Military tension and terrorism still dominate South Asian relations, with nuclear rivals India and Pakistan frozen in a dangerous diplomatic stand-off, the International Institute of Strategic Studies said Thursday. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s Taliban “strongly condemned” both the United States and Russia Thursday accusing the two countries of plotting against the ruling Islamic militia and seeking to impose further sanctions on their war-devastated nation. Full Story

Maoists killed one person and injured 14 others in two separate incidents in Bajura district this week, police said. Full Story

A small explosive device went off outside a bank office in the Spanish port city of Barcelona in the early hours of Thursday, slightly injuring one person, a police spokeswoman said. Full Story

Prime Minister Ehud Barak hasn&#039t publicly given up on reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians, but he is already drafting a fallback plan: erecting barriers to separate Israelis and Palestinians. Full Story

A man charged with participating in a global terrorism conspiracy pleaded to be shot during a lengthy interrogation in Germany before he was brought to the United States for trial, a German police official testified yesterday. Full Story

Israel opened a border crossing with the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip to commercial traffic on Thursday in a new step toward implementation of a U.S.-brokered summit agreement to end weeks of violence. Full Story

A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Thursday, minutes before the president swore in a new cabinet to cement her shaky coalition and end a week-long political crisis. Full Story

Yemeni investigators have discovered bomb-making material in an apartment near the Aden port and have linked two men who had stayed there to the apparent terrorist attack that killed 17 American sailors aboard the USS Cole, U.S. and Yemeni officials said today. Full Story

Ensuring security of the state and its citizens, as well as problems and ways of combatting terrorism were discussed on Wednesday by Duma deputies and a delegation of the British Royal Colleges of Defence Studies. Full Story

In the 1980s, myriad groups kidnapped Americans and other foreigners in Lebanon, picking their unsuspecting victims – teachers, businessmen and journalists – off the streets and holding them for several years. Full Story

A bomb exploded near an office of South Africa&#039s main opposition party Wednesday morning, injuring four people, authorities said. Full Story

Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden yesterday warned the United States not to attack his home in Afghanistan, where fears have grown of a retaliatory strike to the Yemen attack that killed 17 Americans. Full Story

Israel&#039s army spokesman said Israeli and Palestinian security commanders would meet on Wednesday in the first sign of cooperation since the sides agreed at an emergency summit to end weeks of violence. Full Story

At least 100 people have died in two days of ethnic warfare around Nigeria&#039s commercial capital Lagos, Red Cross workers and witnesses said Tuesday. Full Story

Iraq said Tuesday it would not extradite the two hijackers of the Saudi plane diverted to Baghdad at the weekend, state INA news agency reported. Full Story

Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden on Tuesday warned the United States not to attack his home in Afghanistan, where fears have grown of a retaliatory strike to the Yemen ship bombing that killed 17 Americans. Full Story

Maoist rebels in Nepal have denied reports linking them to attacks against foreign tourists. Full Story

Pakistan says its nuclear arsenal is safe, despite claims by American officials that it could fall into the hands of Islamic radicals. Analysts yesterday joined military leader General Pervez Musharraf in rejecting the suggestions made on the US television show 60 Minutes. Full Story

In a stepped-up anti-militant drive, 28 ultras were shot dead while four security personnel were killed and six injured in Jammu and Kashmir since Sunday, an official spokesman said on Monday. Full Story

Irish police said Tuesday they had arrested three men in connection with the 1998 Omagh bombing, Northern Ireland&#039s single worst guerrilla attack, which killed 29 people. Full Story

Spain Tuesday mourned the 15th fatal victim attributed to the Basque separatist group ETA this year but celebrated the arrest of two suspected gunmen in a rare counterattack against the guerrillas. Full Story

Judges on Tuesday agreed to delay the Lockerbie trial for at least another week as prosecutors kept up contacts with two countries about &#039&#039sensitive&#039&#039 information affecting the defense case. Full Story

An accomplice of jailed guerrilla Carlos the Jackal in the 1975 kidnapping of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna went on trial in Germany Tuesday on murder charges. Full Story

Two French workers kidnapped with eight other foreign oil workers in the Amazon region of Ecuador escaped from their captors on Monday and found refuge in Quito, the government said. Full Story

The gloom of low expectations failed to rise in the early hours of an emergency Mideast summit on Monday, as Israeli and Palestinian leaders met in Egypt with international leaders intent on brokering an agreement to end more than two weeks of deadly violence. Full Story

The attack that killed at least 17 sailors aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden was apparently a carefully planned terrorist act carried out by suicide bombers operating with inside information, according to Clinton administration officials and outside intelligence experts. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers denied involvement today of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden in last week&#039s deadly suicide bombing of a United States destroyer off the coast of Yemen. Full Story

Suspect in bombing.Investigators probing the USS Cole bombing are studying a chilling videotape in which terror boss Osama bin Laden and his henchmen threaten to “move forward” against American forces in the Persian Gulf. Full Story

In Belfast The “Real IRA” leadership last night claimed that Joe O&#039Connor who was shot dead in west Belfast on Friday was one of it members. It said it knew the identity of his killers who would be “dealt with accordingly”. Full Story

Armed men attacked police Sunday in a small town on Panama&#039s border with Colombia, killing an 11-year-old girl and injuring 12 others, including three police officers. Full Story

