POLAND: Police today arrested a 16-year-old male on suspicion of attacking a synagogue with Molotov cocktails and said they planned to ask prosecutors to open an investigation.

The Nozyk Synagogue was attacked at 1am on Wednesday, sustaining some damage to its facade. 

Nobody was in the prayer hall at that time and there were no injuries.

EUROPEAN UNION: Lebanon was today granted an aid package of €1 billion (about £856 million) by the European Union. 

Much of the funding will go towards strengthening border control to halt the flow of asylum-seekers and migrants from the small, crisis-wracked country across the Mediterranean Sea to Cyprus and Italy.

The deal follows recent aid packages by the EU to countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Mauritania to fortify their borders. 

NORWAY: Oslo said today that it wants to add 7bn kroner (£503m) to the Scandinavian country’s armed forces over the next 12 years amid increased tensions in the region.

The announcement came on top of plans announced last month of a “historic increase” of 600bn kroner (£43bn) in the oil-rich country’s defence budget over the same period.

GREECE: A court today decided to release the former leader of Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos, who was serving a 13-year and six-month prison sentence as the leader of the far-right party Golden Dawn which was designated a criminal organisation.

The court decided the release of Mr Michaloliakos should be subject to a ban on leaving the Attica region where he lives and avoiding contact with co-defendants in ongoing criminal investigations.