Sinn Fein chairman Mitchel McLaughlin firmly squashed any prospect on Wednesday of compromise over reform of Northern Ireland&#039s Police Service — an issue that could cripple the peace process. Full Story

A car loaded with explosives blew up on Thursday in Grozny, capital of Russia&#039s rebel Chechnya region, killing at least five people and wounding about 11, the Kremlin said. Full Story

A police SWAT team freed a 5-year-old U.S. boy from Marxist rebel kidnappers in Colombia on Wednesday, bringing a happy end to at least one abduction saga in a nation with a reputation as the kidnap capital of the world. Full Story

Chinese top prosecutor Han Zhubin signed an anti-crime agreement here today with his counterpart in Uzbekistan in an effort to combat the “increasing number of international terrorist activities and cross-border crimes.” Full Story

Israelis and Palestinians backed haltingly away from confrontation today as armed clashes subsided and a parade of diplomatic visitors urged both sides to rein in violence. Full Story

Seven people were wounded on Wednesday when suspected separatist guerrillas lobbed a grenade at a busy marketplace in the heart of Kashmir”s main city, police and witnesses said. They said the militants hurled a grenade at a police vehicle, but it missed the target and exploded on a crowded road instead, injuring seven people including…

Reports from Algeria say that at least twenty-four people have been killed in recent attacks blamed on Islamic militants and government operations against them. Full Story

Lebanon&#039s Hizbollah told Israel on Wednesday an exchange of prisoners through acceptable mediators was the only way to win the release of three Israeli soldiers and that any military rescue attempt would be doomed. Full Story

Japan on Tuesday criticized North Korea for harboring wanted Japanese terrorists, and urged the United States to use whatever leverage it has with the Stalinist country to solve the issue. Full Story

Tension gripped areas under two police stations in Baliguda subdivision of Phulbani district following attacks on four Christian prayer houses last week, according to delayed information received at the district police office here today. Full Story

Russia and Kyrgyzstan will jointly combat international terrorism that threatens them, legislators of the two countries decided at a meeting of the State Duma defence committee on Monday. Full Story

Thousands of Spaniards gathered in silence outside city halls and courts throughout the country Tuesday to protest the killing of a regional prosecutor, the latest death blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story

Several Colombian soldiers were wounded Friday in a car-bomb attack carried out by leftist rebels on an army base near the Cano Limon oil fields along the Venezuelan border, military spokesmen said. Full Story

Northern Israeli settlements will be targeted by guerrillas if Israel bombed Lebanon to avenge Hezbollah&#039s capture of three Israeli soldiers, the guerrillas&#039 deputy chief has warned. Full Story

A bomb packed into a truck exploded Monday outside a military base, slightly damaging an American spy plane that was parked inside the base, a Colombian air force officer said. Full Story

An alleged former Red Army Faction terrorist extradited from Austria in December and suspected in crimes including the killing of a leading German banker will go on trial before the end of the year, a court ruled Monday. Full Story

Tamil Tiger rebels launched a fierce attack on army defenses in Sri Lanka&#039s northern Jaffna peninsula Monday, a day before the country votes in key parliamentary elections. Full Story

Fourteen people, including five Indian security personnel, have been killed in a bomb blast and shootouts in the disputed Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir. Full Story

For the third time in 48 hours Spanish police found a bomb planted in the car of an army officer on Monday in assassination bids which bore the hallmarks of the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story

BBC television on Monday screened a program naming several people it alleged were suspected of involvement in Northern Ireland&#039s single worst guerrilla attack. Full Story

With fire chiefs and other local government officials complaining about the federal government&#039s fragmented approach to counterterrorism, Rep. Tillie Fowler (R-Fla.) shepherded legislation through the House in July designed to end their confusion. Full Story

With the hours winding down on an Israeli deadline, world leaders including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan moved Monday to try to end nearly two weeks of deadly violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Full Story

The presidents of the countries participants in the CIS Collective Security Treaty will meet in Bishkek on Wednesday to discuss joint fight against international terrorism, the secretary of the Kyrgyz Security Council said here on Monday. Full Story

More than 430 terrorism-related “threat assessments” were reported by Australian intelligence agents assigned to Olympic security, the Australian government revealed Monday. Full Story

American Jewish Congress Executive Director Phil Baum issued the following statement today following the decision by Senators Jon Kyl and Dianne Feinstein to introduce legislation responding to the recent report of the National Commission on Terrorism. Full Story

The US will share satellite photographs and intelligence reports on Muslim funadamentalist terrorist camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan with India, the Hindustan Times reported on Sunday. Full Story

The Venezuelan-born terrorist Carlos the Jackal, says from his French prison cell he was betrayed by socialist and Arab states protecting and sponsoring him through the 1980s. Full Story

The three explosions in Nevinnomyssk and Pyatigorsk, Russia&#039s Stavropol territory, are merged into one and the same case investigated on the terrorism charge, sources at the North Caucasian department of the Russian Prosecutor General&#039s Office told Itar-Tass on Sunday. Full Story

