In the case before the court, Brussels, Belgium-based Solvay now part of a new company called AbbVie Inc.

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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- NATO foreign ministers are meeting to discuss for the first time the implications of the European Union's planned Rapid Reaction Force.

CNN: NATO battles EU over defence

European Council President Herman van Rompuy announced the agreement, seen as a concession by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, after a marathon late-night meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

CNN: European leaders reach key deal on banks

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- The NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia is now aimed at heading off "a major humanitarian disaster" in Kosovo, allied officials said Sunday.

CNN: NATO warns of 'humanitarian disaster'

Tony Snape is a free-lance reporter based in Brussels, Belgium.

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO ambassadors have put their seal of approval on sending the first 2, 600 of the 60, 000 peace-keeping troops to monitor the peace accord in the Balkans.

CNN: NATO approves initial Bosnia force

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO began a fifth week of airstrikes on Yugoslavia by lashing out at its political leadership, even as NATO leaders prepared to mark the alliance's 50th anniversary.

CNN: NATO pounds Serb political party as leaders gather for summit

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO said Tuesday that a Serb-led ethnic cleansing campaign in Kosovo has reached "new heights, " forcing 118, 000 ethnic Albanians to flee their homes within the past week.

CNN: refugee

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- European Union leaders supported a U.N. peace initiative for Kosovo Wednesday, but they repeated that NATO's bombing campaign would stop only when Belgrade meets the alliance's key demands.

CNN: Annan seeks to boost Kosovo diplomatic efforts

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- More than half a million ethnic Albanian refugees have fled what NATO calls Yugoslavia's "scorched-earth policy" in Kosovo, creating the beginnings of a humanitarian crisis, an alliance spokesman said Sunday.

CNN: NATO: 500,000 ethnic Albanians displaced by Serbs

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO said its planes were justified in bombing a bridge in central Serbia, but Yugoslav officials said Monday that 12 civilians were killed in that attack and more died in other raids.

CNN: NATO says bridge was legitimate target

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO said Thursday it was doing the "right thing" in its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia and that the airstrikes had inflicted "substantial damage to instruments of oppression" of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

CNN: NATO says it's doing 'right thing' in Yugoslavia

BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) -- The European Union and the United States have clinched a deal on how to share data of passengers traveling across the Atlantic to help with the global fight against terrorism, EU and U.S. officials said.

CNN: EU will give flight details to US

European Union leaders said Friday that they are "deeply concerned" about the surge in violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe ahead of next week's vote, according to a draft of the conclusions of a two-day EU summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium.

CNN: Opposition officials rule out Zimbabwe poll boycott

Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (BHV) is Belgium's biggest, and only bilingual, electoral constituency.

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Belgium's defense minister said Tuesday that Brussels will send two C-130 transport planes, two medical helicopters and 75 soldiers to Mali.

CNN: France, Germany and Italy: Terrorists in Mali must go

Mr Verhofstadt is holding a mini-summit in Brussels at the end of the month, bringing together France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg to discuss European defence.

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Last summer, when schoolchildren in Belgium claimed they became sick after drinking Coca-Cola, Levy recommended a media tour of the factory in Brussels--which helped temper criticism of Coke's aloof response to the initial crisis.

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