A militant hurled a grenade at a military bunker in Kashmir&#039s summer capital of Srinagar on Monday, injuring a dozen people, police said.Full Story

The European Union confirmed Russia&#039s right to protect its territorial integrity and fight terrorism, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres said on Monday. Full Story

Iran asked the Dutch government on Monday to stop Iranian opposition groups from using the Netherlands to wage what it described as propaganda and terrorist attacks against Tehran. Full Story

Russia and the European Union on Monday pledged to join forces in countering transnational threats more vigorously, including extremism and terrorism, organised crime, illegal trafficking in drugs, people and arms, and money laundering. Full Story

Twenty UN peacekeepers were on Monday still encircled by rebels in Sierra Leone, the commander of the UNAMSIL mission, General Vijay Jetley said in Freetown. Full Story

Lebanese authorities and Hizbollah guerrillas tightened security Monday to head off potential trouble in south Lebanon and along the Israeli border. Full Story

Muslim separatists who have held 21 mostly foreign hostages for 37 days in the Philippines are being supported by the Saudi guerrilla suspect Osama bin Laden, German television reported Monday. Full Story

The United States faces a “quite real” threat of a terrorist attack on its soil with nuclear, chemical or biological arms within the next 10 years, US Secretary of Defense William Cohen warned Sunday. Full Story

Rebels in Sierra Leone today released the last of the nearly 500 U.N. peacekeeping troops they took captive earlier this month, apparently ending a crisis that has humiliated the world body and jeopardized congressional support for U.N. peacekeeping missions around the world. Full Story

The smoldering religious tensions threatening Indonesia&#039s fragile unity were fanned again Monday by a new bomb attack in the western city of Medan and reports of more sectarian killings on the island of Sulawesi. Full Story

The Fijian military said Monday it was taking over government of the country and declared martial law — stepping into a constitutional crisis that has seen the prime minister held hostage by gunmen since May 19. Full Story

At least 23 people were wounded when a home-made bomb exploded during Sunday Mass in a church in the Indonesian city of Medan, witnesses said. Full Story

Saudi terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden, fearing infiltration by U.S. intelligence, has replaced his Arab bodyguards in Afghanistan with Pakistanis and Bangladeshi militants, according to Pakistani officials. Full Story

Radical environmentalist Josh Harper was a no-show Wednesday at the U.S. Courthouse in Portland, where he was commanded to testify before a federal grand jury looking into a string of eco-terrorist arsons. Full Story

Uzbekistan will pay a “heavy price” if any attacks are carried out against Afghanistan, the ruling Taliban leader Mulla Mohammad Omar warned Saturday. Full Story

Pakistan can and must play a role to convince Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban to hand over the alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to stand trial, US Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering said Saturday. Full Story

A delegation of U.S. experts who are arriving in Uzbekistan on Sunday will discuss with Uzbek partners cooperation in combating international terrorism, religious extremism and drug trafficking. Full Story

Fijian President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara suspended the government on Saturday as shooting erupted outside parliament in a confrontation between troops and supporters of coup leader George Speight. Full Story

Around 4,000 neo-Nazis and skinheads from Germany&#039s ultra right-wing National Democratic Party marched through the Bavarian town of Passau shouting right-wing slogans on Saturday. Full Story

Sierra Leone rebels have released another batch of United Nations peacekeepers they have been holding hostage as West African leaders discussed sending more troops to help the beleaguered U.N. force. Full Story

Israeli soldiers fired shots into the air at the border with Lebanon on Saturday in an attempt to disperse scores of Lebanese villagers hurling stones, shoes and garbage at Israel&#039s side of the fence. Full Story

Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on a visiting Chinese delegation Friday, killing one official and wounding two others and their Kyrgyz driver, a Chinese Embassy official said. Full Story

Sydney Olympics security chiefs say they are prepared for all eventualities at the event after a joint counter-terrorism exercise which they pronounced an overwhelming success, despite &#039losing&#039 several &#039hostages&#039 Full Story

The Liberian government said Friday that Sierra Leone&#039s rebels had released 180 more U.N. hostages, and the United Nations said that several mutilated corpses found this week were probably peacekeepers. Full Story

Armed rebels with about 200 supporters in tow exchanged gunfire Saturday with government soldiers maintaining a roadblock near Parliament. Full Story

Authorities at the local and national level announced Friday that they have opened three new investigations into the worst outbreak of the deadly E. coli bacteria in Canadian history. Full Story

Italian government representatives explained to the Japanese Justice Ministry on Friday about the charges against an Italian man they want to be extradited to Italy to face trial for acts of terrorism, ministry sources said. Full Story

Sydney Olympics security chiefs hailed the joint counter-terrorism exercise Ring True a success. Full Story

Russia and the U.S. have blasted Afghan Islamic militia Taliban for sponsoring terrorism. A source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Itar-Tass that the sides “expressed serious concern in connection to the dangerous developments of the military conflict in Afghanistan and the Talib&#039s support for terrorism.” Full Story

The U.N. envoy to the Middle East said on Friday that Hizbollah should accept an imminent United Nations ruling on whether Israel had ended its occupation of south Lebanon. Full Story

