Concerns about a possible terrorist threat in the Suez Canal have prompted a ban on U.S. Navy vessels using the waterway, a decision that will extend the USS Cole&#039s journey back to the United States. Full Story

The investigation of the suicide bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen is focused on Osama bin Laden, but no evidence has yet been found directly linking him to the terrorist attack, Defense Secretary William Cohen said Monday. Full Story

Two Royal Jordanian planes were victims of bomb hoaxes and forced to make emergency landings late Monday, Transport Minister Saleh Rsheidat said Tuesday. Full Story

European Commission President Romano Prodi condemned on Tuesday the car bomb attack that killed a Spanish supreme court judge in Madrid and urged the Spanish people not to surrender to “terror and extortion.” Full Story

A 30-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of having planting an explosive device under a counter at Kazachy market in Nevinnomyssk on October 6 was faced with charges of terrorism under an article of the Russian Federation&#039s Criminal Code. Full Story

Neighbors of the two Arab strangers who came quietly in June to the cinder- block apartment at 9, Jabal al Sakhra, high above Aden&#039s harbor, now say there were quite a few things that made them stand out, even among the disparate group of people who have settled in the cascade of ramshackle homes that…

The Yemeni investigation into the bombing of the USS Cole is focusing on four men believed to be the main plotters and continuing to explore possible links to Muslim militants in Yemen, sources close to the investigation said Tuesday. Full Story

More than 15 years after the death of 329 people in history&#039s deadliest act of aviation sabotage, two suspected Sikh religious extremists appeared in court on Monday to face murder charges. Full Story

Defense lawyers in the Lockerbie case said on Tuesday they were investigating possible links between the 1988 bombing, a Palestinian group and the Balkans. Full Story

Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar Tuesday led outraged Spaniards in mourning for three people killed in the bloodiest attack blamed on ETA since the Basque separatist group ended a truce last year. Full Story

The car bombing which killed a Spanish supreme court judge and two aides in Madrid Monday brought the number of slayings attributed to Basque separatist group ETA this year to 19. Full Story

Spain&#039s political and union leaders called a huge anti-terrorism rally here after a massive car bomb, attributed to the armed separatist group ETA, killed a supreme court judge and two others Monday, regional authorities said. Full Story

Authorities deployed army units and appealed for calm in central Sri Lanka today as ethnic tension mounted following a mob killing of 25 former child guerrillas. Full Story

Seventeen days after the most modern destroyer in the U.S. fleet was attacked during a brief refueling stop, the USS Cole was towed out of Aden&#039s harbor today by Yemeni tugboats, the blackened crater on its port side visible to residents on nearby hillsides who cheered its departure. Full Story

Youths shouting “Sieg Heil&#039&#039 and racist insults tried to force their way into a Turkish family&#039s house in northwestern Germany, sparking a fight in which one of the family members was slightly injured, police said Monday. Full Story

The American embassy in Jakarta, which suspended some services last week after receiving an unspecified threat, will remain closed to the public until at least Tuesday, a spokesman said. Full Story

A car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA killed a Spanish Supreme Court judge, his driver and his bodyguard Monday in the bloodiest attack since the guerrillas called off their cease-fire last year. Full Story

A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet that killed 329 people in the world&#039s deadliest act of civilian aviation sabotage, Canadian police said. Full Story

Yemen said Sunday that it had information on a second suspect involved in the blast on the USS Cole guided-missile destroyer, which killed 17 US sailors. Full Story

There was one small nugget of good news buried deep inside the tragedy of the bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden. And it relates, ironically, to what may have been the deeper tragedy of an intelligence failure. Full Story

The boat speeding toward the USS Cole caught Seaman Raymond Mooney&#039s eye, interrupting his reveries in the sweltering heat. But the small craft slowed as it approached the Navy destroyer, and Mooney relaxed when the two men on board waved to him. A garbage scow, he thought, coming to carry away trash. Full Story

A judge rejected a guilty plea of a defendant in the U.S. embassy bombings case after the man said he was innocent but wanted to plead guilty to avoid the humiliation of a lengthy trial. Wadih El Hage is one of 17 people charged in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania,…

Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan wants the military to hand over power to a national government that would implement Islamic rule in the country. Full Story

The bombing of a U.S. warship at the southern Yemeni port of Aden has dealt a fresh blow to tourism in the poor Arab state, still trying to recover from the effects of kidnappings and killings of Western visitors. Full Story

Two persons were killed and 31 injured, two of them seriously, in a blast in the general compartment of the Bhatinda-Rewari passenger train near here on Thursday. Full Story

With the accused staring out of a video screen and a U.S. judge conducting the hearing, prosecutors and lawyers questioned Canadian witnesses Thursday about a plot to bomb U.S. targets during millennium celebrations. Full Story

Defense Secretary William Cohen and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are urging American military commanders in the Middle East and elsewhere to use the USS Cole bombing as an impetus for strengthening anti-terrorist protections for their troops. Full Story

Israel braced on Friday for the danger of more bomb attacks after heightened warnings that militant Palestinian Islamic groups were planning to unleash suicide bombers into Israeli cities. Full Story

International monitors who made a second inspection of IRA arms as part of the Northern Irish peace process said on Thursday the weapons had not been used since they were last examined in June. Full Story

Sudan rebels accused the government on Thursday of bombing a camp housing thousands of war-displaced civilians, in violation of a special truce agreed by both sides in their 17-year-old civil war. Full Story

