic Albanian guerrillas to allow civilians trapped in the battle zone to escape. Full Story

Kenyan survivors of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy welcomed on Wednesday the conviction of four followers of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden in a New York court, but many said the matter had not been put to rest. Full Story

A Malaysian judge on Wednesday freed two opposition activists imprisoned nearly two months ago under the country&#039s Internal Security Act, criticizing police and the powers of arrest they used. Full Story

Four alleged followers of Osama bin Laden were found guilty of all 302 counts stemming from the nearly simultaneous, 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Full Story

A new book by an Iraqi expert in the United States says U.S. investigators have failed to focus enough on Baghdad&#039s role in a series of terrorist attacks in the past 10 years. Her findings have been both dismissed and supported by various U.S. experts. RFE/RL correspondent Joe Lauria spoke with the author and others…

An FBI agent successfully infiltrated the leadership of the “Real IRA” and communicated with the FBI and MI5 by email, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin was told yesterday. The court was told that Mr David Rupert will be the central prosecution witness against Mr Michael McKevitt (51), from Blackrock, Dundalk, Co Louth, who is…

Colombia&#039s largest and oldest rebel army, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – known as the FARC – has celebrated its 37th birthday and is stronger than every before. Full Story

A French woman working for the Red Cross in Cameroon was stabbed to death as she went to a pharmacy to buy medicine for her month-old baby, an official said Monday. Full Story

Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid&#039s supporters poured into the capital on Tuesday and thousands more torched churches in his stronghold of East Java on the eve of a decisive parliamentary debate on his future. Full Story

Militants fired three grenades at a school in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday, five minutes after a federal minister had left the premises, police said. Full Story

Sporadic gunfire broke out in the Central African Republic&#039s capital early on Tuesday, a day after a failed coup attempt against President Ange Felix Patasse, residents said. Full Story

Macedonian forces blasted a northern village with artillery and helicopter gunships on Tuesday as ethnic Albanian guerrillas put up fresh resistance. Full Story

Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid Sunday raised the stakes in his increasingly desperate attempts to hang on to power by threatening to declare a civil emergency if parliament went ahead with efforts to impeach him. Full Story

Palestinian militants set off two car bombs in Jerusalem Sunday, injuring up to four people and hampering a U.S. envoy&#039s mission to end eight months of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Full Story

The State Department has reached an agreement to supply $3 million in logistical support to a Sudanese opposition alliance that includes the main group fighting for autonomy in the African country&#039s war-torn southern provinces, according to government sources familiar with the arrangement. Full Story

Outside this dust-choked Taliban stronghold, sometimes called home by Osama bin Laden, exists a network of safe houses from which America’s most-wanted man allegedly masterminds attacks against U.S. interests. Having failed to bring bin Laden to justice through missile strikes and sanctions against Afghanistan’s government, Washington is now quietly playing down the Saudi exile’s image…

Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday that 898 documents that initially weren’t provided to Timothy McVeigh’s defense have been handed over to his lawyers. But the attorney general said that none of the documents raises any doubts about the Oklahoma City bomber’s guilt and indicated he would not further delay McVeigh’s execution, now scheduled June…

President Mohammad Khatami on Thursday denounced Iran&#039s main rebel group, the People&#039s Mujahideen, accusing them of using violence to undermine his peaceful reforms. Full Story

The bandits who attacked a tourist resort and who are suspected of being Muslim rebels have taken hostages to use as shields as they try to escape. Full Story

An explosion went off Friday near the main bus station in the central Israeli town of Hadera, according to Israeli radio reports. Full Story

At least five Indian security force personnel have been killed and two critically injured by a powerful landmine explosion in Kashmir. The attack happened in a remote part of the mountainous Udhampur district, some 70km from Jammu, the state&#039s winter capital. Full Story

A battalion of 400 mutinying troops has seized a military base outside the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Army units have closed roads leading to the area, and security has been stepped up outside the parliament and government buildings in Tbilisi. Full Story

A bomb exploded early Thursday at an opposition newspaper in northern Cyprus, damaging machinery and burning paper supplies. Full Story

Colombian police said they deactivated two car bombs in the violent oil refining city of Barrancabermeja on Thursday — the latest in a string of car bombs to be found in the war-torn country. Full Story

Algerian paramilitary gendarmes shot dead a teenager in fresh clashes with Berber protesters demanding the security force&#039s withdrawal from the restive Berber region, residents and medical sources said on Thursday. Full Story

Jordan allowed an American suspected of links to Saudi militant Osama bin Laden to leave the country Thursday, ending 17 months in detention. Full Story

Fighting between government troops and ethnic Albanian guerrillas in northeast Macedonia prevented Red Cross medical teams from reaching shelled villages Friday where at least seven civilians were reported killed. Full Story

A battalion of Georgian troops quit its base without orders Friday, sparking a security scare and allegations of a coup attempt in a country which has been riven with internal strife since the collapse of communism. Full Story

A suicide truck bomber blew himself up near an Israeli army outpost in the Gaza Strip on Friday, and Israeli forces retaliated by shelling a Palestinian police station. Full Story

