MUMBAI, India — Police found explosives hidden in a bag in Mumbai's main train station today, which they said were left over from last week's attacks.

The bag was found when police officials were going through abandoned luggage, said senior police official Rakesh Maria.

The news comes as Indian authorities face a growing wave of criticism about intelligence failures and bungled security that let 10 gunmen terrorize India's largest city for 60 hours, killing at least 171 people.

Maria offered no further details about the explosives, but local television channels reported that the bombs had been defused.

BRUSSELS, Belgium — NATO foreign ministers today affirmed their support for U.S. plans to install anti-missile defenses in Europe despite Russia's strong opposition.The ministers said the planned U.S. defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic will make a "substantial contribution" to protecting allies from the threat of long-range ballistic missiles.Russia has vehemently opposed the deployment, threatening to respond by placing short-range missiles in its westernmost region, Kaliningrad, which borders Poland. The U.S. insists the defenses are aimed at potential attack from Iran and pose no threat to Russia's ballistic arsenal.All 26 NATO allies signed the statement backing the deployment of interceptor missiles in Poland and an advanced radar station in the Czech Republic.The NATO ministers agreed Tuesday to gradually resume contacts with Moscow, which were frozen after Russian troops poured into Georgia in August.However, they were critical of Moscow's actions and insisted the resumption of low-level talks would not mean a return to business as usual for the NATO-Russia Council.

MUSCAT, Oman — Passengers on a luxury cruise liner attacked by pirates in the dangerous waters between Yemen and Somalia said today they were surprised by the assailants' boldness and described hearing the "Pop! Pop! Pop!" of the pirates' rifles firing at the ship.Sunday's attack on the nearly 600-foot long M/S Nautica in the Gulf of Aden was the latest evidence that pirates have grown more aggressive, viewing almost any ship on the water as a potential target."We didn't think they would be cheeky enough to attack a cruise ship," Wendy Armitage, of Wellington, New Zealand, told The Associated Press shortly after disembarking the ship for a daylong port stop in the Omani capital of Muscat.Separately, pirates freed a hijacked Yemeni cargo ship and its eight crew members without receiving any ransom. The ship, released Tuesday night, was seized last month in the Arabian Sea.