BERLIN (Reuters) -A judge in Germany ordered into pretrial detention three men suspected by prosecutors of being members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas and preparing attacks on Jewish targets in Germany, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Prosecutors said they suspect the three men of being foreign operatives for Hamas and of being involved in procuring firearms and ammunition to be used for attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions.

The men were arrested on Wednesday at a time of heightened security around Jewish buildings, a week before the second anniversary of the militant Islamist group’s attack on Israel.

In Britain, two people were killed on Thursday in an attack at a synagogue in the city of Manchester by an assailant who was later shot dead by law enforcement personnel, the

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