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Bin Laden Told Partners To Plan Mumbai-Like Attacks

A policeman signals Thursday that a road in central London is closed after a suspect vehicle was abandoned near Downing Street. A terrorist plot to launch Mumbai-style attacks on Britain and other European countries has been intercepted by intelligence agencies. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption

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Bin Laden Told Partners To Plan Mumbai-Like Attacks

Intelligence officials tell NPR that the al-Qaida leader was involved in the foiled plot to launch attacks in European cities, similar in style to a 2008 attack in Mumbai, India. Officials assume that the U.S. may have been a target, too.

First Official Photo Of North Korean Heir Released

Undated photo released on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Servic Anonymous/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service hide caption

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The Two-Way

First Official Photo Of North Korean Heir Released

The North Korean News Agency has released a photo of the heir apparent Kim Jong Un. No closeup, but it is yet another sign of the younger Kim being groomed for the leadership.

Postwar Bosnia Hamstrung By Ethnic Divisions

Workers in Sarajevo paste campaign posters to a wall ahead of Sunday's election in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Europe

Postwar Bosnia Hamstrung By Ethnic Divisions

As voters head to the polls Sunday for elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, deep ethnic rifts remain. Many younger voters have no memory of the 1992-95 war, but still live life segregated by separate Muslim, Croat and Serb communities.

Postwar Bosnia Hamstrung By Ethnic Divisions

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Middle East

Syrian Youth Unprepared For Market-Driven Economy

Though Syrian youths are more educated than ever before, the country has one of the highest rates of youth unemployment in the Arab world. The problem stems in part from a mismatch of skills in the country as it transitions from a state-controlled economy to a market-driven one.

Syrian Youth Unprepared For Market-Driven Economy

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Middle East

Gay Iranian Refugee Says He Can't Return Home

Iran's president once told a New York audience that Iran doesn't have homosexuals. Human rights groups say the Islamic republic executes them. Gays increasingly are fleeing Iran -- including Ramin Haghjoo, who went to Turkey after he says he was targeted by authorities for going public with his homosexuality and taking part in anti-government protests.

Gay Iranian Refugee Says He Can't Return Home

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In Brazil, Lula Stumps For His Hand-Picked Successor

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (right) with Workers' Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff during a campaign rally in Campinas, Brazil, on Sept. 18. The presidential election is Sunday. Andre Penner/AP hide caption

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The Americas

In Brazil, Lula Stumps For His Hand-Picked Successor

Brazilians may not know her well, but they are likely to choose Dilma Rousseff as the country's next president in Sunday's election. The wildly popular current president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, handpicked her and she promises to continue his economic policies.

In Brazil, Lula Stumps For His Hand-Picked Successor

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Wednesday

Burgeoning Brazil Seeks Profits Beyond Its Borders

Laborers for Brazilian construction company Odebrecht work on a construction site in Luanda, Angola, in January 2010. Odebrecht is among the major Brazilian companies that are expanding the South American country's economic influence around the world. Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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The Americas

Burgeoning Brazil Seeks Profits Beyond Its Borders

The South American giant wants to be a world player, and its economy is growing fast -- and so is its stake abroad, in places as different from each other as Texas, Angola and all over Latin America.

Burgeoning Brazil Seeks Profits Beyond Its Borders

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Election 2010

U.S. Voters Abroad Test Efforts To Expedite Balloting

Hundreds of thousands of ballots from military and other overseas voters were never returned or counted in the 2008 U.S. election. But a new law requires states to send absentee ballots overseas at least 45 days in advance, and some states are now accepting votes via e-mail and fax.

U.S. Voters Abroad Test Efforts To Expedite Balloting

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