A knife attack that killed two people in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg has left a local community in grief, with the city's mayor warning of a "spiral of violence and hatred." An Afghan suspect is in custody.
A criminal network was dismantled in northern Italy with seven arrests. The network exploited irregular migrants with a business turnover which remains to be clarified. Approximately 60 persons are under investigation.
The International Criminal Court has reminded Italy of its obligation to cooperate fully after it let warlord Ossama al-Masri return to Libya. Al-Masri is accused of murder, rape and torture.
A man has been arrested after the knife attack in the southern German state of Bavaria. The motives for the stabbing are still unclear, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it "an act of terror."
A total of 83 people, including 11 women, three of whom are pregnant, and three babies were rescued by the crew of the Ocean Viking rescue ship from an overcrowded rubber dinghy in the night between January 20 and 21. A further 38 p1