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The youngest person to be convicted of planning a terror attack in the UK has been detained for more than six years.

The now 17-year-old wrote about an “inevitable race war” in his diary and listed locations from his home city of Durham in a “guerrilla warfare” manual.

A jury had found the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, guilty of preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March 2018. He was sentenced to six years and eight months at Manchester Crown Court.

Judge David Stockdale QC told the boy: “These are offences of the utmost seriousness.” He also ordered the detention be followed by an extension period on licence of five years.

The six-week trial heard he was an adherent of “occult neo-Nazism”, and described himself as a “natural sadist”.

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German police have shot dead a man who tried to attack officers with a knife in the city of Gelsenkirchen.

The man struck a police car with an object and attempted to assault officers who were standing by the vehicle, a police spokesman said. He was holding a knife behind his back and refused to cooperate with officers, police told AFP news agency.

The man, who was Turkish, was warned by officers to stop his attack before he was shot, but refused.

Germany revised its terror threat level on Friday, citing possible attacks after the US killed an Iranian general., Deutsche Welle reports.

The incident came hours after police in France shot and wounded a man who had rushed towards a group of policeman with a knife in the eastern city of Metz.

The local prosecutor’s office said the man was on a list of people monitored for links to militant groups.

No 10 has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, saying their work is vital.

Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq on Friday on the orders of President Donald Trump. Iraqi MPs responded to the strike by passing a non-binding resolution calling for an end to the foreign military presence in their country.

European leaders have called for all sides to show restraint.

Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of senior ministers later to discuss the deepening crisis and spoke to Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi by phone on Monday morning.

A Downing Street spokesperson said the leaders discussed the need to “deescalate tensions in the region” and “agreed to work together to find a diplomatic way forward”. “The prime minister underlined the UK’s unwavering commitment to Iraq’s stability and sovereignty and emphasised the importance of the continued fight against the shared threat from Daesh [the Islamic State group]”.

About 400 British troops are stationed in Iraq, while the US has 5,200.

Caretaker Iraqi Prime Minister Mr Abdul Mahdi spoke in favour of US and other foreign forces leaving the country, although most Sunni and Kurdish MPs boycotted the vote.

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Iran’s most powerful military commander, Gen Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq.

The 62-year-old spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. He was killed at Baghdad airport, along with other Iran-backed militia figures, early on Friday in a strike ordered by US President Donald Trump.

Mr Trump said the general was “directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of people”. Soleimani’s killing marks a major escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran.

Under his leadership, Iran had bolstered Hezbollah in Lebanon and other pro-Iranian militant groups, expanded its military presence in Iraq and Syria and orchestrated Syria’s offensive against rebel groups in the country’s long civil war. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said “severe revenge awaits the criminals” behind the attack. He also announced three days of national mourning.

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A man stabbed a number of passers-by in a park near Paris before being shot dead by police, local media report.

The knife attack happened in the town of Villejuif, 7km (4 miles) south of the French capital.

Four people are believed to have been stabbed including two who are reported to have died.

The attacker was chased by police and then shot nearby. Some reports suggest he was wearing an explosive vest although this has not been confirmed.

Police have advised people to avoid the area near to the Hautes-Bruyères State Park.