Berlin attack: Man held over phone link released by authorities

German authorities have released a man who was arrested after they found his number on the phone of Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri.
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The 40-year-old, a Tunisian, was taken into custody after officers searched his home and workplace.

Prosecutors had been focusing on a mobile phone voice message and a picture sent by Amri to a contact shortly before the attack - but have now determined that contact was not the man who was arrested.

Spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said: "The investigation into further accomplices or possible people who knew... will continue at full speed."
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She also confirmed the truck that ploughed into the market was only stopped thanks to an automatic braking system that activates when impacts are detected.
Image Caption:Amri was killed in a shootout with police in Milan

Meanwhile, Italian police have searched three homes in and around Rome where Amri may have spent time, judicial sources told Reuters.
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Amri was shot dead after opening fire at Italian police officers four days after the attack on a Christmas market in the German capital, in which 12 people died.

The attack has forced police forces across Europe, including those in the UK, to reassess their security needs for New Year's Eve.

His fingerprints and wallet were found in the truck.

German prosecutors have now said that the weapon he used in Italy had the same calibre as the one he had used to hijack the truck used in the Berlin attack - whose driver was shot dead.

Investigators have been trying to piece together how Amri got from Berlin to Italy after the attack.

His route appears to have taken him to Nijmegen in the Netherlands and via a bus to Lyon in central France.

Amri was picked up on CCTV at a railway station there before travelling to Chambery.

His precise movements after that are unclear. Sky News has been told he was seen in the French mountain resort town of Chamonix.

He is also understood to have taken a train on to Milan, where he was killed in a shoot-out with police.











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His journey across Europe has prompted fears that open borders in Europe's Schengen zone are being exploited by Islamic State.

Amri, who pledged allegiance to IS in a video, had first arrived in Europe after taking a boat to the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2011.

Searches by Italian authorities have focused on Rome and nearby Acilia, where he is thought to have stayed after leaving a detention centre in Sicily in 2015.

Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni told a news conference on Thursday that Amri was probably radicalised after arriving in Europe.

But he said the government had no evidence that he had "particular networks" in Italy.

Japan's PM Shinzo Abe vows never to wage war again in Pearl Harbor visit

By Michelle Clifford, Senior News Correspondent

The Japanese Prime Minister has joined US President Barack Obama on an historic visit to Pearl Harbor.
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Shinzo Abe honoured those who lost their lives and promised that Japan would never again wage war on another country.

During an evocative speech Mr Abe said "We must never repeat the horrors of war again. This is the vow we the people of Japan have taken."
Image Caption:There were 2,400 service personnel killed in the Pearl Harbor attack
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Speaking alongside the memorial over the sunken battleship USS Arizona, he said: "To the souls of the servicemen who lie in eternal rest aboard the USS Arizona and to the American people and to all the people around the world, I pledge that unwavering vow here as the Prime Minister of Japan."

Japanese forces attacked the US fleet in their Hawaii base of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, killing 2,400 service personnel.











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The attack was one of the defining episodes of the Second World War and propelled America into the conflict.
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The visit was the first time a Japanese and US premier had visited the site of the attack together.

It was designed to show a strong alliance between the two former foes amid concerns about China's growing strength and worries about a more complex relationship with Japan after US President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Image Caption:Mr Abe met Pearl Harbor survivors during his highly symbolic visit

As expected, Mr Abe did not apologise for the attack but Mr Obama said his visit was a historic one and a reminder that "even the deepest wounds of war can give way to friendship and lasting peace".

Earlier this year Mr Obama visited the Japanese city of Hiroshimawhere the United States dropped an atomic bomb in the dying days of the war with catastrophic consequences.

He was the first serving US president to make the highly symbolic trip and the visit to Pearl Harbor was seen as an act of reciprocity.











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Underscoring the importance of the event, Mr Obama's top Asia adviser in the White House Daniel Kritenbrink said: "This visit, and the president's visit to Hiroshima earlier this year, would not have been possible eight years ago.

"That we are here today is the result of years of efforts at all levels of our government and societies, which has allowed us to jointly and directly deal with even the most sensitive aspects of our shared history."