An explosion ripped through a chemical plant in eastern Japan on Saturday evening, killing four people, injuring 25 and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents, fire officials said. Full Story

Greece, reeling from the assassination on an Athens street of a senior British diplomat by the elusive November 17 urban guerrilla group, pledged on Friday to work harder to combat terrorism. Full Story

The government moved swiftly yesterday to repair the political damage caused by Wednesday&#039s deadly suicide bombing in Sri Lanka, announcing that it would amend the Criminal Code if necessary to stop terrorist fundraising in Canada. Full Story

Canadian companies have been identified as a possible source of materials and expertise for rogue states, such as Iraq and Libya, that are trying to develop biological weapons — the “poor man&#039s atomic bomb” — according to a new report by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Full Story

The Russian and U.S. presidents agreed to set up a bilateral working group to work out measures to counter the terrorist threat from the Afghanistan territory. Full Story

Gunmen in Indonesia&#039s strife-torn Aceh province have taken two gas plant workers hostage and are demanding a 4 billion rupiah ($840,000) ransom, a newspaper reported yesterday. Full Story

The Greek guerrilla group November 17 has said it killed British defence attache Stephen Saunders in Athens because of his role in the Kosovo conflict. The admission in a 13-page statement came as officers from Scotland Yard&#039s anti-terrorist branch and UK Foreign Office investigators travelled to Greece to help with the inquiry. Full Story

Europe&#039s most elusive terrorist group claimed responsibility today for the assassination of a British defense attache, saying he was killed because of his role in NATO&#039s “barbaric&#039&#039 airstrikes against Yugoslavia last year. Full Story

A large explosion near the site of Turkish naval maneuvers broke windows and panicked residents Friday, police said. The Greek Defense Ministry said the blast occurred off Rhodes, about 280 miles southeast of Athens. Full Story

Canada said on Thursday that 30 of its nationals were being evacuated by Australia from the Solomon Islands, riven by fierce jungle fighting between rival ethnic militia groups. Full Story

Britain was reviewing security at its embassies worldwide Friday after the killing of a military diplomat in Greece, a Foreign Office spokesman said. Full Story

The U.S. ambassador to Fiji labeled coup leader George Speight a “common criminal&#039&#039 on Friday, as talks between Fijian chiefs and Speight aimed at resolving the three-week-old hostage crisis ended without a breakthrough. Full Story

A wave of “state-sponsored terrorism&#039&#039 against opponents of President Robert Mugabe is threatening free and fair elections in Zimbabwe, Amnesty International said Thursday. Full Story

U.S. weapons experts and CIA officers told the Lockerbie murder trial on Thursday that bomb components found in Africa were similar to those used to destroy Pan Am flight 103. Full Story

Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday condemned the murder of a British military attache in Greece as a “contemptible act of terrorism”. Full Story

Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikitan intend to fight international terrorism more vigorously. They will exchange information and carry out joint large-scale anti-terroristic operations, Russian Special Representative on the “Shanghai-5” Vitaly Vorobyov told Itar-Tass on Thursday. He took part in the session of the joint team for controlling the fulfilment of agreements within this regional…

Police today detained 15 suspects in a suicide bombing that killed 21 people, including a popular Cabinet minister, and Sri Lanka&#039s president urged against retaliatory attacks on the Tamil minority. Full Story

Two persons were injured in two bomb explosions in churches in Prakasham and West Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday morning. Full Story

Police today detained 19 suspects in a suicide bombing that killed 23 people, including a popular Cabinet minister, and Sri Lanka&#039s president urged against retaliatory attacks on the Tamil minority. Full Story

An Australian navy ship began evacuating Australians and other foreigners from the Solomon Islands Thursday after fierce jungle fighting between rival ethnic militia sparked by a coup attempt. Full Story

Greek police said Thursday that ballistic tests had shown that the gun used to kill British diplomat Stephen Saunders earlier in the day had been used by the November 17 urban guerrilla group in past attacks. Full Story

Remaining on alert against terrorism is a demand of the times. There are enough people with a distorted sense of justice, for whom violence has become a way of life, to justify extraordinary prevention measures. Full Story

India on Wednesday strongly condemned the assassination of a senior Sri Lankan minister and 19 others and said that such an act of terrorism had no place in a democracy. Full Story

Top terrorism preparedness concerns of nearly 1,000 fire, police and health officials from Ohio&#039s 88 counties who attended a two-day terrorism conference sponsored by the Ohio Emergency Management Agency. Full Story

The United States pledged Tuesday to maintain a vigorous security dialogue with Pakistan after the Islamabad government rejected a report which branded the country a “safe haven” for terrorists. Full Story

A senior government minister and 21 others were killed in a suicide bomb blast in a southern suburb of Colombo as the country remembered thousands of its war dead with a two-minute silence. Full Story

Rebels in Sierra Leone have seized 21 Indian peacekeepers and moved them from their besieged post in eastern Sierra Leone, possibly planning to free them into neighboring Liberia, the United Nations said Tuesday. Full Story

Fijian soldiers and coup rebels exchanged gunfire on Wednesday near Suva&#039s parliamentary compound where some 30 political hostages, including deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, have been held since May 19. Full Story

