All posts tagged "Belgium"

Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened to escalate the controversy over President Donald Trump's intervention in a U.S, soccer player's suspension by using an upcoming NATO summit to focus on it.

While meeting with Chilean Foreign Minister Francisco Perez Mackenna on Monday, Rubio was asked about Belgium's appeal of FIFA's decision to reverse U.S. player Folarin Balogun's suspension ahead of the World Cup match with Belgium.

"It was a bad decision," Rubio said of the suspension. "I think it was the right decision to reverse it."...

The trial of 14 defendants charged with helping terrorists carry out the Paris terror attacks in November 2015 began in Brussels on Tuesday, Belga, the Belgian news agency reported. One of the accused is suspected of harbouring two of the Paris terrorists in his flat in Brussels, according to Belga. A total of 20 people have been charged in the case in France, 14 of whom are now also on trial in Belgium. During the Paris attacks, terrorists shot dead 130 people in the Bataclan concert hall and in the surrounding area, injuring 350 people. In addition, three suicide bombers blew themselves up a......

A man was arrested in Belgium on Friday in connection with an acid attack on the chief financial officer of German energy company Innogy more than three and a half years ago. A trace of DNA found at the crime scene suggests the man detained in Belgium's Limburg province was behind the attack, according to the public prosecutor's office in Wuppertal, Germany. The suspect was wanted under a European arrest warrant and there are plans to extradite him. Two people threw highly concentrated acid at Bernhard Guenther as he was jogging near his home near Dusseldorf on March 4, 2018. He was scarred in......

Germany's flood crisis escalated on Thursday with the army deployed to the worst-hit areas of the country amid mass evacuations, reports of missing persons and a rising death toll. At least 58 people are confirmed dead after being unable to escape the raging flood waters that engulfed parts of western Germany following days of torrential rain. In the city of Cologne alone, police on Thursday confirmed the deaths of 20 people in the floods. Flooding has also devastated parts of the Netherlands and Belgium. In the small Eifel region town of Schuld, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, fo......

Anyone who's had Belgian fries after a night of drinking Belgian beer can certainly understand their appeal. And Belgian chip shops are trying to make sure that that experience can be had for future generations - by applying for UNESCO status. Belgian beer has already had that status for half a decade at this point - and now it's fries' turn to follow suit, says the umbrella organization that represents the owners of Belgian fry stands. People take Belgian chip shops as a given, something that will never disappear. But as Bernard Lefevre, president of the umbrella group points out, more and mo......