U.S. and Yemeni investigators are close to arresting the main suspect in the bombing of American warship USS Cole, the Yemen Observer reported on Saturday. Full Story

A powerful bomb exploded outside a government office in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, wounding four people, and another in the eastern town of Jalalabad, officials of the ruling Taliban movement said. Full Story

Colombia&#039s most powerful guerrilla group is marching back to peace talks, but it must still convince a war-weary people that negotiations are more than a ploy to buy time to build its military strength. Full Story

Seventeen people were detained after scuffles broke out at a demonstration against a small neo-Nazi march in the western German town of Hagen on Saturday. Full Story

Kenneth Gluck was lucky the book in his bag — “History of the Arab Peoples” — was 551 pages long. It kept him company during the 25 days he was held captive in Chechnya, not knowing whether he would ever be released. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers are prepared to allow Osama bin Laden -sought by the U.S. on terrorism charges -to be tried by Islamic clerics, perhaps in a third country, Pakistan&#039s interior minister said Thursday. Full Story

Mohamed Saddiq Odeh, one of two men charged in connection with the bombing of the US embassy in Kenya, told US investigators last week that he was tortured by into giving a false confession. Odeh said he was denied food, drink, and sleep for three days until he confessed. The bombings killed 250 black Africans…

Some say going after underlings can unlock conspiracies. Yet so far, the US has failed to bring masterminds to trial. Full Story

Reps. James Saxton, R-N.J., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., this week introduced legislation that calls on the government to develop a new legal framework to prosecute hackers and other Internet criminals. Saxton and Chambliss offered a House resolution that also labels cyber-terrorism “an emerging threat to the national security of the United States which has the…

Last week, when movers and shakers of the global economy gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for an annual forum, it was no surprise to see protesters jamming the streets, massed police protecting powerful VIPs from the crowds, or even scattered acts of violence and vandalism in the posh ski resort. Full Story

Colombian President Andres Pastrana and guerrilla chief Manuel &#039&#039Sureshot&#039&#039 Marulanda will meet again on Friday after eight “productive&#039&#039 hours of talks to revive a stuttering peace process on Thursday. Full Story

Tension remained high in Vietnam&#039s central highlands on Friday, with riot police and soldiers keeping round-the-clock patrols after a wave of ethnic protests and embassies warned against travel to the area. Full Story

A powerful car bomb exploded in a Jewish religious neighborhood of Jerusalem Thursday, hurling shards of metal through the air, but only one person was hurt, police said. Full Story

A former member of Osama bin Laden&#039s alleged terrorist network told a federal jury today that the Islamic extremist group tried to buy uranium in late 1993 but that he was not sure whether the deal was completed. Full Story

Transcript of the third day of the trial. Full Story

About 250 people who were injured or lost loved ones in the Oklahoma City bombing want to watch Timothy McVeigh put to death for the attack. Federal prison officials are weighing how to accommodate those who want to witness the first federal execution since 1963, and are even considering the possibility of a closed-circuit television…

Statement by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the “Worldwide Threat 2001: National Security in a Changing World” (as prepared for delivery)07 February 2001 Full Story

If there&#039s one thing the FBI hates more than Osama bin Laden, it&#039s when Osama bin Laden starts using the Internet. So it should be no surprise that the feds are getting unusually jittery about what they claim is evidence that bin Laden and his terrorist allies are using message-scrambling techniques to evade law enforcement.…

A car bomb shattered storefronts in Netanya, a seaside resort town in northern Israel, and wounded 60 diners and shoppers on the evening of Jan. 1. There was one fatality–the bomber himself. The group behind this blast didn&#039t call a TV station to claim credit. Instead Hamas, the Palestinian organization that sponsors acts of terror…

One day in mid-1996, a Sudanese man stood in the visa line at an American embassy abroad. When a clerk asked if he wanted an application, he replied, “No, I don&#039t want visa, but I have some information for your government.” Full Story

A blast rocked police headquarters in Istanbul on Thursday, Turkish officials told Reuters, but it was not immediately clear what caused the explosion. “There was an explosion,” a police officer said. “It&#039s being investigated. There are no details of any injuries yet.” Full Story

There have been a number of bomb attacks in Northern Ireland coinciding with a meeting between victims of loyalist violence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr Cowen taking place this morning. Full Story

Ariel Sharon, flush from an election victory seen as a mandate to veto more concessions to the Palestinians, pledged in a symbolic pilgrimage to Judaism&#039s Western Wall on Wednesday that Jerusalem will remain in Israeli hands forever. Full Story

Germany has reported a 40% increase in racist attacks as a new survey shows that almost every second young East German thinks that the Nazi regime “had its good side”. Full Story

With a martial display, rebels on Wednesday exhibited their control of a southern region where their commander plans to meet with President Andres Pastrana for a summit aimed at salvaging peace talks. Full Story

Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has gone on hunger strike, a lawyer who has acted for the Libyan secret agent said Wednesday. Full Story

A Colombian police captain has been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of a union leader by a paramilitary death squad late last year, a police general said on Wednesday.Full Story

Canadian health officials were trying to ease fears Tuesday about the possible arrival of the deadly Ebola virus, even as the likelihood increased that a woman quarantined in a hospital here had the disease. Full Story

A former aide to Osama bin Laden testified Wednesday that he told U.S. authorities in 1996 that the Saudi dissident&#039s group was trying to “make war&#039&#039 against the United States inside America and against its army and embassies in other countries. Full Story

Digital file from the Court Reporters Office, Southern District of New York. Full Story

Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, accused of a string of bloody attacks against U.S. targets, is the most immediate and serious threat to America&#039s national security, CIA chief George Tenet said on Wednesday. Full Story

