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Brazil

SAO PAULO — Police in northeastern Brazil on Wednesday examined fingerprints and scoured through evidence left behind by thieves who stole $67.8 million from a Central Bank vault in one of the world's biggest heists ever. Authorities said they were able to identify some of the thieves and were searching for them in surrounding states.

Britain

LONDON — The police chief for London's financial district warned Wednesday that terrorists will likely strike the British capital's biggest business hub, where they have already surveyed targets in the area. The warning came as police said they have charged another man under anti-terror laws in relation to the botched bombings against London's transit system on July 21. Abdul Sharif, 28, of South London, was charged with withholding information that could have helped police apprehend bombing suspect Hussain Osman.

Chile

SANTIAGO — Gen. Augusto Pinochet's wife and younger son were arrested Wednesday and charged as accomplices in a tax evasion case linked to an investigation into the former dictator's multimillion dollar fortune overseas. Lucia Hiriart, 82, and Marco Antonio Pinochet, who is in his 50s, were charged after being questioned by Judge Sergio Munoz, whose probe into the former dictator's overseas holdings was sparked by a U.S. Senate investigation.

Estonia

TALLINN — A helicopter carrying 14 people, including two unidentified Americans, crashed in the Baltic Sea off the Estonian coast on Wednesday and all aboard were believed killed. The U.S.-made Sikorsky S-76 helicopter, operated by Finnish firm Copterline, was on a commercial flight from the Estonian capital, Tallinn, to Helsinki, Finland, when it went down in strong winds shortly after takeoff near the island of Naissaar, about three miles off the coast, officials said.

France

PARIS — An Internet video that depicts the Nazi death camp Auschwitz as a rave party drew sharp criticism Wednesday from a Jewish rights group, which urged authorities to have it removed from European Web sites. The three-minute video titled "Housewitz" — a pun on house music and Auschwitz — casts Nazi soldiers as DJs. It alternates black-and-white still photos of Holocaust atrocities with color images of youths at an outdoor party. And it advertises a "Free taxi ride home," showing a wheelbarrow full of corpses.

Mauritania