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

Rebel supporters started taking hostages Thursday in the first signs of retaliation against the violent arrest of a coup leader who may be charged with treason. Full Story

A man and his 15 year-old grandson were murdered by suspected Islamic militants in eastern Algeria this week. Full Story

A bomb was found in Moscow&#039s central Alexander Garden on Thursday morning. The garden has been cordoned off by guards. Full Story

President Thabo Mbeki has written a letter to two South Africans among a group of foreign tourists being held hostage in the Philippines and received a reply from them. Full Story

Muslim extremists on Thursday released a reporter for a German magazine who was held alone in the jungle for 25 days after he was abducted while covering a group of hostages in the southern Philippines. Full Story

An bomb planted in the name of the Basque separatist group ETA exploded overnight Wednesday, causing extensive damage to a bank branch in the Basque capital Vitoria. Full Story

The IRA bomber whose device marked the end of the Irish group&#039s first ceasefire will be released from jail Friday seven months early by royal dispensation. Full Story

The House on Tuesday approved a measure making it easier for terrorist victims to collect damages from nations that foster that terrorism. Full Story

Unidentified gunmen in the Somali capital on Wednesday kidnapped a British man and a French woman, both employees of the aid agency Action Against Hunger (ACF). Full Story

A German tourist kidnapped by Muslim militants is believed to have been shot dead by his captors. Full Story

Five Swiss tourists and a Greek captain were taken hostage by an armed man who commandeered their boat and demanded to be ferried t MoroccoFull Story, Conclusion: Gunman killed.

A senior member of Kosovo&#039s leading political party has been kidnapped by an unknown gang from in front of his house. Full Story

Fifteen suspects have been arrested in connection with three bomb explosions last week which left nine people dead in Quetta, a southwestern Pakistani city. Full Story

A bomb placed under the car of an elected official of the Popular Party (PP) was destroyed Wednesday in Durango, in the Basque region of northern Spain, according to police who attributed the planned attack to the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story

Bangladeshi police so far has arrested thirteen people who are suspected of being involved in bomb planting in Kotalipara apparently to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Full Story

Aviation Security personnel tightened security at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminals I and II after receiving four bomb threats from unidentified callers early yesterday morning that they plan to “explode in mid-air anytime today” a Boeing 747 jet. Full Story

Federal law enforcement officials defended “Carnivore” — the FBI&#039s controversial Internet wiretap system — through more than two acrimonious hours of grilling by Democratic and Republican lawmakers yesterday, painting a chilling picture of an Internet that would become a safe haven for crooks and terrorists without proper surveillance. Full Story

Rebels are demanding 10 million pesos ($225,000) for the release of two Filipino journalists abducted while covering a weeks-old hostage crisis in the southern Philippines. Full Story

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, head of Hamas, the militant Islamic movement, Tuesday called on the Palestinian people to launch a Jihad, or holy war, against Israel after the Camp David summit collapsed without an agreement. Full Story

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Tuesday he was fed up with right-wing attacks on foreigners and minorities, saying the assaults threatened domestic security and marred Germany&#039s image abroad. Full Story

A former member of Japan&#039s Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult was sentenced to death on Tuesday — the sixth member sentenced to hang for murders committed before and during the cult&#039s fatal gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. Full Story

A bomb exploded in the Afghan capital Kabul early on Tuesday, residents said, the sixth blast in two weeks to challenge the security of the ruling Taliban. Full Story

The efforts of the United States to get terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden amount to murder attempts, a senior leader of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban militia said Monday. Full Story

Spanish authorities are once more promising a tough response to guerrilla violence after the Basque separatist group ETA injured four people with a car bomb outside the home of a ruling party senator in the Basque region. Full Story

A three-day standoff inside a suburban home ended Monday with the death of a hostage and the suicide of the murder suspect who began the ordeal, police said. Full Story

A fire under investigation by federal authorities as possible eco-terrorism fits a pattern of similar acts around the country, an expert said. Full Story

The fourth bomb blast in two weeks has rocked the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least one man, residents said on Sunday. The bomb went off late on Saturday night beneath a small bookshop near several government buildings of the ruling Taleban movement, they said. Shopkeepers near the blast said the victim…

Attackers threw a petrol bomb at the wall of a mosque in the northern German town of Uetersen on Saturday, police said. No-one was injured in the firebombing, which took place in the early hours of the morning and caused minor damage to the wall of the mosque, a police spokesman said. Full Story

Australia will lay on the best security in the world for international dignitaries here for the Olympics in September, New South Wales state Police Commissioner Peter Ryan promised Monday. Full Story

A hand grenade exploded near a railway track in southwestern Pakistan, injuring three people, police said Monday. Full Story

An armed ex-convict wanted in the slaying of a store clerk and the wounding of a sheriff&#039s deputy released two of five hostages he was holding in a home near Orlando, police said on Sunday. Full Story

Five people linked to extremist groups in the Middle East, Europe and Asia have been deported from Australia in a nationwide security sweep ahead of the Sydney Olympics in September, a major newspaper reported on Monday. Full Story

British police said on Monday they had seized a large quantity of firearms and explosives in a raid on a house in the southwest English port city of Plymouth. Full Story

A sacked Chinese worker detonated a bag of explosives in his former employer&#039s office, killing himself and 10 others, state media said on Monday. Full Story

Michael Stone, one of Northern Ireland&#039s most ruthless guerrillas, was freed early from prison Monday under an accord intended to cement the British province&#039s uneasy peace process. Full Story

U.S. Federal agents arrested 17 alleged supporters of the Hizbollah guerrilla group in raids in North Carolina and Michigan on Friday, accusing them of trafficking in contraband cigarettes to raise funds for the anti-Israeli Islamist organization. Full Story

The German foreign ministry confirmed Thursday the “highly probable kidnapping” by Muslim separatists of a German national in Indian Kashmir. Full Story