Palestinian officials on Wednesday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#039s call for a truce after eight months of bloodshed as a mere public relations ploy. Full Story

Suspected Muslim rebels, firing grenade launchers, raided a tourist island in the southern Philippines, killing two Filipinos and snatching a boat with two local crew, police said Wednesday. Full Story

Staff shortages and vacancies in key positions kept a government computer crime unit from alerting the public of dangerous computer viruses until the damage was already done, Congress was told Tuesday. Full Story

Outlawed Basque separatist group ETA has reportedly produced a handbook for new recruits which spells out the secrets of avoiding capture and being “a good activist”. Full Story

The tenth death anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was Monday observed as &#039&#039Anti-Terrorism Day&#039&#039 with the nation pledging to root out the scourge of terrorism with a greater vigor and determination. Full Story

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#039s top foreign policy aide will likely appear before a court examining whether Libya was involved in a 1986 disco bombing in Berlin, a German government spokeswoman said Monday. Full Story

Sri Lankan forces have shot dead at least 12 Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula, according to the country&#039s defence ministry. Government troops raided four rebel hideouts at Muhamalai in the Jaffna peninsula killing 10 rebels. Full Story

At least 50 Burmese soldiers are said to have been killed in heavy fighting with separatist Indian rebels inside Burma. Full Story

Police will be able legally in more situations, under a proposal announced today by Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross and with which other members of the government have voiced agreement, to use undercover officers and listening devices against hate groups such as neo-Nazis. Full Story

Police disarmed a huge bomb hidden in the back of a pickup truck parked outside the office of a communist newspaper in Colombia&#039s capital on Monday, days after a deadly car bombing in another large city. Full Story

A government-approved Islamic organisation in Burma says at least ten people have died in riots between Muslims and Buddhists. Full Story

Peacekeepers were reported on Tuesday to have seized a renegade ethnic Albanian guerrilla leader, paving the way for the peaceful handover of rebel-held territory in Serbia to Yugoslav forces. Full Story

U.S. diplomats held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday as the United States took initial steps to give teeth to a plan to end months of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban is taking an increasingly hard line with the outside world, closing U.N. offices, discussing a dress code for other religions and harassing aid workers. Full Story

German prosecutors fear the militant leftwing Red Army Faction, which waged a terror campaign in the 1970s and 80s, may be re-emerging. Full Story

Terrorists will try to take over the SS American Victory on Saturday night, and it will be up to a special Coast Guard unit to repel them. Full Story

The head of Germany&#039s domestic intelligence service, Verfassungsschutz, warned in light of the latest violent escalations in the Middle East, of imminent radical terrorist attacks by “Bin laden” group in west Europe, the private television news network N-TV reported here Saturday. Full Story

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Khobar Towers bombing, it&#039s becoming clear why America, after all this time, has yet to hold a single individual accountable. Full Story

His ankles shackled, accused terrorist Wadih El-Hage shuffles into a somber courtroom each day, craning his neck until he spots his Texan wife. Both smile and wave. Missing is the angry defendant who once charged the bench during a pretrial hearing, coming within feet of U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand before deputy marshals wrestled…

Back to Start of Article A confidential Bush administration review has recommended that the United States not accept a draft agreement to enforce a 1972 treaty banning germ weapons, according to American officials. The recommendations appear certain to distress allies, who back the draft accord and are concerned that the new administration is concentrating too…

Israeli fire killed two Palestinians on Monday and Israeli helicopters rocketed what the army said was a mortar factory but Palestinians described as a workshop for spare car parts. Full Story

A feud between right-wing paramilitaries and criminal gangs was blamed today for a powerful car bomb that exploded in a crowded park in the Colombian city of Medellin on Thursday night, killing 8 people and injuring 137. Full Story

Police disarmed two powerful car bombs in Colombia&#039s second-largest city on Saturday, two days after a bomb tore through an upscale district in the same city, killing eight people and injuring 138 others. Full Story

Israeli helicopter gunships unleashed a missile strike on Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip Monday, prompting new Palestinian appeals for international intervention which Israeli quickly dismissed. Full Story

For months the feds contended that AbdelGhani Meskini was the key to unlocking the millennial terrorist bomb plot. But was he a mastermind or a dupe? Full Story

A suicide bombing followed by retaliatory Israeli air strikes killed at least 11 people and wounded more than 160 on Friday in one of the bloodiest days in the nearly eight-month-old Palestinian uprising. Full Story

A suicide bomber set off explosives at the entrance to a shopping mall in this seaside city Friday, killing himself and at least four others and wounding up to 40 people, witnesses and Israel radio said. Witnesses said that a large cloud of black smoke rose over the area of the blast. Ambulances raced to…

An explosive device has been detonated outside a military base in Northern Ireland&#039s second largest city. Police said the device was detonated at the front of a security force base in the centre of Londonderry on Friday morning. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Full Story

At least six people have been killed and more than 80 injured by a car bomb which exploded late on Thursday night in the Colombian city of Medellin. Full Story

Six men, including the leader of a militant Islamic group, were killed and three injured on Friday when gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, police and emergency workers said. Full Story

Hopes for early peace talks in Sri Lanka appeared to dim on Friday as Tamil Tiger rebels fighting for a separate homeland dug in on demands for a truce and legal recognition. Full Story

