Indonesian police in the province of Irian Jaya have begun rounding up separatist leaders ahead of important celebrations at which the authorities fear there may be renewed declarations of independence. Full Story

At least eight people were killed when government forces clashed with a group of masked men who abducted the wife of a businessman in the southern Philippines, police said on Wednesday. The men, wearing ski masks, barged into the house of Marilyn Tiu in Alicia, Zamboanga del Sur province, late on Tuesday and dragged her…

An explosive device wrecked a car in Hong Kong on Wednesday and injured the driver but police said they had yet to determine what type of device was used. Full Story

International terrorist Carlos the Jackal has gone back to court — as a witness in the trial of a German accused of taking part in an attack on an OPEC conference 25 years ago. Full Story

Judges at the Lockerbie trial on Wednesday dismissed a motion to acquit one of the two Libyans accused of the 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing. Full Story

A Cambodian court on Wednesday charged 38 people, including four U.S. citizens, with terrorism and forming an illegal armed group designed to overthrow the government, after a gun battle in Phnom Penh last week. Full Story

Many experts agree that the United States is likely to experience a terrorist attack using a weapon of mass destruction, probably within the next decade. But how prepared is America for a nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) attack on the homeland? Not very, according to a new study from the Cato Institute. Full Story

British police arrested a man on Tuesday in connection with a stash of home-made bombs found in the Oxford area late in August. Police said that a 35-year-old man had been arrested and taken to a police station in Banbury, central England, for questioning. Full Story

Armed Afghan bandits killed an Iranian officer and captured eight others in clashes in the northeastern Khorasan province, Iranian television reported Monday. Full Story

Separatists in Kashmir attacked Indian forces Tuesday in violence that left 12 people dead and shattered the first day of a Ramadan cease-fire the government had hoped would bring the insurgents to the peace table, Indian officials said. The victims, including two civilians, were killed in a gunbattle and in the explosion of a land…

Most Pakistanis do not want their country to cooperate with the United States in catching terrorism-suspect Osama bin Laden, who has been hiding in neighboring Afghanistan since 1994. Full Story

The FBI urged Pakistan to help trace the hijackers of Indian Airlines flight IC-814, commandeered on its way to India from Nepal, last December, reported the Friday Times, an independent Pakistani weekly. Full Story

Tension ran high at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan Monday after Israeli commandos shot dead five Palestinians, despite new steps to calm the Palestinian territories and revive peace-making. Full Story

India put a cease-fire into effect in Kashmir late Tuesday night, ordering its soldiers not to fire on separatist guerrillas except as a last resort if attacked. Full Story

A child and a woman were killed and 24 wounded in three separate bomb blasts in Pakistan&#039s populous province of Punjab on Monday, police said. Full Story

British troops who killed 13 Irish nationalists in 1972 on “Bloody Sunday,&#039&#039 one of the most contentious episodes in Northern Ireland&#039s history, shot at what they believed were armed targets — but innocent people were killed, a lawyer for the soldiers said on Monday.Full Story

Gunmen killed a deputy commander of a military district in Chechnya and his former driver during a weekend attack in which a female soldier was kidnapped, a senior official said on Monday. Full Story

Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed alarm on Monday about a roadside bomb set off inside Israeli-controlled territory near the Lebanese frontier or “blue line&#039&#039 demarcated by the United Nations. Full Story

A bomb blast in a park in an Istanbul slum injured two Turks, reports said, with another person treated for shock. Full Story

Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinians in the West Bank, dealing a new blow to prospects of ending two months of violence at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Full Story

Emergence of Islamic fundamentalism has given a totally new twist to the security scenario in Assam with a large section of disgruntled Muslim population being lured by over a dozen militant groups, says Chief Minister P K Mahanta. Full Story

Lebanese Hizbollah fighters killed an Israeli soldier with a powerful roadside bomb on Sunday in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms border area, triggering Israeli artillery fire and air strikes. The soldier was killed and three others wounded by the explosion in the Shebaa Farms, a mountainous region on the Lebanese-Syrian borders occupied by Israel since the…

The Colombian army says eleven members of the rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, have been killed in clashes with its troops. Full Story

Police launched a campaign on Monday warning the public of Christmas terror attacks by dissident Irish republicans, urging people to watch out for unattended bags and suspicious vehicle buyers. The Metropolitan Police placed newspaper adverts including one with the message: “Innocent bag or terrorist bomb? If you suspect it, report it.” Full Story

About 30 New People&#039s Army guerrillas ambushed a convoy of vehicles owned by a logging company in Surigao del Sur last Saturday, wounding four militiamen escorting the firm?s employees, the military said. Full Story

Four activists of People&#039s War Group (PWG) were killed by suspected CPI-ML (Liberation) men at Salarpur village in Bihar&#039s Jehanabad district last night, police said on Monday. Full Story

Lawyers for American terrorism victims accused the Clinton administration Wednesday of trying to limit damages the victims can collect under a law that lets the government pay part of court judgments they&#039ve won against Iran. Full Story

Britain and Ireland have asked the United States to place the Real IRA on a list of designated terrorist groups. Full Story

