International Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

Washington Redskins receiver Aldrick Robinson will get more playing time beginning with this Sunday's game against the Carolina Panthers, coach Mike Shanahan said this week. Robinson injects some speed into an offense that is without No. 1 'X' receiver Pierre Garcon and athletic tight end Fred Davis because of injuries.

Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced a successful test for a giant high-pressure balloon that can plug a mass-transit tunnel, in theory preventing damaging floods such as the ones flowing through New York's subway system.

JHARABARSHA, Bangladesh (AP) , Amina Begum had never seen a computer until a few years ago, but now she's on Skype regularly with her husband. A woman on a bicycle brings the Internet to her. ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) , The 105-story, pyramid-shaped hotel that has stood over North Korea's capital city like a mountain for more than 20 years just might be on the verge of opening for the first time.

President Obama and Mitt Romney are deadlocked with each holding 49 percent support nationally as they head into Tuesday's election, though Mr. Romney holds a lead on enthusiasm, according to this week's The Washington Times/Zogby Poll of likely voters, released Thursday night.

IWAKI, Japan (AP) , The operator of a Japanese nuclear plant that went into a tsunami-triggered meltdown knew the risks from highly radioactive water at the site but sent in crews without adequate protection or warnings, a worker said in a legal complaint.

XILINHOT, China (AP) , In a small town in northern China's Inner Mongolia where sheep and cattle easily outnumber humans, Fan Chen paid a Communist Party boss three times an average urban resident's annual salary to become a local police chief.

MEXICO CITY (AP) , Maria Elena Salazar refuses to set out plates of her missing son's favorite foods or orange flowers as offerings for the deceased on Mexico's Day of the Dead, even though she hasn't seen him in three-and-a-half years.

NEW DELHI (AP) , Vijay Kumar clutched a worn plastic folder containing his high school diploma and his nursing aide certificate as he joined a long queue at an employment exchange in a New Delhi suburb. It's a familiar ritual. For six years he has struck out.

Can you trust what a dog's nose knows? Police do, but the Supreme Court on Wednesday considered curbing the use of drug-sniffing dogs in investigations following complaints of illegal searches and insufficient proof of the dogs' reliability.

NEW YORK (AP) , The United Nations Security Council held a makeshift meeting after superstorm Sandy forced the world body to remain mostly closed for a third day. The council needed to meet Wednesday because the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia was expiring.

The tidal wave of anti-debt, anti-big-government voters that swamped Democrats in the 2010 congressional elections is readying itself again, poised to sweep Mitt Romney into the Oval Office, some political observers say. "It's very, very likely," veteran Republican campaign pollster John McLaughlin said, predicting a Romney tsunami Tuesday.

Robert Griffin III doesn't care much for comparisons. He's unique in so many ways, and he knows it. A comparison establishes boundaries. He's not interested. Griffin, though, understands the media's penchant for comparisons as a means to understanding. The comparison du jour, then, as the Redskins prepare to play Carolina on Sunday, is to Panthers quarterback Cam Newton.

Two-thirds of those who have found employment under President Obama are immigrants, both legal and illegal, according to an analysis that suggests immigration has soaked up a large portion of what little job growth there has been over the past three years.

KHARTOUM, Sudan , Two Iranian naval ships docked in a Sudanese port, just as Sudan was denying that Iran is linked to a Khartoum military factory that was hit in an apparent airstrike last week. Iran's official news agency reported Tuesday that two of its navy vessels , a helicopter carrier and a destroyer ship , docked in Port Sudan on the Red Sea on Monday.