Manchester — Britain raced on Thursday to hunt down a jihadist network thought to be behind the Manchester concert attack, as a row escalated between London and Washington over leaked material from the probe. As more children were named among the 22 victims of Monday’s massacre, Libyan authorities detained the suicide bomber’s father as well as his brother and police in Britain also carried out new arrests and raids. A grieving country ground to a halt for a minute’s silence at 11am to remember the dead, innocent victims of the latest Islamic State-claimed atrocity to hit Europe. But amid the grief, British authorities were left "furious" by repeated leaks of material shared with their US counterparts, providing an awkward backdrop for Prime Minister Theresa May’s meeting with US President Donald Trump at the Nato summit in Brussels later on Thursday. Images obtained by The New York Times newspaper showed a detonator Abedi was said to have carried in his left hand, shrapnel includin...
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