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00:00Police in Germany arrest the man suspected of killing three people in Friday's knife

00:06attack in Solingen.

00:11Russian President Vladimir Putin hears reports from top generals about ways to drive Ukrainian

00:17forces out of Kursk.

00:25Police in Germany have arrested the man suspected of killing three people in a knife attack

00:30on Friday night in the western city of Solingen.

00:33North Rhine-Westphalia's Interior Minister Herbert Reuel told public broadcaster ARD

00:39that the man police were looking for was taken into custody.

00:42Reuel gave no further details, but the built-in Spiegel News websites reported that the suspect

00:48had given himself up.

00:49The arrest comes after the so-called Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the

00:54attack.

00:55In a statement published on its Amak News website earlier on Saturday, the group said

00:59the attack had been carried out to avenge Muslims in Palestine.

01:04People alerted police shortly after 9.30 p.m. local time on Friday to an unknown attacker

01:09who had wounded several people after stabbing indiscriminately on a downtown square.

01:15Solingen was hosting the Festival of Diversity to mark the 650th anniversary of the city.

01:20It was supposed to run until Sunday, but the event has since been called off.

01:30Police in France say they have arrested a man suspected of starting fires and causing

01:34an explosion outside a synagogue in the country's southwest.

01:39Prime Minister Gérald Darmanin said the alleged perpetrator had been detained.

01:45French media said the suspect was shot and injured by police after he opened fire on

01:49the officers who came to arrest him in the city of Nîmes.

01:53Two cars parked at the Beth Yacov synagogue complex in La Grande Motte were set on fire

01:58just after 8 a.m. local time.

02:01Firefighters discovered additional fires at two entrances to the complex.

02:06A police officer who walked up to the site was injured after a propane gas tank in one

02:11of the vehicles exploded.

02:14Five people, including the rabbi who were in the synagogue at the time of the attack,

02:18were unharmed.

02:20Prosecutors are investigating the attack as an attempted assassination linked to a terrorist

02:25group and destruction of property with dangerous means.

02:34Russian President Vladimir Putin has heard reports from top army generals about strategies

02:39to counter Ukrainian forces that invaded the Kursk region earlier this month.

02:44No details were released about what was discussed, but the Kremlin said that Putin also listened

02:49to updates by telephone from troop commanders in Ukraine.

02:55Also on Saturday, Russia's defense ministry released footage of what it says is a Ka-52

03:00helicopter attacking Ukrainian positions in Kursk.

03:04Again, the ministry gave no details about the military operation to drive Ukraine's

03:08forces out of the border region.

03:10Ukraine launched the surprise offensive into Kursk on August 6, with Kyiv later saying

03:15the aim of the incursion was to create a buffer zone to prevent further attacks from Russia

03:20on Ukrainian territory.

03:22In a speech to mark Independence Day in the capital, Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr

03:27Zelensky stressed his country's resolve to regain its territorial integrity.

03:32He said Kyiv would do everything to push Russia out of Ukraine.

03:40Russia and Ukraine have exchanged more than 200 prisoners of war as part of a deal brokered

03:46by the United Arab Emirates.

03:50Ukraine said the 115 servicemen who were freed were conscripts, many of whom were taken prisoner

03:56in the first months of Russia's invasion.

03:58Among them are nearly 50 soldiers captured from the Azovstol steelworks in Mariupol.

04:05Russia said its soldiers have been captured in Kursk after Ukraine began its surprise

04:09incursion into the region.

04:14Several fires broke out on a Greek-flagged oil tanker on Friday following an attack by

04:20Yemen's Houthi rebels a day earlier.

04:24UK maritime trade operations reported at least three fires on board the Sunni vessel, which

04:29now appears to be adrift in the Red Sea.

04:34It comes amid a months-long campaign by the Houthis targeting ships over the Israel-Hamas

04:39war, disrupting a major trade route through which just under a trillion euros of cargo

04:44typically passes each year.

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