Indonesia&#039s defense minister on Tuesday warned that the military could seize power if political leaders did not end their bickering and focus on running the country. The often outspoken Mahfud M.D. said there were no signs yet of a military takeover, but the armed forces (TNI) would step in to prevent anarchy and the break-up…

An American aid worker kidnapped in Chechnya is being ransomed by a rebel group, Russia&#039s military commander in the troubled region, said. Full Story

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has fielded at least five special operations groups (SOGs) in various urban centers in South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and this city to launch another round of bomb attacks and other forms of atrocities, police claimed yesterday. Full Story

Five neo-Nazis have been detained in connection with the weekend stabbing death of a black teen-ager, which prompted a rally Sunday denouncing racism. Full Story

Rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos — who will storm the capital in a whirlwind media splash in a matter of weeks — once again has the last word on his newest adversary, the government of President Vicente Fox. Full Story

Algerian rebels have reportedly killed 25 villagers, including 16 children and four women, in the country&#039s worst massacre this year. Full Story

Within weeks of the bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa in August 1998, American investigators and prosecutors flew from New York to Kenya and Tanzania to search for the bombers and their handlers. On Aug. 12, five days after the attacks, the American agents accompanied the Kenyan police as they entered a dingy…

A court in Yemen began on Monday hearing the case of a Yemeni man who hijacked a plane carrying 91 passengers, including the U.S. ambassador to the Arab state. Full Story

Muslim rebels on Monday gave the Philippines&#039 new government 72 hours to begin negotiating the release of an American held hostage on Jolo island, and demanded a suspension of military operations against it before the talks. Full Story

The driver of Serbia&#039s new state security chief was wounded on Sunday when a masked gunman opened the door of the official car and fired at him, state television reported. Full Story

Separatist rebels in Indonesia&#039s Irian Jaya province have released most of the 17 hostages they captured two weeks ago, but are still holding two South Koreans as bargaining chips, police said on Monday. Full Story

Opposition protesters fought running battles with police on the semi-autonomous Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar on Sunday and the death toll since Friday rose to at least 37. Full Story

Lebanon&#039s Hizbollah guerrilla group told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak Sunday that it would take more Israelis hostage if he did not accept its conditions to swap four captured Israelis for Arab prisoners. Full Story

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The United States has urged Pakistan to prevail upon the militant groups, operating from its soil, to halt violence amid reports of stepped up activities of the groups, including an attempt on the life of Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and a daring attack on Srinagar Airport. Full Story

Defence ministers from six west African countries are meeting in the capital of Ivory Coast, Yamoussoukro, to discuss ways to reduce tension between Ivory Coast and its neighbours. Full Story

An Israeli man was killed yesterday in a shooting incident at the Atarot industrial zone in northern Jerusalem. Despite the terrorist attack, Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered that Israeli negotiators continue peace process talks in Taba. Full Story

Irian Jayan rebels threatened on Friday to execute 18 hostages, including three South Koreans, unless Papua New Guinea exchanged them for 13 arrested guerillas, the Australian Associated Press reported. Mathias Wenda, commander of the Free Papua Movement, was arrested on Monday with 12 other rebels after being caught inside Papua New Guinea. Full Story

Papua New Guinea police have arrested a pro-independence leader after an attack on a police outpost in Irian Jaya last month. Mathias Wenda leads one of at least eight factions within the Operasi Papua Merdeka (Free Papua Movement, or OPM). He and his deputy George Kogoiya were arrested by Papua New Guinea police in West…

The security situation in southern Guinea is deteriorating, with another reported attack on Tuesday, 23 January, in the border town of Gueckedou, which is just a few kilometres from the Liberian border, and more than 700 kilometres southeast of the capital, Conakry. Full Story

Ecuador&#039s only crude oil pipeline has burst, in what officials suspect is a dynamite attack near the town of Santo Domingo, about 130km west of the capital Quito. Full Story

Between December 10, 2000 and January 16, 2001, when he was assassinated, President Laurent Desire Kabila of Congo was fine-tuning a major purge of top Army officers – including his own relatives – and government officials, but was afraid it would be resisted, leading to his overthrow and possible assassination, The EastAfrican has learnt. Full…

Several West African nations, especially Liberia, attacked a U.N. report that accused them of involvement in a gems-for-guns trade with Sierra Leone, saying facts were twisted and proof was tenuous. Full Story

A Spanish navy cook was killed by a bomb attached to the underside of his car in the Basque city of San Sebastian on Friday in an explosion blamed on the armed separatist group ETA. Full Story

Condemned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan threatened that fighting between separatist Kurdish guerrillas and Turkish troops in northern Iraq could spread to Turkey, Ocalan&#039s lawyers said on Friday. Full Story

Former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig once warned that panic, in and of itself, is a terrorist tool. Indeed, “successful” terrorist attacks such as bomb threats don&#039t even have to be carried out to spark fear. All the more reason to be cautious when government decides to take precautions against perceived threats of terrorism. Full Story

The United States is among the world&#039s leaders in homeland defense; our efforts to strengthen our security continue unabated every day. However, as we continue to bolster our defenses, we need to continue to monitor and counter the changing threat of international terrorism, which is forcing us to expand the scope of our homeland defense.…

Greece has decided to take effective measures to fight the growing cases of grave crime in the country. Full Story

