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Arbabsiar, charged with plotting the assassination of a Saudi diplomat, was mentally ill when he submitted to federal interrogation.</p> </div> <div class="story"> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/europe/safety-review-says-europes-nuclear-reactors-need-repair.html?ref=world"> Europe’s Nuclear Reactors Need Repair or Upgrades</a></h3> <h6 class="byline"> By JAMES KANTER </h6> <p class="summary"> The scale of the problems, as well as the size of the expected repair bill — 25 billion euros, or $32 billion — may amplify public concerns about the safety of nuclear power.</p> </div> <div class="story"> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/middleeast/2-coptic-christian-boys-accused-of-defiling-a-koran.html?ref=world"> Egypt: 2 Coptic Boys Are Held as Contempt-of-Religion Cases Rise</a></h3> <h6 class="byline"> By KAREEM FAHIM and MAI AYYAD </h6> <p class="summary"> The detention of the two Egyptian youths, ages 9 and 10, is part of a spate of recent cases involving accusations that people have insulted Islam.</p> </div> <div class="story"> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/europe/bidzina-ivanishvili-rescinds-demand-that-the-georgian-president-resign.html?ref=world"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/10/04/world/georgia/georgia-thumbStandard.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Bidzina Ivanishvili is poised to become the prime minister." border="0"/> </a> </div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/europe/bidzina-ivanishvili-rescinds-demand-that-the-georgian-president-resign.html?ref=world"> Georgian Politician Rescinds Call for President to Quit</a></h3> <h6 class="byline"> By ELLEN BARRY <span class="timestamp"></span> </h6> <p class="summary"> Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is poised to become the prime minister, also said he would visit the United States, suggesting that he does not intend to reorient Georgia toward a partnership with Russia.</p> </div> <div class="story"> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/technology/a-new-tech-generation-defies-the-odds-in-japan.html?ref=world"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/10/04/technology/04startup-copy/04startup-copy-thumbStandard-v2.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="At a “start-up dating salon” in Tokyo, Shingo Hiranuma, a former Toshiba engineer, presented his Sanpo map application." border="0"/> </a> </div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/technology/a-new-tech-generation-defies-the-odds-in-japan.html?ref=world"> Japan’s New Tech Generation</a></h3> <h6 class="byline"> By HIROKO TABUCHI </h6> <p class="summary"> While Japan’s aging technology giants continue to falter, entrepreneurs are forming start-ups despite difficulties with financing and a culture that discourages risk-taking.</p> </div> <div class="story"> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/asia/new-internet-law-gets-hostile-reception-in-philippines.html?ref=world"> Internet Law in Philippines Takes Effect, Raising Fears</a></h3> <h6 class="byline"> By FLOYD WHALEY </h6> <p class="summary"> Critics say the new law could lead to imprisonment for simple activities like sharing Facebook and Twitter posts.</p> </div> </div>  <div class="columnGroup "> <div style="display:none;"><div class="story"> <h6 class="kicker">Birobidzhan Journal</h6> <div class="thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/europe/jewish-homeland-in-birobidzhan-russia-retains-appeal.html?ref=world"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/10/04/world/biro/biro-thumbStandard-v2.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="Andrey Zasorin leads a congregation at the old synagogue in Birobidzhan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region." border="0"/> </a> </div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/europe/jewish-homeland-in-birobidzhan-russia-retains-appeal.html?ref=world"> Despite Predictions, Jewish Homeland in Siberia Retains Its Appeal</a></h3> <h6 class="byline"> By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN </h6> <p class="summary"> Birobidzhan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region, never became the agrarian, socialist utopia that some founders envisioned, but it remains a Jewish place.</p> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="columnGroup singleRule "> <div class="ledeStory"> <div class="storyHeader"> <h1><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/asia/fearing-tainted-imports-hong-kong-squeezes-in-farms.html?ref=world"> In Organic-Hungry Hong Kong, Corn as High as an Elevator’s Climb</a></h1> <h6 class="byline"> By MARY HUI </h6> </div> <div class="ledePhoto"> <div class="image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/asia/fearing-tainted-imports-hong-kong-squeezes-in-farms.html?ref=world"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/10/04/world/farms/farms-sfSpan.jpg" border="0" width="395" height="263" alt="Plots like the rooftop City Farm are sprouting across Hong Kong amid fears of tainted imports."/></a> </div> <h6 class="credit">Philippe Lopez/Agence France-Presse</h6> <p class="caption">Plots like the rooftop City Farm are sprouting across Hong Kong amid fears of tainted imports.</p> </div> <p class="summary"> As millions of residents worry about produce from mainland China, more are tending tiny plots on rooftops, on balconies and in far-flung corners of the city.</p> <ul class="refer"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423/http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/up-on-the-roof-a-real-life-farmville/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180423im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/multimedia/icons/video_icon.gif" alt="Video" width="12" height="9" border="0"> IHT Rendezvous: Up on the Roof, a Real-Life Farmville</a><span class="timestamp"> 10:52 PM ET</span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="singleRuleDivider"></div> </div>  <div class="columnGroup "> <div 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