At least eight prisoners were killed on Sunday and hundreds of people taken hostage when an apparently coordinated wave of riots erupted in prisons across the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. Full Story

Jailed guerrilla leader Carlos the Jackal told a Spanish newspaper in an interview published on Sunday he remained unrepentant about his crimes and would do the same all over again, but this time “even better.&#039&#039 Full Story

It has been more than four months now, and Gold Hill is still waiting for some good news from Ecuador. Full Story

The British Government is dropping its guard against terrorism in Northern Ireland by slashing the police budget by more than £100 million over the next three years, it has been claimed. Full Story

In a heavily guarded room at a hospital near Tel Aviv, Israeli interrogators have been trying to solve a question that has baffled the entire world. What – or who – turned Khalil Abu Olbeh, a mild-mannered Palestinian bus driver with no record of violence or political militancy, into a ruthless killer? Full Story

A new indictment handed down yesterday in the Ahmed Ressam case seeks to bolster the federal government&#039s contention that a web of Algerians was working with the accused bomb smuggler. Full Story

Iran is planning another terrorism conference. This conference will be held in Teheran in April. Last month, Iran sponsored a terrorism conference in Beirut. Full Story

Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh allowed a deadline to pass Thursday without asking President Bush to spare his life. Full Story

In a move that demonstrates anew how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict affects the internal politics of Middle Eastern countries, Jordan has come down hard on activists who oppose its peace with Israel. Full Story

Gunmen in Belgrade have opened fire in an apparent assassination attempt on the Serbian Interior Minister, Dusan Mihajlovic. Full Story

U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan — once the world&#039s largest producer — since banning poppy cultivation last summer. Full Story

Four Serbs died and 23 were injured on Friday in Kosovo when a bus they were traveling in was blown up by a remote control device, international peacekeepers said. Full Story

Twelve people died when a group of attackers armed with rifles burst into a community gathering in the northern state of Sinaloa, dragged them into a truck and shot them, the local attorney general&#039s office said on Thursday. Full Story

A US pilot of Egyptian origin recounted to a New York court Wednesday how he bought and flew a private jet for Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, who is wanted in the United States on terrorism charges. Full Story

A Frankfurt court Thursday sentenced repentant terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein to nine years&#039 imprisonment for his part in a bloody hostage-taking led by “Carlos the Jackal” at an OPEC conference in 1975. Full Story

Kidnappers holding seven foreign oil workers — including four Americans — have agreed to a ransom offer just ahead of their deadline to kill another captive, the head of Ecuador’s armed forces said Wednesday. Full Story

Terrorism? In Pasco County? Don&#039t snicker. Just in case some ne&#039er do well tried a stunt similar to the Oklahoma City bombing, Pasco&#039s Office of Emergency Management is investigating the terrorist threat close to home. Michele Baker, the county&#039s emergency management director, calls terrorism a “low probability event.” But she said it&#039s better to be…

WHEN George W. Bush travels to Mexico to meet with Vicente Fox tomorrow, two significant trends-one positive, one negative-will clash. The first trend is the greater economic, political and ethnic integration of the United States and Mexico. The second trend is the greater threat to the United States from terrorism. While Mexico is not a…

Ehud Barak, Israel’s outgoing Prime Minister, was last night considering military strikes against Yassir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority after a Palestinian man drove his bus into an Israeli crowd, killing eight people. Full Story

The commander of peacekeeping forces in Kosovo said on Wednesday extremists on opposing sides were bent on stirring up trouble to try to block a peaceful future for the province. Full Story

The Ecuadorian town of Lago Agrio is just 22km (14 miles) from the border with Colombia. For many Colombians, Lago Agrio provides some sort of refuge from the violence in their homeland Its frontier is shared with Colombia&#039s Putumayo region – the heart of the cocaine trade in Latin America and a zone of conflict…

Reports from Burundi say Hutu rebels have attacked a neighbourhood in the north-west of the capital, Bujumbura, killing a soldier and a teenage boy. Full Story

AFTER 85 court sessions and nearly $90 million in legal costs, one Libyan underling has been found not guilty in the destruction of Pan American Flight 103. Another insignificant underling, Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, has been found guilty. The other matter the trial proved was the utter futility of responding to terrorism with the ordinary…

President Bush took a look at high-tech video war games yesterday as he vowed to retool America&#039s military to defend against new terrorist threats that come in containers as small as a suitcase. Full Story

The United States labored 10 years to bring about the recent trial in the Pan Am bombing case. US officials worked overtime to arrest the suspects now on trial in New York for bombing two US embassies in Africa in 1998. And serious efforts are under way to find the culprits in attacks on US…

Lawyers for two young suspects in an underground campaign of arson and destruction in Suffolk County are in negotiations with federal prosecutors that could result in guilty pleas in Federal District Court as soon as Wednesday, a law enforcement official said today. Full Story

A federal appeals court denied Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski’s bid for a new trial Monday, saying he was not coerced into pleading guilty to three fatal mail bombings. Full Story

The most serious attack inside Israel since the start of the Palestinian uprising has prompted a closure of Palestinian-ruled areas, but there have been calls for more drastic action to stop the violence. Full Story

Security experts from China, Russia and three central Asian states have begun talks in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, about setting up an anti-terrorism centre in Central Asia. Full Story

A former member of Osama bin Laden&#039s terrorist group testified Tuesday at the U.S. embassies bombing trial that poisoning a former Sudanese prime minister and bombing the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh were considered but not carried out. Full Story

