A Lebanese military court began the trial on Friday of 29 alleged followers of Saudi-exile Osama bin Laden on charges of planning attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets in Jordan. Full Story

Was a New Hampshire woman exposed to bacteria being used for bioterrorism? That&#039s the question asked by medical personnel who treated her for what seemed to be brucellosis, an infection normally associated with direct contact with diseased animals or consumption of unpasteurized dairy products. Full Story

As he masterminds the largest policing project in Utah history, Craig Dearden has a new ideal: He hopes his troops safeguard the 2002 Olympic Winter Games with the same take-nothing-for-granted mindset as anti-terrorist officials in Israel. Full Story

When the threat of nuclear terrorism arises, volunteers in Nevada or Maryland gather to assess the threat, and, if necessary, disarm any radioactive or nuclear device. Full Story

On Sunday, June 4, the CBS News program “60 Minutes” showed a striking report as its lead segment: A man claiming to be Ahmad Behbahani, a “czar of Iranian state-sponsored terrorism,” was being held under armed guard in Turkey, where he was seeking to get his story out. Full Story

Rock County is receiving a $12,500 federal grant to help combat domestic terrorism. The funding comes from federal legislation passed after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to provide money to help cities and counties conduct emergency preparedness surveys and training, said Ed Gleason, administrator of the state Division of Emergency Management. Full Story

An international conference dealing with fight against terrorism in Central Asia ended here on Thursday. It was called on the US initiative proposed during US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright&#039s tour of the region in April. Full Story

The hostages come from seven countries. Malaysia has said the Philippines may have to consider paying a ransom to Muslim rebels who have been holding 21 hostages for nearly two months. Full Story

Five policemen were killed and another eight hurt in a fresh upsurge of violence in Nepal by Maoist rebels trying to overthrow the constitutional monarchy, police said on Friday. Full Story

Convicted international guerrilla “Carlos the Jackal&#039&#039 said in a statement from prison Thursday his band of feared revolutionaries had been given diplomatic passports by Syria during the years of some of its main actions. Full Story

A hearing on Terry Nichols&#039 motion to dismiss state murder charges against him for the Oklahoma City bombing has been continued until July 3 by a judge who declined to step down from the case. Full Story

Sunni Muslim extremists, including supporters of Saudi terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden, now appear to be using Canada as a base to launch attacks in the United States, the Canadian counterintelligence agency said on Thursday. Full Story

Ecuadorean protesters threw a bomb at a Citibank branch and several people were wounded by shotgun pellets after clashes with police Thursday on the first day of a 48-hour general strike. Full Story

FBI director Louis Freeh on Thursday offered the U.S. cooperation in the fight against ETA terrorism to Spanish Interior Minister Jaime Mayor Oreja. Full Story

Findings by the State Department and a congressional commission on terrorism asked Americans to suspend disbelief by portraying Greece as among the world&#039s most dangerous anti-American terrorist countries, (&#039&#039Foreign officials decry U.S. terrorism report,&#039&#039 News, June 6). Full Story

U.S. Under Secretary of State Thomas Pickering has said that the United States is much concerned and worried over the terrorism issue in South Asia and if these concerns are not addressed then Washington would be compelled to consider other sanctions, a newspaper here reported Thursday. Full Story

The FBI calls them “special interest terrorists” and you’ve heard of a few — animal rights and anti-abortion extremists, in particular. But there’s a relatively new subgroup that’s doing more and more damage: saboteurs opposed to genetic engineering of plants, produce and animals. A review by MSNBC.com found that 2000 is on track to be…

Laos said on Thursday it had arrested two men in connection with a spate of bombings in the capital Vientiane and other cities in recent months. Full Story

Uzbekistan&#039s interior ministry said Thursday its forces had cordoned off the U.S. embassy in the capital Tashkent after receiving an anonymous call saying there may be an explosive device in the vicinity. Full Story

The Philippine government is ready to meet a reported threat of the National Democratic Front (NDF) to conduct terrorist acts in the country, a senior official said Thursday. Full Story

Uzbek President Islam Karimov, on an official visit in Tajikistan, told a news conference in Dushanbe on Thursday that “the expansion of not only drugs and arms, but, above all, of religious extremism and terrorism from Afghanistan is a factor noone should overlook”. This factor poses serious threat to security in Central Asia, the Uzbek…

The Solomon Islands rebels who have controlled the capital Honiara since an attempted coup on 5 June say they will surrender the town but not their weapons. Full Story

The small town of Ole, headquarters of Isoko Local Government Area of Delta was yesterday turned into a theatre of death when irate youths suspected to be from Uzoro overran the town leaving no fewer than 11 persons dead and 32 injured. But the police however confirmed only one death. Full Story

Three policemen have been killed and another three injured in an attack by Maoist rebels in Nepal. The authorities say the rebels also suffered some casualties, but there are no details. Full Story

Argentine police rescued three hostages unharmed and arrested their two captors at a service station in a lightning strike Wednesday in South America&#039s second televised standoff drama this week. Full Story

The Secret Service has developed a &#039&#039smart card&#039&#039 that it hopes will alleviate security concerns after a government report revealed security breaches at two airports and 19 government buildings. Full Story

Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Madrid and Moscow were worried at the rising international terrorist activities. Full Story

THE Governor of Rio de Janeiro yesterday sacked the city&#039s police chief Colonel Sergio Cruz, saying that the force had made an “unforgiveable mistake” when a four-hour stand-off inside a bus ended in the death of a hostage and the alleged murder of the assailant by policemen. Full Story

