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Images of supporters at the Roi Baudouin stadium, after the Euro 2024 qualifier between Belgium and Sweden was abandoned at half-time following a "terrorist attack" in Brussels which left two Swedish nationals dead. IMAGES
Lawyers, security personnel and the members of the press arrive outside the courtroom in Brussels where the trial of the suspects in the March 2016 jihadist attacks opens today. The attacks on the Belgian capital's metro system and airport left 32 dead and became the country's worst peacetimes massacre. IMAGES
The EU expresses condolences for friends and family of David Trimble, the Nobel peace prize-winning former first minister of Northern Ireland whose statecraft helped end decades of conflict, who died aged 77. SOUNDBITE
Images of the arrivals of lawyers at a Brussels court about to deliver its judgement for 14 people accused of having helped members of the jihadist cell behind the attacks in Paris of 13 November 2015. The judgement comes a day after the verdict of a special court in Paris which, after ten months of hearings, sentenced on Wednesday evening 20 men (six of whom were tried in absentia) involved in the worst acts of violence committed in France since the end of the Second World War. IMAGES
Maros Sefcovic, the European Commissioner responsible for handling the EU's fraught ties with the UK government, says "unilateral action is damaging to mutual trust" after the UK government on Monday introduced legislation proposing a unilateral overhaul to the post-Brexit trade deal it signed for Northern Ireland. "The Commission will now assess the UK draft legislation," Sefcovic adds. SOUNDBITE