A fifth person died on Thursday in what may be Canada&#039s biggest E. coli epidemic, as police and health officials were set to decide whether to launch a criminal investigation into the outbreak. Full Story

Armed assailants have attacked a remote village in Indonesia&#039s strife-torn spice islands, killing at least 34 people, injuring scores and setting buildings and places of worship ablaze, the military said on Friday. Full Story

Fiji coup leader George Speight and up to 20 armed men were involved in a tense confrontation with soldiers Friday near the parliament building where Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry has been held hostage the past week. Full Story

Security is being tightened even further at several government buildings, including the Pentagon and FBI headquarters, after undercover federal agents using phony identification entered 19 of the government&#039s most secure buildings and two airports. Full Story

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak extended a “hand in peace” to the Lebanese people and President Emile Lahoud, during an unprecedented meeting of parliament here Thursday near the border with Lebanon. Full Story

‘- Fiji&#039s traditional chiefs on Thursday threw their weight behind a racially-motivated coup in the Pacific nation, calling for ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry to be replaced by an indigenous Fijian. Full Story

Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Russian officials Thursday for threatening airstrikes on Afghanistan, saying they should not follow the U.S. example of bombing to fight terrorism. Full Story

Responding to suggestions from a House panel, the FBI has boosted security at its headquarters in Washington and other locations. Full Story

Right-wing militia wielding automatic rifles plant a bomb at the Olympics and take innocent bystanders hostage. A likely enough scenario to warrant a full-scale police rehearsal at Bruce Stadium in Canberra Thursday. Full Story

Anxiety now reigns in this city after an improvised bomb was found on a seat of a McDonald&#039s outlet at the four-story Saver&#039s Mall in busy Barangay Balibago at about 6:50 p.m. last Tuesday. Full Story

At least three people were injured today when a bomb exploded in a market in Karachi, police and residents said. The bomb, which was planted in a fruit crate in the vegetable market, injured three people and created panic in the area, they said. Bomb disposal squad chief Moeenuddin Ahmed said the bomb contained 300…

About 100 victims of Muslim-Christian religious riots were dumped into a mass grave and anguished residents salvaged belongings from burned-out homes Wednesday in northern Nigeria. Full Story

Just 70 kilometres from the hostage drama in Suva, a small village in the highlands of Viti Levu has endured a nightly reign of racial terror since a band of gunmen seized the Prime Minister last week. Full Story

Aurora police on Saturday morning found a 25-year-old white male dead in a motel room on the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center campus. Full Story Another story on TOP OFF.

Alabama is spending about $1 million in federal money this year to fight bioterrorism, and may spend as much as $4 million more over the next several years. That makes it one of the nation&#039s biggest spenders in the war against biological terror. Full Story

Sri Lanka&#039s Tamil Tiger rebels set a deadline of Friday for an estimated 40,000 government troops defending the northern Jaffna peninsula to surrender or face a “blood bath.” Full Story

A fugitive with alleged ties to Saudi militant Osama bin Laden has been arrested on charges of planning terrorist attacks during New Year&#039s celebrations, government officials said Wednesday. Full Story

Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss rejected concerns on Thursday that Hezbollah guerrillas — and not Lebanese security forces — were controlling the streets of southern Lebanon in the wake of Israel&#039s withdrawal from the region. Full Story

Fiji&#039s traditional chiefs risked international condemnation on Thursday when they urged the president to replace a democratically elected prime minister and pardon gunmen who have held him hostage for nearly a week. Full Story

A jilted husband wearing a blue bonnet and toting a grenade and a gun hijacked a domestic passenger flight in the Philippines on Thursday, robbing passengers before parachuting out. Full Story

Congressional investigators using phony identification successfully penetrated 19 of the federal government&#039s most secure buildings and two high-profile airports, sources close to the probe said Wednesday. Full Story

Russia told the United States Wednesday it had no plans to attack the Afghan bases of Islamist groups it accuses of helping Chechen separatists, a U.S. official said. Full Story

A Reuters correspondent and a Spanish journalist were killed in an ambush in Sierra Leone on Wednesday that left four Sierra Leone Army soldiers dead. Full Story

What comes to mind when you hear the words “bombing” or “terrorist”? Unfortunately, there are many possibilities: the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; the devastation at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City; the World Trade Center bombing in New York; the blasts at the U.S. embassies in East…

A poison gas attack, a deliberate outbreak of plague, and a truck bombing — all of them nightmare scenarios. Government officials simulated these terrorist attacks to test the nation’s readiness to respond. Full Story This is a video segment.

Lebanon&#039s army commander said on Wednesday that his country will give no security guarantees to Israel unless it withdraws further from Lebanese and Syrian lands and solves the Palestinian refugee issue. Full Story

A blast ripped through the Norwegian embassy here Wednesday hours after Norway&#039s deputy foreign minister Raymond Johansen left the island after a peace mission, officials said. Full Story

Offices of the company formerly headed by Fiji coup leader George Speight were ablaze after a suspected arson attack Thursday morning, witnesses said. Full Story

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism held their first series of public hearings yesterday. Here is the testimony of Dr. Kennith Alibek on Chem/bio terrorism. Full Testimony

Operation Ring True, the final test of Australia&#039s counter-terrorism forces for the Sydney Olympics, began Wednesday. Full Story