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Quakes force Dutch to end gas extraction in northern region
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Dutch government decided Thursday to end gas extraction in its northern Groningen region over the next 12 years following protests over the damage from small quakes. The Dutch cabinet said the maximum yield must be about halved b...
Spy, temptress, victim? Mata Hari still eludes definition
LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (AP) — A century ago on Sunday, an exotic dancer named Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad, condemned as a sultry Dutch double agent who supposedly caused the deaths of thousands of soldiers during World War I. H...
Ocean meeting raises over $7 billion for marine protection
BRUSSELS (AP) — A global conference to better protect marine life has raised more than $7 billion and won commitments to protect huge swathes of the Earth's oceans. The European Union, which organized the Our Ocean conference in the Maltese c...
Century-old battle in Belgium sums up horrors of World War I
YPRES, Belgium (AP) — Dismembered soldiers sucked into cesspools of mud. Shattered tree trunks and the waft of poison gas hovering over the wounded who were awaiting their fates on the scarred soil of Flanders Fields. The Third Battle of Ypres, f...
EU takes fat out of fire: Belgian fries are out of danger
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission wants all Belgians, and the world at large, to know: your famous fries are safe. A regional Belgian minister had alarmed the nation with warnings that — sacrilege! — the EU would force fries to be blanc...
50 nations seek to counter US ban on family planning funds
BRUSSELS (AP) — Some 50 countries have signed up to attend a family planning conference in Brussels aimed at making up the gap left by President Donald Trump's ban on U.S. funding to groups linked to abortion, organizers said Wednesday. The p...
Belgium conference to counter Trump's anti-abortion plan
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium is organizing an international conference next month to finance access to birth control, abortion and sex education for women in developing countries in an attempt to make up for President Donald Trump's ban on U.S. f...
