Boycott of black wedding registrar shocks Belgium
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News that three couples in Belgium's northern region of Flanders canceled weddings to be overseen by a black registrar because of the color of his skin caused a nationwide outcry on Friday.
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BRUSSELS -- Belgian voters punished the outgoing liberal-socialist government in an election yesterday and cleared the way for Flemish leader Yves Leterme to become prime minister.
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By April Bethea, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 17--Protestors this morning apparently stayed away from a Gastonia church that had been publicly criticized recently for a blackface performance.
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Thousands of people in New York stage a protest over the police killing of an unarmed black man on his wedding day.
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Last Wednesday in Brussels, a working group comprised of leading European information privacy officials concluded that a major global financial transaction processing organization based in Belgium may have violated EU law in complying with subpoenas from the US Treasury Dept. for information.
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Belgium on Tuesday marked 100 days since its general election, with the gulf so vast between its Dutch- and French-speaking communities that there is no new government but fears the country could split.
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Belgian voters punished the outgoing liberal-socialist government in an election on Sunday and cleared the way for Flemish premier Yves Leterme to become prime minister.
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At least 15,000 demonstrators marched  through Brussels on Saturday in protest at planned job cuts at  the Belgian factory of German car maker Volkswagen
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The Muslim community in The Netherlands fears the backlash of the murder of controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh, which already
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Media & professional: Academics and students hit back at lecturers' support for a boycott of Israeli institutions.
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Belgians oust the coalition government of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt after eight years in power.
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A violent backlash over the murder of film-maker Theo van Gogh puts Dutch multiculturalism under pressure.
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Thousands of trade union members march in Brussels, saying Belgium's political crisis is hitting people's pockets.
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A sense of crisis prevails in Belgium, as separatists want to slice the country horizontally along ethnic lines.
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Belgian voters punished the liberal-socialist government in an election on Sunday and cleared the way for Flemish premier Yves Leterme to become prime minister and pursue a devolution of power to the regions.
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Two-thirds of the Flemish community  from the northern Dutch-speaking region of Belgium think the  country will sooner or later split, a poll by Belgian daily Het  Laatste Nieuws showed on Tuesday.
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Suddenly and shockingly, Belgium came to an end. State television broke into regular programming late Wednesday with an urgent bulletin: The Dutch-speaking half of the country had declared independence and the king and queen had fled. Grainy pictures from the military airport showed dark silhouettes of a royal entourage boarding a plane.