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Merkel in mourning over Munich murders

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has addressed the country following the killing spree in Munich that left nine innocent people dead.

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Amateur video shows chaotic scene after Munich attack

Video taken from the scene shows panic and people sprinting away after shooter opens fire at Munich shopping centre.

Germany

'He was a really quiet boy' neighbours describe suspected Munich murderer

Neighbours of the 18-year-old suspected of killing nine people in a mass shooting in Munich have described the teenager as a quiet loner.

Germany

Munich: police rule out ISIL link

However, officers say the 18-year-old attacker did have an obsessive interest in mass shootings.

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Munich: what happened and when

How Germany's third-largest city went into lockdown when the shooting rampage began at around 6pm on Friday evening.

Germany

Police raid Munich apartment

The operation came early on Saturday morning, hours after the shooting rampage in the city's Olympia shopping mall.

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Amateur video shows Munich gunman at mall

Police are looking for a motive for Friday's attack. A spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel would neither confirm nor deny a link to terrorism.

Germany

Munich shooting: teenage German-Iranian believed to have acted alone

An 18-year-old German-Iranian is suspected to be behind a shooting rampage in Munich, opening fire in a busy shopping mall and killing at least nine people.

Ukraine

Memorial for slain Ukrainian journalist Pavel Sheremet held in Kyiv

Hundreds of people came to pay tribute to a prominent Ukrainian journalist who died in a car bombing in Kyiv earlier this week.

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Nice attack: planned in advance with accomplices

Parisian prosecutor Francois Molins revealed on Thursday that the Nice attacker did not act alone.

Israel

Israel slammed for impeachment law dubbed 'anti-Arab' by critics

Feelings are running high after Israel’s parliament passed a law giving members the right to impeach fellow MPs for incitement to violence, racism, or support for armed struggle against the…

Business Line

Terror and tourism: changing the travel landscape

In this edition of Business Line we analyse the travel situation around the Mediterranean following terror attacks in the French city of Nice and the coup attempt in Turkey.

France

'Paris Plage' beach festival opens amid heightened security

The annual Paris Plage beach festival has kicked off in the French capital, amid heightened security measures.

Germany

Questions over Germany's refugee policy after train attack

Germany’s Interior Minister sought to play down any link between the government’s refugee policy and the axe attack by an Afghan asylum seeker aboard a train in…

Germany

German train attacker vowed revenge on 'infidels'

The teenage Afghan teenager who carried out the axe-and-knife attack on a train in southern Germany left behind a letter and a video saying he sought to avenge the deaths of civilians in Muslim…

France

Family of four seriously injured in French Alps knife attack

A man has stabbed and wounded a woman and her three daughters in the French Alps for being scantily dressed, according to local media reports.

Germany

Afghan axe attacker 'self-radicalised recently'- German official

A note found in the Afghan axe attacker’s room indicates he may have self-radicalised recently, according to the Bavarian Interior Minister.

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Nice memorial for minute's silence

Drone footage shows the thousands of people who gathered along the Promenade des Anglais for a minute of silence in memory of the Nice truck attack victims.

Germany

ISIL claims responsibility for axe attack by Afghan youth on German train

ISIL says an Afghan teenager who carried out an axe attack on a German train, severely wounding four people, was one of its fighters.

Germany

Afghan youth attacks German train passengers with axe

Four passengers on a train in southern Germany were wounded, three of them seriously when a 17-year-old Afghan refugee suddenly attacked them with an axe and a…

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