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ROLLING STONES SERVE UP PRICEY LIVE PERFORMANCE BOX SET
If you’re one of the lucky few to score an $85 ticket to one of the Rolling Stones’ 50 and Counting tour shows, you might have enough money left to drop $750 on a new band box set. The Brussels Affair box set featured the band’s...
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Brussels airport moves to end baggage-handlers' strike
ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels airport began to resume baggage operations on Thursday after a four-day strike by baggage-handlers over working conditions left more than 20,000 pieces of luggage stranded in Belgium's largest hub. Baggage-handling firm...Tags: Strikes, Career and Workplace, Employees, Belgium
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31 arrested in $50-million diamond robbery at Brussels Airport
LONDON — Thirty-one people have been arrested in a three-country sweep tied to a spectacular $50-million diamond heist at a Belgian airport in February, officials said Wednesday. More than 250 officers with the Belgian federal police and the...Tags: Police Arrests, Belgium, Theft, Zurich (Swiss Confederation), France
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1215 GMT, May 08
ReutersMay 8 (Reuters) - TOP STORIES ----------- MOSCOW/BEIRUT - Russia and the United States agreed to seek new peace talks with both sides to end Syria's civil war, but opposition leaders were sceptical on Wednesday of an initiative they fear might let...Tags: Jihad, Belgium, Pakistan, Israel, Bashar Assad
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Police arrest 31 people over $50 mln Belgium diamond heist
ReutersBRUSSELS, May 8 (Reuters) - Police have arrested 31 people in Belgium, France and Switzerland over the heist of $50 million in diamonds from Brussels airport in February, Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday. One suspect was arrested in France and eight...Tags: Belgium, Theft, Prosecution, France, Swiss Confederation
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Authorities arrest 31 in spectacular diamond heist
LONDON -- Authorities in three countries have arrested 31 people in connection with a spectacular diamond heist in February that saw robbers disguised as police steal an estimated $50 million worth of gemstones from a parked plane on a Belgian airport...
Tags: Police Arrests, Theft, Zurich (Swiss Confederation), Elizabeth II, France
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Thieves in Belgium make off with $50 million in diamonds
PARIS -- Heavily armed robbers disguised as police officers stole $50 million worth of diamonds in a spectacular raid at Brussels' international airport, authorities said Tuesday. Shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, two black cars with flashing blue lights...
Tags: Theft, Zurich (Swiss Confederation), Criminals, France
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Perfect middle ground for a visit to Belgium
ANTWERP, Belgium — Why go to Antwerp when you can just as easily visit Brussels or Brugge? You go exactly because it isn't Brussels or Brugge. Antwerp has the elegance of the European Union capital without its grandiosity and the picturesque charm...Tags: Belgium, European Union
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Belgian chocolate, the art form
BRUSSELS, Belgium — In a shop just a few steps from this city's famed Grand Place, there's barely time to breathe as Svenja Schmitz serves a steady stream of customers. They're mostly locals with whom Schmitz converses in French or Flemish. But she...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Chocolates, Albert II, Belgium, Travel
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Furor over film capturing harassment on hidden camera in Belgium
World NowThe airing of the documentary, Femme de la Rue, ignited a firestorm last week in Belgium and France over the unwanted attention that many women report getting in the streets. The furor appears to be fueling real action: The Belgium interior minister... -
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— While there will be hectic and tense days ahead as Chicago prepares for the NATO summit in May, Thursday was a day of good feelings for an Illinois delegation as it introduced the city to NATO officials and others here. From a rousing party at...
Tags: NATO, Illinois Governor, Rahm Emanuel, Career and Workplace, Chicago Mayor
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Swiss bus crash kills 28, including 22 children
SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) — A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed 22 schoolchildren and six adults returning to Belgium from a joyous ski vacation, police said Wednesday.
Another 24 students...Tags: Highway Transportation, Disasters and Accidents, Companies and Corporations, Health and Safety at School, Belgium
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