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It had rained the night before, and the air was clear and fresh, the smell of winter on the wind, as President Clinton's motorcade wound among the gleaming white headstones of Arlington National Cemetery. The president's destination was an empty patch of earth. It had been chosen as the site of a memorial to the…
A bomb exploded at a police station in Northern Ireland in the early hours of Sunday morning, as tension mounted ahead of a controversial Protestant march. Full Story
A former British soldier has agreed to give evidence of alleged British military involvement in car bombings in Ireland which killed 33 people in a single day in 1974, the Sunday Business Post newspaper reported. Full Story
Fiji rebels and military signed an accord Sunday aimed at ending a seven-week crisis and paving the way for the release of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and 26 other political hostages. Full Story
A 79-year-old Italian was fighting for his life on Friday after a homemade pipe-bomb buried under a beach blew up in his face. Full Story
Bombs planted at the Indonesian attorney-general's office this week were a type used in military operations, national police chief Rusdihardjo was quoted on Friday as saying. Full Story
Canadian authorities arrested an Egyptian man with links to alleged terrorist kingpin Osama bin Laden and the Al Jihad movement, published reports said Friday. Full Story
The European convention on curbing terrorism was ratified by the State Duma at its plenary meeting on Friday. Three hundred and 25 MPs voted for the ratification, four voted against and four abstained from voting. The convention was signed by Russian in Budapest on May 7, 1999. Full Story
Some U.S. non-governmental Moslem organisations maintain close contacts with radical Islamic groups, Stanley Bedlington, U.S. expert on anti-terrorism struggle, told Itar-Tass. According to his information, those public organisations often raise money on the U.S. territory, to be given to foreign extremist organisations. Full Story
At least one person was killed and four seriously injured when a bomb exploded at a main bus stand in Lahore today, police and witnesses said. The bomb was planted under a minibus shortly before it was to depart for Gujrat, they said. The blast, apparently triggered by remote control, badly damaged the vehicle and…
There was another night of tension across Northern Ireland last night as loyalists took to the streets in support of Drumcree Orangemen. Full Story
The Yugoslav government is supporting Russia's efforts to fight terrorism in Chechnya and expressing its condolence to the families of those who killed in the republic, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Full Story
India has launched a global campaign against terrorism and will defeat any attempt by Pakistan to fuel unrest in Kashmir, Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said here on Thursday. Full Story
India and Nepal Thursday signed an agreement to set up a specialist joint unit to counter terrorism and share information about criminals operating along their border. Full Story
The U.N. Security Council, expressing “serious concern” about the war in Afghanistan, Thursday warned of its spread to other nations and about the use of Afghan territory to support international terrorism. Full Story
It was President Clinton who communicated a message of preparation as a key measure against terrorism in the United States. His theme was simple: by careful preparation, the U.S. sends a message that attacks will never accomplish the goals of their perpetrators. Full Story
A Toronto convenience store clerk was officially identified yesterday as a high-ranking Islamic terrorist who has helped operate an Egyptian militant group closely allied with Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden. Full Story
The target of a bungled Israeli spy mission told a Swiss court Tuesday he ran an Islamic center in Switzerland with links to Lebanon and Iran, but denied any links to anti-Israeli terrorism. Full Story
An influential group of British MPs accused the Foreign Office of complacency on Tuesday for not acting on fears that diplomats in Greece were terrorist targets. Full Story
With America's ability to respond to terrorist attack in question, the first step toward a comprehensive anti-terrorism training camp has been taken here in an abandoned highway tunnel. Full Story
A Sudanese official has briefed European Union ambassadors about steps Khartoum has taken to combat terrorism on national, regional and international levels, a newspaper reported Thursday. Full Story
The Solomon Islands were again left without international air links yesterday as locals fled to their home provinces amid continuing ethnic tension. Full Story
The quarrel almost turns into a shootout when the factions cannot agree whether to kill the 13 Christian preachers they are holding captive. Full Story
Press reports in Algeria say fourteen people have been killed in two separate attacks by suspected Islamic militants near Algiers earlier this week. Full Story
Security was tightened in Northern Ireland Thursday after British troops were deployed against rioters for the first time in two years. Full Story
A Syrian who exploded a grenade aboard a Jordanian airliner during a failed hijack on Wednesday had sought to divert the Amman-Damascus flight to Germany to seek asylum, the Amman government said on Thursday. Full Story
Heavily armed gunmen who raided two army weapons depots before killing two hostages surrendered on Thursday, Malaysian Defense Minister Najib Razak said. Full Story
The Fijian capital was plunged into darkness for about five hours on Thursday when landowners supporting nationalist rebels holding 27 hostages took over an electricity supply station. Full Story
Jordanian security agents aboard a national airliner flying to Damascus foiled a mid-air attempt to hijack the plane on Wednesday night, killing a Syrian hijacker and capturing three others, the head of the civil aviation authority said. Full Story
The debate over whether the United States faces imminent danger from cyberterrorist attacks took a new turn last week when the top defender of the nation's key information systems said “terrorism” may be too strong a word when describing potential cyberthreats. Full Story For complete coverage of this issue, please visit our InfoWar RealNews site…
