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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish police have shot and killed a man suspected of carrying out shooting attacks at a free speech event and then at a Copenhagen synagogue, killing two men. Five police officers were also wounded in the attacks. The Danish Film Institute says the man killed at the free speech event at a Copenhagen cafe was a documentary filmmaker, Finn Noergaard.

BERLIN (AP) — Police in the German city of Braunschweig have canceled a popular Carnival street parade 90 minutes before it was to start because of fears of an imminent Islamist terror attack. Police say they received credible information that there was a "concrete threat of an attack" at today's parade and therefore called on all visitors to stay at home. Braunschweig's Carnival parade is the biggest one in northern Germany and draws around 250,000 visitors each year.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Witnesses say a teenage female suicide bomber killed 16 and injured more than 30 when she blew herself up at crowded bus station in in northeastern Nigeria. One witness says the dead and injured were mostly children selling goods in the station.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia is condemning the killing of three American Muslims in North Carolina as a "heinous terrorist" act, and called for respecting religious beliefs and halting incitement against Muslims. The statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency Sunday also condemned as a "terrorist" act the attacks that killed two people in Denmark.

BOSTON (AP) — New England is enduring another round of wind-whipped snow, to be followed by bitter cold. A blizzard warning is in effect for coastal communities from Rhode Island to Maine into tomorrow. A bone-chilling blast of cold, with lows of minus-10 degrees, is in the forecast for tonight in parts of the region. More than 6 feet of snow is already on the ground in some areas from previous storms.

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