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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) chief Jens Stoltenberg headed for Washington on Monday for the first time since United States President Donald Trump was elected, holding talks with senior officials about defeating the Islamic State group, his office said. Stoltenberg will meet US Defense Secretary James Mattis on Tuesday, then meet foreign ministers from the coalition working to defeat the group, according to his office.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) — United States Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday (February 20) that President Donald Trump expects European allies to, by the end of the year, make “real progress” in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization pledge to spend more on defense. Pence said at the NATO headquarters in Brussels that although some NATO members respected their commitment to reach 2 percent of the gross domestic product on defense spending, others failed to do so. “The […]
CANADA (AFP) –Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Union leaders finally sign a landmark trade deal seven years in the making, after it was nearly being torpedoed by a small region of Belgium. https://youtu.be/Kxa1WWKW8ws
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The twitter account of Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders was hacked on Tuesday, his ministry said, just hours after EU ministers failed to agree on a trade deal with Canada due to opposition by Belgium. “The personal twitter account of MFA Didier Reynders was hacked. The recent messages that are published on this account are not his,” the Belgian ministry of foreign affairs said in a tweet. The posting by Reynders […]
(REUTERS) International prosecutors investigating the downing of a Malaysian airliner two years ago have concluded it was shot down by a Russian-made missile fired from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, victims’ family members said on Wednesday. Families were informed of the prosecutors’ findings shortly before a news conference was due to start in the central Dutch city of Nieuwegein on the outcome of the investigation. A surface-to-air missile hit Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) – Belgian authorities on Friday detained two people for questioning following anti-terror raids in the capital Brussels and southeastern Belgium, the federal prosecutor’s office said. Police searched two homes in the Haren and Schaarbeek districts of Brussels and another in the city of Liege in the French-speaking Wallonia region, the office said in a statement. “Two persons were arrested and will be interrogated by the investigators,” it said, adding a judge will decide […]
CHIMAY, Belgium (Reuters) — An explosion at a sports centre in the southern Belgian town of Chimay early on Friday (August 26) killed one person and wounded four others, two of them seriously, Belgium’s Crisis Centre said. “It is probably a gas explosion,” an official at the agency told Reuters, adding that there was no indication of it being a militant attack. Local media reported the blast occurred just after midnight (2200 GMT) at a […]
(Reuters) A passenger train crashed into the back of a freight train in the eastern Belgian municipality of Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse late on Sunday, killing three people and injuring 40, Belgian officials said. “A train… carrying around 40 passengers crashed into the back of a freight train on the same track,” Belgian railways SNCB said in a statement. “The collision derailed two of the six carriages.” Françis Dejon, the mayor of the Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse district told Belga news […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — A giant panda on loan to Belgium from China has given birth to a cub, a rare event for the endangered species, the Pairi Daiza zoo said Thursday. The zoo and the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda “have the great pleasures to announce the birth of a panda cub”, Pairi Daiza said in a statement. “Less than 2,000 pandas can be found in the wild, making every […]
by Lachlan Carmichael BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini was charged Saturday with “terrorist murders” and confessed he was the man in the hat seen with the suicide bombers at Brussels airport, Belgian prosecutors said. Another man was also charged with “terrorist murders” over the Brussels subway bombing as investigators linked more clearly than ever the jihadists involved in both France and Belgium’s worst ever terror outrages, claimed by the Islamic […]
by Danny Kemp and Lachlan Carmichael BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Three suicide bombers who struck Brussels airport and a metro train in attacks claimed by the Islamic State were identified Wednesday, as a grieving nation observed a minute’s silence for victims of the carnage. As hundreds of mourners gathered in the city in a show of solidarity with the 31 people killed and 300 injured, prosecutors said brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The Philippine embassy in Belgium advised Filipinos in Brussels to be cautious and to avoid public places for the meantime and also to follow local authorities. Belgium declared Alert Level 4 which is the highest security level in the country. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
