Tag: Belgium

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Armando, a Belgian star racing pigeon, auctioned for 1.25 million Euros

  

  A star racing pigeon named Armando has fetched a record 1.25 million Euros in an online auction, Belgian media reported. The prized bird -- Belgian's best long-distance racer of all time according to those in the know -- was snapped up by a Chinese buyer for a princely sum that caused a flutter of excitement among fanciers.

• Saturday, November 10th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Ecuador's ex president Correa denies having requested asylum in Belgium

  

  A lawyer for former Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa denied a report on Thursday that he had requested asylum in Belgium as he faces prosecution at home over a kidnapping case.

• Friday, November 9th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Armistice centenary: Theresa May will lay wreaths in Belgium and France

  

  Theresa May will lay a wreath at the graves of the first and last UK soldiers killed in World War One as she travels to France and Belgium to mark the Armistice centenary. The prime minister will be joined by French President Emmanuel Macron and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel for the commemorations on Friday.

• Thursday, October 11th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  US charges Chinese spy for economic espionage and stealing aviation secrets

  

  United States Justice Department said on Wednesday it had arrested and indicted a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security on charges of economic espionage and attempting to steal trade secrets from several U.S. aviation and aerospace companies.

• Monday, September 10th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Cocaine in wool bales exported to Europe, discovered in the port of Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan navy, coast guard and customs have uncovered a major operation to smuggle cocaine “bricks” hidden in wool bales, in a container, from the port of Montevideo to Antwerp, Belgium. The volume discovered according to the Navy report amounts to 417 kilos of high quality cocaine hydrochloride and is considered one of the largest recent successes in the fight against the narcotics gangs.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  Overseas accounts of 35.000 Argentines caught in the taxman's web

  

  Argentina's Internal Revenue Service, AFIP, announced it had received information on 35.000 overseas bank accounts held by Argentines, which should make it easier to control payment deadlines of the respective sworn statements on taxes, profits and assets.

• Monday, November 6th 2017 - 07:25 UTC

  Catalonia leaders released; Belgium has 60 days to decide if they are sent back to Spain

  

  Catalonia's sacked separatist leader Carles Puigdemont and four of his former ministers were released with conditions in Belgium on Sunday after turning themselves in to face a Spanish warrant for their arrest.

• Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 12:55 UTC

  Century anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres, remembered for the scale of casualties

  

  Next 31 July 2017 will mark a century since the beginning of the Third Battle of Ypres – widely known as Passchendaele. The UK Government, in collaboration with the Belgian Government, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the Royal British Legion is hosting a series of events to mark one of the defining battles of the First World War.

• Thursday, June 11th 2015 - 01:11 UTC

  Battle of coins re-edits the Battle of Waterloo 200 years later

  

  Belgium finally has managed to circumvent French resistance to the introduction of Euro coins to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat in Waterloo (18th June 1815). It has done so by invoking a little-known European Union rule that allows countries to issue Euro coins of their choice, provided they are in an irregular denomination.

• Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentina will file complaints against speculative funds in Belgium

  

  Economy Minister Axel Kicillof confirmed the Argentine government will be filing a complaint against speculative or 'vulture' funds for seeking to seize the accounts of the Argentine embassy in Belgium, and the Argentine mission before the EU in Brussels, adding hedge funds are the most “despicable and repugnant” of the world financial system.