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Fellaini signs record Everton transfer
LIVERPOOL, England AFP — Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini has signed a five-year contract with Everton, his club Standard Liege and the Premier League side announced on Tuesday. The 20-year-old agreed a deal worth 15 million pounds (18.5 million euros) which makes him the most expensive transfer in Belgian footballing...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, Games
Research articles 2008-09-02
Devolder for a first, but no Boonen for Quick Step
PARIS AFP — Belgian superstar Tom Boonen is the major absence from the Quick Step team's Tour de France roster, announced Thursday, due to a recent positive test for cocaine. The news of Boonen's career setback - which will not lead to sporting sanctions - left Tour de France...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, CAREER, France, Paris, team, Tom
Research articles 2008-06-26
Belgian colza fields contaminated with banned GMOs
BRUSSELS AFP — Fifteen Belgian colza fields, owned by Bayer CropScience, have been contaminated by genetically modified organisms GMOs banned in Europe, the country's public health ministry announced Tuesday. The Bayer subsidiary, which specialises in improving crop yields, informed the Belgian authorities of the contamination, which happened last month...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bayer AG, Belgian, HEALTHCARE
Research articles 2008-06-03
Strike halts Belgium trains, including Eurostar
BRUSSELS AFP — A 24-hour strike paralysed Belgium's rail system on Tuesday, shutting down local lines as well as international services such as Eurostar trains between Brussels and London. "No trains are running," Fanny Charpentier, a spokeswoman for Infrabel, which manages the country's railway lines, told AFP. Belgian...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, Brussels, FINANCE, France, London, strike, train
Research articles 2008-05-20
Morocco holds 11 over planned attacks: report
RABAT, Morocco AFP — Moroccan police have broken up a "terrorist network" of 11 people with links to Al-Qaeda that was planning attacks in Morocco and Belgium, the MAP national news agency said Monday. The 11, who include a Moroccan resident in Belgium, were picked up in the central...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, Belgian, Belgium, Government, MARKETING, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-05-19
Belgian star Sterchele killed in car accident
BRUSSELS AFP — FC Bruges' Belgian international Francois Sterchele was killed in a car accident on Wednesday night, Belgian media report Thursday. The 26-year-old was travelling alone between Antwerp and Knokke in the north of the country when his Porsche left the road and smashed into a tree. ...
Tags: accident, Agence France-Presse, Belgian, car
Research articles 2008-05-08
Internet auction baby to stay with Dutch 'parents': court
THE HAGUE AFP — A Dutch court on Wednesday ruled that a girl whose Belgian mother reportedly put her up for sale in an Internet auction should stay with the Dutch couple who adopted her. The case of little Donna, as the child is known, has become a major...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, INTERNET
Research articles 2008-05-07
BELGIUM/GAS : SUEZ SHORTLISTS DISTRIGAS BUYERS.
Respecting remedies set out by the European Commission in October 2007, Suez will decide, before the end of June 2008, on the candidate buyer for its 57% stake in Belgian gas distributor Distrigas. Following Suez's merger with Gaz de France, the European Commission had required, among...
Tags: Belgian, Belgium, European Commission, FINANCE, Investment, SALES
Research articles 2008-04-09
Serena launches tennis defense in decisive style
MIAMI AFP — Serena Williams launched her WTA title defense at the Sony Ericsson Open Friday with a confident victory over unseeded Romanian Edina Gallovits. Williams, seeded eighth, needed just 54 minutes to dismiss Gallovits 6-1, 6-2 to reach the third round of the tournament, which also features an...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, Miami, sister, tournament, Williams
Research articles 2008-03-28
Kidnapped Belgians released in Guatemala: foreign ministry
BRUSSELS AFP — Four Belgian tourists kidnapped by a peasant group in Guatemala have been freed and were being taken to the capital Sunday, Belgian and Guatemalan authorities said Sunday. "We were informed this morning that the four tourists were freed on Saturday," Belgian foreign ministry spokesman Francois Delhaye...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, FINANCE, Leadership, ministry
Research articles 2008-03-16
Surviving without wolves: Belgian autobiographer admits the truth
BRUSSELS AFP — A Belgian woman who wrote a bestseller-turned movie about how she was adopted by wolves after her parents were seized by the Nazis, admitted Thursday that the 'autobiography' was a work of fiction. The book's author, known as Misha Defonseca, who lives in the United States,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, Belgium, Brussels, Nazi
Research articles 2008-02-28
Former Belgian star Clijsters gives birth to daughter
BRUSSELS AFP — Former Belgian world tennis number one Kim Clijsters on Wednesday gave birth to daughter Jada, a family spokesman said. The baby, who weighs 3.035 kilos (6.7lb) and is 51cm (20in) tall, and her 24-year-old mother are both well, added the spokesman quoted by the Belga agency....
