From Cuba to Norway, Melbourne to Mexico City, the dust was settling early on Wednesday after a day of occasionally violent protests by anti-capitalists, trade unions and others swept the globe. Full Story

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian and wounded 14 others in a fierce gun battle in Gaza early on Wednesday which erupted hours before U.S.-Israeli talks on a cease-fire to end seven months of bloodshed. Full Story

Few US hospitals are prepared to handle victims of chemical and biological terrorism such as the 1995 nerve gas attack in a Tokyo subway, according to a new report. Full Story

Animal rights activists claimed responsibility on Tuesday for stealing some 250 ducklings from a research laboratory, saying they pilfered the baby birds to liberate them from a life of “exploitation, abuse and terror.” Full Story

Iran on Tuesday condemned a State Department report describing it as the most active sponsor of terrorism worldwide and accused the United States of supporting “Israeli state terrorism.” Full Story

The American Society for Industrial Security&#039s Washington D.C. Chapter Terrorist Activities Subcommittee is once again sponsoring its annual Countering Terrorism seminar on June 13. This year&#039s event will be held at the Non-Commissioned Officers&#039 Club at Ft. Myer, in Arlington, Virginia. This conference is worth attending, especially if you are in the National Capital Region…

Times have changed, and, sadly, the list of potential disasters emergency response teams must prepare for has grown. The prospect of a chemical attack or an act of bioterrorism in Lake County sounds foreign to most, but in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing and a sobering string of violent incidents in schools across…

The US government is to ban fundraising for dissident Irish Republican group the Real IRA, it was reported last night. Full Story

Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols has filed a notice of plans to appeal his rejected motion for a new trial. Full Story

After violent protests in Australia and Germany, cities throughout the world – including London – are bracing for further May Day demonstrations. Full Story

Mexico&#039s Zapatista rebel movement has rejected a new indigenous rights law intended to draw them back into peace talks with the government. Full Story

Sudan and North Korea have begun cooperating with the United States in fighting terrorist groups but have not yet done enough to be removed from a U.S. list of countries sponsoring terrorism, State Department officials said yesterday. Full Story

The Philippines declared a state of rebellion Tuesday and began questioning opposition politicians on suspicion of inciting protests in which three people were killed and scores injured. Full Story

Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler and Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian policeman on Tuesday, hours after five Palestinians died in two separate bomb blasts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Full Story

German police turned water cannon on thousands of May Day protesters in Berlin on Tuesday after the leftists and anarchists pelted them with bottles and stones. Full Story

International terrorist attacks rose 8 percent last year from the previous year, largely because of an upsurge in bombings of a Colombian oil pipeline by two terrorist groups there, according to a State Department report issued today. Full Story Full Report for 2000

Bomb blasts and gunfire killed seven Palestinians on Monday as Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres began a visit to the United States to discuss an Egyptian-Jordanian peace plan. Full Story

Two policemen and a protester died on Tuesday after a night of violence in central Manila when thousands of supporters of deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada tried to break down the gates of the presidential palace. Full Story

British police, vowing to prevent a re-run of the chaos and violence that erupted in central London a year ago, prepared on Tuesday to face an estimated 10,000 anarchists intent on a May Day of mayhem in the capital. Full Story

Clashes between protesters and security forces flared again on Monday in the Algerian Berber region of Kabylie as anger at the reported killing of more than 40 people spread to the capital Algiers. Full Story

A Northern Ireland government minister gave written testimony to an official inquiry Monday in which he is believed to have revealed his shadowy guerrilla past as a senior figure in the Irish Republican Army. Full Story

The Terrorism Research Center believes there is an increased likelihood of a domestic terrorism event during the period of April 19, 2001 to May 16, 2001. While this threat advisory remains in effect through this entire period, we believe the probability of attack on the specific dates April 19 and May 16 increases due to…

Officials in Phoenix thought they did a pretty good job of handling the country&#039s first-ever anthrax threat, given that many of those involved had never even heard of the deadly bacteria. Full Story

The judge in the embassy bombings case indicated yesterday that the trial was ending rapidly, even as defense lawyers continued to try to whittle away at the government&#039s case. Full Story

There are some dates and events you never forget. I will always remember Nov. 22, 1963, when I learned that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. Older Americans have memories of when they learned President Franklin D. Roosevelt had died or about wartime victories in Europe and Japan. For younger Americans, the explosion of…

Iraq has warned Iran that its missile attack on eastern Iraq risked a revival of the 1980-88 war, a conflict that saw both countries pounded by repeated rocket assaults. Full Story

Robbers armed with syringes that they claimed were tainted with the AIDS virus kidnapped four armored car workers and their families in Brazil, then forced them to hand over $2.5 million in ransom, police said Wednesday. Full Story

Gunmen have shot dead 11 people, including two town mayors, and kidnapped five politicians in outbreaks of violence in the Philippines ahead of next month&#039s legislative and local elections, police said on Thursday. Full Story

The confirmed death toll from the collapse of a Nigerian mosque rose to 12 on Thursday after police recovered the bodies of seven children. Full Story

North Korea probably has one or two nuclear bombs and may also have biological weapons in addition to chemical weapons, Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin said in a speech released on Wednesday. Full Story

Six Canadians heading for the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City with flares, tear gas canisters and baseball bats were arrested on Wednesday after a long undercover operation, Quebec officials said. Full Story

