His rivals dismiss him as a spoiled elitist, but former football executive Mauricio Macri has united diverse political forces in Argentina, where he could win the presidency on Sunday.

In a run-off election, the graying 56-year-old is the top choice of millions of Argentines who are fed up with the hands-on economic policy of outgoing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Chinese police have killed 28 members of a "terrorist group" in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, authorities announced Friday, in the bloodiest such operation in months and as Beijing denounces Western "double standards" in the wake of the Paris attacks.

The killings took place over the course of a 56-day manhunt following an attack on a colliery in Aksu in September that left 16 people dead, said the Xinjiang regional government's Tianshan web portal. One "thug" surrendered, it added.

Rotterdam police have arrested three Belgian men after finding a suspicious car with a Belgian license plate, but Friday ruled out a link to the hunt for a key fugitive in the Paris attacks.

The men were held after behaving suspiciously near a parked white Mercedes in the port city late Thursday, Rotterdam police said, adding they were still in custody.

North and South Korea agreed Friday to hold rare talks next week, aimed at setting up a high-level dialogue that might provide the foundation for a sustainable improvement in cross-border ties.

The talks, to be held on November 26 in the border truce village of Panmunjom, will be the first inter-governmental interaction since officials met there in August to defuse a crisis that had pushed both sides to the brink of an armed conflict.

Indonesia is in talks with Australia about temporarily housing asylum-seekers stranded in Indonesia on an island in the archipelago, an official said Friday, but Canberra will reportedly have to cover the cost.

Canberra has introduced hardline policies to stem the influx of asylum-seekers reaching its shores on people-smuggling boats, with those arriving by sea denied resettlement in Australia even if found to be genuine refugees. 

Swedish authorities are interrogating a suspect arrested for plotting a "terror attack", authorities said Friday as security is tightened following last week's carnage in Paris.

Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist told the Swedish daily Expressen that authorities were hunting for more suspects.

Russia plans to unveil a bronze "Wall of Grief" in Moscow next year in its first tangible condemnation of Stalin-era crimes but critics accuse the government of playing a double game.

The national memorial, backed by President Vladimir Putin, comes as authorities play down the horrors of Stalin's purges and revive some of the Soviet Union's ideology and traditions.

Hussam al-Roustom lost everything in Syria. After fleeing the horrors of war, he's working 12-hour night shifts in a bakery, learning English and watching his children flourish in America.

After resettling in Jersey City as a refugee, he now has a message for the country that gave him a second chance.

A defiant New York on Thursday stared down an Islamic State propaganda video threatening the city as White House hopeful Hillary Clinton called for a U.S.-led global fight to defeat the extremists.

Less than a week after attacks claimed by the group killed 129 people in Paris, an IS video showed a man preparing a suicide vest and fingering its trigger, interlaced with footage of New York's Times and Herald Squares.

More Mexicans returned home from the United States over the last five years than immigrated to the country, according to research out Thursday.

The Pew Research Center study of government data from both nations showed that between 2009 and 2014 about one million Mexicans and their families -- including U.S.-born children -- returned home from the United States.