The two car bombs that blew up in Riyadh during the last week were similar and basic devices, according to Saudi authorities. Full Story

Hoopla thick as holiday traffic surrounds the new $1 billion international terminal at San Francisco International Airport. But hidden behind the towering architecture, cutting-edge art and high-end seismic reinforcements are $150 million in 3-D imaging equipment, alarms and bomb detection devices to prevent terrorist attacks like the one that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City…

Fresh fighting in the West Bank Monday after Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinians dealt a new blow to prospects of ending two months of violence at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Full Story

Heavily armed gunmen kidnapped the manager of Korean car and truck manufacturer Hyundai late Saturday, as he rested up at a weekend country retreat outside the capital Bogota, authorities said. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban stopped several foreign aid workers from leaving Kabul on Sunday, saying they had not obtained necessary clearance from the government. Full Story

At least two people were killed in a car bombing Wednesday in the northern Israeli town of Hadera, the acting mayor said. Full Story

The attack on the USS Cole last month appears to have been orchestrated by terrorists with links to the truck bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, Clinton administration officials said yesterday. Full Story

A bomb exploded in the heart of the beleaguered Afghan capital early Wednesday, said members of the ruling Taliban militia. Full Story

The Israeli army said four Palestinians it killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday were activists in a militia of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat&#039s Fatah faction. Full Story

One person died from injuries sustained in a bomb attack early on Wednesday at the residence of Yugoslavia&#039s chief representative in Kosovo, the U.N.-led administration of the province said. Full Story

The governor of a Thai provincial prison and six other prison officers were being held hostage by a group of eight armed Myanmar prisoners on Wednesday, police said. Full Story

Five people were killed and six wounded when suspected separatist guerrillas in Kashmir stopped a truck convoy, in the first major attack in the troubled region since New Delhi announced a cease-fire for the coming holy month of Ramadan. Full Story

The German government said on Tuesday neo-Nazi activity was on the increase, with more hate crimes ranging from displaying Nazi symbols to vandalism, beatings and murder. Full Story

Indonesia said on Wednesday it would impose a state of emergency in the restive province of Aceh unless separatists agreed to resume peace talks with the government. Full Story

Suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA fired grenades at a Spanish Civil Guard police barracks in the Basque region on Tuesday, slightly wounding one police officer, officials said. Full Story

In a portrait emerging from Yemen, the plotters who attacked a U.S. warship in the port of Aden came from across the region, inspired by hatred, hardened by war and determined enough to try again and again until they were able to strike a mighty target. Full Story

At least 10 people were killed and dozens of others injured when a Sudanese air force plane bombed a market in the rebel-held southern town of Yei on Monday, an aid organization said. Full Story

A hit-and-run grenade attack on a police station in the northern town of Irun slightly injured a policeman Tuesday, a police spokesman said. Officials blamed the attack on Basque separatists. Full Story

A deep rift in deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif&#039s Pakistan Muslim League turned nasty yesterday when rebel members took over the party headquarters to demand Sharif&#039s removal as party boss. Full Story

A pro-Jakarta East Timorese mob attacked Australia&#039s ambassador to Indonesia on Tuesday and witnesses said police stood by and did nothing. Full Story

Egypt recalled its ambassador from Israel on Tuesday in protest at “Israeli aggression&#039&#039 against the Palestinians, dealing the Jewish state its biggest diplomatic blow since the start of a Palestinian uprising eight weeks ago. Full Story

The prosecution in the Lockerbie bomb trial ended its case on Monday with its last witness, a U.S. reporter, being lectured after demanding a chance to “tell the truth.&#039&#039 Full Story

Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles into Palestinian security and police buildings in Gaza City on Monday but did not hit Palestinian President Yasser Arafat&#039s office, witnesses said. Full Story

Israeli military forces fired missiles on the Gaza City headquarters of Fatah, the political movement of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, in response to the bombing earlier of a school bus carrying Jewish settlers.

Authorities have detained some alleged accomplices, all Yemenis, in the Oct. 12 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, a Yemeni security official said today. Full Story

Latifullah, a 14-year-old with hard, blue eyes, had just arrived at Shamshatoo refugee camp after traveling for 10 days by foot and mule from Takhar province in northeastern Afghanistan. Full Story

Investigators have found remains of at least one person believed to have been on the small boat used to bomb the USS Cole, two U.S. administration officials told CNN on Friday. Full Story

The RCMP were the big losers yesterday after an Egyptian refugee was acquitted of terrorism charges. A Montreal judge said he puts more faith in refugee Tarek Khafagy&#039s story than that of the Mounties&#039 star witness against him. Full Story

Saddam Hussein has been illegally stockpiling an arsenal of deadly chemical and biological weapons in schools and hospitals, Western intelligence reports say. Full Story

Police have arrested two men in Birmingham in connection with international terrorism, a police spokeswoman said Saturday. Full Story

Marxist rebels, who suspended peace talks with the government earlier this week, killed up to 15 civilians in the latest round of political bloodletting across Colombia, authorities said Saturday. Full Story

A bomb designed to spray metal shards through a busy market in a Russian town was discovered and defused Sunday just hours before it was timed to go off, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported. Full Story