A federal judge has rejected defense lawyers&#039 claims that the government tried to intimidate witnesses in a terrorism case involving the bombing of two United States embassies in Africa that killed more than 200 people and injured thousands. Full Story

The military permeates life in communist North Korea. By law, most men must serve 13 years in the armed forces. Propaganda hails soldiers as the revolutionary vanguard. The North&#039s missile program is a key foreign policy tool. Full Story

Khartoum police accused opposition Popular National Congress party (PNC) students of shooting and wounding four policemen in a demonstration on Sunday, the independent al-Sahafa newspaper reported Monday. Full Story

Prosecutors left the Lockerbie trial hanging in suspense on Monday as “sensitive&#039&#039 information received only last week forced a further delay to the drawn-out proceedings. Full Story

A father&#039s angry plea for justice marked the end Thursday of a monthlong coroner&#039s inquest into the car bombing of Omagh, an atrocity that left 29 people dead, shattered a community and raised questions about the price of Northern Ireland&#039s peace process. Full Story

Attacks on Jewish sites in Germany during the Jewish New Year period continued overnight when unknown assailants threw stones at a synagogue in Berlin, police said Friday. Full Story

If Tajik authorities agree, Russian border guards will permit fighters from Afghanistan&#039s northern opposition to enter Tajikistan, a Russian commander said in an interview published on Thursday. Full Story

A Palestinian teen-ager was killed during an exchange of gunfire between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank Friday, bringing the death toll in nine days of violence to at least 70. Full Story

Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the Yugoslav parliament on Friday, a day after scores of protesters stormed the building in a popular revolt against President Slobodan Milosevic. Full Story

Riot police fired teargas to push back thousands of protesters marching on the Israeli embassy in Amman after Friday Muslim prayers amid the most widespread outpouring of public anger in nine years, witnesses said. Full Story

Sri Lanka said on Friday it had repulsed a fierce assault by Tamil Tiger rebels in the country&#039s northern Jaffna peninsula and destroyed an artillery gun that was shelling the only airport in the area. Full Story

A young man was killed by an explosion outside a Turkish military officers&#039 club in Istanbul on Thursday, police at the scene told Reuters. Full Story

In light of the events in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza over the past week and elsewhere in the Middle East region, the Department is concerned about the potential for further clashes and demonstrations. On Wednesday, October 4, anti-American demonstrations took place in Damascus, Syria where the U.S. Embassy was a target of violent…

Spanish police have arrested nine suspected members or supporters of the armed Basque separatist group ETA, including a city councillor. Full Story

Soldiers killed two communist rebels and captured another in a clash yesterday in Bataan, police said. Full Story

The military junta in Ivory Coast has announced a state of emergency and curfew this weekend when the candidates approved to run in the Presidential election will be announced. The measure is aimed at maintaining public order ahead of the election to restore civilian rule. Full Story

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in downtown Tehran on Thursday to calls for a holy war against Israel after the latest bloodshed in the Middle East claimed more than 70 lives. Full Story

India and Russia have begun mapping out a common strategy to counter the threat from the Afghanistan&#039s Taliban regime during the visit here this week of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Full Story

There&#039s growing concern in Algeria that Islamist militants, who last year rejected a government amnesty offer, have regrouped and renewed their campaign of violence. Full Story

Judges in the Lockerbie trial ruled on Thursday that a diary belonging to one of the accused could be used as evidence against him. Full Story

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on Thursday the United States had helped to set up a trilateral security committee after a week of Israeli-Palestinian violence which has claimed 67 lives. Full Story

Four people were killed and seven were wounded Wednesday in Ivory Coast&#039s main city Abidjan when a bomb they were planning to plant exploded in their faces, state television reported. Full Story

Britain&#039s Foreign Office Minister Keith Vaz said on Tuesday his government was concerned about the fate of seven Muslim Britons who have been in jail in Yemen since last year on terrorism charges. Full Story

Germans gathered here yesterday to celebrate 10 years as one nation, but the bombing of a synagogue in Dusseldorf darkened the festive mood. Full Story

Sri Lanka&#039s Tamil Tiger rebels carried out artillery bombardments against government-held areas of Jaffna peninsula, forcing the region&#039s only airfield to shut down, a state-run daily reported Wednesday. Full Story

The border town of Rajouri in the Jammu division was rattled by a series of explosions on Tuesday night, official sources said here on Wednesday. Full Story

A bomb placed outside an apartment house shattered windows and tore a crater in the ground on Wednesday in Russia&#039s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, but no injuries were reported, an emergency official said. Full Story

Right-wing paramilitary gunmen killed nine peasants Tuesday in the latest political bloodletting in a war zone in southwest Colombia, authorities said. Full Story

An Italian who worked and lived with the poor in Burundi was killed Tuesday in an attack outside the capital. Full Story

The Philippines is investigating allegations that some officials pocketed parts of the ransom money reportedly paid for the release of foreign hostages kidnapped by Muslim rebels, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. Full Story

The commander of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday he did not think U.S.-brokered talks in Paris would end days of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Full Story

The United States called on the Russian government on Tuesday to prosecute “to the fullest extent&#039&#039 of the law those responsible for three recent incidents of violence against religious minorities. Full Story