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Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on Thursday the United States had helped to set up a trilateral security committee after a week of Israeli-Palestinian violence which has claimed 67 lives. Full Story
Four people were killed and seven were wounded Wednesday in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan when a bomb they were planning to plant exploded in their faces, state television reported. Full Story
Britain's Foreign Office Minister Keith Vaz said on Tuesday his government was concerned about the fate of seven Muslim Britons who have been in jail in Yemen since last year on terrorism charges. Full Story
Germans gathered here yesterday to celebrate 10 years as one nation, but the bombing of a synagogue in Dusseldorf darkened the festive mood. Full Story
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels carried out artillery bombardments against government-held areas of Jaffna peninsula, forcing the region's only airfield to shut down, a state-run daily reported Wednesday. Full Story
The border town of Rajouri in the Jammu division was rattled by a series of explosions on Tuesday night, official sources said here on Wednesday. Full Story
A bomb placed outside an apartment house shattered windows and tore a crater in the ground on Wednesday in Russia's Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, but no injuries were reported, an emergency official said. Full Story
Right-wing paramilitary gunmen killed nine peasants Tuesday in the latest political bloodletting in a war zone in southwest Colombia, authorities said. Full Story
An Italian who worked and lived with the poor in Burundi was killed Tuesday in an attack outside the capital. Full Story
The Philippines is investigating allegations that some officials pocketed parts of the ransom money reportedly paid for the release of foreign hostages kidnapped by Muslim rebels, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. Full Story
The commander of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday he did not think U.S.-brokered talks in Paris would end days of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Full Story
The United States called on the Russian government on Tuesday to prosecute “to the fullest extent'' of the law those responsible for three recent incidents of violence against religious minorities. Full Story
India and Russia agreed Tuesday to forge a coordinated strategy in dealing with international terrorism, with a particular focus on fudamentalist militancy in Afghanistan. Full Story
A Sri Lankan Muslim leader narrowly escaped a second assassination attempt Monday, police said, two days after gunmen opened fire on his convoy. Another party member and 18 others were killed in a separate suicide bomb attack. Full Story
Uzbekistan has started a dialogue with Afghanistan's ruling Taleban militia to bolster security in Central Asia, said Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov. Full Story
Cape Town is definitely not a city gripped by fear. After more than 20 anonymous bombings in two years, people in South Africa's second biggest city still saunter along the waterfront — the site of two attacks. They still eat at upscale restaurants that have been bombed. They still party at gay dance clubs —…
An armed gang struck again in Aceh, torching 10 houses in the hamlet of Bandung Jaya, Paya Tampah village, Bandar Baru subdistrict in the eastern part of the province at dawn Sunday. Full Story
Beleaguered Afghan opposition soldiers retreated further north on Monday as the forces of the ruling Taliban Islamic militia launched a new assault backed by air attacks, an opposition spokesman said. Full Story
Trying to ensure that recent recommendations by the National Commission on Terrorism are not ignored, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) is pushing legislation designed to bolster new counterterrorist technologies, tighten controls over biological pathogens and crack down on terrorist fundraising. Full Story
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) showed two international inspectors an array of outdated weapons when they visited some of the guerrilla group's secret arms dumps in June, Britain's Times newspaper said on Tuesday. Full Story
The anti-terrorist police have warned the British public to be on guard against a possible campaign of violence by dissident Irish republicans following an attack last week on the headquarters of Britain's MI6 intelligence service in central London. Full Story
Yemen's parliamentary speaker Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar called Monday for a holy war against Israel, during a demonstration in Sanaa in support of the Palestinians. Full Story
A series of explosions in the building of the Korean mission which were staged in Dushanbe on Sunday have been declared by Tajik law enforcement bodies as an act of terrorism, Itar-Tass was told on Monday by the Tajik prosecutor's general office. Full Story
Rebels shot and killed an outspoken 71-year-old Italian priest as he drove to Sunday Mass in northern Uganda, an Italian-based missionary news agency reported. Full Story
Seven people are now known to have been killed and 50 were injured when an explosion ripped through a church in the capital of Tajikistan, officials said on Monday. Full Story
Two mayors returning home from a conference on human rights were among eight people kidnapped by leftist guerrillas in Colombia, state security police reported Sunday. Full Story
Philippine troops on Monday rescued 11 Christian evangelists held by Muslim rebels on a southern island after a 12th had escaped on the pretext of going for a swim. Full Story
An explosive device detonated near a railway line in Northern Ireland Sunday, leaving one man with serious leg injuries, police said. The blast occurred near the main Larne railway line some 20 miles north of Belfast. Army bomb disposal experts were dispatched to the scene and the railway was closed, a police spokeswoman said. Full…
The 911 call will come in at 9 this morning: A chemical weapon attack at Anaheim's Edison Field. More than 100 people injured. The call is expected to trigger a massive response from hundreds of paramedics, hazardous-materials specialists and law enforcement officials this morning, when authorities kick off one of the largest simulated terrorist attacks…
