Unidentified assailants opened fire on a market in south Mogadishu overnight killing at least nine people and wounding 16 others, an Islamic court official said Tuesday. Full Story

‘- Seven police officers were killed on Monday when unidentified armed men ambushed a patrol in Mexico&#039s troubled southern state of Chiapas, where Zapatista Indian rebels took up arms six years ago, an official said. Full Story

Greece will propose to Britain a European Union initiative to combat terrorism, saying last week&#039s shooting of a British military attache in Athens made a case for joint action. Full Story

The political part of the Russian-Spanish top-level dialogue in Madrid will focus on problems of international security, anti-missile defense, the European Union and the struggle against terrorism. Full Story

Brazilian police on Monday fatally shot a gunman who had been holding six hostages on a bus in Rio de Janeiro, but one of the hostages also died in the final shootout shown live on national television. Full Story

US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Monday called on her Greek counterpart to press Athens to take strong action against terrorism following the murder of a British military attache there last week. Full Story

Tensions rose in Fiji on Monday after soldiers fired shots at a car carrying coup leader George Speight and his supporters accused the military of trying to assassinate him. Full Story

The Solomon Islands police chief made an urgent plea for Australian help yesterday after an armed raiding party from Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea, seized control of an island in the coup-stricken country. Full Story

Suspected members of a Maoist rebel group trying to topple Nepal&#039s constitutional monarchy have kidnapped a civil servant for the first time. Full Story

Three powerful bomb explosions in different parts of the city rocked the provincial capital late on Sunday night. The blasts occurred with brief intervals. Two bombs were planted near the police chief&#039s residence and a police station, while the third was aimed at a bank. Full Story

Christian leaders are blaming the ruling Hindu nationalists and the extremist organisations that back them for the bombing of four churches in southern India last week, just as they blame them for two years of anti-Christian violence since the Government was formed. Full Story

Senior agency officials had been feeling pretty good since the millennium celebrations came and went without a single terrorist bomb going off. They claim the CTC played “an important role” in taking down a terrorist cell in Jordan linked to terrorist financier Osama bin Laden in early December that was planning anywhere from five to…

The Olympic Games have long been a favorite target of terrorists, from Munich in 1972 to Atlanta in 1996. And Thursday&#039s assassination of a British diplomat in Athens is a reminder that the city&#039s 2004 Olympiad may be an explosion waiting to happen. The leftist November 17 group claimed responsibility for the drive-by shooting of…

An Iranian defector who said he could prove Iran was responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing has been exposed by the CIA and FBI as an impostor, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Full Story

The Taliban militia on Saturday rejected mounting US and Russian pressure over terrorism, saying their bilateral working group announced this week would only aggravate an already tense situation. Full Story

Greece is keen for full international cooperation in fighting terroism, its defence minister said Sunday, just days after the assassination in Athens of the British military attache. Full Story

A Norwegian diplomat died but his son survived a shootout between their kidnappers and police north of the Yemeni capital, in a second such deadly incident since December 1998, tribal sources said Sunday. Full Story

A group of Iranian and Iraqi stowaways have hijacked an Italian merchant vessel bound for India and are demanding political asylum, Indian officials and the ship&#039s agents said on Sunday. Full Story

A young member of one of the warring militias in the Solomon Islands was shot and killed Sunday as ethnic unrest appeared to spread to remote western islands in the strife-torn South Pacific nation. Full Story

A Greek court summoned a former Central Intelligence Agency director to testify, as efforts to track down the killers of a British diplomat generated little success, authorities said Saturday. Full Story

Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, overthrown by the Taliban militia in 1996, said Saturday that Afghanistan has become a haven for terrorists and drug traffickers. Full Story

Imagine a day at Comiskey Park turned into a terrorist nightmare when a nerve gas bomb explodes in the picnic patio. Full Story

Three crows found dead in the New York City area have been confirmed infected with the West Nile virus, health officials said. Full Story

There is little that any country can do to protect every potential target from assassination by determined terrorists. But the killing of Brigadier Stephen Saunders in central Athens yesterday was brazen, horrific and inexcusable. It came less than a week after Greece was accused by a US congressional report of such indolence in fighting terrorism…

A car bomb rocked a Cape Town cafe on Saturday night, injuring two people, just three weeks after police defused a device at the same location. Full Story

An explosion ripped through a chemical plant in eastern Japan on Saturday evening, killing four people, injuring 25 and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents, fire officials said. Full Story

Greece, reeling from the assassination on an Athens street of a senior British diplomat by the elusive November 17 urban guerrilla group, pledged on Friday to work harder to combat terrorism. Full Story

The government moved swiftly yesterday to repair the political damage caused by Wednesday&#039s deadly suicide bombing in Sri Lanka, announcing that it would amend the Criminal Code if necessary to stop terrorist fundraising in Canada. Full Story

Canadian companies have been identified as a possible source of materials and expertise for rogue states, such as Iraq and Libya, that are trying to develop biological weapons — the “poor man&#039s atomic bomb” — according to a new report by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Full Story

The Russian and U.S. presidents agreed to set up a bilateral working group to work out measures to counter the terrorist threat from the Afghanistan territory. Full Story

