INDONESIA’S anti-terrorism unit arrested a radical Islamist cleric yesterday for alleged ties to an al-Qaida affiliated cell accused of plotting high-profile assassinations and Mumbai-style attacks targeting foreigners in the capital.

AN Indian court yesterday sentenced to death three people, including a married couple, for planting high-explosive bombs that killed 52 in the city of Mumbai in 2003.

A video found in a terrorist hideout gives step-by-step instructions on how to make bombs, an indication that the extremist threat in Indonesia did not end with the death last week of one of Asia’s most-wanted militants.