Despite new surveillance video footage that may offer a possible clue to the bombing in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, Thai police said the perpetrators may have already fled the country.

 

Blast near popular shrine intended to weaken tourism and economy as man on CCTV not yet identified.

China’s government has alleged that more than 100 minority Muslim Uighurs who were sent back by Thailand after fleeing China were on their way to fight in the Middle East and that some were implicated in terrorist activities at home.

Trials have started for four people accused of killing 31 people in a knife attack outside a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Kunming.

A total of 32 people in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang have been jailed, three of them for life, for terror offences stemming from downloading and spreading violent internet content which authorities have blamed for inspiring several deadly attacks.

Attackers crashed a pair of vehicles and hurled explosives in a suicide attack on a busy street market in the capital of China's volatile north-western region of Xinjiang, leaving dozens dead and injured.

Police in western China have shot dead eight “terrorists” who attacked them using knives and explosives in the latest in a string of violent incidents in the ethnically tense region.

The militant East Turkestan Islamic Movement organised the suicide vehicle attack that killed five people in the heart of Beijing this week, China’s most senior security official said.

Violent incidents have spread this week in a tense minority region of western China.

The local government in China’s restive northwestern region of Xinjiang has said that a clash between authorities and assailants left 21 people dead in what it described as an act of terrorism.

Two men were found guilty yesterday of involvement in an al-Qaida plot to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, the first convictions under Norway’s anti-terror laws.

The accused ringleader of a terror plot in Norway has rejected charges that he conspired with al-Qaida to attack a Danish newspaper, saying he was planning a solo raid against the Chinese Embassy in Oslo.

Cambodia has forcibly sent a group of 20 Muslim asylum-seekers back to China, despite protests from the UN, whose staff intervened to try to prevent the expulsions.

CHINA sentenced three more people to death yesterday for murders committed during riots in the far western Xinjiang region in July, bringing to nine the number of people facing execution for the unrest.

China’s official news agency said a man was given the death sentence for his role in a factory brawl linked to deadly riots in China’s western Xinjiang region.

Chinese security forces uncovered a bomb-making operation in the volatile western region of Xinjiang, foiling plans to carry out attacks including suicide bombings, police said today.

CHINA has warned that anybody convicted of attacks with hypodermic needles containing harmful substances or contaminated by drug use will face harsh penalties.

CHINA’S state news agency says a plane has been hijacked in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which was rocked by ethnic riots last month.

ALMOST 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night, an exiled Uighur activist has said yesterday, calling for an international investigation.

The United States and China have ended two days of high-level talks with few concrete results but hopeful that connections forged among senior officials will help them work together better to fix the world’s toughest problems.

The Chinese government has acknowledged for the first time that police killed 12 people during July 5 unrest in western China but put the blame squarely on rioters, saying they stockpiled weapons and planned synchronised attacks on targets across the city of Urumqi.

Chinese police killed 12 people during July 5 rioting in the western city of Urumqi, a senior official said – a rare acknowledgement by the government that security forces opened fire in the worst ethnic clashes to hit the region in decades.

THOUSANDS of people poured into bus and train stations to leave Urumqi city yesterday after deadly ethnic unrest, as many mosques were ordered shut for the main Muslim day of prayer.

Traffic and shopping resumed in Urumqi today after days of ethnic violence in the western city killed at least 156 people.

China's president abruptly cut short a G8 summit trip early today as bloody ethnic tensions worsened in the country's oil-rich Xinjiang territory.

Mobs of thugs roamed the streets attacking the vulnerable in Xinjiang’s capital today as riots that left more than 150 people dead degenerated into communal violence.

Police fired tear gas to try to restore order today as hundreds of Han Chinese armed with clubs marched through the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi, smashing shops and knocking over food stalls run by Muslims.

Ethnic Uighurs clashed with armed police today in a fresh protest in Xinjiang, where at least 156 people have been killed and more than 1,400 people arrested in western China’s worst ethnic violence in decades.

VIOLENT street battles killed at least 156 people and injured 828 others in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit China’s western Xinjiang region in decades, and officials said yesterday the death toll was expected to rise.

Stymied by Congress so far, the White House is considering issuing an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees considered too dangerous to prosecute or release, two administration officials said last night.

Bermuda’s premier survived a no-confidence vote today aimed at punishing him for allowing four former Guantanamo prisoners to settle on the British island territory.

The four freed Guantanamo captives allowed to settle in Bermuda enjoyed a Sunday lunch at the weekend followed by butter pecan ice cream as they observed the sparkling waters surrounding the British Caribbean territory.

Four Chinese Muslims who arrived in Bermuda after being freed from Guantanamo have remained in their seaside cottage, wary of the political firestorm their presence has caused.

FOUR Guantanamo Bay detainees have been released and resettled in Bermuda, US officials said.

China called for the arrest and extradition of eight alleged separatists accused of plotting a campaign of terror to coincide with the Beijing Olympics - a scheme that reportedly included bomb attacks within China and in unspecified countries in the Middle East and South Asia.

Authorities have arrested more than 90 members of a Muslim ethnic minority in China’s far west and are torturing some of them following a series of bombings that left a dozen people dead, an activist alleged today.

Explosions rocked a county in western China, killing at least two people amid tightened security following an attack last week before the start of the Beijing Olympics.

China has stepped up its already-tight Olympics security in the wake of the suspected Islamic terrorist attack that killed 16 policemen.

Sixteen police officers were killed today when an unknown group rammed a border patrol station on China’s Central Asian frontier before throwing in grenades.

CHINA foiled a bid to cause an air disaster on a passenger jet en route to Beijing and the plane made a safe emergency landing, an official said yesterday, in what state media called an attempted terrorist attack.

The US government has released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison – nearly all labelled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.

China is suppressing peaceful Muslim religious and cultural activities in its west under the guise of fighting terrorism, two US-based human rights groups said today.

Pakistani forces were searching homes amid a lull in fierce fighting against suspected al-Qaida hideouts near the Afghan border today.