Canada says PM Trudeau won’t travel to Brussels Wednesday
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not be flying to Brussels on Wednesday night because a free trade deal he was supposed to sign with the European Union on Thursday is not finished yet, an official said. “Canada remains ready to sign this important agreement when Europe is ready,” said Alex Lawrence, a spokesman for Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland. Source:...
Police capture man who held 15 people hostage in Brussels supermarket
A man who held 15 people hostage in a Brussels supermarket after a botched robbery on Tuesday gave himself up to police, authorities told AFP. “The man turned himself in and there were no victims,” a police spokesman from the Brussels district of Forest in Belgium told AFP, adding that the situation lasted about an hour. The incident took place around 7:00 pm (1700 GMT) at a Carrefour supermarket in Forest. The area was...
Man arrested at Brussels shopping centre after bomb alert
A man with a fake suicide belt was arrested after a bomb scare at a shopping centre triggered a major antiterror operation in central Brussels on Tuesday (June 21), federal prosecutors said. Belgium remains on high alert after ISIL-claimed bomb attacks in March left 32 dead at the airport and on its metro. Tuesday’s incident began at about 6.30am after a report of a man acting suspiciously near the City 2 shopping centre set off a...
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