Brussels to exempt defence spending from EU budget constraints
The European Commission will propose exempting defence from EU limits on government spending, the head of the EU executive, ...
Politico Europe3d
The EU’s ticking debt bomb — and why it matters for its next budget
Repayment of the EU’s €300 billion joint borrowing hangs like a cloud over the European Commission’s budget brainstorm.
CNN4d
Scores of unexploded World War II bombs discovered under children’s playground
Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...
Politico Europe14d
Commission staff evacuated after bomb threat on Rue de la Loi
A gray Volvo with a Dutch number plate had been abandoned outside the Maelbeek metro station, the site of an Islamist terror attack in 2016.
Business Insider India8y
The homemade explosive used by Brussels suicide bombers is a chemical nightmare
One thing Brussels authorities seem to have figured ... The chemical was also in bombs detonated at the University of Oklahoma in 2005 and Texas City in 2006, according to explosives researchers ...
Business Insider India8y
A bomb maker, a safe house, and a suicide note: What we know so far about how the Paris and Brussels attacks are linked
The links appear to pivot around two men in particular - Najim Laachraoui and Salah Abdeslam - and the Brussels apartments they used to hide from police and build bombs. Najim Laachraoui ...
Fears persist after deadly drug gang shooting spree in Brussels
The shooting, which left one person dead, has terrified residents in the Brussels area of Anderlecht, who have become all too ...
CBS News4d
More than 170 World War II bombs found under children's playground in England
More than 170 bombs from World War II were discovered underneath a children's playground in northern England, officials said, and it is believed that more will be unearthed. The first of the bombs ...