Muslim rebels threatened to call off a deal to free six hostages after police arrested two men carrying bundles of money believed to be part of a ransom payment, officials said Friday. Full Story

Greek anarchists set fire to a car belonging to the defence attache of the Yugoslav embassy in Athens early on Friday, but nobody was injured, police said. Full Story

Suspected militants set off a bomb in India”s insurgency-racked northeastern state of Assam on Friday, killing four people and injuring four, police said. Full Story

The State Department has asked the Agency for International Development to withdraw its registration from one of the largest Muslim charities in the United States, saying it has ties to the terrorist group Hamas, government officials say. Full Story

Israeli officials said security forces will remain on alert after their success at cracking a network of militants linked to Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden. Israel disclosed Monday that, over the past few weeks, it had arrested 23 suspected guerrillas allegedly planning bombing attacks on Israelis. Full Story

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Security Council members issued a new call on Wednesday for an end to fighting in civil war-torn Afghanistan and said extremists may be using it as a base to destabilize other states in the region. Full Story

The Australian government has agreed to amend proposed legislation that would allow troops to respond to Olympic terrorist threats. Full Story

The CRS Report entitled “Terrorism: Middle Eastern Groups and State Sponsors, 1999” has been archived on the TRC site. Full Report

Two bomb blasts shook this elegant coastal city early Thursday while another two devices went off in the nearby town of Irun, in what were seen as the latest incidents in the increasingly violent separatist campaign in Spain&#039s Basque region. Full Story

Northern Irish police arrested six men Thursday in the Shankill Road area of Belfast after a man was gunned down overnight in a vicious turf war between Protestant guerrilla groups. Full Story

Environmental activists on Tuesday started carving the word “Toxic” into a vacant field adjacent to Sydney Olympic Park to highlight the failure of Sydney 2000 organizers to meet key “Green Games” promises. Full Story

A grenade explosion in a crowded market in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, has killed at least three people and seriously wounded eight others. An unidentified attacker flung the grenade at a group of traders who were busy organising their goods for sale. Full Story

Four people were killed and up to 38 injured on Tuesday in a clash in Mexico&#039s troubled southern state of Chiapas, where the opposition ousted the ruling party in a weekend state governor&#039s election, the Televisa network reported. Full Story

Britain said Wednesday it ordered the arrest of Johnny “Mad Dog&#039&#039 Adair, the prominent Northern Irish former Protestant guerrilla leader, because he was a threat to peace in the province. Full Story

A survivor of the Soho pub bombing may launch legal action against the brewers next month over injuries he sustained in the neo-Nazi attack, lawyers said Wednesday. Full Story

Libya has agreed to pay $1 million for each of the 12 foreign hostages held by Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines, clearing the way for their release fairly soon, sources close to the negotiations said on Tuesday. Full Story

Basque police arrested two more people Tuesday in an ongoing crackdown against Basque separatist group ETA, Spanish state radio said. Full Story

Supporters of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden may be planning attacks in Israel to try to thwart the Middle East peace process, a U.S. congressional report warned on Monday. Full Story

The National Transportation Safety Board begins two days of public meetings Tuesday to review its investigation into 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800. Full Story

Massachusetts police closed the airport on Martha”s Vineyard on Monday night when a suspicious bag that later proved to contain high explosives was left on the tarmac, authorities said. After X-raying the bag, police on the popular resort island off Cape Cod called for the state police bomb squad, which determined the luggage contained two…

Senior diplomatic sources in Sri Lanka have warned of an escalation in military and political violence as the country approaches general elections in October. Full Story

The Shin Bet security service has uncovered a terrorist ring established in the territories by the extremist Islamic organization headed by Osama Bin Laden, the elusive Afghanistan-based multimillionaire who is wanted by the United States for perpetrating a series of terrorist attacks against American nationals. The members of the ring planned to carry out a…

Leftist rebels who oppose growing U.S. ties to Colombia&#039s military promised Monday not to stage attacks to disrupt President Clinton&#039s upcoming visit to the South American country. “We will not impede (the Aug. 30 visit) with guerrilla actions,” Andres Paris, a commander and spokesman of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia told The Associated Press…

Libya reluctantly agreed to pay the entire multimillion-dollar ransom demanded by Philippine Muslim guerrillas in a last-ditch effort to win the release of 12 foreign hostages, negotiators said Tuesday. Full Story

British troops restored an uneasy calm to Northern Ireland&#039s capital Tuesday after sporadic overnight violence between Protestant guerrilla groups followed a day of bloodshed and arson. Full Story

The Philippines, in a compromise forged with Libya, Tuesday relaxed its demand for the release in one go of 12 foreign hostages held by Muslim rebels and said it may now accept their release in batches. Full Story

Four members of a British television crew detained in Liberia were charged with espionage on Monday and taken to the main prison in the capital Monrovia, witnesses said. Full Story

