The term “rogue state,” generally applied by the State Department to nations on its list of countries that sponsor terrorism, has been stricken from the official lexicon. Full Story

A Philippine army offical has accused the world&#039s most-wanted international terrorist with providing millions of dollars to separatist Muslim guerillas for weapons, enabling them to stall peace talks with Manila while rearming. Armed forces vice-chief of staff Lieutenant-General Jose Calimlim said Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerillas recently received US$3 million (HK$23.3 million) from suspected…

Fiji&#039s top traditional ruler criticized the military on Tuesday for giving in to rebel leader George Speight too easily, and warned that the man holding 31 hostages could soon become prime minister. Full Story

Tribesmen in Yemen have released an Italian archaeologist and several of his Yemeni companions after four days as captives, Yemeni government sources said. Full Story

British Army bomb disposal experts made safe an explosive device found overnight near the official residence of Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson, officials said on Tuesday. Full Story

More than 100 people have been killed and a church razed in fresh communal clashes in Indonesia&#039s bloodied spice islands. Full Story

A bomb exploded Monday in a building used by Russian border troops and another bomb was found and defused, police said. Full Story

Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic on Monday expressed fears that Belgrade&#039s hardline leadership could destabilize his republic, a part of Yugoslavia, through terrorism. Full Story

Colombians have every reason to believe the worst about their largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. It has profited from the drug trade and killed civilians. The group often kidnaps the wealthy and kills those who will not pay. So most Colombians had little reason to doubt the government claim…

Brig. Gen. Stephen Saunders, a British military attache, was stuck in an Athens, Greece, traffic jam recently when two gunmen on a motorcycle shot him four times in his car. He died in a hospital three hours later. Full Story

Two bombs exploded within five minutes of each other in one of New Delhi&#039s busiest marketplaces, killing an 8-year-old girl and a man, in the fourth attack this year in the heart of the Indian capital. Full Story

Thank you for the opportunity to appear before your committee to discuss the National Commission on Terrorism Report, Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism. This is an important report and addresses very serious issues. We welcome the report, produced by a very distinguished commission, as a thoughtful contribution to our ongoing mission, which is…

A bomb exploded in a relatively peaceful region in eastern Sri Lanka on Sunday killing a local police chief and wounding two others, a police official said. Full Story

British bomb experts blew up four suspicious packages inside a car parked in front of Pristina&#039s main hotel Sunday. Full Story

The role of the U.S. military in responding to catastrophic terrorism is generating the most controversy among the 36 recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorism. Full Story

Egypt and Italy signed an agreement here Sunday to bolster their cooperation in fighting terrorism and organized crime, Egyptian Interior Minister Habib al-Adli said. Full Story

Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, stressed here Sunday that the threat of terrorism in Greece would not effect Athen&#039s plans to host the 20004 Games. Full Story

Senators wanted to know from the expert on international terrorism if any of the seven countries the United States accuses of exporting terror had improved its record. The answer: Cuba. Full Story

It was just a scrap of debris, a battered shard of brown plastic with a few markings on it—but to international investigators on the trail of a killer, it told a gruesome story. In the months after a terrorist bomb blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988—killing 259 people, including…

Georgia Guard unit has a team ready for mass destruction weapons. Full Story

Egyptian Muslim militants may end a two-year-old truce in their struggle against President Hosni Mubarak&#039s government, one of their leaders said Sunday. Full Story

Sydney Olympic officials are playing down television reports from the United States that Islamic terrorists are planning to target the Sydney Games in September. Full Story

This is the ninth edition of the annual Public Report of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. In this report, the Service provides a brief overview of the current global threat environment, with the associated implications for Canada, and outlines the programs developed to address threats to public safety and national security. Full Story

Federal law enforcement authorities are worried that Osama bin Laden has built a network of loyal Islamic extremists throughout the Pacific from his base in Afghanistan—a system of terror that could threaten the 2000 Olympics. Full Story

A powerful bomb exploded in a market in Algeria on Friday killing 13 people and injuring 42, French media reported. Full Story

A Lebanese military court began the trial on Friday of 29 alleged followers of Saudi-exile Osama bin Laden on charges of planning attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets in Jordan. Full Story

Was a New Hampshire woman exposed to bacteria being used for bioterrorism? That&#039s the question asked by medical personnel who treated her for what seemed to be brucellosis, an infection normally associated with direct contact with diseased animals or consumption of unpasteurized dairy products. Full Story

As he masterminds the largest policing project in Utah history, Craig Dearden has a new ideal: He hopes his troops safeguard the 2002 Olympic Winter Games with the same take-nothing-for-granted mindset as anti-terrorist officials in Israel. Full Story

When the threat of nuclear terrorism arises, volunteers in Nevada or Maryland gather to assess the threat, and, if necessary, disarm any radioactive or nuclear device. Full Story

On Sunday, June 4, the CBS News program “60 Minutes” showed a striking report as its lead segment: A man claiming to be Ahmad Behbahani, a “czar of Iranian state-sponsored terrorism,” was being held under armed guard in Turkey, where he was seeking to get his story out. Full Story

Rock County is receiving a $12,500 federal grant to help combat domestic terrorism. The funding comes from federal legislation passed after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to provide money to help cities and counties conduct emergency preparedness surveys and training, said Ed Gleason, administrator of the state Division of Emergency Management. Full Story

