People smugglers ‘using small boats as decoys for vessels carrying more than 80 migrants’ (LINK ONLY)

(BBC) The fire service response after the Manchester Arena attack was a “catastrophe” as senior officers argued over who to deploy, an inquiry heard. Communication and command failures meant fire crews took more than two hours to get to the arena after […]

(France 24) Salah Abdeslam, the 31-year-old French-Moroccan believed to be the only surviving member of the group that carried out the November 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris, told a courtroom on Wednesday that he was a “soldier of the Islamic State group.” […]

(BBC) Emergency services have taken part in joint training exercises to test its response to a terror attack or mass-casualty incidents. It comes after a public inquiry found a catalogue of failings by the emergency response to the aftermath of the Manchester […]