The Berlin attack won’t finish Angela Merkel – and the killing of Andrei Karlov doesn’t mean war

Last night’s events attest to the growing global instability – but they won’t accelerate it.

The world has been rocked by three terrorist attacks in a matter of hours. Here’s what we know for sure:

In Germany, a truck drove into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people at time of writing and injuring more than 50. The event is being treated as a deliberate attack. German media has identified the driver as “Naved B”, a Pakistani immigrant.