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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been trying to grab the world's attention ever since international sanctions against his country were suspended last year. Full Story
A bomb exploded early Friday in a building in the Kosovo capital Pristina housing the offices of political parties and Serbian authorities in the province, the U.N. said. Full Story
Two bombs exploded in a popular department store in Riga on Thursday evening, injuring at least 19 people, police said. Full Story
Two local residents were killed and four Russian policemen injured when a car bomb exploded in the Chechen capital Grozny, Interfax news agency said on Thursday. Full Story
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Wednesday urged Central Asian states currently afflicted by Islamist rebel attacks to implement democratic and economic reforms to combat the threat. Full Story
The Nigerian cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing of UN conventions on terrorism, genocide and human rights, subject to ratification by the National Assembly, a minister said Wednesday. Full Story
A small bomb exploded outside the Moscow headquarters of the influential Russian oil company Sibneft on Thursday. No casualties were reported. Full Story
Israel took the United States to task on Thursday over a warning to U.S. citizens of a heightened threat of “terrorist” attacks in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Prime Minister Ehud Barak's security adviser Danny Yatom said he tried to talk U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk out of issuing an announcement when informed of it…
An explosion at a police station in Batkhela today killed a prisoner and injured 15 other people, including seven policemen, police sources said. Full Story
A major rail disaster was averted on Wednesday when two alert employees detected two explosive devices planted on the tracks near a railway bridge in central Assam's Karbi-Anglong district minutes before the Calcutta-bound DN Kamrup Express was to pass. Full Story
A Greek anarchist group set fire to an Italian diplomat”s car in Athens early on Thursday, seriously damaging the vehicle, police said. They said unknown assailants doused the car with a flammable liquid and then set it on fire. Full Story
The United States warned its citizens Wednesday of a heightened threat of “terrorist'' attacks in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Full Story
Eight armed men robbed almost $3 million in cash from an armored car in Brazil on Wednesday then hijacked an aircraft with 72 people aboard to make their getaway, police said. Full Story
CIA Director George Tenet arrived in Bucharest Tuesday for talks on combatting terrorism, Romanian officials said. Full Story
An Air India flight from New York to Bombay was forced to make an unscheduled landing in New Delhi after a caller told Indian authorities there was a bomb on board, airline officials said. Full Story
Nine Western hostages held by the extremist Abu Sayyaf for 115 days in the jungles of Sulu will be released today under a deal brokered and bankrolled by Libya, government negotiators said. Full Story
The threat of biological warfare attack on the United States is getting quite a bit of play in the press, but it is not a new menace. Full Story
Eleven people were wounded Wednesday when unidentified militants hurled a grenade at a crowded market in India's insurgency-torn Jammu and Kashmir state, police said. Full Story
The leader of long-reclusive North Korea said he would open ties with the United States right away if it removes his country from a list of terrorism-sponsoring nations, South Korea's state media reported Sunday. Full Story
Britain and Ireland have issued a joint plea for new information about the 1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland which killed 29 people. Full Story
Tuesday's explosion in Moscow has thrown into high relief the gulf that exists in Russia between those who are prepared to play on prejudices against the Chechens and those who recognize the dangers of demonizing an entire people. Full Story
An Algerian accused of conspiring to support an alleged bombing plot in the United States pleaded innocent as he made his first appearance Monday in a U.S. court. Full Story
Nine people were injured, three of them seriously, in an explosion at a Berlin apartment block on Monday morning after the building”s gas supply had been tampered with, police said. Full Story
Three leading Basque separatists were formally accused Monday with advocating terrorism, Spanish prosecutors said. Full Story
A Yugoslav military investigation into two British policemen and two Canadians arrested earlier this month has been closed with accusations of terrorism not upheld, a defence lawyer said Monday. Full Story
Former Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) commander Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair survived an assassination attempt in the early hours of this morning when a pipe bomb was thrown at his car. Full Story
Nine people were killed and 37 wounded when a bomb ripped through the last carriage of a night train in northern India, officials said. Full Story
The spectacular Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, an architectural triumph rising from the rusty site of a bankrupt shipyard, has been pictured around the world as a symbol of Spain's transformation from the sick child of Europe to a vibrant and unified economic superstar. Full Story
As tensions mounted across the country, Indian troops implemented an intensive security operation ahead of Tuesday — the nation's Independence Day. Full Story
A woman who was severely burned in a bomb blast died Monday, bringing the death toll from the rush-hour explosion to 12, a hospital official said. Full Story
Attackers lobbed a firebomb into the garden of a European Union official”s home, a diplomat said Saturday, in the latest attack against foreign officials and their property. Full Story
