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Spanish police have arrested 10 suspected members and supporters of the Basque separatist group ETA in the third round of arrests after a car bomb killed two people last week, officials said Sunday. Full Story
Algerian security forces have killed 40 Islamic militants in a military crackdown against rebel strongholds in the past two days, media outlets reported at the weekend. Full Story
Military intelligence has uncovered an alleged plot of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to bomb the General Santos City International Airport at any opportune time to pressure President Arroyo on the rebels? demand for Islamic self-rule in Mindanao. Full Story
“One Day in September” documents a historic day with great emotional impact. They were billed as the “Olympics of Peace and Joy,” but became the exact opposite. On Sept. 5, 1972, the Munich Games became the center of the world's focus, not for the sports but the terrorist action taking place within the Olympic Village.…
Fearing terrorist attacks, authorities in Britain, France and Germany have arrested at least 10 suspected Islamic militants, put two dozen others on trial and are investigating potential links to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Greece said it was preparing a new anti-terrorist bill that would give police a freer hand in their work amid concerns about security at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Full Story
Alleged ETA terror boss Francisco Gaztelu was held yesterday after a Basque car bomb killed two in San Sebastian. Full Story
Officials in Pakistan believe Afghanistan's rulers, beset by a fierce drought and international isolation, are ready to consider a compromise under which Saudi terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden could face trial in a third country. Full Story
An explosion in which a 14-year-old London Army cadet lost his hand was caused by a bomb hidden inside a torch, Scotland Yard said today. Full Story
Security forces used water cannons, batons and the occasional rifle butt to drive back hundreds of student demonstrators who marched on the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday to protest the bombing of Iraq and American support for Israel. Full Story
Serb authorities say the senior official dealing with the ethnic Albanian militants in southern Serbia has escaped unharmed from an attempted kidnap. Full Story
Detectives across Europe are investigating suspected links between the arrests of a number of suspected Muslim extremists and the notorious criminal Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Angolan UNITA rebels have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 18 diamond miners in the southwest African country, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Wednesday. Full Story
President Bush says Oklahoma City “will always be one of those places in our national memory where the worst and the best both came to pass.” Full Story
Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid dismissed fears of an explosion of unrest as he flew out of the crisis-racked country Thursday, but bloodshed escalated into beheadings even before be boarded his plane. Full Story
Gunmen killed a religious leader and two other members of the Shiite Muslim sect in two Pakistani cities on Thursday in what seemed to be the latest in a wave of sectarian violence, police said. Full Story
The chief of Kashmir's main separatist alliance said on Thursday that he narrowly escaped assassination and warned that the freedom movement of Kashmir would go on with or without him. Full Story
A car bomb exploded in Spain's Basque region Thursday, killing two men and injuring four just two days after the Basque government called early elections. Full Story
Fearing terrorist attacks, authorities in Britain, France and Germany have arrested at least 10 suspected Islamic militants, put two dozen others on trial and are investigating potential links to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Spurred by growing international alarm about Osama bin Laden's militant networks, the police in Britain and Germany have recently arrested more than a dozen Islamic radicals. American officials say some of those arrested were plotting terrorist attacks in Europe and elsewhere. Full Story
With new tests that can sequence the entire genome of a bacteria or a virus in mere hours, doctors should soon have powerful tools to detect and treat infections caused by biological weapons, researchers said this weekend. Full Story
The United States government is preparing for a possible bioterrorist attack. Why is the federal government quietly buying up a half billion tablets of that familiar antibiotic, Cipro (ciprofloxacin), used in everyday medicine to fight common infections? Full Story
U.S. officials said their intelligence agencies took an “exceptionally grave” hit as the latest spy scandal unraveled Tuesday. Full Story
.S. officials believe they've established a plausible link between terrorist cells operating in Jordan and Montreal and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Full Story
Police in Dushanbe have arrested four putative members of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir organization over the past three days, Asia Plus-Blitz reported on 20 February. Full Story
Sri Lankan navy destroyed two logistic boats belonging to the LTTE and killed 10 rebels in a midnight encounter near Point Pedro in the northern Jaffna peninsula, official reports said Wednesday. Full Story
Far-right extremists have been urged to quit fanaticism — with offers of German Government cash and new identities. Full Story
Afghanistan has turned into a training center for Chechen Muslim extremists and international terrorists, the commanders of CIS country border forces declared at their recent 40th meeting in Baku. Full Story
Russian President Vladimir Putin today accused the London School of Economics of being a recruiting ground for Islamic terrorism. Full Story
Mexico's Zapatista rebels have agreed to a meeting with government peace officials to discuss pending Indian rights legislation. Full Story
A policeman was killed and five others were wounded in an ambush by Maoist guerrillas at Lamidanda in Nepal's Dolakha district, police said on Monday. Full Story
