Ms. Merkel acknowledged that the recent violence in Germany — including a shooting rampage on Friday in Munich, the capital of Bavaria — had contributed to a climate of fear.
The shooting may have claimed as many as twenty victims, and is the latest in a string of terrible incidents, including a shooting, just last week, at a Planned Parenthood health center in Colorado Springs.
Several local business owners said the killing was the latest in a string of violent incidents, including a shooting at a pharmacy two months ago, that seemed to be changing the neighborhood.
Newark, the state's largest city, has been rocked by gang violence and a series of murders in recent years, including a shooting in a schoolyard last year that claimed the lives of three college students.
Yet the Pakistani Taliban has also made far-fetched claims of responsibility for other attacks in the United States, including a shooting on an immigrant center in Binghamton, N.Y., in April 2009, although no connection to the Taliban was found.
Before the cease-fire, declared in 1997, the fundamentalist group had carried out a series of terror attacks in Egypt, including a shooting spree at the ancient ruins in Luxor in which dozens of tourists were killed.
It will also offer students many new features, including a shooting studio with a 15-foot-6-inch ceiling and 12 color and black-and-white darkrooms, for teaching and more advanced work.
The Great Britain team managed two wins including a shoot-out victory over pre-tournament favourites France and a defeat of Japan.
Operation Fortress was set up in response to a number of violent incidents in the city, including a shooting and a number of stabbings.
Microsoft showcased new live games for HoloLens on Tuesday, including a shooting game that projects robots on your living room walls.
Co-founders James Iliff and Nathan Burba have put together a Rift, some Sixense wired motion-sensing controllers and a PlayStation Move, then built several games including a shooting range and a first-person-shooter in a zombie apocalypse.