Israeli troops shot and wounded a man throwing rocks at an Israeli position on the Lebanese-Israeli border on Friday, witnesses said. Full Story

Five Portuguese nationals released by a separtist group in Angola after more than two months in captivity have left the Cabinda enclave for Libreville, state radio said Thursday. Full Story

Israeli forces raided Palestinian-ruled land at the Yebna refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip Thursday, but at a different location from an ongoing firefight, Palestinian security sources said. Full Story

One fire gutted a research laboratory at the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture here, while the other destroyed two buildings and several vehicles at a poplar tree nursery in the northwestern corner of Oregon. Both were reported shortly after 3 a.m. Monday. Full Story

At his hospital clinic, Israeli doctor Mario Goldin reduced people&#039s pain for a living. At night he went home to his comfortable apartment where he multitasked as a loving father and husband, a flutist, a home improvement enthusiast and an avid Internet correspondent. Full Story

The Mitchell report, issued earlier this week, opens another page in the story of the Middle East conflict. With its provisions for a cease-fire, a cooling-off period, confidence-building measures and an eventual return to the negotiating table, the report represents a positive contribution. Full Story

Nuclear smugglers are operating around the world with impunity, according to research by the International Atomic Energy Authority, which warns that the risk of atomic terrorism against civilians has never been greater. Full Story

The United Nations said Wednesday that about 2,300 fighters have turned in their weapons in the first six days of a new disarmament deal in Sierra Leone – including nearly 200 child soldiers. Full Story

Israeli tanks fired shells while thrusting into a Palestinian-ruled area in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after a mortar attack, shattering a call by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for a cease-fire. Full Story

Israel&#039s air force shot down a light civilian plane from Lebanon on Thursday, the anniversary of Israel&#039s pullout from the Arab state, after the pilot failed to heed warnings he was over Israel, the army said. Full Story

A newspaper executive was shot dead in Spain&#039s northern Basque region on Thursday in the first killing blamed on the armed Basque separatist group ETA since crucial Basque parliamentary elections earlier this month. Full Story

A Swedish man kidnapped with 24 Thais and a Kenyan by a militia group in the Congo has appealed for negotiations rather than the use of force to secure their release, Human Rights Watch reported on Thursday. Full Story

Colombian soldiers freed 13 kidnap victims held by leftist FARC guerrillas and killed nine rebels in clashes in the country&#039s south, the armed forces said on Wednesday. Full Story

The Justice Department plans to file papers in federal court as early as Thursday offering a description of the more than 3,100 pages of FBI documents recently discovered in the Oklahoma City bombing case, sources told CNN Wednesday. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s Islamic rulers decreed today that all non-Muslims must wear distinctive marks on their clothing to set them apart from the country&#039s Muslim majority. Full Story

One year after extracting itself from its bloody occupation of south Lebanon, Israel finds the example of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah guerrillas is transforming the Palestinian territories into a new quaqmire. Full Story

Turkey&#039s justice minister clashed sharply with a Dutch Socialist at an international human rights forum Wednesday, accusing the Netherlands of harbouring a “death centre” that encouraged lethal hunger strikes in Turkish jails. Full Story

Iran&#039s Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi called on Islamic countries Wednesday to bankroll the Palestinian uprising against Israel, state radio reported. “We must support the intifada, and the most important concrete decision will be to help finance the Palestinians so that they can continue with their uprising,” Kharazi said, cited by the report. Full Story

The potential actions of loosely organized, international networks ofterrorists who share a vision of global “jihad” against the West,especially the United States “remain a clear and present danger,” saysMark Wong, U.S. deputy coordinator for counterterrorism. Full Story

In a recent test, every medical laboratory that received a patient specimen containing the deadly anthrax bacterium failed to spot the organism or refer it to another lab, scientists report. Full Story

Two months before a county election, people in The Dalles, Ore., started coming down with something. In September 1984, residents began reporting stomach and intestinal problems after eating at certain local restaurants. Public health officials confirmed an outbreak of salmonella, a potentially fatal bacteria that causes fevers, diarrhea and abdominal pain. Full Story

Investigators with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are looking for evidence that eco-terrorists may be responsible for a multimillion-dollar fire at the University of Washington. Full Story

Prosecutors in Vietnam have sought jail terms, including a life sentence and six 20-year terms, for 37 people charged with terrorism and anti-socialist activity, a court official said on Wednesday. Full Story

As a jury completed its ninth day of deliberations Tuesday without a verdict in the embassy bombings case, and attorneys again clashed over the possible death penalty phase of the trial. Full Story

At least 10 sailors have been killed and 17 injured in a landmine explosion on a major highway in north-eastern Sri Lanka. Full Story

Five Muslim separatist militants were among six people killed in separate incidents in Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. Full Story

The bomb squads are back. Mirrors are being shoved under car engines. Homeowners are shatter-proofing their windows. And tensions are high. Full Story

Three kidnappers were shot dead by police on a country road in Henan during the dramatic rescue of a businessman&#039s son, the Beijing Youth Daily reported. In a crime that shocked Yongcheng city in Henan province, Zhang Yuheng, 11, was kidnapped by four men on his way to school on March 26. Full Story