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An armed group has stormed the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Libya’s capital, Tripoli.

Security forces clashed with the armed men at the landmark building in the centre of the city, and blasts and gunfire could be heard, witnesses say.

Last week, the UN announced a truce between warring militias had been agreed in the capital.

A UN-backed government is nominally in power in Tripoli. However, militias occupy much of the rest of the country.

An NOC member of staff, who said he had jumped out of a window to flee, told Reuters news agency three or five gunmen were shooting inside the building and several people had been shot.

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Seven people have been injured, four seriously, in an attack by a man wielding a knife and an iron bar in the French capital Paris, police say.

The attack took place just before 23:00 (21:00 GMT) on the banks of a canal in Paris’s 19th district. People playing pétanque — a French bowling game — threw balls at the attacker to try to stop him.

The man, said to be Afghan, was later arrested. The incident is currently not being treated as a terrorist attack.

The man initially stabbed two men and a woman near the MK2 cinema on the quai de Loire, along the Ourcq canal, reports say.

Eyewitness Youssef Najah, 28, said he was walking beside the canal when he saw a man running and holding a knife about 25-30cm (10-11 inches) long.

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Russia’s threat to the international community is «real» and «active», the head of GCHQ has warned.

Jeremy Fleming’s comments came after the US, France, Germany and Canada agreed with the UK that Russia was behind the Salisbury Novichok attack.

In a speech in Washington, Mr Fleming said Russia’s desire to «undermine» international law was «brazen».

At a UN Security Council meeting to discuss the attack, Russia dismissed evidence presented by the UK as «lies».

Mr Fleming, the director of the government’s cyber intelligence agency, said GCHQ had supported police in a «painstaking» and «highly complex» investigation into what happened after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wiltshire on 4 March.

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China has accused the UK of «provocative actions», after a British warship sailed close to the disputed Paracel islands in the South China Sea.

The Chinese told HMS Albion to leave in «an aggressive manner», taking position «irresponsibly close» to the ship.

The Royal Navy said it was conducting a freedom of navigation exercise «in full compliance with international law». But China said the UK had entered its territorial waters without permission.

A source tsaid that a Chinese warship tailed the Albion from just 200 metres, while Chinese jets flew low over the British warship during the encounter.

The Paracels are controlled by China but also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan.

China’s definition of the 12-mile limit around the islands is not the same as those limits which have been internationally recognised. The UK Ministry of Defence has insisted the Albion was always in international waters.

Details of the challenge have not been made public, but both sides are said to have remained calm during the encounter on 31 August.

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Two Russian nationals have been named as suspects in the attempted murder of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

There is «sufficient evidence» to charge Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov over the attack in Salisbury, Scotland Yard and the CPS say.

They are thought to have been using the names as aliases and are about 40.

Mr Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok in March. The CPS is not applying to Russia for the extradition of the two men, as Russia does not have extradition agreements with the UK. A European Arrest Warrant has been obtained in case they travel to the EU, however.

In response, the Russian foreign ministry has said the names and photographs of the men «do not mean anything to Moscow». Police are now linking the attack to a separate poisoning on 30 June, when Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley fell ill at a house in Amesbury, about eight miles from Salisbury.

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