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    At least two British visitors to Paris were among seven victims of a savage knife attack in the French capital, police said today. A suspect ‘of Pakistani or Afghan origin’ began ‘slashing passers-by’ on the Loire Quay in the north of the city on Sunday night. It runs along the Villette Canal Basin, which was full of people enjoying hot late summer weather when the assailant struck. He first stabbed three people outside the MK2 cinema complex, 'including two English tourists', according to an investigating source. One was particularly badly hurt by ‘a stab in the head’, while the other was ‘cut in the chest’. He injured four others, before a police night patrol appeared, and arrested the unnamed man at the scene. The case is being investigated by judicial police...

    Michel Barnier has expressed his frustration with Dominic Raab, the Brexit secretary, for allegedly withholding information from the EU, as the question of the Irish border erupted again in the Brexit negotiations. The EU negotiator was said to be disappointed and irritated by Raab’s alleged failure this week to live up to a promise to provide data on the trade flows between the UK and Northern Ireland, which had been requested as part of an attempt to take the drama out of the Irish border issue. The backstop solution for avoiding a border between Northern Ireland and the Republic would result in the province effectively staying in the customs union and single market for goods as the rest of the UK withdraws. The British government has dismissed the backstop as it ...

    British and French fishermen have failed to finalise a deal to end the scallop wars in the English Channel. British and French fishermen have failed to finalise a deal to end the scallop wars in the English Channel. Industry leaders were unable to agree a compensation package during negotiations in Paris on Friday, which was aiming to cease recent skirmishes. The basis of an agreement was formed in London this week, with small UK vessels pledging not to fish in the area of dispute during the period French laws prevented their counterparts. But this was on the basis British crews would not lose out financially, and the price appeared to have been too high for the French during the latest discussions. A Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) spok...