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U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly picked up indications of a possible terrorist attack in the Persian Gulf in the days and weeks before the Oct. 12 bombing of the USS Cole, but the warnings were not always relayed to military commanders in the area, according to members of Congress investigating the incident. Full Story

Once again, the US government may soon face one of the most difficult security questions of the modern age: whether – and how – to retaliate for an act of terrorism. Full Story

The main goals, which were set in Chechnya a year ago, have been achieved and the anti-terrorism operation there is nearing its final stage, President Vladimir Putin told the French newspaper “Le Figaro”, which published the interview with him on October 26. The situation there is becoming more stable, most of the Chechen bandits were…

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban militia believe that the United States may attack terrorism-suspect Osama bin Laden&#039s training camps in the country in retaliation for the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen. Full Story

Yemeni President Ali Aballah Saleh said Thursday an Egyptian national carried out the attack against the USS Cole that killed 17 servicemen off the coast of Aden. Full Story

Security was tightened Thursday around the hotel housing U.S. investigators looking into the attack on the USS Cole after a bomb threat was received, Yemeni officials said. Full Story

Loyalists of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are co-operating with Islamic militants to steer the month-old Palestinian uprising. Full Story

Angry that former Tamil rebel child soldiers took a Sinhalese officer hostage, thousands of villagers stormed a rehabilitation center Wednesday, killing 25 of the ex-fighters with stones, knives and swords. Full Story

An armed gang of ruling-party supporters shot and killed one pro-opposition farmer and wounded two others in the southern state of Chiapas Wednesday. Full Story

Burmese troops opened fire on an Indian land border post in the remote northeast, killing at least five Indian paramilitary soldiers and wounding six others, police said on Thursday. The Indian forces fired back on Wednesday night, but the casualties on Burma&#039s side were not known. Full Story

President Clinton is ready to sign a bill that would authorize huge payments to American victims of international terrorism. Under the new law, more than $213 million in compensatory damages would be paid to eight families that have won judgments against Iran over terrorist acts. Full Story

The threat of terrorism involving chemical and germ weapons has been highly exaggerated, and much of the federal government&#039s response to this small, but growing challenge is wasteful and ill-conceived, according to a new study of the administration&#039s domestic emergency preparedness programs by a Washington-based research center. Full Story

A young Palestinian cyclist blew himself up at an Israeli army post in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in the first suicide attack in almost a month of clashes between Israelis and Palestinians. Full Story

One of the 24 people held more than a month in a mass kidnapping by Colombian guerrillas has died, prompting the government and rebels to step up talks about freeing the others, Colombia&#039s peace commissioner said on Wednesday. Full Story

The guerrilla IRA gave Northern Ireland&#039s fragile peace drive a boost on Wednesday with a promise to give foreign observers a second look at hidden arms to prove they are no longer in use. Full Story

Potentially dangerous radioactive material has been stolen from a factory warehouse in Java, Indonesia&#039s Nuclear Energy Control Board said Tuesday. Full Story

U.S. officials on Wednesday reiterated that the level of terrorist threats against Americans “is as intense as the time surrounding the millennium,” and said the threats exist worldwide. Full Story

A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that a Department of Defense intelligence analyst quit his post days after the USS Cole was attacked because he believed his repeated warnings were ignored by Pentagon officials. Full Story

The U.S. National Security Agency issued a top-secret intelligence report on Oct. 12 warning of a possible attack in the Middle East, but it was not distributed until hours after the USS Cole was bombed in Yemen, The Washington Times reported on Wednesday. Full Story

Citing a “credible terrorist threat,” the State Department announced Tuesday that the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, will be closed to the public for the remainder of this week. Full Story

Hundreds of Islamic students protested on Wednesday in front of the US Embassy in Jakarta, which suspended some services after receiving what was described as &#039&#039a credible threat&#039&#039. Waving banners reading &#039&#039Kill Jews&#039&#039 and &#039&#039Israel you are a devil,&#039&#039 nearly 300 protestors chanted and denounced alleged US support for the Jewish state. Full Story

The Oct. 12 bombing of the USS Cole is but the latest in a long list of major suicide attacks over the last two decades. From Chechnya to Sri Lanka to (apparently) Yemen, terrorists are embracing suicide bombing as their most deadly and horrifying strategy. But while most of the world sees suicide terrorists as…

The number of terrorist threats against U.S. interests worldwide has increased significantly since the October 12 attack against the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, U.S. officials told CNN on Tuesday. Full Story

Three Malaysians held hostage by Muslim rebels for 45 days in the southern Philippines were rescued by government troops on Wednesday after a half-hour gunbattle, officials said. Full Story

One man was killed and dozens wounded when Egyptian police fired at angry masses who said security forces were trying to keep them from voting in a run-off election Tuesday, medical sources and Islamists said. Full Story

A traffic policeman was injured Tuesday when unidentified men hurled an explosive outside a state university in this central Philippine city ahead of a scheduled visit here by President Joseph Estrada. Full Story

Four Japanese Red Army terrorists who hijacked a plane to Pyongyang in 1970 denied speculation Tuesday they would be expelled from North Korea in order to secure the country&#039s rapprochement with the United States. Full Story

A Canadian man testified Monday that he made a telephone threat to blow up Israeli government buildings because an Egyptian refugee ordered him to do it and he feared for his safety. Full Story

A rocket-propelled grenade crashed into a block of Serb flats in the Kosovo provincial capital Pristina on Monday night but no one was injured, British peacekeepers said. Full Story