Israel Blames Iran for Bulgaria Bus Bombing
Iran's foreign minister has rejected claims by Israel that his country is behind a suicide attack in Bulgaria. That is according to state run media. Wednesday's bombing killed seven people on a tourist bus, including five Israelis. Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from Jerusalem.

Florida Mosque Bombing Suspect Fatally Shot in Oklahoma
CBS NEWS: ORIENTA, Okla. — A man wanted in the bombing of a Florida mosque was shot and killed Wednesday when he brandished a weapon as agents tried to serve an arrest warrant in northwest Oklahoma, FBI officials said.

Sandlin Matthews Smith, 46, of St. Johns County, Fla., pulled out a firearm as federal and state law enforcement officers approached him in a field at Glass Mountain State Park near Orienta and asked him to surrender, said FBI Special Agent Jeff Westcott of Jacksonville, Fla.

Westcott said agents learned late Tuesday that Smith was staying in a tent in the park, located in the rugged foothills of the Glass Mountains in northwest Oklahoma. An Oklahoma City FBI SWAT team and other law enforcement officers blocked off the area overnight, Westcott said.

Agent Clayton Simmonds at the FBI's Oklahoma City office said Smith was taken to a hospital in Fairview, where he was pronounced dead. » | AP | Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Indonesia: Islamic Militants 'Planned to Film Cathedral Bomb'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Islamic militants involved in a plot to bomb an Indonesian cathedral ahead of Easter celebrations planned to film and broadcast the inferno.

Indonesian police said 19 suspects, who had planted bombs beneath a gas pipeline at the Christ Cathedral near Jakarta, were part of a new terrorist cell inspired by al-Qaeda. » | Friday, April 22, 2011

Jerusalem Bus Bomb Victim Was British
THE GUARDIAN: Foreign Office confirms 60-year-old woman killed in explosion outside Jerusalem's main bus station was UK national


The woman killed when a suitcase bomb exploded in Jerusalem on Wednesday was British, the Foreign Office has confirmed.

The bombing, the first in the city for seven years, left the 60-year-old dead and injured dozens of others.

"We can confirm the death of a British national," said a Foreign Office spokeswoman, adding that the woman's family had been informed. » | Adam Gabbatt | Thursday, March 24, 2011

Egypt Warns against Israeli Attack on Gaza
AHRAM ONLINE: Egypt's new foreign minister issues a statement warning Tel Aviv of the negative consequences of launching any military operations in Gaza following bus bombing in Jerusalem

Foreign Minister Nabil El-Arabi on Wednesday evening issued a press statement to "reject and condemn attacks on any civilian life" in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip.

El-Arabi's statement came hours after an explosion hit a Jerusalem bus, killing one woman and leaving around 20 others wounded in West Jerusalem.



The statement issued by the office of the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson warned at the same time "of the grave consequences of escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence".



El-Arabi stated that a new cycle of violence would endanger stability and compromise the interests of Palestinians and Israelis.



Meanwhile, Foreign Minister El-Arabi urged Israel to exercise self-restraint. "Rushing into an operation in Gaza would only aggravate tension and frustration," he stated. » | Dina Ezzat | Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Jerusalem Bomb Raises Fears of More Violence
Mar 23 - A bomb attack in Jerusalem breaks years of relative calm and is raising fears the incident could spark more violence. Deborah Lutterbeck reports

Libya: Gaddafi Compound Attacked after Air Force 'Destroyed'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Col Muammar Gaddafi's Tripoli compound was targeted by coalition air strikes on Wednesday night as a senior British commander said the Libyan air force had been destroyed.


Five loud blasts were reported at Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound, where he had made an address on Tuesday night and which had been first attacked on Sunday night.

There were eight further large explosions heard in the east of the capital and at a military base in Tajura, 20 miles to the east of the city.

State television reported “a large number of civilians” had been killed.

In the eastern city of Misurata, rebels have been besieged by Gaddafi’s forces for weeks, but said allied air strikes had offered much-needed respite.

RAF Air Vice-Marshal Greg Bagwell disclosed that allied forces had all but wiped out the Libyan air force and were attacking ground troops wherever they threatened the civilian population. “We are now applying sustained and unrelenting pressure on the Libyan armed forces,” he said, during a visit to the RAF base at Gioia del Colle in southern Italy. “Effectively, their air force no longer exists as a fighting force and their integrated air defence system and command and control networks are severely degraded to the point that we can operate with near impunity across Libya.” » | Victoria Ward, Alex Spillius and Nick Squires aboard the USS Kearsarg | Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Bombs Fall on Libya's Ras Lanuf
As battles rage across Libya, dozens of people have been killed after Colonel Gaddafi's forces launched a fresh wave of air strikes on rebel groups. The repeated strikes came as Gaddafi began a major diplomatic effort which was seen by some as a sign that he may be prepared to end the war, sending diplomats to the Arab League, NATO and the European Union. Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland was there as the bombs fell on Ras Lanuf in the east

Pakistan Hit by Second Bombing in Two Days with Attack in Peshawar
THE TELEGRAPH: Suspected Taliban terrorists have bombed a second Pakistani city in as many days, with reports of blasts in Peshawar.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing and shooting attack in Lahore on Wednesday that claimed as many as 30 lives.

Hours later two explosions were reported in a market in the northern city of Peshawar. Initial reports said that 15 people had been wounded in the blast.

Hakimullah Mehsud, a deputy to the Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, said that the Lahore attack, in which offices used by the police and the provicial headquarters of the ISI intelligence service were targeted, "was in response to the Swat operation where innocent people have been killed".

A little-known group calling itself the Taliban Movement in Punjab has also claimed responsibility for the attack. >>> Telegraph’s foreign staff and agencies, Lahore | Thursday, May 28, 2009