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

The leader of long-reclusive North Korea said he would open ties with the United States right away if it removes his country from a list of terrorism-sponsoring nations, South Korea&#039s state media reported Sunday. Full Story

Britain and Ireland have issued a joint plea for new information about the 1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland which killed 29 people. Full Story

Tuesday&#039s explosion in Moscow has thrown into high relief the gulf that exists in Russia between those who are prepared to play on prejudices against the Chechens and those who recognize the dangers of demonizing an entire people. Full Story

An Algerian accused of conspiring to support an alleged bombing plot in the United States pleaded innocent as he made his first appearance Monday in a U.S. court. Full Story

Nine people were injured, three of them seriously, in an explosion at a Berlin apartment block on Monday morning after the building”s gas supply had been tampered with, police said. Full Story

Three leading Basque separatists were formally accused Monday with advocating terrorism, Spanish prosecutors said. Full Story

A Yugoslav military investigation into two British policemen and two Canadians arrested earlier this month has been closed with accusations of terrorism not upheld, a defence lawyer said Monday. Full Story

Former Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) commander Johnny &#039Mad Dog&#039 Adair survived an assassination attempt in the early hours of this morning when a pipe bomb was thrown at his car. Full Story

Nine people were killed and 37 wounded when a bomb ripped through the last carriage of a night train in northern India, officials said. Full Story

The spectacular Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, an architectural triumph rising from the rusty site of a bankrupt shipyard, has been pictured around the world as a symbol of Spain&#039s transformation from the sick child of Europe to a vibrant and unified economic superstar. Full Story

As tensions mounted across the country, Indian troops implemented an intensive security operation ahead of Tuesday — the nation&#039s Independence Day. Full Story

A woman who was severely burned in a bomb blast died Monday, bringing the death toll from the rush-hour explosion to 12, a hospital official said. Full Story

Attackers lobbed a firebomb into the garden of a European Union official”s home, a diplomat said Saturday, in the latest attack against foreign officials and their property. Full Story

Tanzania and United States have renewed their pledge to work closely to ensure that those who bombed US embassies in East Africa two years ago are brought to justice. Full Story

Another Cape Town radio station received an anonymous call yesterday morning claiming that there would be another bomb blast soon. Full Story

Twelve people were injured, three of them seriously, when a bomb, planted under a fruit vendor&#039s cart, went off in the busy Rail Bazaar here on Sunday, damaging several shops and vehicles. Full Story

A car bomb has exploded in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio slightly injuring several people and causing extensive damage to the island&#039s Agency for Economic Development (ADEC), police said. Full Story

A car bomb exploded outside a police station on the capital&#039s outskirts Sunday, injuring a civilian, amid rural clashes between troops and guerrillas that left at least 17 dead over the weekend, police said. Full Story

Army troops rescued a 73-year-old Colombian newsman and four other people during a raid on a rebel hide-out on Sunday, officials said. Full Story

Twenty-two people died and 52 were wounded in a string of land mine explosions and gun battles in troubled Jammu and Kashmir state on Sunday, ahead of Indian independence day ceremonies next week. Full Story

Two Red Cross workers released by kidnappers in former Soviet Georgia arrived in Geneva to an emotional reunion with their families Sunday, more than a week after they were taken hostage near the border with Chechnya. Full Story

A car bomb exploded on Sunday in a working class neighborhood of the Colombian capital as an army convoy passed through the area, and RCN television said a soldier was wounded and several buildings were damaged. Full Story