Three people lose their lives in Nice in an allegedly Islamist-motivated knife attack. A 21-year-old Tunisian named Brahim Aouissaoui is suspected. Now a 47-year-old has been taken into custody.
He is said to have been in contact with the alleged perpetrator the day before the crime, according to French judicial circles. The daily newspaper "Nice-Matin" had previously reported on the arrest. The attack took place on Thursday morning in the Notre-Dame basilica.
A man and a woman were brutally killed; an injured woman managed to escape to a bar but succumbed to her injuries. Nice's mayor Christian Estrosi said the attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" (G'd is great) several times before the police shot him and wounded him with gunfire.
The French anti-terror prosecutor is investigating.
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Iran is threatening legal action against New Zealand after finding that, in a joint operation with the CIA,
the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) broke into its Wellington embassy in the late 1980s and early 1990s to plant bugs. India also hit back at a SIS activity that took place during the same period,
requiring the foreign ministry of New Zealand to investigate a SIS break-in where code books were photographed and passed on to the MI6 of Britain. In a mission called Operation Horoscope, which was directed by the CIA, the SIS raided the Iranian embassy in Wellington.
In Baden-Württemberg, a 20-year-old German is under suspicion of terrorism. According to information, officials searched his home in Lahr in the early hours of October 30. The suspect is in custody.
From security circles it is said that the man spoke of further attacks in the context of the current terrorist attacks in France. The suspect is said to have declared his willingness to get involved himself. As the target of the attack, he primarily named France.
Upon request, the Karlsruhe public prosecutor's office confirmed that it had initiated an investigation into the initial suspicion of preparing a serious, state-endangering act of violence.
The Swiss canton of Geneva imposed a state of emergency from Monday evening in view of the shortage of hospital beds in the Corona crisis.
Restaurants, bars and shops that do not sell groceries have to close, as well as cinemas, theaters, fitness centers and service providers such as hairdressers. As the canton announced on Sunday, schools and kindergartens should remain open.
The high numbers of corona infections in Switzerland are now pushing hospitals in parts of the country to their limits. In Valais, according to a report by the “NZZ am Sonntag”, the first patients could no longer be admitted to intensive care units.
“We are determined to heal the wounds of our brothers and sisters in İzmir who are affected by the earthquake before cold weather and rains start,”
he told in a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the Black Sea province of Samsun. “As in all disasters up to now, we will hopefully bring our citizens, who lost their homes in the Izmir earthquake, to their new homes as soon as possible,” he stated.
In his speech in the crisis center in İzmir he sayed: “We will not have the slightest trouble by paying the most household goods and the costs of our citizens who had their belongings damaged.”
In the past 24 hours, 5,345 entities have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Romania, which means that the infection rate has risen to 25 percent. Over the past day, almost 100 people infected with the virus have died.
In intensive care are somewhere around 900 patients in critical condition. Overall, 246,663 infections have so far been identified in Romania of people confirmed with novel coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, with 175,975 reported cured.
Separate from the latest 5,345 cases of COVID-19 infection, 971 other people who had already been infected again tested positive for the virus after re-testing. Ninety-five of the latest victims had underlying medical problems, one dead patient had no comorbidity,
On Monday, Egypt will reopen the Rafah crossing with the blockaded Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of the Interior said on Sunday.
"The terminal will be open for four days in both directions until Thursday," the Hamas-led ministry said in a statement. This is the third time that the Rafah crossing has been reopened by the Egyptian authorities since March.