At least seven people were killed and 35 others wounded when a bomb blast rocked a passenger bus in the Indian-administered Kashmir state. Full Story

Sara Jane Olson, accused of placing bombs under Los Angeles police cars, Monday urged prosecutors to drop the case against her in light of the pardon issued by former President Bill Clinton to newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. Full Story

Defense Secretary William S. Cohen has concluded that there were no failures of intelligence or acts of negligence that led to the Oct. 12 bombing of the USS Cole, but that the entire military chain of command, beginning with himself, failed to ask sufficiently probing questions about how to protect U.S. forces against a changing…

Afghanistan is the “center of terrorism&#039&#039 and it is critical for the United States that the ruling Taliban stop allowing guerrilla movements to set up in that country, a State Department official said on Wednesday. Full Story

Israel put off Friday a meeting on Palestinian proposals for peace talks which would have coincided with the funeral of an Israeli teen-ager apparently lured to his death by an on-line Palestinian lover. Full Story

Suspected leftist guerrillas executed a mayor in a remote jungle village in Colombia on Thursday, as government negotiators met with rebel leaders to revive peace talks to end a four-decade civil war. Full Story

British-led talks failed to end a tense stalemate in Northern Ireland&#039s peace accord on Thursday, but Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to keep pressing for a breakthrough. Full Story

Yemeni tribesmen have kidnapped a German oil expert, a security official said Thursday. Full Story

A defendant in the investigation of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya warned his American interrogators of another possible attack in Yemen, The New York Times said Thursday. Full Story

A Corsican resistance movement threatened a wave of attacks on Paris and Strasbourg, home to the Council of Europe and the European Parliament, beginning next month, a spokesman for the group told Le Figaro newspaper in an interview published Thursday. Full Story

Judges at the Lockerbie airliner bombing trial adjourned the court on Thursday until Tuesday, January 30, when they said they would reveal their progress in reaching a verdict. Full Story

A lawyer for one of two defendants in the Lockerbie trial dismissed testimony from two Swiss timer manufacturers and a former CIA double agent Wednesday, alleging the men fabricated their stories in pursuit of riches. Full Story

Suspected right-wing paramilitary gunmen with machetes hacked to death 25 men in northern Colombia on Wednesday before burning dozens of homes to the ground, police and villagers said. Full Story

The governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua was shot and wounded on Wednesday in the country&#039s first major act of political violence since it ended 71 years of single-party rule, authorities said. Full Story

The twin adolescent leaders of a mystical Myanmar rebel group and 14 followers surrendered to Thai authorities Tuesday, police said. Full Story

Government troops backed by MiG-27 jets and artillery attacked Tamil Tiger guerrillas guarding a major rebel bastion in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, the military said. Full Story

Saudi police are investigating another attempted bomb attack on a Western expatriate after an Irishman spotted a device under his car and escaped uninjured. The attempted attack, on Sunday, was the fourth to target English-speaking foreigners living in Saudi Arabia since mid-November. Full Story

Dutch police arrested six Greenpeace demonstrators protesting against the transport of nuclear waste to a reactor in France early on Wednesday, a police spokesman said. The environmental group has objected to the Dutch government”s decision to allow six empty fuel containers to leave a nuclear plant in the southern Dutch city of Borselle for a…

In a move that could revive Colombia&#039s moribund peace process, the nation&#039s largest guerrilla group has confirmed that it plans to release a group of soldiers and police captured in combat. Full Story

Three hooded men Wednesday shot dead the head of the official Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) in Gaza, Palestinian security sources said. Full Story

A key Lockerbie witness was a greedy “liar and fantasist&#039&#039 who implicated Libya in the 1988 aircraft bombing in the hope of lining his own pockets, the defense said in summing-up Wednesday. Full Story

Israel eased its security clampdown on the Gaza Strip Wednesday but a thickening mood of pessimism hung over peace talks with Palestinian negotiators. Full Story

Several accounts of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Islamic students have been proffered and much has been written about the seizure of the U.S. diplomatic mission, labeled a “den of spies” by the Iranians. But “Takeover in Iran: The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy Capture” by Dr. Massoumeh…

he government set a May 16 execution date Tuesday for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who has dropped his appeals and is apparently pinning all his hopes on winning clemency from the president. Full Story

A new hit film in Israel – Hahesder, or Time of Favour – is about a plot by ultra-religious Jews to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount. Now there are warnings that some are preparing to turn fiction into fact. Full Story

Gunmen — believed to be rightist rebels — stopped a bus in western Colombia Monday and methodically shot and killed 10 passengers, police said Monday. Full Story

A suicide squad of militants made an attempt to storm the Srinagar airport on Tuesday, triggering a fierce gun-battle that left four of them and two civilians dead and nine security personnel injured. Full Story

Police have said a bomb discovered in Northern Ireland was designed to kill members of the security forces. It was found on the main Armagh to Middletown Road on Saturday. Full Story

Two former army generals with close links to the Suharto regime – R. Hartono and Prabowo Subianto – have been named in a police report on the bloody Christmas Eve bombings in Indonesia last month. Full Story

Muhammad Khaled Mihraban, a polite, soft-spoken 26- year-old Pakistani, thinks he has already killed at least 100 people. Maybe more; he isn&#039t really sure. Full Story

