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Brussels, Jan 18 – The problem with starting out as a messiah is that you usually end up being clobbered by your own fans.

Brussels, Dec 1- After eight years of rows and soul-searching, the European Union finally managed to reform itself Tuesday as the Lisbon Treaty entered into force.

Liege, Belgium  – Germany’s Andre Greipel of Team Columbia won the fourth stage of cycling’s Tour of Spain, benefiting from a mass pile-up shortly before the finish in Liege, Belgium.

Brussels  – Nine people died and three were critically injured in a blaze late Thursday at an old-age home in the north- western Belgian town of Melle, the Belgian news agency BELGA reported.

Bruges, Belgium  – The Grote Markt (“Big Market” square) was thronged with international tourists. In their midst were tour guides, easily spotted by the closed umbrellas, colourful flags and a bright red balloon that they held overhead. The guides were telling the tourists in Bruges, which in medieval times was the capital of the country [...]

Brussels – Former cycling world champion Tom Boonen faces a criminal investigation but no sports sanctions after testing positive for cocaine again, Belgian news reports said on Saturday.

Brussels – The European Commission on Thursday urged mobile phone companies to eliminate some 2 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) in unnecessary costs to consumers by reducing the fees they charge them for making a call from another operator’s network. According to officials in Brussels, so-called “termination rates” should be based only on the real [...]

Brussels – NATO cares about ordinary Afghans and seeks to reduce the number of civilian casualties to as close as “zero” as possible, the alliance’s top military commander said Thursday. “We really care about civilian casualties, in the sense that we want them to be zero,” said Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, chairman of NATO’s Military [...]

Brussels – The European Commission on Wednesday responded to public anger about perceived managerial greed in the midst of recession by recommending curbs on company pay and bonuses. The European Union executive also issued tighter rules on the management of high-risk alternative investment funds, such as hedge funds.

Mexico City  – A Belgian businessman kidnapped a month ago in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun, Mexico, was freed by security forces.