A man who had been in a coma for 13 years after being seriously injured in one of Northern Ireland&#039s worst guerrilla bombings died Thursday, his wife said. Full Story

A federal court judge granted Thursday condemned Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh&#039s request to wave his right to additional appeals and expedite his execution. Full Story

Uncertainty plagued the quest for peace in the Middle East on Thursday after explosions in Gaza and Tel Aviv left at least two Israeli soldiers dead, according to Israeli military sources, and at least 15 other people injured. Full Story

A bomb blast Thursday in the Spanish seaside town of San Sebastian is considered by police to be an apparent message by the Basque separatist group ETA to mark the end of the year. Full Story

A Roman Catholic priest on his way to buy Christmas presents was shot and killed Thursday by a suspected Muslim rebel on this southern Philippine island, military officials said. Full Story

A group identifying itself as the Saladin Brigades claimed responsibility on Thursday for a bomb attack on a bus in Tel Aviv in which at least 14 people were hurt. Full Story

Oklahoma City bombing survivors and victims&#039 relatives hoped to confront Timothy McVeigh at a hearing where the convicted bomber planned to ask a federal judge to stop his appeals process and set an execution date before summer. Full Story

A bomb exploded on a bus in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Thursday, dealing another blow to peace hopes after a planned Israeli-Palestinian summit in Egypt was canceled. Full Story

A number of mysterious bomb blasts have unsettled this usually somnolent country, rocking a public monument, a luxury hotel, an outdoor market and the international airport. Rebels loyal to the deposed monarchy have stepped up their activities, crossing the border from Thailand to attack a customs post. And Hmong tribesmen, who once fought in a…

Taliban leader Mulla Mohammad Omar on Wednesday said “infidel powers” like the United States and Russia are trying to destroy Islam, as the nation celebrated Eid al-Fitr under the shadow of UN sanctions. Full Story

Bloodshed blamed on Muslim fundamentalists reached new heights during the holy month of Ramadan in Algeria, where more than 300 people died in a severe setback to the president&#039s reconciliation policy. Full Story

A firebomb exploded outside a bank in southern Athens early Wednesday, causing damage but no injuries, police said. Full Story

The Japanese doomsday cult Aum Supreme Truth, which launched a deadly nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway train nearly six years ago, has recently been making its presence known on the Internet — which a U.S. expert on terrorism says is not unusual for terrorist or religious cult groups. Full Story

Indonesian security tightly guarded houses of worship Tuesday on the eve of Muslims to celebrate the end of Ramadan, two days after a series of explosions across the country during Christmas Eve rites that left at least 15 people dead. Full Story

Police sharpshooters on Tuesday killed an Islamic guerrilla and arrested another rebel and his wife for a daring attack on a military camp in the historic Red Fort last week, a top police officer said. Full Story

Israel has received information that three soldiers captured by Lebanese guerrillas in October are alive, Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said Tuesday. Full Story

Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes said Pakistan must stop supporting guerrillas in Indian territory to show it is serious about peace moves in the troubled Himalayan region of Kashmir. Full Story

A car bomb that exploded today near army headquarters here killed at least eight people, including four Indian soldiers. A militant Kashmiri rebel organization, the Jamiat ul-Mujaheddin group, acknowledged responsibility. Full Story

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has been marked by an unprecedented number of peace moves — from the truces in Sri Lanka and Kashmir to the Indonesian president&#039s visit to troubled Aceh — yet it has still ended in bloodshed. Full Story

Police and Indonesia&#039s leading Islamic group, fearing revenge attacks after a wave of Christmas Eve church bombings that killed at least 13 people, Tuesday urged Muslims to tone down end-of-fasting celebrations. Full Story

One of the United States&#039 foremost anti-terrorist experts blasted U.S. anti-terrorism policies as a “failure” and said the arrest of alleged terrorist Ahmed Ressam near Seattle a year ago was “pure luck.” Full Story

Several successive explosions rocked Pakistan Monday, injuring at least 60 people, mostly shoppers busy buying gifts for the Muslim religious festival of Eid later this week. Full Story

At least ten people have died after bombs exploded in churches and mosques in Jakarta and five other Indonesian towns on Christmas eve, according to police and emergency workers. Full Story

President Clinton&#039s top terrorism adviser says the deadly bombing of the USS Cole appears to have originated in a plan by Osama bin Laden to hit U.S. targets worldwide in the first days of the millennium, causing hundreds of casualties. Full Story

Islamic militants headed by Osama bin Laden appear to have planned a spectacular three-country attack last January that would have included multiple bombings in Jordan and the United States and the sinking of a U.S. destroyer in Yemen, the Clinton administration&#039s chief of counterterrorism says. Full Story

When four men go on trial in 12 days in New York on charges they conspired with Osama bin Laden in the deadly bombings of two United States Embassies in East Africa in 1998, one of the government&#039s central witnesses could be a former American Army sergeant who pleaded guilty in October to assisting in…

A Palestinian harnessed with explosives walked into a roadside restaurant in a remote Jewish settlement on Friday and blew himself up, also killing an Israeli and wounding three others, police said, another spasm of violence in a three-month uprising that has now taken 342 lives. Full Story

