A war crimes court ordered supermodel Naomi Campbell on Thursday to testify in The Hague on July 29 about a blood diamond she was allegedly given by former Liberian president Charles Taylor in 1997.Failure to do so could be punished by up to seven years in jail, the Special Court for Sierra Leone said in a subpoena made public.Taylor has been on trial since 2008 for his alleged role in the civi
MADRID – Mideast envoy Tony Blair said Thursday he expects badly needed construction material to start flowing into the Gaza Strip in two to three weeks now that Israel has agreed to ease its blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory.The representative of the so-called Quartet of Mideast peacemakers said Israel is still finalizing its procedures for determining what will be allowed into Gaza an
Madrid was hit by transport chaos for a fourth day Thursday as a strike by metro workers protesting pay cuts slashed services by half.The 7,500 workers are protesting a wage cut of around 5.0 percent decided by the right-wing regional government in line with similar measures on public employees' pay adopted last month by Spain's Socialist government in an austerity drive.The workers on Wednesday
Christelle Petrongari, euronews: With us now is Belgium's Minister for Climate and Energy, Paul Magnette: thanks for accepting this interview.You're in charge of current affairs, a new government is in the making, the country is divided and so, obviously, there are questions surrounding your country's credibility in leading European policy-making in the next six months.Paul Magnette, Belgian Mini
euronews: Belgium's turn holding the presidency of the EU has come around but in view of the latest disputes can we still say that Belgium exists? Arno: Without Europe, Belgium would not exist.And without Europe, Flanders does not exist.Wallonia does not exist today without Europe.The same goes for Brussels.Remove Brussels and you remove Flanders: 350,000 Flemings go to work in Brussels every day
Brussels, capital of Europe and the capital of Belgium, is centre stage in a long-running stand-off between Flemings and Walloons.During campaigning for the recent elections, arguments between the two communities erupted over who should pay for what in Brussels.The city is also a region of the Belgian federal state, and the expenses it has to face as a capital of Europe have left it with a lot of
How will Belgium handle its six month turn running the rotating presidency of the European Union from this 1 July? The country has just been through an election, called after infighting between the different language communities triggered the government's downfall.No matter, said acting prime minister Yves Leterme: 'There is a government in place entirely capable of managing the Belgian EU presid
A French court on Thursday adjourned indefinitely the trial of a man accused of defrauding L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, in light of sensitive new evidence linking her to a tax scandal.Celebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier is accused by the billionaire's daughter of cheating the ageing cosmetics heiress, France's richest woman, out of a billion euros (1.2 billion dollars). The court