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HAMBURG, Germany: Former European champions Hamburg SV played out a goalless draw at Borussia Moenchengladbach on Sunday in their first game back in the Bundesliga after a seven-year absence. The 1983 European Cup winners, once nicknamed the Bundesliga’s ‘dinosaurs’ for having been in the top division for the longest uninterrupted spell since the league’s creation […]

German police on Friday said they had arrested a woman after at least 12 people were injured in a knife attack at the main station in the northern city of Hamburg. Around 6:30pm (1600 GMT), Hamburg police said on X they were carrying out a major operation at the main train station in Germany’s second-largest city. “A person injured several people with a knife at the main train station” and a suspect had been arrested, they said. The suspect, police subsequently said, was a 39-year-old woman who was thought to have “acted alone”. Investigations into the incident were “running at full speed”, police said, without giving an indication of a possible motive. A spokesman for the Hamburg fire department told AFP that 12 people had been injured in the knife attack. Among them were “six people with life-threatening injuries”, the spokesman said. German media, however, reported that the number of people with very severe injuries was lower. Security concerns The attack took place around 6:00 pm in the middle of rush hou...