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Reports from Algeria say one person died and several others were injured when a bomb exploded at a market in Cherchel, west of the capital Algiers.
The Algerian news agency APS said it was not clear whether the attack was aimed at disrupting the start of campaigning for parliamentary elections later this month.
There has been a series of bomb attacks in recent weeks which the authorities suspect is the work of Islamic militants. Earlier on Thursday, an anti-government general strike in the mainly-Berber province of Tizi Ouzou paralysed the region.
The two major opposition parties, which have strong support in the Berber area, have said they will boycott the poll on 30 May.
10 May, 2002
Police in Pakistan say at least 11 people - including several foreigners - were killed when an explosion destroyed their bus in the city of Karachi.
Many of those involved are thought to be French construction workers. Initial reports said they were Germans.
Police said that it appears a suicide bomber rammed the bus - which belonged to the Pakistani navy - outside the hotel. Two Pakistanis are also thought to have been killed, provincial police chief Syed Kamal Shah told Reuters news agency. Another 20 people were injured when the powerful bomb shattered the bus at around 0800 local time (0200 GMT) creating a large crater, witnesses said.
It was not clear who was behind the attack, which police said did not appear to be linked to other recent blasts in the city.
The explosion occurred in a wealthy neighbourhood in Karachi where many international hotels are situated. Witnesses at the scene of the explosion described the scene as horrific, as ambulances struggled to reach the injured.
Foreigners travelling in Pakistan have been told to be cautious following threats to Westerners from militant Islamic groups angered by Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf's support for the US-led war on terror in neighbouring Afghanistan.
8 May, 2002
Authorities in the United States have charged a 22-year-old man in connection with a series of pipe bombs found in rural mailboxes in several states. Luke Helder - who had been described as "armed and dangerous" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation - was arrested after his car was spotted by a motorist in the town of Lovelock, Nevada.
The two charges relate to a bomb that exploded in Iowa on 3 May, injuring a woman. "This was an incident of national concern which received a national response," US Attorney Charles Larson of the Northern District of Iowa told Reuters news agency. "The involvement of the public and hundreds of law enforcement agents led to the successful arrest this evening."
Mr Helder, originally from Minnesota, reportedly threw a gun out of his car window shortly before his capture. Police were called to check for further explosive devices in his car.
Postal services were already nervous following last year's anthrax attacks Eighteen pipe bombs had been found in mailboxes in Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa, Texas and Illinois since last Friday. Six people were injured by the devices, although none were seriously hurt. Federal government officials had described the bombings as "acts of domestic terrorism", and said notes had been found nearby warning of further "attention getters".
Most of the bombs reportedly contained similar anti-government notes signed by "someone who cares" and which complained about limits imposed on personal freedom.
Mr Helder's father had pleaded with his son to turn himself over to authorities. "Please don't hurt anyone else. ... You have the attention you wanted," he said.
8 May, 2002
'Suicide bomb' kills 15 near Tel Aviv
An explosion has hit a reception hall in the Israeli town of Rishon Letzion, south of Tel Aviv.
Israeli radio said at least 15 people have been killed, and at least 60 injured. Israeli police say they believe a suicide bomber was behind the blast, but no group has claimed responsibility.
The blast occurred shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began meeting with US President George W Bush in Washington. Mr Bush said he was sending CIA director George Tenet to the Middle East to help build a unified Palestinian security force, to fight terrorism.
7 May 2002
More US mailbox bombs discovered
Six pipe bombs have been found in mailboxes in rural Nebraska in the United States, after six people were injured by similar devices in the states of Iowa and Illinois on Friday.
The crude bombs - none of which exploded - were discovered in the towns of Ohiowa, Columbus, Dannebrog, Davenport, Scotia and Seward. Officials said they had not been sent through the post, but placed there directly.
Four postal workers and two mailbox owners were injured in Friday's blasts. None of the injuries are life threatening, but one person remains in hospital.
Federal government officials described the bombings as "acts of domestic terrorism", and said notes had been found nearby warning of further "attention getters". Special agent-in-charge from the FBI's Omaha office Wayne Dun said: "For the individual or individuals who may have been responsible for this: You have got our attention." "We are not certain we understand your messages. We would like to hear from you - you do not need to send any more of these devices," he added.
Gorlyn Nun, a 59-year old carpenter from Ohiowa made an unpleasant discovery when retrieving his mail on Saturday. "I opened it up, my mail was there and there was a clear bag in there. I could see it was a pipe and it had a nine-volt battery in there," he told the Associated Press agency.