Security has been stepped up at NATO and U.S. Navy bases in Naples as a precaution against possible terrorist attacks, military officials said Thursday. Full Story

Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos called on the government Thursday to “dismantle&#039&#039 paramilitary groups in Chiapas state and punish those he called the masterminds of a 1997 massacre. Full Story

Gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying a hit list entered a village in southwestern Colombia on Thursday and killed 10 people. Full Story

Government troops backed by aircraft launched a military offensive against the Tamil Tiger rebels at dawn Friday, despite a unilateral cease-fire offered by the rebels. Full Story

In a sign of Christmas good will, Colombia&#039s leftist rebel National Liberation Army (ELN) said on Thursday it would in the next few days free 45 army and police officers being held hostage. Full Story

The United States was thought to be preparing anattack on positions in Afghanistan belonging to followers of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden in response to the bombing of a U.S. destroyer in Yemen last October, according to the Thursday edition of the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper. Full Story

Security specialists were uncertain Thursday if last week&#039s discovery of a communiqué from a Greek terrorist group should be taken as an implied threat against the 2004 Summer Olympic games scheduled for Athens. Full Story

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Ireland to pay compensation to three men it said were wrongly jailed on suspicion of murder and membership of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Full Story

U.S. prosecutors have indicted five more people suspected of involvement in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Full Story

More than 100,000 Spaniards marched in protest and mourning on Thursday for a Barcelona police officer believed to be the 23rd person killed this year by the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story

Two Britons kidnapped while trekking across a lawless, jungle frontier have been freed after nine months in captivity. Full Story

One of the men believed to have carried out the suicide bombing on the USS Cole in Yemen has been identified. Meanwhile, five more people have been indicted on charges stemming from two 1998 African embassy bombings. Full Story

Gunmen blasted a United Nations police station with rifle fire and hand grenades overnight in northern Kosovo, an area populated mostly by local Serbs, a U.N. police spokesman said Wednesday. Full Story

Italian police are studying a letter from an anarchist group claiming responsibility for planting a bomb on Milan&#039s cathedral this week and said there may be a connection with Spain, media reported on Wednesday. Full Story

The two men charged with the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet that killed 329 people over the Atlantic Ocean were scheduled to appear before a Canadian judge on Thursday in a bid to be released on bail. Full Story

The United States is tightening security in the Middle East and Western Europe because of the possibility of terrorist attacks in the final days of the Muslim holy month Ramadan. Full Story

Five more people were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on charges involving the August 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Full Story

Convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols lost his bid for a new trial after a federal appeals court ruled the FBI did not withhold crucial evidence. The court also rejected Nichols’ request to look at more of the 43,000 “lead sheets” developed by the government during the investigation, saying Nichols failed to prove they…

A police officer has been shot dead in central Barcelona in an attack blamed on the Basque separatist organisation, ETA. Full Story

Battles between riot police and demonstrators raged throughout Tuesday night on the streets of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Full Story

The U.N. Security Council has imposed new sanctions on Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers until they surrender Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and close &#039&#039terrorist&#039&#039 camps, dividing the United Nations on the impact of embargoes on the impoverished nation. Full Story

Four members of parliament were among 73 people arrested in Central African Republic&#039s capital after security forces clashed with protesters staging a banned political rally, police sources said Wednesday. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban movement said Wednesday it was shutting down a U.N. special mission to the country and would boycott U.S. goods to retaliate against new sanctions ordered by the U.N. Security Council. Full Story

Russia said Tuesday its forces had killed 15 Chechen fighters in an effort to make good on promises by top military brass to crush the region&#039s separatist rebels this winter. Full Story

Gunmen shot and killed the mayor of an Andean town in central Colombia on Monday in the nineteenth murder of a local leader in this war-torn South American nation this year, authorities said. Full Story

The United Nations and many international aid agencies have pulled all their foreign staff out of Afghanistan ahead of a Security Council vote expected to tighten sanctions against the Taleban regime. Full Story

The main threats to U.S. territory over the coming 15 years will likely come from terrorists and other adversaries using low-tech tools of war, according to a sweeping new study by intelligence analysts and non-goverment experts. Full Story

The risk of a missile attack against the United States involving chemical, biological or nuclear warheads is greater today than during most of the Cold War and will continue to grow in the next 15 years, according to a new global threat assessment by the National Intelligence Council. Full Story

Gunmen wounded Moscow&#039s deputy mayor and killed his driver Tuesday when they opened fire on his car in an attack blamed on the criminal underworld. Full Story

The United States and Russia prepared on Tuesday to put to a vote in the U.N. Security Council measures that would impose an arms embargo and other sanctions on Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers until they surrender Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden. Full Story

At least four Turkish prisoners and two paramilitary police died in clashes Tuesday after security forces stormed more than 20 jails to end a hunger strike by mainly leftist inmates, officials said. Full Story

The killings of nearly 50 people over the weekend have brought to nearly 200 the death toll in the holy month of Ramadan and reminded Algerians that an end to a nine-year-old Islamist insurgency is nowhere in sight. Full Story

A top Palestinian police officer was killed Monday when an unexploded shell fired by Israeli troops exploded as he was trying to defuse it, police said. Full Story