A secret government witness emerged yesterday to tell a hushed federal courtroom in Manhattan how he helped the Saudi exile Osama bin Laden move money and arms to terrorist groups in Africa and the Middle East as part of a conspiracy aimed at the United States. Full Story

Police in Sudan say that rebels have shot dead seven policemen in a pre-dawn raid on a station in the east of the country. Full Story

Three days after the failed assassination attempt on Chief Jusice Keshab Prasad Upadhaya, two Maoists and a policeman were killed Tuesday in a shootout in Surkhet. The rebels were killed during an intensified search operation in the district. Full Story

Three hostages, including two South Koreans, were released on Wednesday by rebels in a remote area of Irian Jaya province, police said. The three hostages were the last of 17 hostages who had been held by the rebels for the past three weeks. Full Story

Police questioned the owner and guard of a warehouse in which they confiscated around 1,480 bombs of various sizes in North Jakarta on Wednesday. Full Story

Gunmen in Colombia have killed fourteen people in two separate attacks in the north of the country. Full Story

At least six people were killed and 100 others injured on Tuesday in fierce clashes between police and religious hardliners in Bangladesh&#039s eastern district of Brahmanbaria. Full Story

The battle between Afghanistan&#039s Taliban and the opposition Northern Alliance continues through an unusually mild winter, setting the stage for an early spring offensive. The continuous fighting, however, will leave both sides depleted and looking for external support. Pakistan traditionally commits resources to the Taliban cause, but this spring&#039s offensive could draw Russia to participate…

Lawyers for Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols were headed back to federal court Wednesday to ask a judge to throw out their client&#039s conviction and life sentence. Full Story

Until recently Thomas Pury, 45, grew nutmeg and cloves on his four-acre farm on a remote island in the Moluccas, once called the Spice Islands. Like their parents before them, Thomas and his wife were Roman Catholics; so was virtually their entire village of 100 on the island of Kesui. Full Story

Indonesian police on Wednesday fired warning shots as thousands of protesters ransacked the local head office of the former ruling party Golkar. Full Story

The leadership of a militant Islamic group led by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden ordered its fighters to attack U.S. bases and not to worry about civilian deaths, a member of the group testified. Full Story

The Olympic Games have suffered badly from doping and money scandals. Most fans probably hope the worst is past. It isn&#039t. The clock is ticking toward potential bloody disaster at the Athens Games in 2004, the worst since the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Games in 1972. The International Olympic Committee is aware…

Ethnic Albanian guerrillas and government forces clashed late Monday in Serbia’s Presevo Valley, a volatile area where fighting is seen as a potential trigger for fresh violence elsewhere in the Balkans. Full Story

As four alleged Bin Laden associates go on trial in New York, TIME Intelligence correspondent Massimo Calabresi says courts don&#039t stop terror — but they do put diplomatic pressure its sponsors. Full Story

Fifteen years after the United States launched a campaign to track down terrorists around the world and bring them to justice, most extremists linked to attacks against American interests are still at large–and not one state sponsor has been held accountable in a U.S. criminal court. Full Story

Muslim extremists, including Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden are posting encrypted — or scrambled — photographs and messages on popular Web sites and using them to plan attacks against the United States and its allies, USA TODAY reported Tuesday. Full Story / USA TODAY Article

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban movement said Tuesday it would continue to give sanctuary to Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who Washington wants to put on trial for allegedly blowing up two U.S. embassies. Full Story

A small bomb exploded in one of Moscow&#039s busiest underground railway stations during rush hour Monday, injuring up to nine people and causing minor damage. Full Story

After a month of captivity in breakaway Chechnya, an American aid worker was questioned Monday by Russian authorities who said they had orchestrated his release and were preparing to send him home. Full Story

A day before Israel’s fateful election, Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Monday still trailed far behind challenger Ariel Sharon despite his renewed warning that a Sharon victory will plunge Israel into war with the Palestinians. Israeli security forces, meanwhile, were on high alert for possible attempts by Palestinian militants to carry out terror attacks on…

Abdul Majid Giakawas expected to be a star witness when the Lockerbie trial began last spring. An ex-Libyan intelligence officer and a CIA informant, Giaka claimed to know of the two defendants’ access to explosives. Full Story

Muslim separatists demanded talks with the Philippine government Monday after renewing threats to kill an American hostage who they said is growing gravely ill. Full Story

Saudi authorities say that three Western men shown on Saudi television confessing to their alleged involvement in a bombing campaign are to be tried under Islamic law. Full Story

A bomb blast damaged an office building in Ecuador&#039s capital Quito late on Sunday that houses the Reuters office as well as other foreign companies and a local bank and government agency. Full Story

President Pastrana visited the FARC zone on Saturday. Over 10,000 people have taken part in a demonstration in the northern Colombian state of Bolivar, to reject the formation of the country&#039s second demilitarised zone. Full Story

With U.S. intelligence fixated on Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden and the chilling possibility that he has been testing chemical weapons on animals, policymakers in the Bush administration and members of Congress would do well to consider the true difficulties involved in making chemical weapons. Full Story

Worried about biological and chemical agents on the battlefield and in the hands of terrorists, the Canadian Forces will spend $250 million on protective equipment — its largest purchase ever of such gear. Full Story

Paul Brouwer hopes the thousands of dollars in emergency equipment Clinton Township is planning to buy never has to be used. But it will be a comfort to the township&#039s deputy fire chief to know it&#039s available. Brouwer, who also is chief emergency operations coordinator for Clinton Township, is overseeing the community&#039s share of a…