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Suspect In Custody As Bomb Investigation Goes On

The investigation into last week's attempted cargo bombing is proceeding Sunday on three continents. Intelligence and law enforcement officials are scrambling in the United States, in Britain and on the Arabian Peninsula to determine who was responsible for the package bombs discovered at an airport in Britain and aboard a plane in Dubai. Host Liane Hansen talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten.

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White House: Threat From Bombs Is 'Ongoing'

Cargo planes sit on the tarmac of Dubai airport Saturday, the day after a parcel bomb was intercepted in Dubai on a cargo plane originating from Yemen. Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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National Security

White House: Threat From Bombs Is 'Ongoing'

A team of federal investigators -- including FBI agents and transportation security officials -- is on the way to Yemen to hunt for clues in the airline cargo bomb plot and advise about screening procedures. Meanwhile, Yemeni authorities have released a female student brought in for questioning, citing an apparent case of identity theft.

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Opinion

An Afternoon In Paris As An Illegal Immigrant

Despite expelling hundreds of Roma this summer and passing an immigration bill that critics call "harsh and discriminatory," France remains a beacon to immigrants. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley, an American living in Paris, recently had her own brush with French immigration authorities.

An Afternoon In Paris As An Illegal Immigrant

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Saturday

How A Quest To Save Soviet Jews Changed The World

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How A Quest To Save Soviet Jews Changed The World

A rally that drew a quarter-million people to the National Mall 23 years ago was a crucial turning point for Jews yearning to escape the Soviet Union. Author Gal Beckerman explores that moment, and that movement, in his new book When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry.

How A Quest To Save Soviet Jews Changed The World

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Friday

Fear The Pumpkin: In Ukraine, It's The Big Kiss-Off

Vegetable seller Olesya Vladymyrovna, 55, holds a pumpkin at a market in Lviv, Ukraine. For centuries in the Eastern European nation, a pumpkin meant: "No, I will not marry you." David Greene/NPR hide caption

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Fear The Pumpkin: In Ukraine, It's The Big Kiss-Off

Forget Halloween. In Ukraine, the orange vegetable is scary, for real. It is synonymous with rejection, especially in matters of the heart. For centuries, men proposing marriage might have received a pumpkin as a form of "no."

Fear The Pumpkin: In Ukraine, It's The Big Kiss-Off

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Thursday

Probe Details Culpability Of Nazi-Era Diplomats

Adolf Hitler (right) with his foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, in 1941. A new study states that Germany's foreign ministry staff cooperated in the Holocaust much more than has previously been acknowledged. Von Ribbentrop was hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg trials. AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Probe Details Culpability Of Nazi-Era Diplomats

In Germany, a new government-sponsored study finds that the country's foreign ministry staff was much more involved than previously believed in the mass killing of Jews and others during the Holocaust.

Probe Details Culpability Of Nazi-Era Diplomats

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French Protests Over Pension Weaken

Unions in France held another day of action on Thursday, but there are signs that their attempt to stop an increase in the retirement age might have been defeated. Both houses of parliament have approved the measure, which now only requires the president's signature to become law. Meanwhile some fuel refineries have reopened, and transport and garbage collection services are reported to be getting back to normal.

French Protests Over Pension Weaken

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U.K. Spy Chief: 'Secrecy Is Not A Dirty Word'

The head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as MI6, has criticized the leaking of secret information, and says secrecy is vital to protect both the nation and its citizens. In the first public speech given by a serving chief, John Sawers also praised his staff for the dangerous and important work they do, condemned torture and said it was important for people to understand why secrecy is "not a dirty word."

U.K. Spy Chief: 'Secrecy Is Not A Dirty Word'

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British Spy Chief Gives First Public Speech By A British Spy Chief Ever

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The Two-Way

British Spy Chief Gives First Public Speech By A British Spy Chief Ever

Sir John Sawers spoke out today. He heads an organization that didn't even officially a few years ago. He defended secrecy, but condemned torture calling it "illegal and abhorrent under any circumstances."

French Strikes Losing Steam

Protesters in Marseilles, France today. Despite weeks of action, parliament passed a controversial pension reform bill yesterday. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images/AFP hide caption

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French Strikes Losing Steam

After parliament passed controversial pension reforms yesterday, the strikes that have paralyzed the country for weeks are decreasing in numbers. But, many flights are still canceled and trains were disrupted today.

Wednesday

Bin Laden Threatens France

A grab taken from an AFP video shows a photo of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and a blurred picture of what appears to be policemen pulling off a woman's veil to reveal her hair, in a new audio message for Bin Laden that was produced by Al-Qaeda's media arm As-Sahab and aired on October 27, 2010.  -/DSK/Getty hide caption

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Bin Laden Threatens France

Osama Bin Laden called on France to withdraw from Afghanistan, and said "as you kill, you will be killed." He also blasted France for banning the full face veil in public.