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Tour Winner Contador Tests Positive, Suspended

Alberto Contador, the 2010 Tour de France winner, tested positive for a banned drug and has been suspended by cycling's governing body. The case is still being investigated.

Tour Winner Contador Tests Positive, Suspended

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Germany To Settle Last World War I Debt

Germany will finally pay off the last of its debts from World War One on Sunday, which happens to be the 20th anniversary of German reunification. Ari Shapiro talks to David Wroe, from the German news website The Local, about the end of Germany's World War One reparations.

Germany To Settle Last World War I Debt

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National Security

Security Increased After Terror Plots Exposed

Intelligence reports suggest terrorists have been plotting to hit targets in Europe, including perhaps in the United Kingdom, Germany and France. The challenge for officials is to determine what the plot actually is and how to head it off.

Security Increased After Terror Plots Exposed

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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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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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Wednesday

Reports: European Officials Disrupt Terrorist Plot

Western intelligence agencies say they’ve disrupted a plot by Islamist terrorists to target cities in Britain, France and Germany. The plan was said to be modeled on the 2008 commando-style attack in Mumbai, India in which heavily armed Islamists stormed a hotel and other sites, killing more than 160 people. Security officials in Germany and Britain today said they believe the plot was serious but not imminent and neither country raised its terror alert status.

Reports: European Officials Disrupt Terrorist Plot

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Europe Roiled By Massive Anti-Austerity Protests

Thousands of demonstrators march down a main boulevard in Brussels on Wednesday to protest the budget-slashing plans and austerity measures of European governments seeking to control spiraling debt. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP hide caption

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Europe Roiled By Massive Anti-Austerity Protests

Union workers demonstrated in at least a dozen countries to protest government spending cuts and tax hikes. Brussels braced for a major rally, transit employees walked out in Greece and Spain, and a man even blocked the Irish Parliament with a cement truck.

Tuesday

Russia's President Fires The Mayor Of Moscow

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov (right) talks with Russian President Dmirty Medvedev in this September 2009 photo. Medvedev's firing of Luzhkov ends a controversial 18-year rule that saw the Russian capital boom but also attracted bitter criticism. Sergei Chirikov/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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World

Russia's President Fires The Mayor Of Moscow

Yuri Luzhkov ruled the capital city for 18 years  -- many say with an iron fist. But the 74-year-old mayor had come under fire in national media in recent weeks following some apparent criticism of President Dmitry Medvedev.

Russia's President Fires Iconic Moscow Mayor

Moscow's mayor of 18 years has been fired by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Yury Luzhkov garnered criticism in July when repairs to the main highway leading to Moscow's international airport created massive traffic jams. Reporter Peter Van Dyk talks to Ari Shapiro about the changes.

Russia's President Fires Iconic Moscow Mayor

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Friday

First Black Elected Official Defies Racism In Russia

Russian councilman Jean Gregoire Sagbo speaks in the administration office in Novozavidovo, a village 60 miles north of Moscow, on July 20. As the first black man elected to public office in Russian history, he has been nicknamed Russia’s Obama, something he’s not too pleased about. Sergey Ponomarev/AP hide caption

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Reporter's Notebook

First Black Elected Official Defies Racism In Russia

For decades the Soviet Union recruited African students to study at its universities. But there are very few blacks in Russia today, and racism is prevalent. Jean Gregoire Sagbo, the country's first black elected official, says his responsibility is not to fail: "I want them to see that it doesn't matter what race you are."

First Black Elected Official Defies Racism In Russia

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Brothers Compete To Lead British Labour Party

Robert Siegel talks with Simon Hoggart, a columnist for the Guardian newspaper in London, about the British Labour Party's election of a new leader. Results will be announced Saturday. Hoggart says the online bookies are betting on the Ed Miliband, the younger of two brothers competing for the spot.

Brothers Compete To Lead British Labour Party

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