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6 hrs ago | The Epoch Times

New Prime Minister Out, Old Prime Minister In, in Belgium

On Nov. 25, in the early afternoon, the new Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme was sworn in by King Albert II at the king's palace in Laken.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Yves Leterme

Wed Nov 25, 2009

WABC 7

GM: future of Opel plant is uncertain

An Opel plant in Belgium faces an uncertain future as General Motors Co. moves to restructure its European operation, a drive expected to cost some 9,000 jobs across the continent, a top executive said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: World News

Wilson's Almanac

European Union to train Somali security forces

The European Union said on Tuesday that it plans to train hundreds of Somali security forces and possibly expand its anti-piracy mission off Somalia 's coast, in an effort to bring stability to the war-torn Horn of Africa nation.

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Related Topix: Piracy News,

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

'Locked in a coma I could hear people talking around me'

Imagine this. You are lying in a hospital bed, in a coma, apparently dead to what is happening around you.

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Related Topix: World News,

Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep

Leterme returns as Belgian prime minister

Yves Leterme is to be Belgium's new prime minister. The five parties in the ruling coalition agreed the move during talks mediated by former prime minister Wilfried Martens.

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Related Topix: Yves Leterme, World News,

KHWB-TV Houston

The picturesque sights of Bruges, Belgium

Often compared to a fairy tale, Bruges makes for a fantasy-like European getaway.

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Related Topix: World News, Travel

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Curve

Dip in to the spirit-ual side of Belgium

Lesbian beer aficionados will tell you, one must worship all things Belgian. The little country has a big business with its 125 breweries, over 800 types of beer and approximately 8700 one-offs to choose from.

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Related Topix: Beer, Gay/Lesbian, World News,

Xinhuanet

Backgrounder: Key facts about EU's new president

Belgium Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy was chosen as EU's first full-time president at a special summit Thursday night in Brussels.

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Related Topix: World News,

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Daily Mail

Patient trapped in a 23-year 'coma' was conscious all along

A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.

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Related Topix: World News,

The West Australian

EU leaders face flak as new president keeps low profile

Incoming EU president Herman Van Rompuy kept a low profile Friday as the 27-nation bloc's leaders faced flak for picking him and a little-known British peer to lead a revamped Europe on the world stage.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Europe

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Channelnewsasia.com

Belgian ex-premier meets party chiefs as hunt begins for new PM

BRUSSELS : Belgian ex-premier Wilfried Martens met party leaders Saturday as he began a royal commission to organise a smooth political transition after current PM Herman Van Rompuy was named as EU president.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Bloomberg.com

Belgium's Van Rompuy Chosen First EU President; Ashton Named Top Diplomat

European Union leaders picked Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the first president of the 27-nation bloc and Britaina s Catherine Ashton as chief diplomat, appointing a team unlikely to overshadow national governments.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Germany

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Small Times

Inovio Biomedical Universal DNA Vaccine for Chikungunya Virus...

Inovio Biomedical Corporation , a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today that the company's SynCon Chikungunya virus DNA vaccine induced protective neutralizing antibody responses in a preclinical non-human primate model.

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Related Topix: University of Pennsylvania, World News, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Medicine, Influenza

The Times

Belgium's PM Herman Van Rompuy is first President of EU

Comment about "Belgium's PM Herman Van Rompuy is first President of EU" Phone Name Comment 0 Belgium's PM Herman Van Rompuy is first President of EU AFP Herman Van Rompuy More pensive poet than political pit-bull, Herman Van Rompuy, was named the European Union's first President yesterday.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Coast Reporter

And the EU's top jobs go to ... unknown Belgian-British duo instead of an 'Obama for Europe'

The newly appointed European Union President Herman Van Rompuy, left, poses with the EU's new foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, center, and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, at a media conference at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Fredrik Reinfeldt, World News, Canada

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Profile: Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium's Mr Fixit

Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy kisses Lady Ashton after his appointment as EU president Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium 's centre-right prime minister, pulled off the coup of a long political career tonightby ascending to the post of president of the European Council, the new summiteering role ...

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Related Topix: Europe, World News,

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Diplomats say EU choses Belgian as new president

Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy assists in a ceremony in honour of the Unknown Soldier during Armistice on November 11, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.

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Related Topix: World News

CardPlayer.com

Final Qualification for Belgium Poker Championships

Online qualification for the sixth annual 1,500 + 200 buy-in Belgium Open Poker Championships being held in Casino de Namur in Belgium from Nov.

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Related Topix: Games, Poker, World News

The Sun Online

THE Sun retaliates after Belgium attacks Britain for its weather, food and lazy drunks

BRITAIN has terrible weather, horrible food and is full of lazy drunks - according to the BORING BELGIANS.

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Related Topix: Travel, Belgium Travel, Beer, Drink, Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Brussels, Belgium Travel,

Wed Nov 18, 2009

BioResearch Online

ThromboGenics And BioInvent Complete Phase I Patient Trial Of...

November 17, 2009 Leuven, Belgium And Lund, Sweden/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ThromboGenics NV and BioInvent International AB today announced positive results from a Phase I trial of their novel anti-cancer monoclonal antibody TB-403 in patients with advanced solid tumours.

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Related Topix: World News, Sweden, Cancer, Health, Medicine

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