Northern Ireland's police chief warned on Wednesday that extremist “loyalist” Protestants were planning to bomb and shoot his officers during protests over a banned parade. Full Story
China and Kyrgyzstan vowed here on Wednesday to beef up their joint efforts and cooperation on fighting separatism, terrorism and extremism, which are menacing peace and stability of the region and the world. Full Story
Chechen warlords are planning new acts of terrorism and sabotage in the towns of Urus-Martan and Argun, the press centre of the unified federal group said on Wednesday. Full Story
Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, linked by a nearly 30-year-old defense pact, will step up cooperation against terrorism and piracy in Southeast Asia, officials said Tuesday. Full Story
Members of a gang that raided two military armories fought back a heavy security assault Wednesday and held on to at least three hostages in the jungles of northern Malaysia. Full Story
British forces erected huge steel barriers in a major tightening of security at Northern Ireland's worst sectarian flashpoint Wednesday after a third night of riots about a banned Protestant parade. Full Story
If a terrorist launched a biological attack here today, thousands of lives could be at risk before health officials were even able to determine the nature of the problem and coordinate a response. Full Story
Egyptian parliament speaker Amhed Fathi Surur pressed Monday for greater cooperation among Muslim nations in the fight against terrorism. Full Story
Indonesia's bomb squad removed two explosives from the Attorney-General's office on Wednesday and took them away in an armored truck just one day after a home-made device exploded in the six-story building. Full Story
At least 13 people were injured, two seriously, when a bomb exploded in a Sri Lanka magistrate's court just outside the capital Colombo on Wednesday, police said. Full Story
A total of 13,744 people were killed in 2,597 acts of terrorism throughout the world last year, according to a report released Saturday by Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency. Full Story
Israel and India Sunday agreed to cooperate in fighting terrorism, and increase cooperation among scientists. The agreement will give Indian high-tech experts freer access to Israel. The agreement was reached at a meeting between India's visiting Foreign Minister Jaswant Sing and his Israeli counterpart David Levy. Full Story
A team of United States experts visited Sudan to examine and assess the security situation in the country prior to reopening the US embassy in Khartoum, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail was quoted as saying by a newspaper here. Full Story
Over the past six months, according to world press accounts, Osama bin Laden has suffered kidney failure, bone marrow disease, liver ailments, cancer and depression – when he wasn’t playing soccer, raising Arabian horses or sneaking into Albania. Full Story
An all-Fijian temporary government was sworn in Tuesday in defiance of hostage takers who are holding 27 members of the ousted, Indian-led government at gunpoint in parliament. Full Story
Striking out in five separate attacks, guerrilla bombers killed at least 37 people and wounded another 74 late Sunday in Russian-controlled towns in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Full Story
A counter-terrorism study commissioned by the National Park Service concludes that Washington's monuments, particularly those on the Mall, are vulnerable to terrorist attacks and that the federal police force charged with protecting them is understaffed and poorly funded. Full Story
Homeland defense has taken on a whole new meaning — and spurred a whole new debate. Full Story
The red, orange and blue cloud spreads ominously across the map on the wall-sized screen at the National War Gaming and Simulation Center. In the top right corner, numbers tick higher and higher, tallying the thousands of people being exposed to the deadly anthrax spores blowing east over ''Big City, USA.'' Full Story
Security agencies around the world are becoming increasingly worried about the role the internet is playing in modern terrorism. Full Story
An Air New Zealand Boeing 767 aircraft with around half the Australian soccer team on board turned back to Fiji on Friday because of a bomb threat. Full Story
Northern Irish police are probing an explosion early on Friday near the town of Newry close to the border with the Irish republic, officials said. Full Story
An armed man distraught over a marital dispute surrendered to police early on Friday after holding his 4-year-old son and a room-service waiter hostage in a room at a Walt Disney World hotel for more than nine hours, a resort official said. Full Story
Latin America is fertile soil for terrorism due to corruption, organized crime, the flow of drugs and the failure of democracy, such as in the “questionable elections” of Peru, a group of experts told a special panel of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. Full Story
A man distraught over a marital dispute held his 4-year-old son and a food service worker hostage in a room at a Walt Disney World hotel on Thursday, demanding to see his estranged wife, police said. Full Story
The self-confessed Nazi who killed three people in London bomb attacks last year feigned his mental illness after his arrest in order to receive a lighter sentence, a British court heard on Wednesday. Full Story
A key member of Japan's doomsday cult, dubbed a “murder machine” by the media for his crimes, including taking part in the deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway, was sentenced to death on Thursday. Full Story
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Thursday savaged as a tool of oppression new anti-terrorism legislation proposed by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milsosevic and stepped up Washington's calls for his ouster. Full Story
The struggle against terrorism is the struggle for the rights of peaceful civilians, for human rights, although military actions have always caused suffering to the civilians. This was the considered opinion reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ombudsman Oleg Mironov in the course of their working meeting in the Kremlin on Thursday. Full Story
The Liberian Government has announced that more than 200 UN peacekeeping troops still being held hostage by Sierra Leonean rebels are about to be released. Full Story