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Europe remains on high alert over terror fears

Police in Europe remain on high alert after the foiled Belgian terror plot and the atrocities in Paris.

A weekly anti-Islam rally in Dresden, Germany, has been cancelled by police due to a threat of an attack on one its leaders.

It comes after German security authorities said on Friday that they had specific warnings of a risk of militant attacks on central railway stations in Berlin and Dresden.

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Dresden cancels anti-Islam rally after attack threat

A weekly rally by anti-Islamists in Dresden, Germany, has been cancelled after a threat of an attack against one of its leaders, police said.

Dresden Police said they had placed a "general ban" on all public gatherings on Monday following the threat, including the rally by Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida).

A force spokesman said: "The police in Dresden have received information of a concrete threat against the weekly Pegida rally.

"Assasins have been called up to mingle among the Pegida protesters and murder one of the individuals leading the rally."

It comes after German security authorities said on Friday that they had specific warnings of a risk of militant attacks on central railway stations in Berlin and Dresden.

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