A former U.S. Army sergeant who had trained American soldiers about Islamic extremists pleaded guilty Friday to charges related to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. Full Story

Yemen&#039s president said Thursday he expects a break in the USS Cole investigation within a week. President Ali Abdullah Saleh told CNN that suspects arrested by authorities in his country are members of a group whose leader is a close associate of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Full Story

A court on Friday gave the go-ahead for France&#039s top anti-terrorism judge to pursue a complaint filed against Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi by an association representing families of victims of the deadly 1989 bombing of a French airline. Full Story

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a Tamil journalist in the northern Jaffna city after raiding his home in a high-security area, his colleagues said Friday. Maylwaganam Nimalarajan, 40, who reported for the BBC&#039s Tamil language service and worked for Colombo&#039s Tamil language daily Virakesari, was shot at in his study while he was working on…

Security forces shot dead 17 militants, arrested four others, including a top-ranking militant of the Al-Badre outfit and recovered 6.3 kgs of RDX besides arms and ammunition during separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir since Wednesday evening. Full Story

The gunmen who kidnapped 10 overseas nationals in a stolen helicopter from Ecuador&#039s oil-rich northeast jungle last week are “international criminals” with no identifiable political cause, government spokesman Alfredo Negrete said Thursday. Full Story

Families like those of Alisa Flatow, Matthew Eisenfeld and Sara Duker – Americans who have been killed in terrorist acts abroad – will soon be able to collect damages. Full Story

In the wake of last week&#039s attack that killed 17 Navy sailors, US agents are methodically sifting through the wreckage of the USS Cole, looking for any clue that will lead them to the alleged terrorist behind the explosion. Full Story

Nigerian police backed by soldiers launched a manhunt on Thursday for leaders of a tribal militia blamed for ethnic clashes that have killed more than 100 people in the commercial capital Lagos. Full Story

.S. FBI chief Louis Freeh on Thursday visited a U.S. warship in which 17 sailors were killed by suspected suicide bombers last week and said it was still too early to speculate who might have been responsible. Full Story

Three republican militants jailed for killing pro-British guerrilla leader Billy Wright have been set free under Northern Ireland&#039s peace accord, officials said on Friday. Full Story

Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden has been strengthening ties with Yemeni tribes for two years to lay the groundwork for possible attacks on Americans there and in neighboring Saudi Arabia, an Arab journalist with access to him said on Friday. Full Story

Military tension and terrorism still dominate South Asian relations, with nuclear rivals India and Pakistan frozen in a dangerous diplomatic stand-off, the International Institute of Strategic Studies said Thursday. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s Taliban “strongly condemned” both the United States and Russia Thursday accusing the two countries of plotting against the ruling Islamic militia and seeking to impose further sanctions on their war-devastated nation. Full Story

Maoists killed one person and injured 14 others in two separate incidents in Bajura district this week, police said. Full Story

A small explosive device went off outside a bank office in the Spanish port city of Barcelona in the early hours of Thursday, slightly injuring one person, a police spokeswoman said. Full Story

Prime Minister Ehud Barak hasn&#039t publicly given up on reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians, but he is already drafting a fallback plan: erecting barriers to separate Israelis and Palestinians. Full Story

A man charged with participating in a global terrorism conspiracy pleaded to be shot during a lengthy interrogation in Germany before he was brought to the United States for trial, a German police official testified yesterday. Full Story

Israel opened a border crossing with the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip to commercial traffic on Thursday in a new step toward implementation of a U.S.-brokered summit agreement to end weeks of violence. Full Story

A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Thursday, minutes before the president swore in a new cabinet to cement her shaky coalition and end a week-long political crisis. Full Story

Yemeni investigators have discovered bomb-making material in an apartment near the Aden port and have linked two men who had stayed there to the apparent terrorist attack that killed 17 American sailors aboard the USS Cole, U.S. and Yemeni officials said today. Full Story

Ensuring security of the state and its citizens, as well as problems and ways of combatting terrorism were discussed on Wednesday by Duma deputies and a delegation of the British Royal Colleges of Defence Studies. Full Story

In the 1980s, myriad groups kidnapped Americans and other foreigners in Lebanon, picking their unsuspecting victims – teachers, businessmen and journalists – off the streets and holding them for several years. Full Story

A bomb exploded near an office of South Africa&#039s main opposition party Wednesday morning, injuring four people, authorities said. Full Story

Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden yesterday warned the United States not to attack his home in Afghanistan, where fears have grown of a retaliatory strike to the Yemen attack that killed 17 Americans. Full Story

Israel&#039s army spokesman said Israeli and Palestinian security commanders would meet on Wednesday in the first sign of cooperation since the sides agreed at an emergency summit to end weeks of violence. Full Story

At least 100 people have died in two days of ethnic warfare around Nigeria&#039s commercial capital Lagos, Red Cross workers and witnesses said Tuesday. Full Story

Iraq said Tuesday it would not extradite the two hijackers of the Saudi plane diverted to Baghdad at the weekend, state INA news agency reported. Full Story

Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden on Tuesday warned the United States not to attack his home in Afghanistan, where fears have grown of a retaliatory strike to the Yemen ship bombing that killed 17 Americans. Full Story

Maoist rebels in Nepal have denied reports linking them to attacks against foreign tourists. Full Story

Pakistan says its nuclear arsenal is safe, despite claims by American officials that it could fall into the hands of Islamic radicals. Analysts yesterday joined military leader General Pervez Musharraf in rejecting the suggestions made on the US television show 60 Minutes. Full Story