To the outside world looking in, it appears as if all of Israel and the Palestinian territories have been consumed by violence for months. But any visitors strolling down Tel Aviv’s hip Sheinkin Street could be forgiven for thinking they were in London’s Soho or New York’s East Village. Full Story

A local Shia leader in the Pakistani province of Punjab has been shot dead in what police describe as a sectarian attack – the third of its kind in a week. Syed Ameer Hussain Luck, who was district vice-president of the Tehreek-e-Jafria party, was riding a bicycle when two armed men on a motor cycle…

A millionaire who owns a chain of cellular telephone outlets around the country was released yesterday after his family paid kidnappers a RM1.5mil ransom. Full Story

Nine Thais were wounded in an explosion that rocked the Lao immigration office near the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge opposite Nong Khai. A source said the blast was at the counter of the immigration office, 200m from the bridge on the Mekong river. Full Story

Several thousand activists have been gathering in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre to protest against globalisation. Full Story

Five people have been killed in attacks by suspected separatist rebels in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam. Full Story

The Taliban in Afghanistan and some of their international supporters portray United Nations Security Council Resolution 1333 and the sanctions that it imposes as an attack against Afghanistan, against the Afghan people, and against Islam. Full Story

Swiss police urged even peaceful protesters to stay away from the annual World Economic Forum business summit in Davos this week for fear they could fuel violent anti-globalization clashes. Full Story

Colombia&#039s President Andres Pastrana on Wednesday urged leftist rebels to return to peace talks as troops mustered near a guerrilla safe haven days before a deadline which could mean war or peace. Full Story

An explosion just outside the Laotian capital, Vientiane, has injured at least eleven people. Full Story

Police on Wednesday stepped up a massive hunt for a Muslim female bomber who heads a list of people likely to stage suicide attacks during Friday&#039s Republic Day parade in New Delhi. Detectives also released a photograph of a male and identified him as Ejaz Rasool, saying he led a suicide squad which planned to…

Buford O. Furrow Jr., the accused shooter in a hate crime that left a postal carrier dead and five others wounded at a Jewish community center in 1999, will plead guilty to murder and other charges Wednesday, U.S. Attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek said. Full Story

An army officer escaped injury Wednesday when an explosive device attached to the bottom of his car malfunctioned. Full Story

The United States said Tuesday it would review security procedures followed by its diplomats in Yemen following the failed hijacking of a plane there carrying it ambassador to Sanaa. Full Story

Sri Lanka&#039s government on Wednesday urged the country&#039s Tamil rebels to return to negotiations but rejected the guerrillas&#039 call for a cease-fire, saying talks must come first. Full Story

The Colombian army said on Tuesday it airlifted about 600 counter-insurgency troops to an area near a leftist guerrilla safe haven as attempts to revive peace talks to end a four-decade-old civil war stalled before a key deadline. Full Story

One of four men standing trial for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania began arguing in closed court sessions on Tuesday that his post-arrest statements to investigators should be suppressed. Full Story

The US ambassador to Yemen was among 91 passengers on board an airliner hijacked on an internal flight from the capital San&#039a to Taiz. The man, who said he was a supporter of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was overpowered by the flight crew after the plane was diverted to Djibouti. Full Story

Three Nepalese policemen were killed Tuesday and several others injured in an ambush laid by Maoist insurgents, police said. Full Story

Police said they defused a powerful car bomb early Tuesday in a wealthy neighborhood of this small town in the northern Basque region. Full Story

Fourteen people were killed and dozens wounded on Sunday in two separate explosions and gun battles in Kashmir, where India has declared a unilateral cease-fire in its struggle against separatist guerrillas. Full Story

This afternoon, the Delhi Police received a one-and-a-half page note that sent even top cops running to their superiors. Police Commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma held two meetings at the Ministries of Home and Defence. And by the end of the day, hurried directives were issued down the line regarding Republic Day security arrangements. Full Story

A powerful bomb exploded overnight on the ground floor of the law courts in the French Alpine town of Annecy, injuring one person and causing widespread damage. Full Story

Accused Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam may have been planning to participate in bomb attacks at airports in and around Los Angeles, according to federal prosecutors. Full Story

Tamil rebels fighting for independence in Sri Lanka said on Tuesday they would extend a unilateral cease-fire for one more month and called for international pressure on the government to reciprocate. Full Story

India extended its two-month-old suspension of hostilities against guerrillas in Kashmir for another month on Tuesday despite concern over a rash of daring attacks on security forces. Full Story

Colombia&#039s main rebel force said on Monday it would keep holding civilians for ransom and using homemade bombs despite a government plea for gestures to boost public support for peace talks before a key deadline. Full Story

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will hold separate talks in London on Tuesday with rival Northern Irish political leaders in a bid to end a logjam that threatens the key 1998 peace accord, officials said on Monday. Full Story

A bomb exploded near a United Nations building and the defunct Iranian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, Taliban officials said. Full Story

Colombia&#039s government asked a veteran leftist rebel leader on Monday for concessions, including an end to kidnapping roadblocks and mortar attacks on villages, to boost public support for the country&#039s peace process before a key deadline. Full Story

The German government announced on Monday it would compensate victims of far-right violence following a rise in neo-Nazi crime. Full Story

Activities of U.K.-based anti-India extremist groups are expected to figure in talks between Indian officials and British security experts in New Delhi tomorrow. Full Story