BRUSSELS - A Brussels court said Tuesday it could not judge a complaint by about 2,400 small shareholders seeking to block the break-up of Belgian-Dutch banking and insurance group Fortis. The court said it could not issue a ruling on the actions o
BRUSSELS - The Belgian football association said Tuesday it has givennational team coach Dick Advocaat permission to negotiate with Dutch leaguechampion AZ Alkmaar about replacing fired coach Ronald Koeman.AZ wants the Dutchman to combine coaching
The World Anti-doping Agency is to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) against the bans given to Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse.The Belgian duo were suspended for a year by the Flemish Doping Tribunal (VDT) for breaching anti-dop
BRUSSELS - Flemish Christian Democrat Yves Leterme was named Belgium's prime minister on Wednesday to guide the country through what is expected to be a period of political instability in the linguistically divided country. King Albert nominated Le
BRUSSELS - Belgium's ex-prime minister Yves Leterme -- who quit amid a bank bailout scandal last year -- will bounce back as government chief within 24 hours, incumbent Herman Van Rompuy said Tuesday. It's now his second chance. He has all the ele
BRUSSELS - With a caretaker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message Tuesday that he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration. A leading bioethicist, however, expressed skepticism
BRUSSELS - A doctor who discovered that a Belgian man had been wrongly diagnosed as vegetative says he is reexamining dozens of other cases. Dr. Steven Laureys says he has discovered some degree of consciousness using state-of-the-art equipment in o
BRUSSELS - 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. The car-crash victim had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state but appe
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