Topic: Germany

Suspicious package at Credit Suisse in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parts of the Credit Suisse headquarters in New York were evacuated on Wednesday due to a suspicious package that arrived in the mail, police said, a week after a letter bomb was sent to Deutsche Bank in Germany.A ...

Anarchists claim Italian letter bomb: sources

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian anarchist group claimed responsibility for a letter bomb that injured the chief of a state tax collection agency in Rome Friday, police sources said, days after a device linked to the same group and addressed to a ...

Italian letter bomb injures top tax collector

ROME (Reuters) - A letter bomb blamed on anarchists injured the chief of a state tax collection agency in Rome on Friday, two days after a similar device addressed to a top banker was intercepted in Germany.The bomb exploded at the headquarters ...

War on terror still to be won: Merkel

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that the fight against terrorism has still to be won a decade on from the 9/11 attacks as she defended Germany's unpopular participation in the Afghan conflict."Osama bin Laden is dead, but terrorism has not yet been ...

Timeline: Mass shooting incidents in last 20 years

(Reuters) - Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, the suspected right-wing Christian gunman who killed at least 93 people in an attack on a camp of Norway's ruling Labor party and in a bomb in Oslo, was jeered on the way to a closed ...

German confesses to being al Qaeda member

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German man believed to have given information to the country's intelligence services about possible terror attacks in Germany confessed in court on Thursday to being a member of al Qaeda, his lawyer said.Prosecutors in Frankfurt accused the man, ...
German officials said Saturday they had nipped in the bud plans for a major attack inside the country by breaking up an alleged terror cell whose leader was under orders from Al-Qaeda.The cell's suspected leader, 29-year-old Moroccan national Abdelakim El-K, had received ...

Germany says al Qaeda suspects planned bomb attack

KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - Three suspected al Qaeda members had been planning a bomb attack in Germany for four months when they were arrested, federal prosecutors said.Rainer Griesbaum, a federal prosecutor, told a news conference on Saturday that the trio, led by ...

Germany detains three 'Al-Qaeda members'

German police on Friday detained three alleged members of Al-Qaeda, federal prosecutors said, as a report said they had been plotting attacks in Germany.The prosecutor's office in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe said the trio had been taken into custody early Friday ...

Germany arrests three suspected al Qaeda members

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany said on Friday it had headed off "a concrete and imminent danger" from terrorism after police arrested three suspected members of al Qaeda.The Bild newspaper quoted security sources as saying the three, all young Moroccans, were arrested in ...
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