Police said the truck jumped the sidewalk and drove into crowds at a holiday market, killing 12 and injuring dozens. The suspected driver was arrested. The truck could be seen afterward on one edge of the market after having traveled about 250 feet through stalls and shoppers. At a time when terrorist attacks have become all too familiar, public spaces are no longer presumed to be safe, and that includes holiday markets. Here are some of the deadly attacks that have shaken Europe in the past two years. The shooting at an art exhibit, said to be carried out by a 22-year-old police officer, forced Turkey and Russia to confront a new crisis tied directly to the Syrian conflict. Andrey G. Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, at an art gallery in Ankara on Monday, moments before he was shot. A man believed to be the gunman is behind him at left. The Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated by a Turkish policeman on Monday in Ankara, officials said. The Times’s standards editor, Phil Corbett, discusses the publication of an image of a gunman standing beside the dead body of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey. The assassination of a Russian ambassador by a Turkish gunman on Monday caused global alarm, but an armed conflict between Turkey and Russia is unlikely. After Russia agreed to back a compromise deal, observers will oversee operations to bring civilians out of the besieged Syrian city. Electors across the country faced protests, reflecting a vast divide that carried over from a tumultuous race and that the new president will be facing. Steven T. Mnuchin’s time in the limelight came mainly as the head of OneWest, a bank bought out of bankruptcy that was criticized over foreclosures. If confirmed, Mr. Viola, a retired Army major who helped found the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, would be the Army’s senior civilian leader. It wasn’t about small-state bias or regionalism. It was about the nature of the battleground states, and there was one other key element: luck. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Donald J. Trump and Xi Jinping, the president of China, have contrasting political styles, and their pairing has injected new unpredictability into relations. The National Transportation Safety Board asked tech companies to add the locations of grade crossings into digital maps and to provide alerts for drivers. A federal judge in Manhattan said a government search warrant and supporting documents belonging to Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton, should be made public. Swiss police were looking for a man, about 30 years old, who they said opened fire as worshipers prayed. A founder of the hedge fund, Platinum Partners, and six others were charged on Monday in what federal prosecutors said was a scheme that overvalued the assets and misrepresented their performance. 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