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POLICE were hunting a suspect in the Brussels bombings yesterday as Belgian politicians urged a crackdown on civil liberties in response to the atrocities.
Tuesday’s bomb attacks at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station killed 34 people and injured some 200.
Belgian Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw identified two of the attackers as brothers Ibrahim El Bakraoui, one of two suicide bombers at the airport, and Khalid El Bakraoui, who blew himself up the station.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