U.S. and UN officials will begin discussing ways a Taliban representative may be able to remain in the United States following the closing of the Taliban offices in compliance with Security Council sanctions. Full Story

The Navy is enforcing wider security zones around its ships, even while in U.S. ports, in hopes of preventing terrorist attacks like the USS Cole bombing, a senior Navy admiral said Tuesday. Full Story

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said Wednesday Israel&#039s military crackdown on Palestinians was to blame for an upsurge of violence. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban movement lost the key central town of Bamiyan to opponents overnight and launched a counter-offensive Wednesday to retake it, a Pakistan-based Afghan news service reported. Full Story

Political turmoil in Bangladesh deepened on Wednesday as yet another opposition-led national strike took root and authorities braced for more violence following the killing of four people the previous day. Full Story

Rep. Gerry Adair, R-Roy, wants to create a new class of crime to fight vandalism done by animal-rights activists. His House Bill 322 is called Domestic Terrorism of Commercial Enterprises. It would add crimes against animal enterprises to the criminal code, making them harsher than the current penalties that vandalism normally incurs. Full Story

Police probing a spate of letter bombs yesterday renewed warnings to anyone linked with the agricultural business after two more devices were defused. Full Story

When the business was just a start-up, the boss had the first office on the left as you entered the eight- or nine-room headquarters on McNimr Street in downtown Khartoum, Sudan. Full Story

At least four people, including a policeman, have been shot dead during on-going anti-government protests in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. Full Story

The U.N. official in charge of peace negotiations to end Afghanistan&#039s civil war hopes Washington will agree to a formula that would allow Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers to keep a delegate in New York. Full Story

Around 10,000 supporters of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid protested in another East Java city Tuesday, stoking fears of fresh violence in the volatile province, police said. Full Story

A rise in separatist activity in the oil-rich Angolan enclave of Cabinda could mean the demise of the rebel groups is near. A well-funded, well-equipped Angolan military and closer cooperation between Luanda and Cabinda’s former allies in Brazzaville and Kinshasa have further isolated the separatists. Now, while Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ government discusses…

Witnesses have begun to testify in a trial that U.S. prosecutors hope will prove the existence of a network of terrorists intent on attacking American targets. The start of this trial closely followed the completion of another uncommon proceeding — the Lockerbie bombing case — in which a Scottish court convicted a Libyan intelligence officer…

Israel has revelaed that its security forces had arrested a British citizen suspected of being sent by the Lebanese guerrilla organisation Hizbollah to carry out an attack in Israel. Full Story

Ronnie Flanagan was challenged today to state which loyalist faction was stockpiling bombs and drugs in a block of flats in Belfast. RUC officers uncovered parts for 11 pipe bombs, an under-car booby-trap device and a coffee jar-type bomb during raids on three flats in Ross House, in the Mount Vernon area of Belfast last…

Anti-terrorist legislation that comes into force next week is hailed by the government as a powerful weapon against international violence. But opponents say the law will stifle dissent, whether on the Internet or in slogans on a T-shirt. Full Story

In a breakthrough in the wave of arson and vandalism in Suffolk County claimed by the Earth Liberation Front, a Coram teenager who is believed to have played a key role in the incidents pleaded guilty to arson late Friday in a secret court hearing, according to several sources familiar with the case. Full Story

The fight against eco-terrorism continues to move at a maddeningly slow pace. But there was a victory recently when an Indiana man, apparently a member of the Earth Liberation Front, was arrested on a tree-spiking charge. Full Story

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The United States is increasingly vulnerable to attack because the monitoring agency responsible for early detection is losing the technology war to well-heeled, techno-savvy rogue groups, the head of the agency said in an interview released on Monday. Full Story

The Middle East&#039s most violent terrorists have agreed to a frightening megamerger in which they will pool resources to fight their common enemies: the United States and Israel. Full Story

Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh wrote in a published letter that his execution should be broadcast publicly. Full Story

British police arrested 87 animal rights activists overnight (HK time) after demonstrations outside two pharmaceutical companies turned violent. In a co-ordinated action by the group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, or Shac, protesters gathered at nine locations around Britain, including London-area offices of pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer, to protest their alleged links to drug testing…

Sri Lanka&#039s Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to hold peace talks in a European country but warned they would pull out if Britain banned them under new anti-terrorism laws. Full Story

Six people were killed in Aceh as security forces and separatist rebels reached a new deal to reduce violence, residents said yesterday. Full Story

Pauline Hanson: still a powerful force It is the news that most Australian politicians have been quietly dreading: Pauline Hanson is back. After three years of silence from the former fish and chip shop owner, the One Nation founder has proved that her right-wing, racist brand of politics remains a force to be reckoned with.…

At least 26 people have been killed in a new massacre in Algeria – the biggest single attack so far this year. Eleven of those killed were children, with at least one victim only six months old. Full Story

Northern Irish police said on Monday they had dealt a severe blow to Protestant militants by uncovering a “bomb-factory&#039&#039 in a pro-British area of north Belfast. Full Story

Two explosions were heard in a northern Tehran Monday, near a number of military and security bases, Iran&#039s student news agency ISNA reported. Full Story

The Libyan secret agent convicted in the Lockerbie bombing proclaimed his innocence and said in remarks published Monday that he was fasting in prison to be closer to God. Full Story