In a stepped-up anti-militant drive, 28 ultras were shot dead while four security personnel were killed and six injured in Jammu and Kashmir since Sunday, an official spokesman said on Monday. Full Story

Irish police said Tuesday they had arrested three men in connection with the 1998 Omagh bombing, Northern Ireland&#039s single worst guerrilla attack, which killed 29 people. Full Story

Spain Tuesday mourned the 15th fatal victim attributed to the Basque separatist group ETA this year but celebrated the arrest of two suspected gunmen in a rare counterattack against the guerrillas. Full Story

Judges on Tuesday agreed to delay the Lockerbie trial for at least another week as prosecutors kept up contacts with two countries about &#039&#039sensitive&#039&#039 information affecting the defense case. Full Story

An accomplice of jailed guerrilla Carlos the Jackal in the 1975 kidnapping of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna went on trial in Germany Tuesday on murder charges. Full Story

Two French workers kidnapped with eight other foreign oil workers in the Amazon region of Ecuador escaped from their captors on Monday and found refuge in Quito, the government said. Full Story

The gloom of low expectations failed to rise in the early hours of an emergency Mideast summit on Monday, as Israeli and Palestinian leaders met in Egypt with international leaders intent on brokering an agreement to end more than two weeks of deadly violence. Full Story

The attack that killed at least 17 sailors aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden was apparently a carefully planned terrorist act carried out by suicide bombers operating with inside information, according to Clinton administration officials and outside intelligence experts. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers denied involvement today of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden in last week&#039s deadly suicide bombing of a United States destroyer off the coast of Yemen. Full Story

Suspect in bombing.Investigators probing the USS Cole bombing are studying a chilling videotape in which terror boss Osama bin Laden and his henchmen threaten to “move forward” against American forces in the Persian Gulf. Full Story

In Belfast The “Real IRA” leadership last night claimed that Joe O&#039Connor who was shot dead in west Belfast on Friday was one of it members. It said it knew the identity of his killers who would be “dealt with accordingly”. Full Story

Armed men attacked police Sunday in a small town on Panama&#039s border with Colombia, killing an 11-year-old girl and injuring 12 others, including three police officers. Full Story

Israel&#039s Defense Ministry confirmed Sunday that a reserve soldier had been kidnapped outside the country. Full Story

The explosion that blew open a gaping hole in the hull of the Aegis-class destroyer USS Cole yesterday in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing four American sailors, was almost certainly a terrorist act. But the crucial conclusions to be drawn from that act will depend on who ordered it. Full Story

In September 1970, Palestinian guerrillas seized three planes in one day, flew them to Jordan and delayed blowing them up to allow a media blitz they had launched to inform the world who was behind the most spectacular skyjack ever. Full Story

The apparent attack on the U.S. destroyer Cole appears to represent a deadly new tactic in the constantly evolving arsenal of global terrorism, one that could have a widespread effect on U.S. naval and maritime operations around the world, according to U.S. officials and terrorism experts. Full Story

Yemen said Monday the explosion that crippled a U.S. Navy warship and killed 17 American sailors was a “planned criminal act,&#039&#039 the official Saba news agency reported. Full Story

Nigerian ethnic groups clashed on Monday in the commercial capital Lagos and at least six people were killed, police and witnesses said. Full Story

Ninety passengers walked safely from a hijacked Saudi airliner at Baghdad airport as Iraqi security forces arrested the hijackers who had threatened to blow up the plane. Full Story

Citing Mideast tensions, New York officials increased security on Friday at government buildings, landmarks, religious buildings and locations associated with Israel or Palestinians as thousands rallied in support of Palestinians. Full Story

A bomb explosion has damaged the UK embassy in Yemen a day after a suspected terrorist attack on a US warship in the country&#039s main port Aden. Nobody was hurt in the embassy bombing. But the death toll from the Aden explosion rose to seven on Friday, and US officials said 10 sailors were still…

The United States on Friday ordered its diplomatic missions in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal and Djibouti to temporarily close as a result of the escalating Mideast crisis, a U.S. official told AFP here. Full Story

The United States has responded cautiously to news that as many as 15,000 Iraqi troops may be on the move. US intelligence services have reportedly spotted the westward movement of the Hammurabi Division, which consists of about 15,000 Special Republican Guard troops. Full Story

The attack that killed at least six sailors aboard a U.S. Navy warship refueling in a Yemeni port yesterday was apparently a carefully planned terrorist act carried out by suicide bombers operating with inside information, Clinton administration officials and outside intelligence experts said yesterday. Full Story

Terror in the Gulf, war in the Middle East, panic on Wall Street, crisis at the gas pump, a viral scare on the East Coast, labor unrest in the west . . . either the world events of the past 24 hours are just a coincidental skid of bad news or, on this very day…

Iran said Friday it expects the world community to take serious action against Israel after the Jewish state bombarded Palestinian cities in retaliation for the lynching of three Israelis. Full Story

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said Friday his government was determined to crush armed insurgency and enhance India&#039s image as an “emerging global player.” Full Story

The effort to prevent terrorism will be stepped up in Russia, Russian Interior Minister, Colonel-General Vladimir Rushailo told his Ukrainian counterpart in Donetsk on Friday. Full Story

Suspicion immediately centered on Osama bin Laden and the terrorism network he operates out of Afghanistan as U.S. experts probed the deadly attack on an American warship in Yemen. Full Story