Separatists have been blamed for the third bomb blast to rock Corsica in the past week. Full Story

Unknown attackers hurled a smoke bomb into a hostel housing Colombian asylum seekers overnight in the eastern German town of Eisenhuettenstadt. Full Story

German extreme-right groups are transferring their Internet sites to access providers in the United States in order to evade a crackdown by German authorities. Full Story

A bomb killed two Civil Guard police officers in northern Spain on Sunday, the latest in a surge in killings blamed on Basque separatist group ETA that has plunged the country into a security crisis. Full Story

The top government negotiator in the Philippine hostage crisis has met President Joseph Estrada to consider fresh ways to break a deadlock in negotiations with Muslim extremists holding 28 captives in southern Jolo island. Full Story

The fundamentalist Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah said Saturday it is determined to free the 19 Lebanese still held inside Israel, who include key members of the movement, whatever the cost. Full Story

Three Malaysians emerged hungry and tired from the jungle on southern Jolo island in the Philippines Sunday, ending four months in captivity at the hands of Muslim extremists who still hold 28 other hostages. Full Story

U.S. immigration officers have taken into custody a Pakistani man wanted in connection with bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992, CNN has learned. Full Story

Libya has agreed to pay $25 million as the price for the release of hostages held by Muslim rebels in the Philippines, a Western diplomat told reporters on Friday. Full Story

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright toured the site of a 1994 bombing attack on a Jewish community center Thursday, showing solidarity with Washington&#039s allies in the fight against terrorism. Full Story

Britain urged Yugoslav authorities Thursday to make clear if they planned to charge two British policemen detained on suspicion of planning terrorist activities, or else relese them immediately. Full Story

A local court Thursday told Walter Lothar Ebke that he will face court hearing December 14-22 into a German demand for his extradition on terrorism charges. Full Story

Latvian police said Friday they suspected terrorists were to blame for the planting of two bombs that exploded Thursday in a busy Riga shopping center, injuring at least 28 people. Full Story

An Air India aircraft was delayed by a bomb hoax at Delhi&#039s international airport on Thursday in the wake of two similar incidents the day before, an airline spokesman said. Full Story

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been trying to grab the world&#039s attention ever since international sanctions against his country were suspended last year. Full Story

A bomb exploded early Friday in a building in the Kosovo capital Pristina housing the offices of political parties and Serbian authorities in the province, the U.N. said. Full Story

Two bombs exploded in a popular department store in Riga on Thursday evening, injuring at least 19 people, police said. Full Story

Two local residents were killed and four Russian policemen injured when a car bomb exploded in the Chechen capital Grozny, Interfax news agency said on Thursday. Full Story

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Wednesday urged Central Asian states currently afflicted by Islamist rebel attacks to implement democratic and economic reforms to combat the threat. Full Story

The Nigerian cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing of UN conventions on terrorism, genocide and human rights, subject to ratification by the National Assembly, a minister said Wednesday. Full Story

A small bomb exploded outside the Moscow headquarters of the influential Russian oil company Sibneft on Thursday. No casualties were reported. Full Story

Israel took the United States to task on Thursday over a warning to U.S. citizens of a heightened threat of “terrorist” attacks in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Prime Minister Ehud Barak&#039s security adviser Danny Yatom said he tried to talk U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk out of issuing an announcement when informed of it…

An explosion at a police station in Batkhela today killed a prisoner and injured 15 other people, including seven policemen, police sources said. Full Story

A major rail disaster was averted on Wednesday when two alert employees detected two explosive devices planted on the tracks near a railway bridge in central Assam&#039s Karbi-Anglong district minutes before the Calcutta-bound DN Kamrup Express was to pass. Full Story

A Greek anarchist group set fire to an Italian diplomat”s car in Athens early on Thursday, seriously damaging the vehicle, police said. They said unknown assailants doused the car with a flammable liquid and then set it on fire. Full Story

The United States warned its citizens Wednesday of a heightened threat of “terrorist&#039&#039 attacks in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Full Story

Eight armed men robbed almost $3 million in cash from an armored car in Brazil on Wednesday then hijacked an aircraft with 72 people aboard to make their getaway, police said. Full Story

CIA Director George Tenet arrived in Bucharest Tuesday for talks on combatting terrorism, Romanian officials said. Full Story

An Air India flight from New York to Bombay was forced to make an unscheduled landing in New Delhi after a caller told Indian authorities there was a bomb on board, airline officials said. Full Story

Nine Western hostages held by the extremist Abu Sayyaf for 115 days in the jungles of Sulu will be released today under a deal brokered and bankrolled by Libya, government negotiators said. Full Story

The threat of biological warfare attack on the United States is getting quite a bit of play in the press, but it is not a new menace. Full Story

Eleven people were wounded Wednesday when unidentified militants hurled a grenade at a crowded market in India&#039s insurgency-torn Jammu and Kashmir state, police said. Full Story