The first wave of bombs were left with messages criticising the federal government. The typewritten note began: "Mailboxes are exploding! Why, you ask? "If the government controls what you want to do they control what you can do. I'm obtaining your attention in the only way I can... More 'attention getters' are on the way. "If I could, I would change only one person, unfortunately the resources are not accessible. It seems killing a single famous person would get the same media attention as killing numerous un-famous humans." It was signed "someone who cares."
Some postal deliveries in the affected states have been suspended. FBI officials have urged people to use caution when opening their post and report anything suspicious near a mailbox.
5 May, 2002
At least six pipe bombs have exploded in letter boxes in the United States, in rural areas of Iowa and Illinois.
The devices were left with messages criticising the federal government. FBI spokesman James Bogner said the blasts were being treated as domestic terrorist incidents.
Several people were hurt, but they are not thought to have been seriously injured. Some of the wounded are postal workers. Officials say the pipe bombs were not mailed, but were placed in the letter boxes and primed to go off when the letter boxes were opened.
The bombs were reported to have been accompanied by a typewritten note that read: "Mailboxes are exploding! Why, you ask? "If the government controls what you want to do they control what you can do. I'm obtaining your attention in the only way I can... More 'attention getters' are on the way. "If I could, I would change only one person, unfortunately the resources are not accessible. It seems killing a single famous person would get the same media attention as killing numerous un-famous humans."
The FBI says at least eight devices were planted - not all detonated - but that there may be more.
In recent years the United States has been prone to bomb attacks carried out by its own citizens. In 1998, Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was sentenced to four terms of life in prison without parole for a 17-year bombing spree which left three people dead and many injured.
Last June, Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh was executed for the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma that killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others.
Following the 11 September attacks on the United States, the country was hit by a series of anthrax attacks. The FBI has said it believes those attacks were probably the work of a US national.
4 May, 2002
Dozens killed in Colombia attack
The authorities in Colombia say at least 60 civilians have been killed and about 100 others injured in a bomb attack by suspected rebels in a remote western province.
According to witnesses, the victims were killed when guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) set off a mortar bomb in a crowded church in the town of Bojaya, in the Choco province. Residents are thought to have sought refuge inside the church to escape fierce fighting between the left-wing rebels and right-wing paramilitaries.
Local government spokesman, Jorge Caicedo, described the killings as a national tragedy and called for urgent humanitarian help. Correspondents say it is one of the deadliest attacks by the FARC on civilians in recent years.
For several days the FARC guerrillas have been fighting the paramilitaries of the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) in the dense jungle around the town of Bojaya.
The BBC correspondent in Colombia says that whoever controls the river also controls the lucrative trade in drugs, arms and contraband that makes its way to and from Panama and the Caribbean coast. At least 35,000 people have been killed over the last decade of violence in Colombia, and about two million people have fled the country.
3 May, 2002
A spate of bomb blasts has hit the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing one young boy and wounding at least 24 people.
The 12-year-old boy, Shamsur Rehman, was killed when a bomb exploded in a shop in an eastern suburb on Thursday. Reports said six family members were wounded. A second bomb exploded in a market in a southern Karachi neighbourhood,damaging some cars parked nearby.
The blasts followed two explosions late on Wednesday in different market areas of the city, which wounded at least 18 people, police said. The violence coincided with a strike called by the ethnic Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in protest at the murder of two of its members last week. Soldiers and paramilitary troops were deployed to restore calm and help maintain the peace during Thursday's strike.
The MQM, which represents Urdu-speakers who migrated from India during the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, denied responsibility for the violence. "We have given the call for a peaceful strike and condemn these blasts and violence," MQM deputy leader Nasreen Jalil was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
2 May, 2002
The European Champions League match between Real Madrid and Barcelona began as scheduled on Wednesday despite disruption caused by two car bombs near the Bernabeu stadium.
The European football governing body, Uefa, announced the decision for the match to go ahead after a security meeting held just under two hours before the scheduled kick-off.
A Spanish police spokesman told the BBC that nine people were slightly injured in the first, bigger blast at the foot of the Europa Tower. A "tiny" second car bomb exploded later about two kilometres away. No casualties were reported from that blast.
The Basque separatist organisation ETA claimed responsibility for the attack. It delivered a telephone warning 15 minutes before the first blast, allowing an evacuation of the area.
1 May, 2002