It seemed an auspicious invitation. Afghanistan, insisted Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, the Taliban foreign minister, did not support terrorism or harbor those who committed it. Yes, he acknowledged, his country continued to harbor some Arab and non-Afghan “volunteers” from the 1980&#039s war against the Soviet Union who were not permitted to return home to their countries.…

Hans-Joachim Klein is finally being made to answer for his part in the OPEC hostage crisis in Vienna in 1975, at his trial in Frankfurt. Full Story

Government troops backed by MiG-27 jets and artillery attacked Tamil Tiger guerrillas guarding a major rebel bastion in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, the military said. Full Story

Eight people were killed Tuesday in a gun-battle which erupted after separatist militants tried to storm the high security airport at Srinagar in Indian Kashmir, police said. Full Story

The lawyer for a Libyan accused of the Lockerbie bombing has cast doubt on where the suitcase holding the fatal bomb originated. Full Story

Israel is taking seriously a threat that radar-evading hang-gliders could carry terrorists over the Lebanese border for the first time since 1987, the Sunday Times of London reported. Full Story

A Syrian businessman, who lives in southern Spain said Monday that he turned down an offer by Saudi dissident and suspected international terrorist Osama bin Laden to purchase weapons on his behalf and informed the Spanish authorities about the request. Full Story

At least 33 Russian servicemen have been killed during two days of rebel attacks throughout the breakway republic, amid the bloodiest fighting for many months, a Chechen spokesman said Tuesday. Full Story

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, whose radical past was recently highlighted by photographs of him fighting police in the 1970s, testifies Tuesday in the trial of an accomplice of convicted terrorist “Carlos the Jackal”. Full Story

Colombia&#039s stop-and-start peace process took a blow on Monday as leftist rebels told mothers of military prisoners that they planned no major hostage release to revive talks with the government. Full Story

Attackers fired grenades at the chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir today, but police said he escaped the apparent assassination attempt unharmed. Full Story

The U.S. government Monday announced a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of those who attacked a U.S. warship in the Yemeni port of Aden in October, killing 17 U.S. sailors. Full Story

In 1987, several years after he began training Arab volunteers to oust Soviet forces from Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden had a vision. The time had come, he told friends, to start a global jihad, or Islamic holy war, against the corrupt secular governments of the Muslim Middle East and the Western powers that supported them.…

In a prison in the barren hills on the outskirts of Amman, Khadar abu Hoshar waits with no regrets for the hangman. A 36-year-old father of four, Mr. abu Hoshar denies that he plotted to bomb tourist sites in Jordan. But he says he has devoted his life to the cause of jihad, or holy…

Yemeni authorities have foiled an attempt to blow up the house of the interior minister that may be linked to the arrest of suspects in October&#039s attack on a U.S. warship, a senior security official said Monday. Full Story

Israel said it had called off peace talks with the Palestinians Monday after a Jewish settler was found shot dead and the army sealed off the Gaza Strip. Full Story

Suspected members of a right-wing death squad shot and killed eight people in the northern Colombian cattle-rearing town of Valledupar, police sources said on Sunday. Full Story

The Israeli army sealed off the Gaza Strip and said there would be no peace talks Monday after a Jewish settler was found shot dead, the latest victim in nearly 16 weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Full Story

Ivory Coast tightened security in the opposition&#039s Muslim heartland for a fresh attempt at elections on Sunday seen as a potential new source of trouble after a year of turmoil. Full Story

Three people have been killed and four wounded in a fresh bout of violence in Indonesia&#039s restive Aceh province, showing the futility of a recently agreed cease-fire extension. Full Story

Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary forces battled outside a small town in Ecuador&#039s Amazon jungle, the first clash between the two in Ecuadorean territory, the country&#039s defense ministry sources said on Friday. Full Story

MI5 has been called in by the Government to help track down animal rights extremists behind an escalation of urban terrorism. In the latest attack, a nail-filled letter bomb exploded in a North Wales fish and chip shop yesterday. The owner, Jonathan Davies, 34, a country sports enthusiast, was uninjured when a shower of nails…

Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh let a deadline for resuming his appeals expire on Thursday, and his attorneys said he now wants a date set for his execution. Full Story

Afghanistan’s Taliban militia, targeted by the United States for shielding suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden, urged President-elect Bush on Friday to make an effort to improve ties. Full Story

Yemenis probing the attack on the USS Cole have put a number of questions about the ship’s security to U.S. investigators, a weekly Yemeni military newspaper has reported. Full Story

Down a street from where children play, just yards away from homes and vegetable gardens, the Plague Research Institute in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital is a terrorist’s dream. Under the guise of civilian research, the institute collected and housed thousands of deadly germs during the Soviet era to be used against the United States in a…

Ecuador believes it has found an abandoned Colombian guerrilla camp in its jungle, fueling fears that leftist rebels from its northern neighbor may be operating across the border, military sources said Thursday. Full Story

At least 24 countries, including Iraq and North Korea, either possess weapons of mass destruction or are in the process of acquiring them, Defense Secretary Cohen told a National Press Club audience January 10. Full Story

Fingerprint evidence that had been challenged by defense lawyers may be admitted by prosecutors in the upcoming trial of accused terrorist Ahmed Ressam, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour has ruled. Full Story

Lawyers for two Libyans accused of mass murder for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing slammed security practices at Frankfurt airport on Friday as they continued closing submissions in the eight-month trial. Full Story