On the second anniversary of the bombings of two American embassies in East Africa that killed 226 people, the State Department announced plans to entice members of the U.N. Security Council to tighten the screws on Usama Bin Laden, the man alleged to have plotted the attacks. Full Story

A fourth body has been found amid the wreckage of a car which exploded in Bilbao, northern Spain, killing suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA, police investigating the blast said Tuesday. Full Story

A car bomb exploded Monday in the northern Basque city of Bilbao, killing at least three suspected separatists who appeared to be transporting the explosive, news reports said. Full Story

Two years after the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed more than 260 people, and despite stepped up security measures, the number of threats against U.S. interests worldwide are at an all time high, officials say. Full Story

U.S. security agencies are bracing for a new wave of threats from terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, with today being the anniversary of his U.S. embassy bombings – and the Olympic Games just a month away. Full Story

The United States is joining forces with Russia in an effort to impose additional U.N. Security Council sanctions against Afghanistan for refusing to hand over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Two years after the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, the case that formed the cornerstone of an unprecedented legal attack on terrorism worldwide is still creeping toward a trial. Full Story

A gunfight that broke out after a group of armed men burst into the office of a right-wing organisation in central Tokyo on Monday left two people dead and six wounded, several of them seriously. Full Story

Gunmen shot and killed 12 people Saturday, including seven Afghans working for the United Nations&#039 mine clearing agency, in western Afghanistan, an aid worker said today. Full Story

The United States marked the anniversary of the bombing of its embassy in Kenya on Monday by providing a grant to replace a bank destroyed by the blast two years ago. Full Story

At least 16 people were killed in a leftist rebel attack on a police outpost and at a guerrilla roadblock, officials and local media reported on Sunday. Full Story

A bomb disposal team converged on the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday — just days after a blast killed two people in the Indonesian capital amid heightened political tensions. Full Story

An Italian secret service general said on Friday that the CIA gave its tacit approval to a series of bombings in Italy in the 1970s to sow instability and keep communists from taking power. Full Story

Algeria&#039s armed Islamic rebels shot dead six civilians and wounded two others in a raid near Blida, 30 miles south of Algiers, medical sources said Friday. Full Story

A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up at a security check point in Sri Lanka”s northern Jaffna town, the government said on Friday. The bomber detonated his explosives when he was stopped by security forces on Thursday, the government said in a statement. Full Story

British officials in Belgrade were still waiting early Friday to be officially notified by the Yugoslav authorities about the arrest of two Britons by the Yugoslav army in Montenegro earlier this week. Full Story

India will support a comprehensive convention to counter international terrorism at the forthcoming United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said Thursday. Full Story

A virtually unknown Indonesian group claiming links to separatist Muslim rebels in the Philippines has owned up to last Tuesday&#039s bomb attack on Ambassador to Jakarta Leonides Caday. Full Story

Fiji&#039s military said on Friday detained rebel leader George Speight was set to make a court appearance this weekend as soldiers picked up more of his remaining supporters. Full Story

Southern India&#039s top movie star Rajkumar on Friday pleaded with authorities to grant amnesty to the feared jungle bandit holding him hostage. Full Story

Fifty-thousand people marched Wednesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of one of postwar Europe”s worst massacres, a still-mysterious bombing that killed 85 people at the Bologna train station. Full Story

Two years after U.S. embassies were blown up in East Africa, the United States still is frustrated in its efforts to pry Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind, out of his refuge in Afghanistan. Full Story

The University of Alabama ranks among the first 21 educational institutions to voluntarily participate in a federal program that monitors international students to help deter possible terrorism acts. Full Story

Nine people were injured in a hand grenade blast in the Cambodian capital, police said Wednesday. Full Story

Seven US nationals are among the 165 Shell oil company workers kidnapped by armed youths and held on two rigs in south-east Nigeria, the US State Department said today. Full Story

Indonesian police ordered checks on Filipinos in Jakarta yesterday as they struggled to determine who planted a deadly bomb at the Philippine ambassador&#039s residence on Tuesday. The blast killed two people and injured 20, including the ambassador. Full Story

Kashmir police have recovered the body of a German tourist abducted by Muslim militants last month, a top police source told AFP today. Full Story

Indigenous Caiapo Indians in the remote northeastern Brazilian state of Para released two hostages on Wednesday from a group of 18 fishermen they seized six days ago demanding a demarcation of their reservation border. Full Story

When Brent Hannon got back from Indonesia last September, he had quite a tale to tell his friends. To begin with, there was the trek across bucolic Lombok Island and the pitching of tents in the shadow of mystical Mount Rinjani. Hannon, a 41-year old freelance journalist, shared dinner with fellow travelers and then drifted…

Royal Dutch/Shell (RD.AS)(SHEL.L) said it had reached agreement with local communities to free 165 hostages held on two of its oil rigs in southern Nigeria. Full Story

