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COTABATO, Philippines (AFP) — Armed men linked to a breakaway Muslim rebel group attacked a jail in the strife-torn southern Philippines Wednesday, killing one guard and freeing 132 inmates, officials said. A two-hour long firefight broke out when more than 100 armed men attacked the jail in North Cotabato, overwhelming prison guards and giving inmates an opportunity to escape. “It’s to rescue their comrades under our custody. It is a rescue operation,” jail warden Peter […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the deadly Berlin truck attack at the market was shot dead by police in Milan on Friday, Italy’s interior minister Marco Minniti said. The minister told a press conference in Rome that Anis Amri had been fatally shot after firing at two police officers who had stopped his car for a routine identity check around 3:00 am (0200 GMT). Identity checks had established “without […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German authorities have arrested two brothers on suspicion of planning an attack on one of the country’s biggest shopping centers, in the western city of Oberhausen, police said Friday. The two men, aged 28 and 31, are originally from Kosovo, police said, four days after a jihadist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin killing 12 people. Investigators were trying to establish what stage of preparation the plot was […]
by Deborah COLE Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced hope Thursday that the prime suspect in Berlin’s deadly truck attack would be caught quickly, after it emerged that the Tunisian rejected asylum seeker was a known jihadist. In an act of defiance, Berliners flocked to the same market that witnessed the murder of 12 people on Monday, as it reopened for the first time in three days. Just as […]
by Deborah Cole with Michelle Fitpatrick Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German authorities were under fire Thursday after it emerged that the prime suspect in Berlin’s deadly truck attack, a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker, was known as a potentially dangerous jihadist. German prosecutors have issued a Europe-wide wanted notice for 24-year-old Anis Amri, offering a 100,000-euro ($104,000) reward for information leading to his arrest and warning he “could be violent and armed”. Asylum […]
by Frank ZELLER with Kaouther LARBI in Tunisia Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — The Tunisian suspect in the Berlin truck attack, 24-year-old Anis Amri, was long watched as a potentially dangerous jihadist but managed to avoid both arrest and deportation from Germany. Two days after the Holiday market rampage killed 12 people, Amri was named in European arrest warrants that offered a 100,000-euro ($104,000) reward for information and warned he could be “violent […]
by Michel Moutot Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Even the best-laid security plans cannot protect an open-air event against the lethal potency of a truck attack like those carried out in Berlin and Nice, experts say. The sheer scope of places, demonstrations and public gatherings needing protection is such that the risk of someone using a moving vehicle as a weapon of terror — as called for by the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Security has been beefed up at holiday markets throughout France following the carnage in Berlin on Monday, French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said. “Security at holiday markets was immediately reinforced” after a lorry ploughed into a Berlin holiday market killing at least nine people, he said. The scenes in Berlin were reminiscent of an attack in the French Riviera city of Nice in July in which Tunisian extremist Mohamed Lahouaiej […]
by Deborah Cole Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — A lorry ploughed into a busy market in central Berlin on Monday, killing at least nine people and hurting 50 more in what police said was a possible terror attack. Ambulances and heavily armed officers rushed to the area after the driver mounted the pavement of the market in a square popular with tourists, in scenes reminiscent of July’s deadly truck attack in the French […]
by Karam al-Masri with Sara Hussein in Beirut ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — Syria’s rebels lost all of the northern neighborhoods of their stronghold in east Aleppo on Monday, as the army made significant advances in its offensive to recapture the entire city. The regime gains have prompted an exodus of thousands of desperate civilians, some fleeing to districts held by the government or Kurdish forces, others heading south into areas still under opposition control. “The […]
COLOMBUS, United States (AFP) — Police identified the assailant who rammed his car into a crowd of pedestrians at Ohio State University Monday and attacked them with a butcher knife, as student Abdul Razak Ali Artan. “We can tell you the suspect is an OSU student,” Craig Stone, police chief at the university, told a news conference at which officials released the name of the suspect, who was shot dead by police. “We do not […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A man escaped with cuts to his leg Monday after a shark crashed into his board while he was surfing near popular tourist spot Byron Bay in eastern Australia. Beaches in the area, some 800 kilometres (500 miles) north of Sydney, were closed for at least 24 hours after the early morning encounter, with the victim taken to hospital by a friend. “It is believed that the shark emerged from under […]