Israel&#039s Defense Ministry confirmed Sunday that a reserve soldier had been kidnapped outside the country. Full Story

The explosion that blew open a gaping hole in the hull of the Aegis-class destroyer USS Cole yesterday in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing four American sailors, was almost certainly a terrorist act. But the crucial conclusions to be drawn from that act will depend on who ordered it. Full Story

In September 1970, Palestinian guerrillas seized three planes in one day, flew them to Jordan and delayed blowing them up to allow a media blitz they had launched to inform the world who was behind the most spectacular skyjack ever. Full Story

The apparent attack on the U.S. destroyer Cole appears to represent a deadly new tactic in the constantly evolving arsenal of global terrorism, one that could have a widespread effect on U.S. naval and maritime operations around the world, according to U.S. officials and terrorism experts. Full Story

Yemen said Monday the explosion that crippled a U.S. Navy warship and killed 17 American sailors was a “planned criminal act,&#039&#039 the official Saba news agency reported. Full Story

Nigerian ethnic groups clashed on Monday in the commercial capital Lagos and at least six people were killed, police and witnesses said. Full Story

Ninety passengers walked safely from a hijacked Saudi airliner at Baghdad airport as Iraqi security forces arrested the hijackers who had threatened to blow up the plane. Full Story

Citing Mideast tensions, New York officials increased security on Friday at government buildings, landmarks, religious buildings and locations associated with Israel or Palestinians as thousands rallied in support of Palestinians. Full Story

A bomb explosion has damaged the UK embassy in Yemen a day after a suspected terrorist attack on a US warship in the country&#039s main port Aden. Nobody was hurt in the embassy bombing. But the death toll from the Aden explosion rose to seven on Friday, and US officials said 10 sailors were still…

The United States on Friday ordered its diplomatic missions in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal and Djibouti to temporarily close as a result of the escalating Mideast crisis, a U.S. official told AFP here. Full Story

The United States has responded cautiously to news that as many as 15,000 Iraqi troops may be on the move. US intelligence services have reportedly spotted the westward movement of the Hammurabi Division, which consists of about 15,000 Special Republican Guard troops. Full Story

The attack that killed at least six sailors aboard a U.S. Navy warship refueling in a Yemeni port yesterday was apparently a carefully planned terrorist act carried out by suicide bombers operating with inside information, Clinton administration officials and outside intelligence experts said yesterday. Full Story

Terror in the Gulf, war in the Middle East, panic on Wall Street, crisis at the gas pump, a viral scare on the East Coast, labor unrest in the west . . . either the world events of the past 24 hours are just a coincidental skid of bad news or, on this very day…

Iran said Friday it expects the world community to take serious action against Israel after the Jewish state bombarded Palestinian cities in retaliation for the lynching of three Israelis. Full Story

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said Friday his government was determined to crush armed insurgency and enhance India&#039s image as an “emerging global player.” Full Story

The effort to prevent terrorism will be stepped up in Russia, Russian Interior Minister, Colonel-General Vladimir Rushailo told his Ukrainian counterpart in Donetsk on Friday. Full Story

Suspicion immediately centered on Osama bin Laden and the terrorism network he operates out of Afghanistan as U.S. experts probed the deadly attack on an American warship in Yemen. Full Story

With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1999, and signed on behalf of the United States of America on January 10, 2000. The report…

The escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict means that the suicide-bomb attack that killed as many as 17 U.S. armed-forces personnel in Yemen on Thursday is unlikely to be the last. Full Story

Unidentified attackers set fire to five more synagogues overnight in France where violence in the Middle East has stoked tension between Jews and Arabs, officials said Friday. Full Story

Yemen said on Friday an explosion which rocked the British embassy in the capital Sanaa was caused by an electric power generator explosion. Full Story

Colombian rebels seized a helicopter with 10 foreigners aboard from an oil field in the Amazon jungle Thursday, Ecuador&#039s vice president said. Those kidnapped were six Americans, two Frenchmen, a Chilean and an Argentine. Full Story

A Calgary doctor is calling on provincial and national governments in Canada to be better prepared for bio-terrorist attack involving diseases such as smallpox, pneumonic plague and anthrax. Full Story

The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would use terrorist nations&#039 frozen assets to compensate American victims of terrorism. Full Story

A 40-year-old Russian man has been arrested in connection with a grenade attack on the U.S. embassy here in 1995, Interfax cited police saying Wednesday. Full Story

Four people including a Jubo League leader were murdered in separate incidents in the city within a span of 12 hours ending at 10 am yesterday. Full Story

Arsonists attacked three Jewish community buildings in France overnight, extending a spate of incidents apparently fuelled by violence in the Middle East, police said on Thursday. They said unidentified assailants threw firebombs at a synagogue in Creil and a Jewish community centre in Colombes, both in the Paris region. Full Story

An explosives-laden rubber raft slammed into a U.S. Navy destroyer and exploded in the Yemeni port of Aden on Thursday, killing four U.S. sailors and injuring 31, five seriously, a U.S. Navy spokesman said. Full Story

Youths stormed a Palestinian police station in the West Bank on Thursday and stabbed to death two captured Israeli soldiers, Israeli military sources said. Full Story