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Deadly shooting at Hamburg Jehovah’s Witness hall A number of people have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in the north German city of Hamburg. Police say a gunman is believed to be dead. It is unclear if the attacker is among six or seven fatalities reported by German media. The shooting took place in the Gross Borstel district, a few kilometers (miles) north of the downtown area of Germany’s second-biggest city. “We only know that several people died here; several people are wounded, they were taken to hospitals,” police spokesman Holger Vehren said. As…

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to be helicoptered in to the country’s international airport amid protests over his planned judicial reforms.

Demonstrators waved Israeli flags and used cars to shut off access to Ben Gurion airport’s departure area ahead of the PM’s planned trip to Rome.

In a ‘day of resistance to dictatorship’, activists blocked major road junctions and scuffled with police in Tel Aviv and other cities. A flotilla of paddleboards and kayaks were used for a bid to shut a shipping lane off the northern city of Haifa.

Yesterday’s disruption also hit visiting US defence secretary Lloyd Austin, whose schedule was rearranged to keep his engagements close to the airport.

Israel has seen some of its biggest demonstrations in years since plans were unveiled in January. If passed, they would curb the Supreme Court’s power and give the government more say over judicial appointments.

The government says reforms will strengthen democracy, but critics say it will undermine it and politicise the judiciary.

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Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, and an unspecified number of people were killed or wounded, police said.