Germany's opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker spills over into an election campaign in which he is the front-runner.

Police identified the suspect as an Afghan man. Politicians gearing up for an election responded with comments about migration and law and order.

ALBAWABA- A brutal stabbing attack in Aschaffenburg, northwestern Bavaria, has claimed the lives of a two-year-old toddler and a 41-year-old man, leavin