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The USS Zumwalt – at a cost of $4.4 billion, the most expensive destroyer in the American fleet – experienced a loss of propulsion Monday as it transited the canal and had to be towed to a repair facility.

Officials in the Mexican resort of Cancun and nearby cities have rounded up scores of Uber cars and taken them to impound lots until drivers pay fines of about $2,800 apiece.

16-year-old Damien Ramirez died, police said, after being shot multiple times in Miami. Another man in his late 50s was shot in the arm, but he is expected to be OK.

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer suffered a mechanical problem while crossing the Panama Canal and is undergoing repairs at a Panamanian facility, the U.S. Embassy in the Central American nation said Wednesday

They came by the hundreds — men, women and children fleeing the battle for Mosul, some bloodied and crying out for help. So large was the crowd on the road that Iraqi troops initially ordered them back, worried that an Islamic State suicide bomber could be hiding among them.

Jamaica fosters a "culture of fear" and impunity linked to a high rate of killings by police officers that stretches back for years on the Caribbean island with chronically eye-popping rates of violent crime, Amnesty International alleges in a report issued Wednesday.

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The teachers are gone.

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.