More than 100 terrorist organizations around the world have succeeded in obtaining elements for the construction of a nuclear bomb. Full Story

A commission appointed by Colorado&#039s governor to review the deadly shooting at Columbine High School concluded Thursday that it could have been avoided and also faulted the initial police response to the incident. Full Story

Genetic engineers already have it within their grasp to devise a lethal bio-weapon for terrorists and rogue states, the British science publication Nature warns this week. Full Story

Four Palestinians have been wounded in an Israeli raid in Gaza, according to the Palestine Red Crescent. Full Story

The blast blew a hole in the shutters of a closed shop front. Seven people have been injured in a bomb explosion outside Peru&#039s National Elections Board in Lima, less than three weeks before the run-off in the country&#039s presidential elections. Full Story

Riot police have been stationed outside the Greek parliament building as union activists and pensioners protest outside. Full Story

Colombian President Andres Pastrana has appealed for the release of at least 190 farm workers kidnapped by a right-wing paramilitary group. Full Story

Israelis and Palestinians faced the prospect of yet more death and destruction on Thursday after senior officials of both sides threatened to intensify a conflict that has killed more than 500 and wounded thousands. Full Story

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has admitted involvement in two of the worst terrorist outrages of the 1980s: the bombing of the Pan Am airliner that crashed on Lockerbie and the assault on a Berlin discotheque, a leaked German government memo reveals. Full Story

A bomb exploded in front of Peru&#039s National Electoral Board Wednesday, less than three weeks before an expected presidential runoff vote, injuring a police officer and a civilian, firefighters said. Full Story

“While media attention focuses on attacks on public facilities, private business is far more likely to be targeted by terrorists, notes Paul R. Pillar in this month’s “Viewpoint.” He notes that U.S. government statistics show that more than two-thirds of the U.S. targets of international terrorism in 1999 involved businesses, and also that international terrorism…

A federal jury on Tuesday concluded its third full day of deliberations in the case against four Osama bin Laden followers charged in a plot to kill Americans that included the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The jurors have been instructed to avoid reading or listening to news about Oklahoma City…

U.S. Senator Robert Bennett (R-Utah), a longtime proponent of electronic security, said on Monday that cyber attacks from an enemy country could cause as much disruption as a nuclear missile detonating over an American city. Full Story

The massive Y2K efforts exerted to prevent a crash of the nation&#039s critical infrastructure may have moved the nation into the new millennium with a few battle scars, a panel of experts said Monday, but officials should heed the lessons learned from that experience when looking toward protecting the nation&#039s technological backbone in the future.…

Spanish police cordoned off a district of the Basque city of San Sebastian early Wednesday after a telephoned warning that a car bomb was about to explode, which turned out to be false. Full Story

Moderate nationalist Basque leader Juan Jose Ibarretxe, victor of this week&#039s regional election, on Wednesday ruled out dialogue with the political wing of the armed separatist group ETA until it condemned violence. Full Story

The United States is expected to outlaw a dissident republican group believed to have carried out Northern Ireland&#039s worst recent bombing atrocity. Full Story

Ethnic Albanian guerrillas fired on Macedonian troops on Wednesday in defiance of a government ultimatum, while in neighboring Serbia over 100 Albanian rebels were reported to have thrown down their guns. Full Story

Guerrillas fired a mortar bomb at a security base in Northern Ireland overnight, and the British province&#039s leading Protestant politician blamed the renegade Real IRA Wednesday for the incident. Full Story

A court in southern Vietnam began the trial on Wednesday of 37 people charged with terrorism and anti-socialist activity, a court official said. Full Story

French anti-nuclear protesters briefly stopped a train transporting nuclear waste from Germany to a reprocessing plant in northern France on Tuesday. Full Story

U.S. senators questioned departing FBI Director Louis Freeh on Tuesday about the blunder of the misplaced materials that delayed Timothy McVeigh&#039s execution, as FBI offices searched their files for any more documents not yet given to the Oklahoma City bomber&#039s lawyers. Full Story

A German court has sentenced a suspected terrorist to nine years in prison for an attempted Spanish disco bombing, the Associated Press has reported. Full Story

As controversy swirls over the scheduled execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, a jury on Monday deliberated the fate of two Osama bin Laden followers who could face the death penalty if convicted of the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Full Story

Five years after Liberia&#039s long-running civil war ended, United Nations officials say they are worried the country could be returning to war. Full Story

A 21-year-old woman identified as Shannon Martin, a University of Kansas student, was found dead Sunday four days after her arrival in this Central American country on a research study, authorities said Monday. Full Story

While President Bush pushes for a strong defense against a missile attack, a U.S. senator who led the Y2k effort in Congress warned today that a cyberattack by a hostile nation could be as disruptive as a nuclear missile exploding over a U.S. city. Full Story

Bloodshed and rage punctuated by three minutes of mournful silence marked Palestinians&#039 annual commemoration Tuesday of decades of exile ushered in by Israel&#039s birth in 1948. Full Story

British and U.S. farm leaders claim &#039&#039lunatic&#039&#039 eco-terrorists may be behind recent devastating outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain and Europe. Full Story