Tanzania and United States have renewed their pledge to work closely to ensure that those who bombed US embassies in East Africa two years ago are brought to justice. Full Story
Another Cape Town radio station received an anonymous call yesterday morning claiming that there would be another bomb blast soon. Full Story
Twelve people were injured, three of them seriously, when a bomb, planted under a fruit vendor's cart, went off in the busy Rail Bazaar here on Sunday, damaging several shops and vehicles. Full Story
A car bomb has exploded in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio slightly injuring several people and causing extensive damage to the island's Agency for Economic Development (ADEC), police said. Full Story
A car bomb exploded outside a police station on the capital's outskirts Sunday, injuring a civilian, amid rural clashes between troops and guerrillas that left at least 17 dead over the weekend, police said. Full Story
Army troops rescued a 73-year-old Colombian newsman and four other people during a raid on a rebel hide-out on Sunday, officials said. Full Story
Twenty-two people died and 52 were wounded in a string of land mine explosions and gun battles in troubled Jammu and Kashmir state on Sunday, ahead of Indian independence day ceremonies next week. Full Story
Two Red Cross workers released by kidnappers in former Soviet Georgia arrived in Geneva to an emotional reunion with their families Sunday, more than a week after they were taken hostage near the border with Chechnya. Full Story
A car bomb exploded on Sunday in a working class neighborhood of the Colombian capital as an army convoy passed through the area, and RCN television said a soldier was wounded and several buildings were damaged. Full Story
The co-pilot of EgyptAir Flight 990 showed no evidence of increased psychological stress as his Boeing 767 dived toward the Atlantic on Oct. 31, calmly repeating in Arabic the phrase “I rely on God,” according to data released yesterday by the National Transportation Safety Board. Full Story
Police said Friday they believe they thwarted a major bomb attack when soldiers discovered half a ton of homemade explosives in a van that crossed the border from Northern Ireland into the Irish Republic. Full Story
The arrest itself of four Westerners in Montenegro on suspicion of terrorism “does not necessarily mean they are terrorists,” the Yugoslav army chief of staff was quoted Thursday as saying by the Montenegrin daily Vijesti. Full Story
UN Security Council members on Thursday strongly condemned a bomb blast in central Moscow on Tuesday that killed eight and wounded more than 90 people, calling it an act of terrorism. Full Story
A German college student and an American professor were among a 26-member group from the University of Bogota kidnapped in northwestern Colombia, the German Foreign Ministry said Friday. Full Story
German officials began a legal process on Friday that could lead to a fringe far-right party being outlawed as a neo-Nazi threat to democracy. Full Story
A Moslem guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for a deadly bomb attack on Thursday in Indian-ruled Kashmir was quoted as threatening to launch its heaviest bombing in 10 years against India. Full Story
A bomb exploded in a car parked outside a busy Cape Town shopping center on Friday, police said. There were no reports of any injuries. Full Story
Armed Basque separatist group ETA, currently in the middle of an intense offensive, claimed responsibility Friday for a series of recent attacks in Spain including two assassinations. Full Story
Russian officials pledged today to apprehend those responsible for Tuesday's deadly bomb blast in central Moscow, but residents were skeptical and began taking their own precautions. Full Story
A powerful car bomb exploded in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar Thursday, killing 10 people and wounding several, including journalists, Star News television reported. Witnesses said the dead included seven Indian security personnel. Full Story
Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy revealed Wednesday that he had succeeded in getting assistance from Moscow in the ongoing crisis over two Canadians and two Britons being held on suspicion terrorism in Yugoslavia. Full Story
Uzbek troops on Wednesday killed up to 15 heavily-armed Islamist rebels who had crossed the border from Tajikistan and shot dead several soldiers, according to the Uzbek defense ministry. Full Story
Thousands are joining the Abu Sayyaf kidnappers in the southern Philippines, lured by the huge ransoms the Muslim group has sought for some of its mostly foreign hostages, officials said Thursday. Full Story
Kuwait has put part of its army on alert following a hostile speech by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on the 10th anniversary of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Sheikh Salim al-Sabah said Kuwait could not trust the Iraqi regime and had to remain vigilant – although he said the…
A car bomb ripped through the main shopping district here after a smaller decoy explosion on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 20 others. Several journalists filming a car damaged in the first explosion were among those wounded when the second blast went off. Home ministry officials in New Delhi said the explosions…
Spain's government, facing its fiercest ETA offensive in a decade, met opposition leaders on Thursday to discuss the crisis as opponents and supporters of the Basque separatists prepared to take to the streets. Full Story
The blast which rocked central Moscow on Tuesday injured two Americans, including a 13-year-old boy who was in hospital on Wednesday, the U.S. embassy said. Full Story
The father of one of two Canadians arrested by the Yugoslav army on suspicion of terrorism admitted Tuesday that he couldn't fathom what happened. Full Story
The United States on Tuesday called on Central Asian governments to cooperate in combatting Islamic rebels in the region but urged caution as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan mount operations against them. Full Story