Authorities have determined the identity of 20 people who were allegedly involved in four deadly apartment bombings in Russia last year, and have arrested nine of them, the interior minister said in an interview Friday. Full Story
One of the main directions of the joint activities of the member-countries of the Collective Security Treaty must be the exclusion of the possibilities of international terrorism to have in its arsenal political means for the implementation of its plans. Full Story
Maoists slaughtered eight more policemen and wounded seven others, two seriosly,after destroying a police post in Bhorletar in Lamjung district Wednesday morning at 1 AM, police said. Full Story
Police in Spain say a parcel bomb has exploded at the offices of the daily newspaper, El Mundo, in Barcelona, injuring two policemen. Full Story
The bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania two years ago brought home a blunt reminder that terrorists can strike anywhere at anytime. Full Story
Four Palestinians were killed Friday in clashes with Israeli police at a holy site in Jerusalem's walled Old City and at least 90 were wounded, hospital officials said. Full Story
Tamil Tiger rebels asked civilians to evacuate large areas of Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula on Friday as intense fighting with government troops entered the fourth day. Full Story
Indonesian troops and police began seizing guns from pro-Jakarta militias in volatile West Timor on Friday in a delayed operation aimed at mending tattered ties with the international community. Full Story
Three Bolivians died and another was found dead on Thursday in protests by peasant farmers fighting government moves to restrict the cultivation of coca leaf, the raw ingredient for cocaine, an independent human rights group said. Full Story
Militant youths in Nigeria's Niger Delta said on Thursday they were holding 12 Royal Dutch/Shell workers hostage, to press for compensation for an oil spill in their area. Full Story
Switzerland has approved Argentina's extradition request for a man wanted in connection with the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994, the Argentine Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Full Story
India hopes to buy diamonds from Russia, sell more tea and tobacco, and cooperate on nuclear power development after next week's visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the New Delhi government said Thursday. Full Story
State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher said September 15 that the Department intends “to designate the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under U.S. law.” Full Story
An underground group known as GRAPO exploded small homemade bombs Wednesday in temporary employment agencies in three Spanish provincial capitals, police said. Full Story
In the deadliest bombing this year in Pakistan, a bomb tucked into a crate of grapes tore through a bustling produce market Tuesday, killing 16 people and wounding more than 80. Full Story
An Indonesian court on Thursday ruled former autocrat Suharto was too ill to stand trial for corruption, all but ending efforts to punish him for widespread graft and abuses during his army-backed rule. Full Story
An Israeli soldier was critically wounded and another lightly hurt in a roadside bomb attack against a convoy of Jewish settlers' cars they were escorting along a Gaza road, the Israeli army said on Thursday. Full Story
A special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Afghanistan's Taliban regime of training fighters to aid Muslim rebels in Chechnya and Central Asian states. Full Story
A man who kicked a sack near his car Wednesday set off an explosion that left him with a severely injured foot and blew glass across part of a city neighborhood, police said. Full Story
The Pakistani government has launched a campaign along the border areas of the country to create awareness among the people about possible terrorist activities. Full Story
A bomb exploded outside the office of a prominent Indonesian human rights group Wednesday, just hours before the corruption trial of ex-dictator Suharto was set to resume. Full Story
U.S. hostage Jeffrey Schilling has called the U.S. embassy in the Philippines to relay his Muslim guerrilla kidnappers' $10 million-ransom demand, a senior aide to President Joseph Estrada said Wednesday. Full Story
Ferocious battles gripped Sri Lanka Wednesday as Tamil Tiger rebels launched a major counter-attack in response to a fresh military offensive that left heavy casualties on both sides, officials said. Full Story
At least one Israeli was wounded on Wednesday when two roadside bombs exploded in the Gaza Strip as a convoy of Jewish settlers' cars passed, Israel Radio reported. Full Story
The crew of a Chinese domestic airliner thwarted a hijacking attempt Wednesday morning, and airport police killed one of the suspected hijackers after the plane landed safely, state-run media reported. Full Story
An underground group known as GRAPO exploded small homemade bombs Wednesday in temporary employment agencies in three Spanish provincial capitals, police said. Full Story
Twenty-eight people, including five Indian security men and 19 guerrillas, were killed in gun battles in the divided region of Kashmir as a European Union team met with separatists and officials, authorities said today. Full Story
After weeks of delay, a Libyan double agent billed as a star witness in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial finally took the stand today and testified that Libyan intelligence operatives hid 22 pounds of explosives in an office at the airport in Malta, where the bomb that brought down the American plane originated.…
It is often called “America's Main Street,” but for the last five years, only foot traffic has been allowed on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. That would change under a plan promoted yesterday. Full Story
The problem of international terrorism affects both India and Russia and the subject will apparently be discussed when Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit in India from October 2 to October 5, Indian ambassador to Russia Satinder Kumar Lamba told Tass. Full Story
The United States has offered to train and equip an elite Philippine anti-terrorist unit as a long-term response to the current wave of terrorist attacks and kidnappings in the country, Philippine Defense Secretary Orlando Mercado said Monday. Full Story