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Islamabad (dpa) – German authorities contacted Pakistani officials Tuesday over the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack, a Pakistan Foreign Office source has said. A lorry rammed into a Christmas market in a busy shopping district in western Berlin late Monday, leaving 12 people killed and around 50 injured. According to German security sources, […]

Berlin (dpa) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she assumes the deadly truck assault on a crowded Berlin Christmas market was a terrorist attack. “This is a very difficult day for Germany,” Merkel said on Tuesday after 12 people were killed, including a Polish passenger found shot dead in the lorry, and around 50

BOGOTA, Colombia — In the latest whiplash policy decision, Venezuela announced it is reopening the border with Colombia on Tuesday, just days after it had announced the 1,274-mile frontier would be closed until Jan. 2. The surprise declaration came from Ernesto Villegas, Venezuela’s communications minister, in a series of tweets. Villegas said Venezuelan President Nicolas

A special French court has found the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) guilty of negligence – by allowing the misuse of public funds over a large state payout to a business tycoon, when she was the country’s finance minister. The judges ruled that Christine Lagarde had failed to challenge a 400-million euro state

Three people were hurt in a shooting near an Islamic centre in central Zurich on Monday, police said. Swiss media said a suspect was on the run after the incident near the main train station in Switzerland’s financial capital. Zurich police confirmed people had been hurt in an incident on Zurich’s Eisgasse, but gave no