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

A Danish firm said Monday it had halted production in Zimbabwe because of attacks on its premises by gangs of militants backed by the country&#039s ruling party. Full Story

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, whose execution is on hold because of an FBI blunder, has said in a letter that there was never a “John Doe No. 2&#039&#039 helping him with the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people, the Houston Chronicle reported late on Monday in its online edition. Full Story

Sierra Leone’s rebels, who have used children as fighters in a decade-long civil war, said on Monday they had freed 80 of some 400 abducted youngsters they promised to release this month. Full Story

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh expressed his desire to die after he lost his appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals. But now that an FBI mix-up has uncovered new evidence, McVeigh is rethinking his decision to die, his attorney Robert Nigh told NBC News on Sunday. “He’s willing at…

The United States has warned Americans abroad to step up vigilance against possible attacks by groups linked to Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden, who is allegedly behind U.S. embassy bombings that killed 224 people. Full Story

Maine has received a $489,000 grant to help it evaluate its health care, transportation and communications infrastructure, and gauge its capacity to function and perform in case of a biological or chemical weapons attack. The grant will fund the purchase of special communications apparatus, personal protective gear and a variety of equipment to detect and…

In the early-morning hours of May 4, 1998, anonymous environmental protesters breached security at the Lincoln Pulp and Paper mill, spray-painted some graffiti on buildings and dropped a banner from a water tower that read “LP&P go chlorine free! Dioxin kills!” Later that day, Jim Freeman and about 35 other protesters blocked the entrance to…

Sen. Pat Roberts, who chairs a subcommittee on emerging threats, said the U.S. is likely to suffer an attack by a weapon of mass destruction. Full Story

Reports from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, say the city has remained relatively quiet after the fierce gunbattle which started on Friday night and continued into Saturday morning. Full Story

Analysts who study the Mexican drug trade are warning that the first extradition of a high-level drug suspect to the United States — a move celebrated by American officials — could spark nationalist resentment and perhaps even violence in Mexico. Full Story

Hizbollah guerrillas fired rockets at an Israeli army outpost in the disputed Shebaa Farms region of the Lebanese-Israeli frontier today, Lebanese witnesses and security sources said. Full Story

Israeli troops entered a Palestinian area of the West Bank early Monday hours after killing five Palestinian policemen and rocketing security targets in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. Full Story

Moderate nationalists won a crucial election in Spain&#039s Basque region on Sunday as voters punished political allies of the separatist group ETA for its renewed campaign of violence. Full Story

Six years after the Oklahoma City bombing and six days before Timothy McVeigh is scheduled to die, the Justice Department Thursday said Thursday the FBI mistakenly withheld nearly 200 pieces of evidence from McVeigh&#039s defense team. Full Story

The deputy interior minister in Saudi Arabia says the authorities there know who was behind last week&#039s parcel bombing, in which an American physiotherapist was injured. Full Story

Senate hearings that ended on Thursday on whether the United States was prepared to handle a “terrorist” attack on U.S. soil found that a maze of 46 government agencies and multiple congressional committees have jurisdiction over the issue. Full Story

An explosion went off at a pre-election rally in the Manila suburb of San Juan City on Thursday, injuring at least 13 people and damaging several vehicles, police and witnesses said. Full Story

An employee found an unexploded hand grenade on the grounds of the U.S. Consulate in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, months after it was thrown there by Palestinian militants, police said. Full Story

A car exploded and two others parked near to it were damaged in the center of Kfar Saba a short while ago. No one was injured. Full Story

Defying threats of violence, millions voted in legislative elections in five states of India Thursday, but rebel attacks and clashes between political parties killed 16 people, officials said. Full Story

Six villagers in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir have been beheaded in an attack blamed on separatist militants. Full Story

Indonesian police said on Friday a Jakarta dormitory destroyed by a bomb blast might have been used as a center to make bombs, and they were investigating a link to activists from the troubled province of Aceh. Full Story

Israeli tanks and bulldozers rumbled into Palestinian-controlled territory in the Gaza Strip Friday and demolished a police post, hours after the United States said a new peace initiative could be imminent. Full Story

Army bases across the United States will be increasing security this summer in response to the “increased threat of terrorism,” army officials told CNN Wednesday. Full Story

After hearing three months of testimony about a terrorist war against Americans, a jury must now decide if four men conspired to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa. Full Story

When Oklahoma City’s new federal building opens in July 2003, the sparkling glass and steel facility will bear little resemblance to its predecessor. Stung by criticism after Timothy McVeigh unleashed his rage on the Murrah building, the federal government is replacing it with a safer structure as part of a $400 million program to overhaul…

The White House and Congress focused Tuesday on whether the federal government is prepared to respond to terrorism, even as attacks on Americans at home and overseas are on the wane. Warning of the dangers posed by hand-carried nuclear weapons and biological or chemical agents, Vice President Dick Cheney announced the creation of an office…

He is a soldier in his own strange, twisted war. He sees himself as a patriot, not for the Bronze Star he won in a faraway desert but for blowing up a federal government building in the heart of America. Full Story

Spain&#039s Basque Country goes to the polls on Sunday in what is seen as a referendum on the troubled region&#039s future. Full Story

Security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir have assaulted a group of journalists, leaving six of them seriously injured. Full Story

Gunmen have killed eight policemen in an ambush in the Kabylie region of northeastern Algeria. State television said Islamist militants opened fire on the policemen on Wednesday in the coastal town of Tigzirt, about 120 kilometres (70 miles) east of Algiers, and close to the regional capital Tizi Ouzou. Full Story