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, MARKETING, spokesman
Research articles 2008-02-27
Al-Qaeda claims attacks on Belgian, Spanish tourists: report
DUBAI AFP — Al-Qaeda's wing in Yemen has claimed responsibility for separate attacks on groups of Belgian and Spanish tourists in the impoverished country, a web monitoring group said on Tuesday. The "Jund Al-Yemen Brigades" said in an Internet statement that it was behind a strike in January which...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Al-Qaeda, attack, Belgian, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-02-25
Henin keeps low profile during emotional Belgian tennis buildup
ANTWERP AFP — Justine Henin has taken a page from the playbook of fellow world number one Roger Federer, preparing for one of the most emotionally important weeks of her career in virtual isolation. The Belgian is playing at home at a WTA event for the first time in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, CAREER
Research articles 2008-02-13
Henin shows softer side with WTA tennis appearance
ANTWERP AFP — Justine Henin credits pure emotion with prompting her first WTA appearance on a home tennis court in five years. The all-business Belgian who has mellowed remarkably since a reapproachment with her formerly estranged family last spring, makes her start at the Diamond Games on Thursday after...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, CAREER, gesture
Research articles 2008-02-12
Belgian tourists in emotional homecoming after Yemen attack
BRUSSELS AFP — Eleven Belgian tourists who survived a shooting attack on their convoy in Yemen which killed three people had an emotional homecoming in Brussels Saturday, a foreign ministry spokesman said. "It was a very emotional event, and very sad, in that the family of the two victims...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, Belgian, SECURITY, spokesman, women
Research articles 2008-01-19
Two Belgian tourists, two Yemenis shot dead: official
SANAA AFP — Two Belgian women tourists were among four people killed, and four more Belgians were wounded, when suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen opened fire on them in Yemen on Friday, a local official told AFP. The official, who declined to be named, blamed the local branch of the terror...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Al-Qaeda, attack, Belgian, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-01-18
Smurfs preparing big 50th birthday celebrations
BRUSSELS, Jan 14, 2008 AFP — The little blue cartoon Smurfs are planning to celebrate their 50th birthday this year with a new TV series, books and a film, with UNICEF among the beneficiaries, their human promoters said Monday. Throughout 2008, 20 European cities will be flooded by the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, Benefits, TVs
Research articles 2008-01-14
Henin, Kuznetsova in one versus two Sydney final
SYDNEY AFP — World number one Justine Henin stretched her winning streak to 27 matches as she beat fourth-ranked Ana Ivanovic to set up a one-versus-two final with Svetlana Kuznetsova at the Sydney International on Thursday. Henin claimed her 56th WTA Tour final appearance with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-4...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgian, CAREER, Games, Sydney
Research articles 2008-01-09
EC urges Belgian regulation.(BELGIUM)(Institut Belge des services postaux et des telecommunications)(European Commission)(Brief article)
The Commission recognized the recent efforts made by the Belgian telecoms regulator, IBPT Institut Belge des services postaux et des telecommunications, to enhance broadband competition in the Belgian market by making the regulation more effective. In a letter, the Commission asked IBPT to reinforce the provisions...
Tags: Belgian, broadband, commission, DES, European Commission, NETWORKING, regulation, SECURITY, telecommunications
Research articles 2008-01-01
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