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Sales of new homes in the United States fell 1.9 percent in October to an annualized rate of 563,000 units, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

It’s the sort of grisly finding that seems to happen nearly every week in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero: A drug gang’s camp where a kidnapping victim was rescued, body parts were found in a cooler and the remains of seven bodies were extracted from clandestine burial pits.

Finland's defense minister says he does not see the recent deployment of Russian missiles in the Baltic region as a direct threat but warns that a negative spiral of actions and counter-actions could cause "something to happen, even if only accidentally." In an interview Wednesday with Finnish MTV3 News, Jussi Niinisto said that similar movements of missiles had occurred before and that countries watched such actions closely.

Egyptian archeologists have discovered a Pharaonic village and cemetery once used by officials tasked with building royal tombs.

Egypt has referred 22 policemen to trial over a prison break near the Suez Canal city of Ismailia.

The French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo will publish a German version in the country that has given the best reception to the weekly paper outside France since the attacks that wiped out the Paris editorial staff in January 2015.

What started with a nice holiday giveaway ended in harassment and a veiled threat Monday, Albuquerque-based attorney David Elias Indinopulos said after receiving a suspicious package in the mail. 

Israeli police will look into the purchase of German submarines after it was revealed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorney had represented the company, raising concerns over a possible conflict of interest.

Soldiers and police found an outlaw camp in southern Mexico where a kidnap victim was rescued, body parts were found in a cooler and seven bodies were extracted from clandestine burial pits.

German police say they've arrested a couple on allegations they lured young women seeking romance and then forced them into prostitution in France.

A fire in a building in the eastern section of Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, killed at least three people - two women and a man - and injured six others, officials said Wednesday.

Mexico's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2 percent in the third quarter, compared to the same period in 2015, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, or INEGI, said Wednesday.

Dutch lawmakers on Wednesday debated a limited ban on face-covering headwear worn by some Muslim women that would outlaw the veils in places such as schools, hospitals and on public transportation.

Prosecutors have indicted the head of Romania's public radio company and 10 others for allegedly abusing their positions for personal gain.

The pact, which incorporates changes sought by those who voted down the original document in an Oct. 2 referendum, will be subject to ratification by Congress,

A former French Legionnaire who rose through the ranks of the Islamic State extremist group has been named by the U.S. as a key figure in the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks in Paris and those in Brussels and the leader of a 300-strong brigade of foreign jihadis.

Populist anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders has delivered a fiery closing statement at his hate speech trial, slamming his prosecution as a "charade, a disgrace for the Netherlands, a mockery for our society" that threatens freedom of speech.

The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 4:30 p.m.

Estonia's new coalition government has taken office, led by a political party that is particularly popular among the Baltic country's ethnic Russian minority.

The organizers of a rally of vintage planes flying across Africa say a British pilot has gone missing while flying a 1943 Piper Cub plane.