Outside the Sunnah Al-Nabawiah Mosque, a lanky young immigrant named Aji recalls the violence and terror in his native Sri Lanka. His father was abducted by Tamil extremists, and Aji himself narrowly escaped being killed by a terrorist bomb at the Central Bank that sent body parts flying into the street. Aji came to Montreal…

Speaker at ISU conference says even small towns can face threat of attack. A disintegrating social fabric may be to blame for escalating terrorism, an expert in the field believes. Full Story

Two separate bomb blasts early on Wednesday destroyed the car of a broker in Nicosia and damaged offices of a brokerage firm, police said. Nobody was injured in the attacks, which followed recent sharp declines on the island”s stock market, leading some small investors to blame brokers for what they see as market plays at…

Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Tuesday said he would try and allay New Delhi&#039s concerns over Nepalese soil being used for cross-border terrorism in India. Full Story

Three Kosovar Albanians were handed jail sentences by a Yugoslav military court Tuesday for “terrorism and criminal association with a view to carrying out hostile acts,” a Serbian newspaper, Politika, reported. Full Story

A car bomb killed the deputy head of the pro-Moscow civilian administration in the Chechen town of Urus-Martan, Russian military officials said Wednesday, the Interfax news agency reported. Full Story

India vowed Wednesday to protect the fragile ceasefire process in Indian Kashmir, after a series of overnight massacres by Muslim militants claimed 93 lives, mostly Hindu civilians. Full Story

Armed militants in southeastern Nigeria were holding 165 people hostage at two oil installations operated by Royal Dutch/Shell, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. Full Story

Alarmed at an upsurge of extreme rightwing violence, German political leaders called Monday for decisive action against the terror tactics of neo-Nazis and skinheads against foreigners. Full Story

Three people were killed and dozens wounded when unidentified attackers bombed a town fiesta and a commercial center in the southern Philippines, police said Tuesday. Full Story

Yemeni authorities have arrested a gang of seven people on suspicion of involvement in kidnapping of foreigners, the official SABA news agency reported Monday night. Full Story

Marxist rebels killed at least 13 policemen and four civilians, burning and beheading some, as they attacked a Colombian mountain town with homemade missiles and car bombs over the weekend, police said Monday. Full Story

The State Department expressed outrage Monday over warnings by the militant Islamic group Hezbollah that American envoys would be sent home in coffins if the United States were to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Full Story

A bill that would use the frozen assets of nations that allegedly support terrorism to compensate their U.S. victims has started moving through Congress, but the Clinton administration warns that it could cost U.S. taxpayers $400 million or more. Full Story

he Indian army has suspended all operations against the main Kashmiri Islamic rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen, the military&#039s chief in Kashmir said Saturday. Full Story

Seven Yemenis, all but one of them still at large, went on trial Saturday for the kidnapping of four Belgian tourists last July, a judicial source said. Full Story

A car bomb exploded Saturday in the Basque town of Billabona, northern Spain, but caused no injuries, the Basque interior ministry said. Full Story

The German government warned today that a shrapnel-bomb attack that wounded nine immigrants from the former Soviet Union, including six Jews, on Thursday could reflect a dangerous escalation in terror tactics by xenophobic extremists. Full Story

Statement of Norman J. Rabkin, Director National Security Preparedness Issues before the Suybcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. PDF format

Train 100 that was supposed to to leave Moscow for Rostov, southern Russia, on Friday evening was delayed at the Kazanskiy railway station. Full Story Russia appears to be suffering from a rash of copycat hoaxes.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Lockerbie bombing trial agreed on Thursday to skip testimony from more than 60 witnesses and adjourned the proceedings until Aug. 22, a court official said. Full Story

A man with a handgun walked onto a National Airlines jet full of passengers late Thursday night and took the pilot and co-pilot hostage at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Full Story, Conclussion.

Suspected Muslim militants threw a grenade at a security patrol in the capital of Indian Kashmir, Srinagar, on Friday, killing two people and injuring seven. Full Story

Missiles, machine guns and explosives seized in Croatia are believed to have been destined for republican guerrillas opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process. Full Story

Scores of Northern Ireland&#039s most hardened guerrillas walked free on Friday when Britain virtually emptied the notorious Maze prison to bolster the peace process in the province. Full Story

Sri Lanka has formally requested Britain to ban the separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas who are operating their “international secretariat” in London. Full Story

Two of the children wounded in Wednesday&#039s deadly bomb blast in a park in a town in western Saudi Arabia have died, bringing the death toll to three, a newspaper reported Friday. Full Story

Investigators said Friday that the victims of a bomb attack at a busy train station were recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union, many of them Jewish, and that the motive could have been anti-Semitism or anti-foreigner sentiment. Full Story, Earlier Report.

Eight members of a group in North Carolina that allegedly funneled money and supplies to the Islamist organization Hizbollah were ordered held without bond on Wednesday as they battle charges of cigarette smuggling, money laundering and illegal immigration. Full Story

The Internet&#039s reliance on a few key nodes makes it especially vulnerable to organized attacks by hackers and terrorists, according to a new study on the structure of the worldwide network. Full Story