Brussels, Belgium News

Bermuda's Minister of Finance, the Hon. Paula A. Cox, announced that Bermuda had concluded negotiations of a bilateral agreement with Belgium that provide for a full exchange of information on criminal and civil tax matters between Bermuda and the Kingdom of Belgium.

BRUSSELS, Belgium Filipinos in Belgium had an early Christmas treat after they celebrated "Pasko sa Brussels" early this week.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to hold talks with his counterparts from NATO at a session of the NATO-Russia Council at NATO's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The EU foreign ministers begin meeting on Monday to discuss the upcoming European Council and the 27-nation bloc's eventual enlargement.

STAFF: Now, don't you think the best way to follow up nine hours of testimony is 10 minutes with an eager press corps? SECRETARY CLINTON: I think that's probably a good idea, Mark.

Under strong pressure from the Obama administration, NATO said yesterday that its members will add 7,000 troops to the 40,000 non-American allied forces in Afghanistan.

A train splashed with a green stripe is carrying 450 U.N. officials, climate activists and journalists from Belgium to the climate summit in Copenhagen to symbolize efforts to reduce the convention's carbon footprint.

SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY's plan to use vegetarianism to help combat global warming has been met with mixed reactions from European politicians, with one minister labelling the proposals "muddled, misleading and wrong." The animal lover and longtime vegetarian spoke at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday to promote a new drive to ...

While acknowledging "our people are weary of war," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her NATO counterparts Friday that an infusion of allied troops in Afghanistan is crucial to turning the tide in a war that has been deteriorating for years.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the country if the move has the backing of the United States and other international partners.

Paul McCartney addresses the European Parliament atA EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, Dec.

U.S. President Barack Obama said he will send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.

An international study that examined the extent of infections in nearly 1,300 intensive care units in 75 countries found that about 50 percent of the patients were considered infected, with infection associated with an increased risk of death in the hospital, according to a study in the December 2 issue of JAMA .

President of Romania, Traian Basescu arrives at the Justius Liptius building to assist the European Summit on December 14, 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.

The Belgium Chapter of the International Real Estate Federation will host FIABCI's exciting International Business Meetings from December 3-5, 2009 at the Metropole Hotel in Brussels, Belgium.

On November 25, 2009, Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC held 2,568,080 voting rights, representing a stake of 3% of RHJI total issued shares.

Brussels, Belgium, Nov 24, 2009 .- A paralyzed man who was misdiagnosed as comatose for 23 years is again communicating with the world after new brain scans showed he was in fact conscious.

Belgium's Rom Houben uses his touchscreen to communicate during an interview at the service center 't Weyerke in Zolder, Belgium, Tuesday, Nov.

The European Union said on Tuesday that it plans to train hundreds of Somali security forces and possibly expand its anti-piracy mission off Somalia 's coast, in an effort to bring stability to the war-torn Horn of Africa nation.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.