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Russia blamed for UK nerve agent attack: Key updates from the EU Summit

The first day of a two-day summit in Brussels, however, ended without a conclusion on tariffs

Russia blamed for UK nerve agent attack: Key updates from the EU Summit
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Lyubov Pronina, Raine Tiessalo and Tim Ross | Bloomberg
European Union leaders sided with the UK and said it’s “highly likely” that Russia was behind the nerve agent poisoning in Britain of a former double agent.
 
It’s an outcome that will please Prime Minister Theresa May. The language of the bloc was toughened significantly: It could find “no other plausible explanation” for the attack and believes it’s “highly likely” Russia is to blame.
 
Some countries are considering expulsions of their own in coming weeks — Lithuania has hinted as much. Germany’s Angela Merkel said “we are united in our language, but if necessary also to react together