An international conference dealing with fight against terrorism in Central Asia ended here on Thursday. It was called on the US initiative proposed during US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright&#039s tour of the region in April. Full Story

The hostages come from seven countries. Malaysia has said the Philippines may have to consider paying a ransom to Muslim rebels who have been holding 21 hostages for nearly two months. Full Story

Five policemen were killed and another eight hurt in a fresh upsurge of violence in Nepal by Maoist rebels trying to overthrow the constitutional monarchy, police said on Friday. Full Story

Convicted international guerrilla “Carlos the Jackal&#039&#039 said in a statement from prison Thursday his band of feared revolutionaries had been given diplomatic passports by Syria during the years of some of its main actions. Full Story

A hearing on Terry Nichols&#039 motion to dismiss state murder charges against him for the Oklahoma City bombing has been continued until July 3 by a judge who declined to step down from the case. Full Story

Sunni Muslim extremists, including supporters of Saudi terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden, now appear to be using Canada as a base to launch attacks in the United States, the Canadian counterintelligence agency said on Thursday. Full Story

Ecuadorean protesters threw a bomb at a Citibank branch and several people were wounded by shotgun pellets after clashes with police Thursday on the first day of a 48-hour general strike. Full Story

FBI director Louis Freeh on Thursday offered the U.S. cooperation in the fight against ETA terrorism to Spanish Interior Minister Jaime Mayor Oreja. Full Story

Findings by the State Department and a congressional commission on terrorism asked Americans to suspend disbelief by portraying Greece as among the world&#039s most dangerous anti-American terrorist countries, (&#039&#039Foreign officials decry U.S. terrorism report,&#039&#039 News, June 6). Full Story

U.S. Under Secretary of State Thomas Pickering has said that the United States is much concerned and worried over the terrorism issue in South Asia and if these concerns are not addressed then Washington would be compelled to consider other sanctions, a newspaper here reported Thursday. Full Story

The FBI calls them “special interest terrorists” and you’ve heard of a few — animal rights and anti-abortion extremists, in particular. But there’s a relatively new subgroup that’s doing more and more damage: saboteurs opposed to genetic engineering of plants, produce and animals. A review by MSNBC.com found that 2000 is on track to be…

Laos said on Thursday it had arrested two men in connection with a spate of bombings in the capital Vientiane and other cities in recent months. Full Story

Uzbekistan&#039s interior ministry said Thursday its forces had cordoned off the U.S. embassy in the capital Tashkent after receiving an anonymous call saying there may be an explosive device in the vicinity. Full Story

The Philippine government is ready to meet a reported threat of the National Democratic Front (NDF) to conduct terrorist acts in the country, a senior official said Thursday. Full Story

Uzbek President Islam Karimov, on an official visit in Tajikistan, told a news conference in Dushanbe on Thursday that “the expansion of not only drugs and arms, but, above all, of religious extremism and terrorism from Afghanistan is a factor noone should overlook”. This factor poses serious threat to security in Central Asia, the Uzbek…

The Solomon Islands rebels who have controlled the capital Honiara since an attempted coup on 5 June say they will surrender the town but not their weapons. Full Story

The small town of Ole, headquarters of Isoko Local Government Area of Delta was yesterday turned into a theatre of death when irate youths suspected to be from Uzoro overran the town leaving no fewer than 11 persons dead and 32 injured. But the police however confirmed only one death. Full Story

Three policemen have been killed and another three injured in an attack by Maoist rebels in Nepal. The authorities say the rebels also suffered some casualties, but there are no details. Full Story

Argentine police rescued three hostages unharmed and arrested their two captors at a service station in a lightning strike Wednesday in South America&#039s second televised standoff drama this week. Full Story

The Secret Service has developed a &#039&#039smart card&#039&#039 that it hopes will alleviate security concerns after a government report revealed security breaches at two airports and 19 government buildings. Full Story

Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Madrid and Moscow were worried at the rising international terrorist activities. Full Story

THE Governor of Rio de Janeiro yesterday sacked the city&#039s police chief Colonel Sergio Cruz, saying that the force had made an “unforgiveable mistake” when a four-hour stand-off inside a bus ended in the death of a hostage and the alleged murder of the assailant by policemen. Full Story

With sanctions on Iraq crumbling, U.N. Security Council states are pondering how to punish Afghanistan&#039s Taleban for shielding terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden without hurting millions of dirt-poor Afghans. Full Story

At least two civilians were killed and seven, including air force personnel, were wounded in a suicide bomb blast in Sri Lanka&#039s capital Colombo on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said. Full Story

The Dutch EOD explosives unit on Tuesday morning defused a bomb placed outside an office building in the Hague, the Dutch news agency ANP reported on Tuesday. Full Story

FOR 25 YEARS, the small terrorist organization known as November 17 has sown death in Greece. The tiny ultra-left group has killed some 23 persons since 1975, starting with CIA Athens station chief Richard Welch. Full Story

A US-organized conference focused on countering the growing threat of terrorism in highly volatile Central Asia opened here Tuesday with representatives from 11 countries in attendance. Full Story

Greece, under pressure to step up its fight against terrorism, doubled its reward Tuesday for information on the elusive November 17 guerrilla group which killed a British diplomat on an Athens street last week. Full Story

Russia and the United States are setting up a working group to combat terrorism that will give special attention to Afghanistan. This was confirmed to Itar-Tass in the US Department of State. These plans of Moscow and Washington were announced at a news conference in Moscow last Friday by Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. Full…