Police said the Guinean man attacked security staff at an asylum seekers' reception center. He was tasered twice before being overpowered, only to lose consciousness. The man later died in hospital.

The German state of Thuringia Germany is the second state to suspend the potential deportation of Yazidis. Over 200,000 Yazidis live in Germany, making it home to the largest Yazidi diaspora community in the world.

In her year-end press conference, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that the EU's new pact on migration is "better than in the previous one" while adding that is "not a solution" in the long term.

The United Kingdom is not sufficiently coordinating with French efforts to reduce the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats, a French report alleges. Britain has disputed the claims.