Three adults and a teenager have been arrested over a planned attack on the security forces in the coming days, prosecutors said Monday, which a minister described as “extremely violent”. One of the suspects is a minor serving a probationary sentence at an educational facility after being sentenced to three years, two suspended, for trying to travel to Syria, the Paris prosecutors office said. Source: France24
Elderly people and those with disabilities face losing care services across Scotland as deep cuts are made. Staff vacancies are left unfilled, even when vacancies could affect support elderly people need to live independently in their own homes, as the bodies that oversee social care and GP surgeries battle with budgets that are plunging millions of pounds into the red. Source The Times
Turkey has decided to no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe by land and sea, a senior Turkish official told Reuters on Thursday, in anticipation of the imminent arrival of refugees from Syria’s Idlib where nearly a million have been displaced. Source Daily Sabah
At least 22 Turkish servicemen have been killed in an airstrike in Syria’s Idlib province, while an unspecified number of soldiers were injured. The airstrike has been attributed to the Syrian military by Turkish officials. Source RT
