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Russia's Foreign Intelligence Agency has denied media reports that its UN official Vladimir Kuznetsov is involved in spying activities, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.

The new regulations would most likely be implemented in early November, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said.

POLICE last night denied the UVF are in control of north Belfast following a day of serious rioting which saw officers attacked with petrol bombs and several vehicles burnt out.

DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi security forces battled heavily armed suspected al-Qaida members holed up in a sea-front apartment building Monday, a day after two militants -- one of them the kingdom's No.

The Argentine government acknowledged Monday the entry into the country of members of an "orthodox Muslim group" but denied they were linked to international terrorism or were seeking to recruit members.

US and Afghan forces swooped in by helicopter and killed 12 militants who were preparing to carry out attacks before this month's parliamentary elections in Afghanistan They also arrested nine rebels during ...1.3

Five more people have been arrested following attacks on police officers in a loyalist area of north Belfast.2.9

Weeping residents of Indonesia's third-biggest city picked through the charred rubble of their homes on Tuesday a day after a domestic airliner slammed into a local neighborhood, killing 149 people.1.3

Beijing keeps a tight grip on northwestern Xinjiang, which shares a border with Afghanistan, Pakistan, three former Soviet republics, Russia and Mongolia and where ethnic Uighur militants have been struggling ...2

Iraq bill proposes anti-terror death penalty 06-09-2005 / 08:00 Iraq's parliament debated a sweeping anti-terror draft law which proposes the death penalty for perpetrators of terrorist acts, their accomplices ...1.3

Compiled from Kyodo, AP Eleven university hospitals in Tokyo received letters at the beginning of September saying they would be bombed within 45 days, police said Monday.2.7

The party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Monday named a jailed Roman Catholic priest as its candidate for Haiti's president in elections this fall.1.3

A Chinese tourist in traditional costume poses for souvenir pictures. On Focus Parties should be clear on terrorism, good governance: HM Exchange Rate Currency Buying Selling Pound Euro Date: 2005-09-05 Bullion ...2.9

As you read this column one of the world's most cold-blooded terrorist sits in a jail in El Paso, Texas.2.7

Saudi security forces battled heavily armed suspected al-Qaida members holed up in a sea-front apartment building Monday, a day after two militants - one of them the kingdom's No.4.4

In his most powerful novels, Salman Rushdie has dexterously spun his characters' surreal experiences into resonant historical allegories.2.9

The ironies and contradictions in which Israel finds herself entangled today could be material for a Keystone Kops comedy if the results were not so tragic, the ramifications so gruesome.2.7

New Orleans became a struggle with life and death as police sought to evacuate the last diehard survivors of Hurricane Katrina and mobile morgues made a door-to-door search for corpses.2

Unb, Dhaka Saber Hossain Chowdhury, political secretary to Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, yesterday said BNP leader Tarique Rahman is now trying to appear as a 'good guy' by distancing himself from the ...4

Crowds attacked police in Belfast on Monday as officers carried out raids against pro-British paramilitaries in the latest incident sparked by in-fighting between rival Protestant groups.

The government of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has banned all Maoist groups following a landmine blast that killed 24 policeman.2.7

Syrian anti-terror forces raided a hideout of a terrorist group belonging to a terrorist organization called "Jund al-Sham" in Hama, northwest Syria, yesterday evening, an official source at the interior ...

Lucknow, Sept 5. : The Uttar Pradesh government has sounded a red alert in all the major railway stations across the state following a threat by international terrorist group al Qaeda to blow up Charbagh ...2.7

Hizb ut-Tahrir, one of two radical Islamic organizations singled out for critical attention by the British government in the wake of the July London bombings, says it is misunderstood.2.9

Uzbek authorities have completed their investigation into 15 cases concerning the May 13 uprising in Andijan, Uzbekistan and transferred them to the court system, a spokesman for the Uzbek parliament, the Oli ...3.1

THE terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 changed everything, Americans are constantly told.2.9

Australian authorities said they were considering tightening citizenship rules to allow more comprehensive anti-terrorism screening of would-be nationals.2.7

Suspected J&K; terrorists hurled a grenade on a busy road in Shopian town in Kashmir on Monday, wounding about a dozen people, police said, hours before the start of talks between All Parties Hurriyat Conference ...2.7

Colombia's largest rebel group on Sunday rejected the government's offer of peace negotiations and said that talks could be held only about swapping jailed rebels for hostages held by the guerrillas.2.7

Kazakhstan has arrested Ruslan Chagilov, a resident of Karachayevo-Cherkesia who is suspected of committing several crimes in Russia.2.7

Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian and three co-defendants are on trial in federal court, accused of using Islamic charities as fronts in a conspiracy to finance terrorist attacks by ...3.1

Natalie Portman stars in "V for Vendetta," a film that has some echoes of the July attacks in London.2.7

THE number of Welsh police forces could be halved under a Home Office plan to help fight crime and terrorism, sparking fears that officers will become even more remote from local communities.

It is the map of Ottawa -- with clearly marked federal nuclear facilities, a virus lab and other supposed terrorist targets -- that fuelled an international panic and played into a chain of Middle East ...2.7

The scene was emblematic of the war on terror: a government helicopter clattering over a home in Burke as gun-toting agents smashed through the door and handcuffed the owner, a Lebanese immigrant.