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Brussels police had ‘orgy’ during terror alert, reports say
Officials are investigating accounts of an alcohol-fueled sex party at a police station in November, while Brussels was nearly shut down because of fears of a terrorist attack.
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Video found in Belgium raises worries about a ‘dirty bomb’ in wrong hands
The news set off an uproar among Belgian lawmakers, who charged that they and the country had been misled about the extent of the potential threats to the country’s nuclear facilities.
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How dairy farmers in Belgium helped block a big EU trade deal
Christian Wiertz is a leader of a group of dairy farmers in the Wallonia region of Belgium that single-handedly threatened to derail a landmark accord to deepen commerce between Canada and the European...
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Belgian man convicted of ‘sexism in the public space,’ a first
“Shut your mouth, I don’t talk to women, being a police officer is not a job for women,” the man told the female police officer. His conviction was the first under a 2014 law criminalizing sexism in a...
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Europe targets tech giants with digital tax proposal
The EU is proposing to tax tech companies’ revenues in the countries where they are generated, rather than their profits — a move that it hopes will curb tax avoidance.
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg barraged with questions by Europe lawmakers
The Facebook chief executive, whose company has been fighting an array of scandals over its handling of user data, appeared before European authorities, who have emerged as the world’s most assertive...
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Belgium honors Congo leader It helped overthrow
The cheering crowds at the ceremony masked Belgium’s complex relationship with its former colony.
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17,500 Dutchmen gave their DNA in a murder inquiry. After 20 years, an arrest.
BRUSSELS — For 20 years, Dutch police investigated the rape and murder of an 11-year-old schoolboy, and the Dutch media chronicled the case’s many twists and turns. Now, after an investigation in which...
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