Ethnic Malay Muslim officials from Malaysia's ruling party staged a protest outside the US Embassy on Monday condemning recent American and British missile strikes on Iraq. Full Story
Bangladesh has made another offer to hold face-to-face talks with kidnappers holding three Europeans hostage in remote hills in the southeast of the country. Full Story
A US-based human rights group on Monday called for an immediate inquiry into reports that as many as 300 Shiite Muslims were recently massacred by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban in central Bamiyan province. Full Story
A somber President George W. Bush witnessed chilling reminders on Monday of the worst terror bombing in U.S. history as he dedicated a memorial center honoring the 168 people killed in the Oklahoma City blast nearly six years ago. Full Story
Britain has introduced new anti-terrorism legislation under which organisations such as the Palestinian group Hamas and Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers could be banned. Full Story
They called it a time bomb waiting to explode but, even with London on its highest terrorist alert for years, police on duty at the House of Commons yesterday had no problem accepting it. Full Story
The military officials of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan ended their two-day meeting in Bishkek on 15 February without reaching any formal agreement on setting up an anti-terrorism center in Bishkek, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Full Story
At least eight prisoners were killed on Sunday and hundreds of people taken hostage when an apparently coordinated wave of riots erupted in prisons across the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. Full Story
Jailed guerrilla leader Carlos the Jackal told a Spanish newspaper in an interview published on Sunday he remained unrepentant about his crimes and would do the same all over again, but this time “even better.'' Full Story
It has been more than four months now, and Gold Hill is still waiting for some good news from Ecuador. Full Story
The British Government is dropping its guard against terrorism in Northern Ireland by slashing the police budget by more than £100 million over the next three years, it has been claimed. Full Story
In a heavily guarded room at a hospital near Tel Aviv, Israeli interrogators have been trying to solve a question that has baffled the entire world. What – or who – turned Khalil Abu Olbeh, a mild-mannered Palestinian bus driver with no record of violence or political militancy, into a ruthless killer? Full Story
A new indictment handed down yesterday in the Ahmed Ressam case seeks to bolster the federal government's contention that a web of Algerians was working with the accused bomb smuggler. Full Story
Iran is planning another terrorism conference. This conference will be held in Teheran in April. Last month, Iran sponsored a terrorism conference in Beirut. Full Story
Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh allowed a deadline to pass Thursday without asking President Bush to spare his life. Full Story
In a move that demonstrates anew how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict affects the internal politics of Middle Eastern countries, Jordan has come down hard on activists who oppose its peace with Israel. Full Story
Gunmen in Belgrade have opened fire in an apparent assassination attempt on the Serbian Interior Minister, Dusan Mihajlovic. Full Story
U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan — once the world's largest producer — since banning poppy cultivation last summer. Full Story
Four Serbs died and 23 were injured on Friday in Kosovo when a bus they were traveling in was blown up by a remote control device, international peacekeepers said. Full Story
Twelve people died when a group of attackers armed with rifles burst into a community gathering in the northern state of Sinaloa, dragged them into a truck and shot them, the local attorney general's office said on Thursday. Full Story
A US pilot of Egyptian origin recounted to a New York court Wednesday how he bought and flew a private jet for Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, who is wanted in the United States on terrorism charges. Full Story
A Frankfurt court Thursday sentenced repentant terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein to nine years' imprisonment for his part in a bloody hostage-taking led by “Carlos the Jackal” at an OPEC conference in 1975. Full Story
Kidnappers holding seven foreign oil workers — including four Americans — have agreed to a ransom offer just ahead of their deadline to kill another captive, the head of Ecuador’s armed forces said Wednesday. Full Story
Terrorism? In Pasco County? Don't snicker. Just in case some ne'er do well tried a stunt similar to the Oklahoma City bombing, Pasco's Office of Emergency Management is investigating the terrorist threat close to home. Michele Baker, the county's emergency management director, calls terrorism a “low probability event.” But she said it's better to be…
WHEN George W. Bush travels to Mexico to meet with Vicente Fox tomorrow, two significant trends-one positive, one negative-will clash. The first trend is the greater economic, political and ethnic integration of the United States and Mexico. The second trend is the greater threat to the United States from terrorism. While Mexico is not a…
Ehud Barak, Israel’s outgoing Prime Minister, was last night considering military strikes against Yassir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority after a Palestinian man drove his bus into an Israeli crowd, killing eight people. Full Story
The commander of peacekeeping forces in Kosovo said on Wednesday extremists on opposing sides were bent on stirring up trouble to try to block a peaceful future for the province. Full Story
The Ecuadorian town of Lago Agrio is just 22km (14 miles) from the border with Colombia. For many Colombians, Lago Agrio provides some sort of refuge from the violence in their homeland Its frontier is shared with Colombia's Putumayo region – the heart of the cocaine trade in Latin America and a zone of conflict…
Reports from Burundi say Hutu rebels have attacked a neighbourhood in the north-west of the capital, Bujumbura, killing a soldier and a teenage boy. Full Story