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Germany

Berlin market attack: ISIL claims responsibility, prosecutors release main suspect, perpetrator potentially still at large

German police say "unclear" arrested Pakistani man drove Berlin Christmas market truck, warn armed terrorist suspect still at large, call for "vigilance".

Switzerland

Zurich mosque shooting gunman was 'Swiss with no Islamist links'

Swiss police confirmed that the 24-year-old gunman was found dead near the scene of Monday's shooting. Three people were injured in the attack.

Germany

This is a very difficult day, Chancellor Merkel addresses Germany

Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a moment of reckoning after the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.

Germany

Berlin lorry attack: one of the dead 'had been shot'

A regional interior minister has reportedly said a Polish national found dead in the lorry used in the Christmas market attack had been shot.

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Germany

Berlin attack: what happened

Just after 8pm local time, when the Christmas market would have been packed with tourists and locals, a lorry ploughed into the crowd.

Germany

What we know about Christmas market attack in Berlin

What we know At around 8pm CET on Monday, December 19, a lorry ploughed into a Christmas market in Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz in a deliberate attack.

Switzerland

Several hurt in shooting near Zurich Islamic centre

Several people have been hurt in a shooting incident near Zurich which local media said was a shooting.

World

A deadly 2016 for terrorism attacks in Europe

2016 was marked by a series of terror attacks around Europe as ISIL sought to strike back at the nations fighting it in Syria and Iraq.

Syria

Evacuation buses burned out near Aleppo

Rebels have reportedly attacked and burned several buses sent to evacuate people from two Shia villages in Idlib province.

Yemen

Dozens die in Yemen suicide attack

Officials say soldiers were queuing up to collect their salaries near a military base in the Khor Maksar district of Aden when an ISIL attacker blew himself up.

Germany

'Casual kicker': Berlin metro attack suspect detained by police

Authorities in Berlin say they have arrested the man suspected of kicking a woman down a flight of stairs in an underground station in the German capital.

Turkey

Turkey blames PKK for deadly car bomb attack in Kayseri

Turkey's president blames the PKK Kurdistan Workers Party for a car bomb attack that killed at least 13 people.

Afghanistan

Five women airport workers gunned down in Afghanistan

A spokesman for the governor of Kandahar says the women were in charge of searching female travellers at Kandahar airport.

Egypt

Egypt: Sisi names Coptic Cathedral bomber as funeral is held

A 22-year-old suicide bomber was behind Sunday’s massacre at Cairo’s Coptic Christian Cathedral complex, Egypt’s President said on Monday.

Germany

Police close on man who kicked woman down Berlin subway stairs

German police are questioning a man who is believed to have been part of a group filmed attacking a woman in a Berlin subway station.

Egypt

Cairo attack: 25 dead, dozens wounded in Coptic cathedral bombing

A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral has killed at least 25 people and wounded nearly 50 others.

Turkey

Istanbul stadium attack: Offshoot of Kurdish PKK claims responsibility

An offshoot of the Kurdish militant group the PKK has said it was behind Saturday’s twin bomb attack outside a football stadium in Istanbul.

Turkey

Dozens killed in explosions near Istanbul football stadium

Dozens of people have been killed and more than 160 wounded in two explosions near a football stadium in Istanbul, according to Turkey’s interior minister.

Egypt

Cairo bombing: Hasm movement claims responsibility for attack that killed six policemen

Six policemen have been killed and three wounded after a roadside bomb exploded near a security checkpoint in Cairo.

World News

Call for Iraq inquiry over 'dozens killed' in air strikes

Iraq’s parliamentary speaker has called for a government inquiry into air strikes on a town controlled by ISIL, amid reports that dozens of people, mostly civilians, were…

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