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The German government, under fire for failing to prevent a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market, said Monday that the tragedy would have been hard to prevent and said that the suspect ...

The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, delivered a message in favor of tolerance and coexistence on Thursday, ...

The death toll in a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five people, and more than 200 have been injured, many of them seriously, state premier Reiner ...

Holger Muench, president of the federal criminal police office (BKA), told public broadcaster ZDF during the weekend that Germany was reviewing security measures at Christmas markets and ...

By Clarissa-Jan Lim At least five people were killed and 200 injured after a man drove a car into a bustling outdoor Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday night. The number of victims ...

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The man suspected of driving a car through crowds at a German Christmas market is in custody on murder charges, police said Sunday. On Friday, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a resident of Germany ...

It is "astonishing, unimaginable, that something like this could happen in Germany," Haseloff said. "There is no more peaceful and cheerful place than a Christmas market," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.