German police arrested 10 people in pre-dawn raids on Saturday on suspicion they were planning major attacks with stockpiled weapons and explosives, a prosecution spokesman said.

Traditional Christmas markets are opening across Germany amid heightened security, almost a year after a terror attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12.

he man was arrested in a Vienna apartment by special forces.

A police official says that German authorities knew of 14 different identities used by Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri.

Ottawa police are stepping up security measures ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations in the capital following deadly terror attacks in Europe and other parts of the world in 2016.

German authorities believe the automatic brakes installed in the truck used in the Berlin attack prevented even more deaths when it ploughed through a Christmas market earlier this month.

Italian police have searched three houses in and around Rome where the man suspected of killing 12 people in Berlin may have stayed.

German prosecutors said Wednesday that they have detained a Tunisian man they think may have been involved in last week's truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.

The Tunisian suspect behind the truck attack that killed 12 people in a Berlin Christmas market last week appears to have passed through Lyon in France as he fled to Italy.

Investigators on Saturday sought to hunt down where the Berlin Christmas market attacker got possible logistical support to cross at least two European borders and evade capture for days before being killed in a police shootout during a routine stop in a Milan suburb.