Belgium rounds on former colony
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Belgium's foreign minister criticises politicians in the DR Congo over the country's slow transition to democracy.
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Belgium's King Albert tries to work out how to end a political impasse after attempts to form a government fail.
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A French town has been forced to stop using a former World War I battlefield as a garbage dump after a fierce campaign by British media and citizens outraged at what they called a "desecration" of the memory of ...
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When Percy Montgomery sent his third and last penalty of the afternoon sailing between the uprights to take South Africa out to 23-7 after 63 minutes, it seemed safe to contemplate the remarkable idea that South Africa were to be Tri Nations champions.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - For Americans, there  is no place quite like home. Europeans, however, always seem to  enjoy the challenge of foreign lands.
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French imperialist forces appear to have reestablished control over Ivory Coast, their former prize colony in West Africa, although Paris remains unable to patch together a stable client regime.
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BRUSSELS -- In the back room of an exclusive social club across the street from the U.S. Embassy here, Flemish separatists are plotting the breakup of Belgium.
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"If not we will have to draw our conclusions"  Belgium's Dutch- and French-speaking parties have been unable to form a coalition government despite over two months of wrangling, highlighting the rift between the political aspirations of the two communities. via Raw Story
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BARCELONA, Spain  - There is often talk of two Spains, right and left or traditional and modern; the debate will go on for years but one issue was settled long ago.
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I recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled "Dealing with the past in ex-Yugoslavia." Although the rest of post-communist Europe confronted such questions a decade ago, the Balkan wars of the ...
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King Albert II urged Belgium's French- and Dutch-speaking communities Monday to overcome their differences, after months of political crisis, and strive to learn each other's languages.
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Belgians began voting on Sunday in an election expected to replace Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt with the premier of Flanders who wants more power for his Dutch-speaking region.
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Jamaica, where Bob Marleyâs old home stands in a rough part of the capital, is one of nine Caribbean nations that have banded together to serve as the hosts for the matches.
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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.
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NO tourist would confuse Paris with Albany, or Berlin with Sacramento. But more and more European countries seem to be acting like American states.
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LA ROCHE-EN-ARDENNE, Belgium Sixty years after the Battle of the Bulge reduced it to rubble, the "pearl of the Ardennes" is shining again.
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Amid rusted hulks of abandoned  plants and huge mine craters, Congo's former top copper town  Kolwezi is showing signs of a reawakening.