With sanctions on Iraq crumbling, U.N. Security Council states are pondering how to punish Afghanistan&#039s Taleban for shielding terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden without hurting millions of dirt-poor Afghans. Full Story

At least two civilians were killed and seven, including air force personnel, were wounded in a suicide bomb blast in Sri Lanka&#039s capital Colombo on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said. Full Story

The Dutch EOD explosives unit on Tuesday morning defused a bomb placed outside an office building in the Hague, the Dutch news agency ANP reported on Tuesday. Full Story

FOR 25 YEARS, the small terrorist organization known as November 17 has sown death in Greece. The tiny ultra-left group has killed some 23 persons since 1975, starting with CIA Athens station chief Richard Welch. Full Story

A US-organized conference focused on countering the growing threat of terrorism in highly volatile Central Asia opened here Tuesday with representatives from 11 countries in attendance. Full Story

Greece, under pressure to step up its fight against terrorism, doubled its reward Tuesday for information on the elusive November 17 guerrilla group which killed a British diplomat on an Athens street last week. Full Story

Russia and the United States are setting up a working group to combat terrorism that will give special attention to Afghanistan. This was confirmed to Itar-Tass in the US Department of State. These plans of Moscow and Washington were announced at a news conference in Moscow last Friday by Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. Full…

Unidentified assailants opened fire on a market in south Mogadishu overnight killing at least nine people and wounding 16 others, an Islamic court official said Tuesday. Full Story

‘- Seven police officers were killed on Monday when unidentified armed men ambushed a patrol in Mexico&#039s troubled southern state of Chiapas, where Zapatista Indian rebels took up arms six years ago, an official said. Full Story

Greece will propose to Britain a European Union initiative to combat terrorism, saying last week&#039s shooting of a British military attache in Athens made a case for joint action. Full Story

The political part of the Russian-Spanish top-level dialogue in Madrid will focus on problems of international security, anti-missile defense, the European Union and the struggle against terrorism. Full Story

Brazilian police on Monday fatally shot a gunman who had been holding six hostages on a bus in Rio de Janeiro, but one of the hostages also died in the final shootout shown live on national television. Full Story

US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Monday called on her Greek counterpart to press Athens to take strong action against terrorism following the murder of a British military attache there last week. Full Story

Tensions rose in Fiji on Monday after soldiers fired shots at a car carrying coup leader George Speight and his supporters accused the military of trying to assassinate him. Full Story

The Solomon Islands police chief made an urgent plea for Australian help yesterday after an armed raiding party from Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea, seized control of an island in the coup-stricken country. Full Story

Suspected members of a Maoist rebel group trying to topple Nepal&#039s constitutional monarchy have kidnapped a civil servant for the first time. Full Story

Three powerful bomb explosions in different parts of the city rocked the provincial capital late on Sunday night. The blasts occurred with brief intervals. Two bombs were planted near the police chief&#039s residence and a police station, while the third was aimed at a bank. Full Story

Christian leaders are blaming the ruling Hindu nationalists and the extremist organisations that back them for the bombing of four churches in southern India last week, just as they blame them for two years of anti-Christian violence since the Government was formed. Full Story

Senior agency officials had been feeling pretty good since the millennium celebrations came and went without a single terrorist bomb going off. They claim the CTC played “an important role” in taking down a terrorist cell in Jordan linked to terrorist financier Osama bin Laden in early December that was planning anywhere from five to…

The Olympic Games have long been a favorite target of terrorists, from Munich in 1972 to Atlanta in 1996. And Thursday&#039s assassination of a British diplomat in Athens is a reminder that the city&#039s 2004 Olympiad may be an explosion waiting to happen. The leftist November 17 group claimed responsibility for the drive-by shooting of…

An Iranian defector who said he could prove Iran was responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing has been exposed by the CIA and FBI as an impostor, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Full Story

The Taliban militia on Saturday rejected mounting US and Russian pressure over terrorism, saying their bilateral working group announced this week would only aggravate an already tense situation. Full Story

Greece is keen for full international cooperation in fighting terroism, its defence minister said Sunday, just days after the assassination in Athens of the British military attache. Full Story

A Norwegian diplomat died but his son survived a shootout between their kidnappers and police north of the Yemeni capital, in a second such deadly incident since December 1998, tribal sources said Sunday. Full Story

A group of Iranian and Iraqi stowaways have hijacked an Italian merchant vessel bound for India and are demanding political asylum, Indian officials and the ship&#039s agents said on Sunday. Full Story

A young member of one of the warring militias in the Solomon Islands was shot and killed Sunday as ethnic unrest appeared to spread to remote western islands in the strife-torn South Pacific nation. Full Story

A Greek court summoned a former Central Intelligence Agency director to testify, as efforts to track down the killers of a British diplomat generated little success, authorities said Saturday. Full Story

Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, overthrown by the Taliban militia in 1996, said Saturday that Afghanistan has become a haven for terrorists and drug traffickers. Full Story

Imagine a day at Comiskey Park turned into a terrorist nightmare when a nerve gas bomb explodes in the picnic patio. Full Story

Three crows found dead in the New York City area have been confirmed infected with the West Nile virus, health officials said. Full Story

There is little that any country can do to protect every potential target from assassination by determined terrorists. But the killing of Brigadier Stephen Saunders in central Athens yesterday was brazen, horrific and inexcusable. It came less than a week after Greece was accused by a US congressional report of such indolence in fighting terrorism…

A car bomb rocked a Cape Town cafe on Saturday night, injuring two people, just three weeks after police defused a device at the same location. Full Story