2017-05-24

This is the Brief from Brussels, a daily roundup of the top stories from the EU’s de facto political capital.

The Brief from Brussels: President Trump touches down in Brussels

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Manchester bomb attack: police say they are looking for "a network" of conspirators

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Living it drove the new Lexus LC500 on the roads of the sunny Spanish island and it was full of surprise.

Salman Abedi, otro joven con la huella del yihadismo

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Gaza

Gaza at risk of 'systemic collapse'

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Eco-Innovation

Living it goes to Ibiza

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Trump says meeting pope 'honour of a lifetime'

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This NATO meeting will mark the inauguration of a new headquarters for the alliance that cost one billion euros.

Manchester pays tribute to Manchester attack victims with candles and flowers

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Europe News

President Trump set for NATO summit

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Belgium

EU Commission: 1-minute silence for Manchester victims

European commission shows solidarity with the British people

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Spain's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by footballer Lionel Messi against a 21-month prison sentence for tax fraud.

Poet Tony Walsh gives rousing performance at Manchester vigil

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Sport

Messi tax fraud sentence upheld

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Thirty-one migrants, many of them toddlers, drowned after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Libya.

Dozens of toddlers feared dead after boat capsizes

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Fans pay tribute to James Bond star Roger Moore

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[watch] Video shows panic after Manchester blast

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Manchester pays tribute to bomb attack victims

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If British humour was ever automated or computerised, its default setting might be “joke about almost everything”.

Brits turn to humour as antidote to terrorism threat

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Hollywood mourns Bond legend Moore

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The United Kingdom increased its terrorism threat level to its highest level of “critical”, prompting the deployment of soldiers throughout the country, after the UK’s worst terror attack since…

Imminent attack: The UK's "critical" terrorism threat level explained

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France

France extends emergency powers

The terrorist attack in Manchester has prompted the French government to extend the country's state of emergency.

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Vatican

The Pope meets Donald Trump at the Vatican

The pair have clashed over several issues in the past including migration, rampant capitalism and global warming.

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The British city of Manchester remains locked down as police widen their inquiry into the sucide bomb attack on Monday night.

Manchester mobilises as UK police investigate alleged bomber's entourage

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USA

Trump hires lawyer Kasowitz over Russia probe

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An Australian coroner says police failed to act quickly enough in a Sydney cafe siege in 2014 that left three people dead.

Sydney coroner says police acted too slowly in cafe siege

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Turkey

Turkey: protests after teachers jailed over anti-purge hunger strike

Lawyers for two Turkish teachers who have been on hunger strike for two months in an anti-government protest said on Monday that they had been detained by…

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Manchester terror attack: what we know

What happened?

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