Belgium News Archives

Belgium is slowly unravelling , like a Yugoslavia in slow motion. The supranational country is in a situation of political limbo since the elections of June 10, 2007.

BRUSSELS, Belgium : Yearly inflation in euro nations hit a record 4 percent in June, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said Monday.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn expressed hope on Friday that Serbia's new government will continue to work to speed up co-operation with The Hague war crimes tribunal, a condition ...

Hitting shelves this week are an Oscar-nominated animated gem, a Barbara Stanwyck classic and an intriguing story of hit men in Belgium.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe can't take anything but victory from Friday's run-off in which he is the only candidate.

Proxim Wireless Corporation , a leading provider of end-to-end broadband wireless systems that deliver the quadruple play, today announced that Live Nation Festivals Belgium has purchased and deployed Proxim's ...

More than the fate of St. Louis- based Anheuser-Busch Cos. is at stake with InBev NV's $46.3 billion bid for the brewer.

Anheuser-Busch Cos. may reject InBev NV 's $46.3 billion takeover bid and announce plans to lower costs and sell off divisions to increase its stock price.

Brian McNeil wrote his first news story almost three years ago, compiling a 300-word item about a lawsuit involving retail giant Wal-Mart. From his home just outside Brussels, Belgium, the Scottish-born systems ...

The initial results from this proof of concept study showed activity of lacosamide in fibromyalgia syndrome but require further analysis.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union has published an updated blacklist of nuclear experts and companies in Iran being targeted under new sanctions.

Infrared sensor and solution provider XenICs has launched a production and sales subsidiary in Singapore.

The Associated Press Monday, June 23, 2008; 11:05 AM BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European Union nations approved new sanctions against Iran on Monday, including an assets freeze of the country's biggest bank.

Research institute IMEC vzw has reported at the VLSI Symposium an improved performance for its planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-based metal gates for the 32-nm CMOS node.

COMMENT By ANGELA CHARLTON The Associated Press Thursday, June 19, 2008; 6:06 PM BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Britain's drive for tighter EU sanctions against Iran slowed Thursday with European diplomats saying ...

European Union leaders acknowledged Friday that their much-maligned reform treaty, in the works for the better part of this decade, was off the rails again after Irish voters rejected it in a referendum last ...

An EU survey released Friday found that the main reason the Irish voted "no" was that they did not understand the treaty.

A Belgian man and a smitten 13-year-old girl planned to settle in an Amish community in Ontario where they believed no one would question their 20-year age difference, a courtroom heard Friday.

After his characters in "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow" battled futuristic aliens, tidal waves and frozen temperatures, director Roland Emmerich looks back in time - way back - for another ...

"The European Council reiterates its readiness to take additional measures against those responsible for violence," said the draft of a text to be adopted by EU leaders at the end of their two-day summit.

BRUSSELS, Belgium : The European Union on Thursday agreed to lift its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposed tough conditions on the communist island to maintain sanction-free relations, officials said.

Despite a big push from Britain, European diplomats say a decision to target Iran's oil industry with sanctions is unlikely to be taken for months.

Britain and France demanded Thursday that Burma's regime release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as she marked her 63rd birthday under house arrest.

BRUSSELS, Belgium : Hundreds of farmers, truckers and taxi drivers blocked roads in and around Brussels on the eve of an EU summit to push leaders for help coping with skyrocketing fuel prices.

Billionaire Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. may bank a $600 million profit if InBev NV succeeds in its $46.3 billion takeover of Budweiser-maker Anheuser-Busch Cos.

A Belgian man facing a half-dozen sex-related charges involving a 13-year-old girl will spend the next few days in jail awaiting a bail hearing.

The annual inflation rate was up from 3.3 percent in April and from 1.9 percent in May last year, according to figures from the European Union's statistics agency.

Mechelen, Belgium; 16 June 2008 - Galapagos NV announced today that it has reached two new milestones in its multi-year drug discovery alliance with GlaxoSmithKline in osteoarthritis, triggering a payment of ...

InBev NV , the world's biggest brewer, said its $65-a-share offer to acquire Anheuser-Busch Cos.

London, June 14: A new study suggests that a "default network" in the brain's cortex, which is believed to be associated with daydreaming, may provide clues as to whether severely brain-damaged patients may ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, shares a word with Supreme Allied Commander Europe John Craddock during a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, Thursday, June 12, 2008.

Political leaders across Europe were shaking their heads in frustration this weekend at the Irish voters' veto of the latest European Union treaty.

Look for more Robert Gates articles on WHDH.COM BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that reports of detainee abuse in the early years of the Guantanamo Bay prison operation have ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium-- It's a grim gauge of U.S. wars going in opposite directions: American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan passed the toll in Iraq for the first time last month.

Irish voters have rejected the European Union treaty, a blueprint for modernizing the 27-member bloc that cannot become law without Irish approval, electoral officials said Friday.

Anheuser-Busch Cos. , the maker of Budweiser beer, may try to thwart InBev NV's $46.3 billion takeover offer by pursuing a combination with Mexico's Grupo Modelo SAB .

The U.S. and Pakistan remained at odds in their versions of a Tuesday night clash on the Afghan border that led to American planes dropping bombs on insurgents who had staged an attack inside Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON, : U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that foreign terrorism prisoners held in U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo, Cuba, can challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

A popular vitamin supplement is being advertised with claims that are demonstrably untrue, as revealed by research published in the open access journal BMC Pharmacology.

Washington, June 11: If you want to make your man spend a little more money, all you need to do is strut about in a bikini or other sexy stimuli, as such things make men extremely impulsive when it comes to ...

A child rapist convicted of raping and murdering two schoolgirls in eastern Belgium in 2006 was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.

By AOIFE WHITE The Associated Press Tuesday, June 10, 2008; 1:30 PM BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The EU's top antitrust official called Tuesday on member governments to use open-source software, an apparent jab at ...

A Belgian man has been convicted of abducting, raping and murdering two schoolgirls in a crime that shocked the country two years ago.

Two Belgian rock music stars sponsored a benefit concert on Saturday night in the northern Belgian city of Hasselt for the victims in the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province.

EUGENE - Ethiopian great Kenenisa Bekele failed in his world record bid Sunday at the Prefontaine Classic, but still came through with one of the greatest 10,000-meter runs ever.

An important development took place two weeks ago with the resolution introduced by the UNPO Oromo Chapter, which was adopted by the General Assembly of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization .

Belgian researcher Maarten Roeffaers of the Catholic University of Leuven has won the first prize in the DSM Science & Technology Awards 2008.

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 3, 2008 .- The Vatican has recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Belgian Blessed Damien de Veuster, known as the apostle of lepers in Molokai, Hawaii.

From correspondents in Brussels, Belgium, 04:00 AM IST The European Union was placed on alert Wednesday as a nuclear power plant in Slovenia reported a leak in the cooling system.

The United States urged Iran to abandon the pursuit of nuclear arms forever, saying Wednesday that the International Atomic Energy Agency had overwhelming evidence of an Iranian weapons program.

Galapagos NV announced today that its Annual General Shareholders' meeting approved Dr.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Franco Frattini, the former EU justice commissioner who is now Italy's foreign minister, doesn't expect the most serious possible sanctions against Bulgaria for corruption.

Colon cancer patients who have the normal version of a particular gene are more likely to benefit from a combination treatment that includes adding the targeted therapy Erbitux to chemotherapy.