Eight people were killed and 11 others, including a former minister, were injured in a bomb attack as Moslem separatist guerrillas stepped up attacks in India&#039s northern state of Kashmir. Full Story

The United States is interested in broader cooperation with Russia to fight terrorism. This problem will be discussed during U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen&#039s visit to Moscow early this June, a high-ranking official of the Pentagon stated on Thursday on condition of anonymity. Full Story

The United States has recently increased pressure on both the Taliban and Pakistan to expel terrorism-suspect Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan, diplomatic sources said Thursday. Last week US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Thomas Pickering, met senior offcicials of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban militia during his two-day visit to Islamabad and urged them to…

The murder of the security adviser to pro-Western Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic sent shock waves through the volatile Yugoslav republic Thursday. Full Story

Opposition leader Vicente Fox said in a newspaper interview on Friday that Mexico could face “disorder and turbulence” if the government tried to rig the outcome of next month&#039s presidential election. Fox, leader of Mexico&#039s centre-right National Action Party (PAN), is running neck-and-neck with the ruling party candidate ahead of the July 2 vote. He…

Georgian security services said early Friday that five people including two UN military observers had gone missing in Georgia&#039s breakaway Black Sea region of Abkhazia, but added it would be premature to say they had been taken hostage. Full Story

Three crew members hijacked a commuter boat, opening fire on fellow crew and passengers – killing at least five of them – and throwing women, children and an elderly man into shark-infested waters. Full Story

A man was shot and injured by Fiji&#039s military late on Friday during unrest near the Parliament building where more than 30 politicians have been held hostage for two weeks. Full Story

A bomb exploded on a London bridge Thursday and police had to return to the scene to investigate a suspect package amid fears that Irish republican guerrillas may be targeting the British capital. The blast shortly before dawn caused no injuries and only slight damage to Hammersmith Bridge in the west of the capital, but…

Security has been tightened at all PLA barracks and mainland institutions after a warning from Beijing that Xinjiang separatists are planning a terrorist attack. Full Story

Afghanistan is posing a threat to stability and destabilising the situation in the whole Central Asian region, OSCE acting chairman-in-office Benita Ferrero- Waldner said. Full Story

A small bomb exploded early Thursday beneath the Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames River in London, but no injuries were reported, police said. Full Story

A car bomb blast Thursday in the Georgian capital, Tbilissi killed the brother of the country&#039s Defence Minister and seriously wounded his wife and another Georgian official, a security ministry spokesman said. Full Story

Manila on Thursday rejected foreign criticism it was dragging its heels in ending a 40-day foreign hostage saga, warning other nations not to meddle. Full Story

Forces loyal to Sierra Leone&#039s President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah prepared on Thursday to strike back at rebels who inflicted a serious battlefield reverse with the recapture of the strategic town of Lunsar. Full Story

The United States and Russia can do much in a joint struggle against international terrorism, Deputy US Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said in an interview with Itar-Tass, ahead of the US-Russian summit in Moscow. Full Story

Hezbollah may have become more of a problem for Yasser Arafat than it is for Ehud Barak. With the Iran-backed guerrilla army playing responsible guardian of border stability in the wake of Israel&#039s withdrawal from south Lebanon, Barak can focus his attention and political momentum on the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Full Story

Upwind of a million people at a future Detroit Freedom Festival fireworks, a crop dusting plane drops a deadly veil of anthrax spores. Days later, the first of hundreds of thousands of victims complains to doctors of fever, cough and lethargy. More than 100,000 die. Full Story

A heavily armed man holding 23 children and three adults hostage in a daycare center in eastern Luxembourg has demanded to be flown to Libya, Luxembourg&#039s Interior Minister Michel Wolter said Wednesday. Full Story

A man armed with a pistol, hand grenade and knife took hostage at least 20 nursery school children and their two teachers in a school in eastern Luxembourg Wednesday, police said. Full Story

News of another outbreak of religious violence in Maluku, in which at least 50 people died, has sparked fears that sectarianism may spread, particularly as it is claimed that the security forces are unable to prevent or control the conflict. Full Story

Insurgents of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have kidnapped four persons in separate incidents in the state, police said on Wednesday. Full Story

Several people have been arrested on suspicion that they took part in setting off a home-made bomb near a cantonment in Volgograd, which claimed the lives of Privates Vladimir Gorbachev and Dmitri Shipovsky (he died of wounds at about mid-day). 15 soldiers were wounded. Officers of the regional police department, which put into effect the…

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) secretary general Ezzedine Laraki is to visit the Philippines to help persuade Muslim rebels to free 21 mostly foreign hostages they have been holding for nearly six weeks, Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon said Wednesday. Full Story

A top Russian official was killed and at least one soldier died in separate bomb attacks, Russian media reported Wednesday. Full Story

The National Security Council of Turkey decided on Tuesday to continue crackdown upon terrorist groups and organized crimes to defend the country&#039s democratic and secular system. Full Story

Israeli troops escorting a convoy of Israeli cars in the Gaza Strip foiled an apparent attempt to blow up the vehicles near a Jewish settlement late Tuesday, Israel Radio said. Full Story

When it emerged less than a decade ago, the World Wide Web was quickly embraced as a bright new medium that could help reinvent government and revitalize democracy. But gradually government policy-makers have also seen that the Web has a much darker side. Full Story

The leader of Hezbollah said today that its guerrillas would not disarm despite the Israeli army&#039s withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Full Story

Since there has been war, there has been an understanding that military engagement leads to the death of soldiers and, more often than not, civilians. But the emergence of the US as a lone and unquestioned superpower is leading to a new concept: that US forces can engage an enemy and protect their homeland without…

If terrorists decide to attack Ohio&#039s capital city, local police and firefighters will be better prepared — or at least properly attired — thanks to a $300,000 federal grant. The Franklin County commissioners yesterday accepted the money from the U.S. Justice Department. It will be used to better equip the sheriff&#039s office and some township…

There is no escaping the conclusion that the unilateral withdrawal of Israel from southern Lebanon is a victory for Hezbollah, a group synonymous with terrorism in much of the West. Full Story

Fiji&#039s military rulers bowed on Tuesday to coup leader George Speight and scrapped a constitution that had allowed an ethnic Indian to become prime minister for the first time in the country&#039s history. Full Story

Russian-U.S. interaction in ensuring mutual and international security has been discussed here by Valentin Sobolev, deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (SCRF), and a visiting U.S. Senate delegation comprising Richard Shelby, Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senators Ernest Hollings and Richard Bryan, an SCRF press service official told…

‘- Indonesia&#039s government and beleaguered rupiah were shaken again Tuesday by reports of another religious massacre in the bloodied spice islands and the resignation of a top aide to President Abdurrahman Wahid. Full Story

Fiji&#039s military has declared martial law and rebels holding about 30 politicians hostage said on Tuesday they could soon release Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and most of his government. Full Story

In North Korea, a dozen U.S. arms experts began their second annual inspection of a mysterious tunnel complex. In Moscow, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott haggled with Russian officials over amending a 28-year-old arms agreement. In Washington, Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush made a strong pitch for a still unproven global missile defense…

A second blast in two days rocked the western city of Medan, while in neighboring Aceh Province three people were killed in the latest round of violence, security officials said Monday. Full Story

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