A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences at Liverpool John Lennon airport in connection with the Manchester Arena attack. The teenager was arrested on Friday and a property in Fallowfield, south Manchester, was being searched as part of the investigation, police said.

It is understood that the arrested suspect is not Hashem Abedi, the younger brother of suicide bomber Salman Abedi who is being held in Libya. The arrest is the 23rd under the investigation into the suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May in which Salman Abedi killed 22 other people. It comes a day after detectives said they believed the bomber did not act alone when preparing the deadliest attack on UK soil since the 7/7 bombings exactly 12 years ago.

Three police vans with riot shields attached, including one specialist operations vehicle, were stationed outside a red-brick semi-detached house on Thelwall Avenue on Friday, around the corner from Abedi’s family home in Fallowfield. Neighbours said police letters were put through their doors shortly before the afternoon raid, warning them that they might hear controlled explosions.(theguardian)…[+]

Police have moved more than 2,000 refugees and migrants off the streets of Paris, where they had been sleeping rough for weeks in squalid and insanitary conditions.

Riot officers watched the refugees as they were bussed to temporary shelters in school gymnasiums on Friday morning. Hundreds of refugees and migrants had arrived in the Porte de la Chapelle area of northern Paris, sleeping under road bridges and on the side of the road with almost no access to water, sanitation and food, outside Paris’s new aid centre for asylum seekers that was opened in November. The operation to move them began at dawn and took place calmly. Groups of men and women from countries including Afghanistan and Eritrea – some only with small rucksacks or plastic bags of belongings – were sent on to buses and driven out of Paris.

It was the 34th police removal of large numbers of refugees and migrants sleeping rough in the French capital since 2015. Aid workers warned that France needed to establish an efficient long-term strategy for processing and housing asylum seekers in decent conditions rather than constantly taking emergency action at the last minute.(Theguardian)…[+]

Militants killed at least 23 soldiers and injured dozens more in a car explosion and gun attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint in the north-eastern Sinai peninsula, officials have said. Among those killed in the attack on Friday – the deadliest on the country’s military this year – were five officers, including a high-ranking special forces colonel, Ahmed el-Mansi, according to security officials.

The assault started when an attacker rammed his vehicle into a checkpoint at a military compound in the village of el-Barth, south-west of the border town of Rafah. This was followed by heavy gunfire from dozens of masked militants on foot, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.

As the attack unfolded, ambulances were heard rushing to the site. The officials initially put the death toll at 10 but later said more bodies were pulled from under the rubble of a nearby rest house for troops that was destroyed in the attack. The militants arrived at the checkpoint, which is in a remote desert area, in 24 SUVs, and shot at the soldiers with machine guns for nearly half an hour, the officials said. There were thought to be about 60 soldiers at the compound.(theguardian)…[+]