The FBI&#039s counterterrorism office says it knows of “no specific, credible threat” of violence connected to Thursday&#039s anniversary of the Branch Davidian fire at Waco, Texas, and the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Full Story See also the TRC Alert

Iran and Saudi Arabia signed a landmark pact to combat terrorism and drug trafficking Tuesday, calling it a “big step” in improving regional security and relations between the two nations. Full Story

There are no confirmed reports of Pakistan&#039s ISI having any links with the LTTE, the Minister of State for Home, Mr. Vidyasagar Rao, informed the Lok Sabha today. Full Story

As Republicans gathered here last August to nominate George W. Bush for president, a drama played out in secret locations across the city as thousands of American soldiers stood poised for a catastrophic event. Along with a host of civilian emergency specialists, these specialized troops braced for a biological, chemical or nuclear terror attack on…

A federal judge in Manhattan agreed yesterday to sign a subpoena seeking testimony from former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright for a defendant in the embassy bombings trial, but prosecutors are expected to ask the judge to quash it. Full Story

here&#039s an international conference of terrorist organizations in Tehran next week, and guess who&#039s among the guests of honor? Not the elusive Osama Bin Laden. He doesn&#039t go out much these days. No, the big surprise personality is no one less than Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yasser Arafat. Full Story

After releasing dozens of hostages, suspected leftist guerrillas on Tuesday still held captive 27 Colombian contract employees of U.S.-based oil giant Occidental Petroleum, the company said. Full Story

Two explosions – both possibly caused by grenades – killed three women and injured 30 people in the southern province of Kampot, police and local officials said Tuesday. Full Story

Palestinians lobbed mortar bombs at Israeli targets and Israeli tanks blasted West Bank towns Wednesday after the Jewish state ended its brief but bloody re-occupation of Palestinian territory. Full Story

A night of violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi was followed by two bomb blasts on Wednesday that killed one person and wounded two, police and witnesses said. Full Story

At least 18 soldiers were killed on Wednesday in clashes between Indian and Bangladeshi border troops along the northern Kurigram frontier, Bangladesh security officials said. Full Story

The man who confessed to setting a series of dormitory blasts that killed 108 people in northern China last month, was sentenced to death Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported. Full Story

Federal emergency officials are preparing for a U.S. outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, a prospect they see as highly likely. About 75 federal officials from agencies ranging from the Agriculture Department to the CIA met Wednesday to review plans for addressing an outbreak of the highly infectious animal virus. The group also included officials from the…

A jury pool three times larger than normal was summoned Monday for the trial of a former Ku Klux Klansman accused in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. Thomas Blanton Jr., 62, entered the courthouse without comment. Full Story

Marsha and Tom Kight had been married 10 years when a massive truck bomb ripped open the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing Marsha’s 23-year-old daughter, shattering their lives and contributing to the demise of their marriage. The Kights remain close friends who speak daily, console each other and agree on much, including their devotion…

A lawyer for a defendant in the embassy bombings trial told a federal judge in Manhattan yesterday that his client&#039s defense was being compromised because he could not find experts willing to testify about the United States&#039 intervention in Somalia in 1993. He said the experts were scared off because of the terrorism allegations in…

In an apparent move to lend support to President Abdurrahman Wahid&#039s opposition movement, Ikhwanul Muslimin chief Habib Husein Al-Habsy called on all Muslims to overthrow President Abdurrahman&#039s administration that “has committed all vices and evil things.” Full Story

A trail of violence has continued to rock Aceh province, leaving at least 12 people killed and scores injured, officials said on Tuesday. Deputy spokesman of Cinta Meunasah II operation Comr. Sudarsono said on Tuesday that four people, including a military seargant were killed during a blitz launched by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist…

Neo-Nazis beat up an American at a fast-food restaurant in eastern Germany, breaking his nose, police said Monday. Two men, ages 22 and 23, were detained in connection with the attack Sunday in Wittstock. Police were seeking a third suspect. Full Story

Israeli troops took back parts of the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip Tuesday after a withering hail of fire from land, sea and air killed one person, wounded 30 and left life in the area in disarray. Full Story

Suspected leftist Colombian rebels kidnapped up to 92 workers from U.S. oil firm Occidental Petroleum Corp. but freed most of them hours later early on Tuesday, the army said. Full Story

The Philippines put its riot troops in the capital Manila on alert on Tuesday to quell any violence if deposed president Joseph Estrada is arrested on a charge of economic plunder — a crime punishable by death. Full Story

Liberia&#039s youth and sports minister died from gunshot wounds on Monday after being shot by dissidents during a visit to the north, the information ministry said. Full Story

Seven years have gone by, but Robert E. Precht still has nightmares about the World Trade Center trial. Mr. Precht was a defense lawyer in the landmark terrorism case. His client was convicted, but that was not the only pain he suffered. Full Story

Anti-terrorist police are hoping that laboratory tests will help them catch those responsible for the bombing of a London postal sorting office. Full Story

Fighting between separatist terrorists and security forces in southeastern Turkey has killed nine militants while five soldiers die because of mine explosion, a military official said on Sunday. Full Story

Six people were wounded in the northern Russian city of St. Petersburg when a quarrel spiraled out of control and one of the men involved threw three grenades, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Sunday. Full Story

Israel Monday bombed a Syrian radar station in Lebanon, raising the military stakes in the Middle East and setting off warnings of a wider conflict. Full Story

NATO-led peacekeepers arrested a Bosnian Serb army commander on Sunday who had been indicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal for alleged involvement in the 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica. Full Story