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ISIL claims responsibility for deadly truck attack in Berlin

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Market security stepped up Europe-wide in wake of Berlin truck attack

Security has been stepped up at Christmas markets Europe-wide in the wake of the Berlin truck attack.

Germany

ISIL claims responsibility for Berlin Christmas market attack

ISIL says it carried out fatal lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market.

Germany

Terror attacks this year in Germany

Bastille Day is a national holiday in France and a time to celebrate.

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Germany

Europe pays tribute to those killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack

A sombre-looking Angela Merkel joined the Mayor of Berlin, and Germany’s foreign and interior ministers at the scene of the deadly truck attack on the Christmas market in the…

Czech Republic

Tennis player Petra Kvitova injured in knife attack

The tennis world number 11 has sustained injuries to her left hand while defendeding herself against a knife attack in her home

Germany

Messages for the victims of Berlin flood social media

After a truck ploughed into a crowd outside a christmas market in Berlin yesterday, tributes have been flooding in on social media showing solidarity with the German…

Germany

Suspect in Berlin lorry attack 'denies involvement' - German interior minister

The German authorities say it is not clear whether the man arrested after Monday's attack on a Christmas market is the perpetrator.

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.

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.

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