Solomon Islands militia leader Andrew Nori said that up to 100 men from a rival militia were killed in a gunboat attack outside the capital Honiara on Wednesday. Full Story

The document entitled “COUNTERING THE CHANGING THREAT OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM”, which is the report of the National Commission on Terrorism is available for viewing. Full Document

City&#039s conference exposes the difficult task of combating silent, elusive danger. Full Story

The State Department said today that it continued to support a dialogue with Iran despite accusations that Iran was responsible for the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 people on Dec. 21, 1988. Full Story

A congressional advisory panel was drawing fire Monday after recommending increased monitoring of foreign students and proposing possible sanctions against Greece and Pakistan to guard against terrorism directed at the United States. Full Story

A bomb explosion in a hotel lobby in southern Laos injured around 10 people last week, the latest in a series of mysterious blasts in the usually sleepy communist state, a pro-democracy radio station reported Monday. Full Story

Police killed three kidnappers in a 10-minute firefight Monday and rescued six people held hostage for more than a month in a rural town in southeastern Brazil. Full Story

Reports from Algeria say ten Islamist militants and eleven government soldiers have been killed in operations against the rebels east of the capital, Algiers. Full Story

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa&#039alu, who is being held at gunpoint by militiamen, offered to resign Tuesday but only at a meeting of parliament, one of his government ministers said. Full Story

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Adeli denied reports that Tehran wants to destabilize Turkey through a series of political killings amid allegations that Iran plotted the bombing of a Pan-Am jet in 1988 which killed 270 people. Full Story

Greece Monday rejected a U.S. congressional report on terrorism asek&#039s inter-Kor unacceptable. report published by the U.S. daily “Washingtested the traton e National Committee on Terrorism proposed sanctions against Greece because Athens was not cooperating fully in combating terrorism. Full Story

The threat of terror attacks against domestic targets in the United States has grown and the government needs to do more to guard against potentially devastating incidents like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, a congressionally appointed panel said in a report on Monday. Full Story

A key member of Japan&#039s doomsday cult accused of a fatal 1995 gas attack on Tokyo subways was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for a total of 10 related crimes, including murder. Full Story

This time last year, hundreds of Pakistani Army regulars and trained militants were discovered entrenched deep inside the high mountain peaks of the Kargil area in India&#039s state of Jammu and Kashmir. The three-month, high-intensity conflict that ensued between the two nuclear-armed states shocked the world into realizing that a post-cold- war nuclear exchange remained…

General Accounting Office testimony entitled “Chemical and Biological Defense: Program Planning and Evaluation Should Follow Results Act Framework”. Full Testimony

Government forces shot dead at least seven Tamil Tiger guerrillas in northern Sri Lanka as President Chandrika Kumaratunga said the rebels had again rejected peace talks. Full Story

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on Sunday that concerns about “terrorism&#039&#039 will not lead to sanctions against Greece and Pakistan, no matter what a new congressional report may say. Full Story

Rebels in Fiji rejected a demand by the military to lay down their arms and release 30 politicians held since May 19 and said they would wait as long as it takes to achieve their goals. Full Story

French anti-terrorist authorities have taken over the probe into an apparently deliberate train derailment that killed two people and injured 25 over the weekend, judicial sources said on Monday. Full Story

The accusations made by an Iranian defector implicating Tehran in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing are “a plot doomed to failure, ” Iranian television said Monday. Full Story

US investigators ordered a record number of secret wiretaps in spying and terrorism investigations in 1999, USA Today reported Monday. Full Story

Armed rebels have taken the Solomon Islands&#039 prime minister hostage in an apparent coup attempt. New Zealand&#039s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman Brad Pattersfield said insurgents from the Malaita Eagle Force militia were holding Prime Minister Bartholemew Ulufa&#039alua hostage. Full Story

Australian and international intelligence agencies are increasingly alarmed at the emergence throughout South and South-East Asia of terrorist groups linked to Osama bin Laden, amid new evidence that the multi-millionaire Saudi extremist has bought biological weapons from a former Soviet state. Full Story

A blue-ribbon commission is urging the federal government to take more aggressive steps to prevent terrorism, including monitoring all foreign students in the United States, loosening restrictions on the CIA and threatening sanctions against such friendly states as Greece and Pakistan. Full Story Additional Stories – CNN, Fox News, LA Times, ABC News, CAIR Response

A man who said he coordinated most of Iran&#039s terror operations of the last decade claimed responsibility for two major attacks on the United States, the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 and the Khobar Towers bombing, “60 Minutes” reported Sunday. Full Story

At least 14 people, including five Indian soldiers and three policemen, were killed in the latest gunbattles and guerrilla attacks in troubled Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. Full Story

The foreign affairs spokesman of Britain&#039s opposition Conservative Party on Sunday accused Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe of using state-sponsored terrorism to undermine the opposition before upcoming elections. Full Story

A man was being held on Sunday after a train derailed overnight just south of Lyon, killing two people and injuring 15, police said. Full Story

An Algerian man suspected of links to an alleged international plot to blow up U.S. buildings will be handed over to immigration authorities for probable deportation, the Seattle Times said in an online report on Friday. Full Story

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…