Germany

Germany widens manhunt with European warrant for Berlin truck attack suspect

Germany issues European arrest warrant for suspect in Berlin Christmas market truck attack.

21 December 2016

Germany

Berlin Attack: Timeline

A detailed rundown of events surrounding the Berlin truck attack

21 December 2016

Germany

German police looking for 'Tunisian man', local media reports

Identity documents found in the driver's seat of the truck which ploughed into a Christmas market on Monday evening indicate an Anis A, according to Der Spiegel magazine.

21 December 2016

Germany

German president visits Berlin attack casualties in hospital

Joachim Gauck spent time with victims due to undergo operations and described the lorry attack on a Christmas market as 'an assault on our way of life'.

21 December 2016

Germany

Germans talk of 'unity in the face of terror'

The colours of the German flag were used to light up the Brandenburg Gate in honour of the victims of Monday’s deadly truck attack.

21 December 2016

Germany

ISIL claims responsibility for deadly truck attack in Berlin

20 December 2016

World News

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.

20 December 2016

Germany

ISIL claims responsibility for Berlin Christmas market attack

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

20 December 2016

Germany

Terror attacks this year in Germany

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

20 December 2016

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…

20 December 2016

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

20 December 2016

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…

20 December 2016

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.

20 December 2016

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".

20 December 2016

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.

20 December 2016

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.

20 December 2016

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.

20 December 2016

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.

20 December 2016

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.

19 December 2016

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.

19 December 2016