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By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Saturday vowed to fight a surge in violence against politicians after a German member of the European Parliament had to be taken to hospital after being attacked while campaigning for re-election.

Matthias Ecke, 41, a member of Faeser's Social Democrats (SPD), was hit and kicked by a group of four people while putting up posters in Dresden,... (continue reading...)

TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in an overnight raid in a village near the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, which cited Palestinian security sources.

The security sources and a Reuters reporter at the scene said that Israeli forces had taken some of the bodies following the raid in the village of Deir al-Ghusun. The Israeli military said it was... (continue reading...)

By Jatindra Dash

BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - India will wait for Canadian police to share information on the three Indian men it has arrested and charged with the murder of a Sikh separatist leader last year, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Saturday.

Canadian police charged the three on Friday over the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar and said they were probing whether the suspects had links to the... (continue reading...)

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -The death toll from rains in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul rose to 57, local authorities said on Saturday afternoon, while dozens still have not been accounted for.

Rio Grande do Sul's civil defense authority said 67 people were still missing and more than 32,000 had been displaced as storms have affected nearly two thirds of the 497 cities in the state, which borders Uruguay and Argentina.

Floods... (continue reading...)

PARIS (Reuters) - Creditors have reached an agreement that could rescue tech firm Atos, which secures communications for the French army and is set to manage cybersecurity for this summer's Paris Olympic Games, La Tribune newspaper reported on Saturday.

Atos had given itself until Friday evening to receive refinancing offers. Its financial difficulties had led the French state to offer to acquire some of its strategic assets.

Under the... (continue reading...)