BRUSSELS, March 18 (Reuters) – The most wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks is wounded and holed up in a Brussels shootout, Belgian newspaper DH reported on Friday. A police spokeswoman said an operation was ongoing and could not give
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police found fingerprints of the most wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks at the scene of a shootout this week, officials said on Friday, and the public broadcaster said he may have narrowly evaded capture. The
Diplomats at the European Commission have been accused of caving in to Chinese demands to water down their estimates of Chinese steel overproduction, leaving the door open for the Chinese to flood world markets with cheap steel. It comes just
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tells Breitbart News Daily about “Brexit” – Britain’s potential exit from the European Union – and President Barack Obama’s plans to interfere in the process.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian investigators were hunting Wednesday for two suspects who fled an apartment linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, after a police sniper killed a third man and uncovered weapons, ammunition and an Islamic State flag,
Belgian prosecutors have announced shots were today fired at police in Belgium’s capital city, Brussels, as they carried out a major counter-terror operation linked to November’s Islamist Paris attacks. Federal prosecutor spokesman, Eric Van Der Sypt, announced police were fired at, but
Contents: Number of women and children refugees to Europe surges; EU and Turkey meet in Brussels for major showdown over refugees; Death of Nancy Reagan reminds us of generational differences
Brussels bureaucrats have quietly shelved plans to ban eco-unfriendly toasters and kettles amid concerns that it could drive the British people to vote for a British exit from the European Union (EU). The ban is part of a second wave of
Algerian authorities have jailed a man with dual Algerian and Belgian citizenship for links with the ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a court statement said on Saturday. The court in the Algerian city of Bejaia said 29-year-old Zahir
Police have taken nine people in counter-terror raids carried out on 10 properties in Brussels today as part of a campaign targeting a suspected Islamic State recruitment network. Armed Belgian police raided the nine properties early this morning in the districts of Molenbeek, Schaerbeek,
New European Union (EU) diktats could see every town across the UK forced to introduce congestion charges for motorists as Brussels strives to meet its own self-imposed climate change targets. The recommendations have been made by the European Commission in a guide
The quest to prevent Britain crashing out of the European Union faces its moment of truth this week, with EU chief Donald Tusk (pictured) touring key capitals in a final push for a deal at a crucial Brussels summit. Many
LONDON (Reuters) – A clear majority of Britons do not expect Prime Minister David Cameron to get a good deal in his renegotiation of Britain’s EU membership terms, according to a poll on Saturday, adding to the pressure on him
Donald Trump, the front-running U.S. Presidential candidate for the Republican Party, has declared that once “so beautiful”, living in Brussels is “like living in a hell hole” because of the lack of “assimilation” by the Muslim population. Donald Trump was being
Is this how “Europe” ends? The Germans, founders and funders of the postwar union, shut their borders to refugees in a bid for political survival by the chancellor who let in a million migrants. And then — why not? —
From the Independent: Two members of a motorbike gang with alleged links to global terror networks are among the suspects arrested over a plot to launch attacks in Brussels. Authorities said a suspected Isis terror cell were planning to attack
Terrorist threats hang especially heavy over major cities as 2015 draws to a close.
The Mayor of Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of cancelling the Belgian capital’s annual New Year’s fireworks display due to the terrorist threat that still hangs over the city, the Associated Press reports. BREAKING: Brussels mayor: New Year’s Eve fireworks
A group of Belgian soldiers and policewomen reportedly held an orgy at a police station while their colleagues hunted terrorists during the recent Brussels lockdown. In recent weeks rumours have been rife among the Brussels police force of a group sex
British newspapers tend to bury bad news from Brussels on the international pages of their publications. It is as if what happens in Brussels is really not relevant to our lives in the UK. I have railed against this for years, to little
Belgian police searched a home in the centre of Brussels on Sunday and made two arrests in connection with a probe into last month’s terror attacks in Paris, federal prosecutors said. Special forces and federal police were involved in a
Brussels is becoming less democratic and more monolithic by the week. At a time when 76 per cent of EU citizens believe corruption is widespread across the European Union, why is Britain giving away our personal and financial data? We
The Commissioner of the European Union (EU) has urged Italy to “use force” when necessary to collect the fingerprints of asylum seekers coming into the country, and to immediately activate two new migrant registration “hotspots” to ensure that all migrants
Brussels struggled to get back to normal on Wednesday after four days at the highest possible terror alert with schools reopening and the metro partially back in service. Closed since Monday, schools and universities reopened despite the alert still remaining
A device which appears to be a belt of explosives has been found discarded in a pile of rubbish in a suburb south of Paris. Investigators believe it may have been abandoned by the last remaining fugitive terrorist involved in
Brussels will stay at the highest security threat level for another week over fears of an imminent attack, the Belgian government said, as the US issued a worldwide terror alert for its citizens. On the third day of an unprecedented
Brussels continues to be on lockdown into the early hours of Tuesday morning as authorities continue their manhunt for jihadi terrorists, leading Belgium’s Prime Minister to leave the country at its highest alert level until at least next week.
Soldiers patrolled the streets of Brussels on the third day of a security lockdown on Monday and the tenth day of a manhunt for the suspected mastermind of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. Belgian national Salah Abdeslam has not
Brussels (AFP) – Brussels will remain at the highest possible alert level on Monday with schools and metros closed over a “serious and imminent” security threat in the wake of the Paris attacks, the Belgian prime minister said. Armed police
Contents: Brussels Belgium on lockdown in search for Paris bomber; European Union considers gun control after Paris attack
Authorities in Turkey announced Saturday that they have arrested three suspected Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis, including a 26-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin, with possible ties to last week’s attacks in Paris.
Belgian authorities have raised the terror alert in Brussels to the maximum (level 4) and have canceled major entertainment events for fears of an imminent, multi-pronged jihadist attack on the city, similar to those of November 13 in Paris.
Contents: Hong Kong ‘boos’ China with paper signs at soccer match; Netherlands – Germany football match cancelled after ‘concrete threat’; Brussels, Belgium, has become the center for European terror
A series of raids by heavily armed police and a “siege” are ongoing in the district of Molenbeek in Brussels, Belgium. Two explosions have been heard and bomb squads are on the ground. “A large number of police launched a raid on
The European Union (EU) misspent 6.3 billion euros ($6.8 billion) in 2014, the bloc’s financial watchdog said on Tuesday, urging Brussels to take make its unwieldy budget more responsive to shocks like the migration crisis. The European Court of Auditors
The European Union voted through a new law in Brussels on Tuesday, making some internet porn filters illegal and obliging internet services providers (ISPs) to treat all online content “without discrimination, restriction or interference.” Certain ISPs such as BT, Sky
This has been a devastating year for the steel industry and particularly so for the workers and their families who have lost jobs as a consequence of the low world price and high costs in the UK. With job losses
Europe has become a “valley of fears” as its “glorious years” have come to an end, top Eurocrat Jean-Claude Juncker has admitted. In a downbeat assessment of the trading bloc’s immediate future, the president of the European Commission told an audience in
The European Commission (EC) has ruled that a deal between Starbucks and Dutch tax officials five years ago is unlawful state aid, effectively over-ruling a sovereign nation’s legal jurisdiction in favour of its own decree. A separate agreement between Fiat Chrysler
Russia’s military excursion into Syria has driven estranged partners Turkey and the European Union to try to make amends, further isolating the Syrian Kurds, reports Rudaw, citing analysts.