Gunmen in Indonesia&#039s strife-torn Aceh province have taken two gas plant workers hostage and are demanding a 4 billion rupiah ($840,000) ransom, a newspaper reported yesterday. Full Story

The Greek guerrilla group November 17 has said it killed British defence attache Stephen Saunders in Athens because of his role in the Kosovo conflict. The admission in a 13-page statement came as officers from Scotland Yard&#039s anti-terrorist branch and UK Foreign Office investigators travelled to Greece to help with the inquiry. Full Story

Europe&#039s most elusive terrorist group claimed responsibility today for the assassination of a British defense attache, saying he was killed because of his role in NATO&#039s “barbaric&#039&#039 airstrikes against Yugoslavia last year. Full Story

A large explosion near the site of Turkish naval maneuvers broke windows and panicked residents Friday, police said. The Greek Defense Ministry said the blast occurred off Rhodes, about 280 miles southeast of Athens. Full Story

Canada said on Thursday that 30 of its nationals were being evacuated by Australia from the Solomon Islands, riven by fierce jungle fighting between rival ethnic militia groups. Full Story

Britain was reviewing security at its embassies worldwide Friday after the killing of a military diplomat in Greece, a Foreign Office spokesman said. Full Story

The U.S. ambassador to Fiji labeled coup leader George Speight a “common criminal&#039&#039 on Friday, as talks between Fijian chiefs and Speight aimed at resolving the three-week-old hostage crisis ended without a breakthrough. Full Story

A wave of “state-sponsored terrorism&#039&#039 against opponents of President Robert Mugabe is threatening free and fair elections in Zimbabwe, Amnesty International said Thursday. Full Story

U.S. weapons experts and CIA officers told the Lockerbie murder trial on Thursday that bomb components found in Africa were similar to those used to destroy Pan Am flight 103. Full Story

Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday condemned the murder of a British military attache in Greece as a “contemptible act of terrorism”. Full Story

Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikitan intend to fight international terrorism more vigorously. They will exchange information and carry out joint large-scale anti-terroristic operations, Russian Special Representative on the “Shanghai-5” Vitaly Vorobyov told Itar-Tass on Thursday. He took part in the session of the joint team for controlling the fulfilment of agreements within this regional…

Police today detained 15 suspects in a suicide bombing that killed 21 people, including a popular Cabinet minister, and Sri Lanka&#039s president urged against retaliatory attacks on the Tamil minority. Full Story

Two persons were injured in two bomb explosions in churches in Prakasham and West Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday morning. Full Story

Police today detained 19 suspects in a suicide bombing that killed 23 people, including a popular Cabinet minister, and Sri Lanka&#039s president urged against retaliatory attacks on the Tamil minority. Full Story

An Australian navy ship began evacuating Australians and other foreigners from the Solomon Islands Thursday after fierce jungle fighting between rival ethnic militia sparked by a coup attempt. Full Story

Greek police said Thursday that ballistic tests had shown that the gun used to kill British diplomat Stephen Saunders earlier in the day had been used by the November 17 urban guerrilla group in past attacks. Full Story

Remaining on alert against terrorism is a demand of the times. There are enough people with a distorted sense of justice, for whom violence has become a way of life, to justify extraordinary prevention measures. Full Story

India on Wednesday strongly condemned the assassination of a senior Sri Lankan minister and 19 others and said that such an act of terrorism had no place in a democracy. Full Story

Top terrorism preparedness concerns of nearly 1,000 fire, police and health officials from Ohio&#039s 88 counties who attended a two-day terrorism conference sponsored by the Ohio Emergency Management Agency. Full Story

The United States pledged Tuesday to maintain a vigorous security dialogue with Pakistan after the Islamabad government rejected a report which branded the country a “safe haven” for terrorists. Full Story

A senior government minister and 21 others were killed in a suicide bomb blast in a southern suburb of Colombo as the country remembered thousands of its war dead with a two-minute silence. Full Story

Rebels in Sierra Leone have seized 21 Indian peacekeepers and moved them from their besieged post in eastern Sierra Leone, possibly planning to free them into neighboring Liberia, the United Nations said Tuesday. Full Story

Fijian soldiers and coup rebels exchanged gunfire on Wednesday near Suva&#039s parliamentary compound where some 30 political hostages, including deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, have been held since May 19. Full Story

Solomon Islands militia leader Andrew Nori said that up to 100 men from a rival militia were killed in a gunboat attack outside the capital Honiara on Wednesday. Full Story

The document entitled “COUNTERING THE CHANGING THREAT OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM”, which is the report of the National Commission on Terrorism is available for viewing. Full Document

City&#039s conference exposes the difficult task of combating silent, elusive danger. Full Story

The State Department said today that it continued to support a dialogue with Iran despite accusations that Iran was responsible for the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 people on Dec. 21, 1988. Full Story

A congressional advisory panel was drawing fire Monday after recommending increased monitoring of foreign students and proposing possible sanctions against Greece and Pakistan to guard against terrorism directed at the United States. Full Story

A bomb explosion in a hotel lobby in southern Laos injured around 10 people last week, the latest in a series of mysterious blasts in the usually sleepy communist state, a pro-democracy radio station reported Monday. Full Story

Police killed three kidnappers in a 10-minute firefight Monday and rescued six people held hostage for more than a month in a rural town in southeastern Brazil. Full Story