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  • From Brussels to Dresden

    BELGIUM, 2016/06/11 “Morning has broken, like the initial morning. Blackbird has spoken like the initial bird.” Cat Steven, presently Yusuf Islam’s voice was ringing in my ears at Brussels Airport. It was my initial and only morning in this magnificent city – which has been at the cross roads of history often. Before that year in July 2011, Space Daily reported that “at the same time as Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne feels homesick at the same time as in space, all he needs to do… is look down for the bright spot for even nowadays Belgium keeps its highways switched on.” Having worked on the Space Shuttle program some thirty years before, I knew what De Winne was talking about.

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • Africans seeking asylum in Belgium

    BELGIUM, 2014/08/13 Eritreans were the biggest group of Africans seeking asylum in Belgium in July, according to a statement by the Commission for Refugees and Stateless Persons (DGRA), a Belgian government organ in charge of controlling political refugees. The statement said that out of 1,490 asylum seekers who arrived in Belgium in July, 214 were Eritreans, exceeding for the initial time Guineans, who were 70 and DR Congo nationals who numbered 53. The Eritreans, who left their country where dictatorship prevails, arrived from Libya next passing through Sudan, often by foot.

  • The European Union is to establish a civil mission to support the Malian interior security forces

    BELGIUM, 2014/04/19 The European Union is to establish a civil mission to support the Malian interior security forces, called EUCAP Sahel/Mal. It would work alongside the military mission for assistance and training of Malian security forces (EUTM-Mali), an official statement said on Thursday. The civil mission would have the mandate to help the Malian government 'ensure constitutional and democratic order, establish conditions for sustainable peace and maintain its authority all over the whole country', said the statement from the Council of European Union States issued to the press in Brussels.
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