——8:50 p.m.German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Europe is looking for “the most appropriate response” to the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy. British authorities say Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with a nerve agent in the Novichok class. The leader of Britain’s main opposition party says the government shouldn’t rush to blame Moscow for the nerve agent poisoning of a former spy. Tensions with Moscow are growing before Russia’s presidential election Sunday, after a nerve agent attack in Britain on a Russian ex-spy. Russia denies being the source of the nerve agent used and has demanded Britain share samples collected by investigators.

Source: National Post March 16, 2018 08:49 UTC