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  • Albright Says Mideast Security Committee Set Up

    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 Killed in Ivory Coast Bomb Blast

    Four people were killed and seven were wounded Wednesday in Ivory Coast&#039s main city Abidjan when a bomb they were planning to plant exploded in their faces, state television reported. Full Story

  • Britain concerned about Muslim Britons jailed in Yemen

    Britain&#039s 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

  • Unity celebration marred by bombing

    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

  • Tiger Shelling Stops Flights, Sri Lankan Troops Kill 14

    Sri Lanka&#039s Tamil Tiger rebels carried out artillery bombardments against government-held areas of Jaffna peninsula, forcing the region&#039s only airfield to shut down, a state-run daily reported Wednesday. Full Story

  • Blasts Rock Rajouri Town

    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

  • Bomb Explodes in Western Russia

    A bomb placed outside an apartment house shattered windows and tore a crater in the ground on Wednesday in Russia&#039s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, but no injuries were reported, an emergency official said. Full Story

  • Colombian Death Squad Kills Nine Peasants

    Right-wing paramilitary gunmen killed nine peasants Tuesday in the latest political bloodletting in a war zone in southwest Colombia, authorities said. Full Story

  • Aid Worker Is Killed in Burundi

    An Italian who worked and lived with the poor in Burundi was killed Tuesday in an attack outside the capital. Full Story

  • Manila Probes Report Officials Shared Jolo Ransom

    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

  • Israeli Commander Sees No Quick End to Bloodshed

    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

  • U.S. Urges Prosecution of Russian Extremists

    The United States called on the Russian government on Tuesday to prosecute “to the fullest extent&#039&#039 of the law those responsible for three recent incidents of violence against religious minorities. Full Story

  • India, Russia agree on common strategy to combat terrorism

    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

  • Assassination Fails in Sri Lanka

    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 Makes Diplomatic Contact with Taleban

    Uzbekistan has started a dialogue with Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taleban militia to bolster security in Central Asia, said Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov. Full Story

  • Cape Town Takes Terrorism In Stride

    Cape Town is definitely not a city gripped by fear. After more than 20 anonymous bombings in two years, people in South Africa&#039s 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 —…

  • More Violence in Aceh, 10 Houses Torched

    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

  • Taliban Gain Ground in Northern Afghan Province

    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

  • Senator Presses for Bill To Combat Terrorism

    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

  • Report: IRA Showed Outdated Arms to Inspectors

    The Irish Republican Army (IRA) showed two international inspectors an array of outdated weapons when they visited some of the guerrilla group&#039s secret arms dumps in June, Britain&#039s Times newspaper said on Tuesday. Full Story

  • British Police Warn Of Terrorist Violence

    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&#039s MI6 intelligence service in central London. Full Story

  • Yemen”s parliamentary speaker calls for “jihad” against Israel

    Yemen&#039s 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

  • Explosions in Korean mission in Dushanbe is act of terrorism

    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&#039s general office. Full Story

  • Report: Uganda Rebels Kill Priest

    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

  • Death Toll Rises to Seven in Explosion at Church in Tajikistan

    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, 6 Others Kidnapped

    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

  • Filipino Preachers Rescued After Jolo Battle

    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

  • N.Ireland Explosion Leaves Man Seriously Hurt

    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…

  • Do Not Be Alarmed: Edison Field “Terrorist Attack” Is Only a Test

    The 911 call will come in at 9 this morning: A chemical weapon attack at Anaheim&#039s 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…

  • Official: Russia knows identity of 20 people involved in deadly bombings

    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

  • International terrorism must not have political means

    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 Kill Eight More Policemen

    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

  • Bomb Explodes In Barcelona Newspaper Office

    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

  • Embassy safety

    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

  • Hospital Chiefs: Four Palestinians Die in Clashes

    Four Palestinians were killed Friday in clashes with Israeli police at a holy site in Jerusalem&#039s walled Old City and at least 90 were wounded, hospital officials said. Full Story

  • Sri Lanka Rebels Warn Civilians As Battles Rage

    Tamil Tiger rebels asked civilians to evacuate large areas of Sri Lanka&#039s northern Jaffna peninsula on Friday as intense fighting with government troops entered the fourth day. Full Story

  • Indonesian Forces Start Seizing Timor Militia Guns

    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

  • Four More Dead in Bolivia Coca Protests

    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

  • Nigerian Militants Hold 12 Shell Workers Hostage

    Militant youths in Nigeria&#039s 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

  • Swiss agree to give Argentina 1994 bombing suspect

    Switzerland has approved Argentina&#039s 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

  • Russia”s Putin to talk with India on diamonds, nuclear power, terrorism

    India hopes to buy diamonds from Russia, sell more tea and tobacco, and cooperate on nuclear power development after next week&#039s visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the New Delhi government said Thursday. Full Story

  • IMU to Be Designated Terrorist Group

    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

  • Spanish Anarchists Blamed For Temp Agency Bombs

    An underground group known as GRAPO exploded small homemade bombs Wednesday in temporary employment agencies in three Spanish provincial capitals, police said. Full Story

  • Bomb Kills 16, Wounds More Than 80 in Pakistan

    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

  • Violence Hits Jakarta After Suharto Cleared

    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

  • Israeli Soldier Critically Wounded by Gaza Bomb

    An Israeli soldier was critically wounded and another lightly hurt in a roadside bomb attack against a convoy of Jewish settlers&#039 cars they were escorting along a Gaza road, the Israeli army said on Thursday. Full Story

  • Taliban run training camps for Chechnya: Russian envoy

    A special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Afghanistan&#039s Taliban regime of training fighters to aid Muslim rebels in Chechnya and Central Asian states. Full Story

  • Man Injured in Portland Blast

    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

  • Anti-terrorist Awareness Campaign Launched in Pak Border Areas

    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

  • New bomb rocks human rights group office ahead of Suharto hearing

    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 delivers ransom demands by phone

    U.S. hostage Jeffrey Schilling has called the U.S. embassy in the Philippines to relay his Muslim guerrilla kidnappers&#039 $10 million-ransom demand, a senior aide to President Joseph Estrada said Wednesday. Full Story

  • Tamil Tigers say 150 troops killed in heavy fighting

    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

  • Bomb Hurts at Least One Israeli in Gaza-Radio

    At least one Israeli was wounded on Wednesday when two roadside bombs exploded in the Gaza Strip as a convoy of Jewish settlers&#039 cars passed, Israel Radio reported. Full Story

  • Attempted Chinese Hijacking Foiled

    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

  • Spanish Group GRAPO Blamed for Bombs

    An underground group known as GRAPO exploded small homemade bombs Wednesday in temporary employment agencies in three Spanish provincial capitals, police said. Full Story

  • Kashmiri Killing Mounts as EU Arrives

    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

  • Key Lockerbie Witness Testifies

    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.…

  • Cars considered for comeback to Pa. Ave

    It is often called “America&#039s 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

  • Int terrorism to be discussed when Putin visits India

    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

  • U.S. to train, equip elite Philippine anti-terrorist unit

    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