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...planned terror strike in Europe that Belgian police claim to have foiled on Thursday was linked to al-Qaeda, authorities say. Some of the 14 suspects arrested had recently traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, officials said, and had planned to launch a suicide strike - although the target remains unknown. "When you have people returning from Afghanistan, as most of these people had, they're sufficiently hard-core that the question isn't whether they'll be undertaking plotting activity but when, and in what form," said a European counterterrorism official with knowledge of the case. "What's important...
Today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—the former property of Belgian King Leopold II and third largest African nation by land mass—tens of thousands of people are living in displaced peoples’ camps located throughout the eastern region off that nation. According to a Congolese woman interviewed by the BBC, “The fighting began near our home in the middle of the night. There was a lot of gunfire and ‘mabombi’ —explosions [shelling]. Some people were caught in the middle...
...went on to explain that these particular strains, originally used in wine production, are responsible for the light cloudiness, complex flavor, and silky texture characteristic of Belgian beers. The practice probably results from Belgium’s location between vinicultural France and beer-loving Germany, the brew-master told the crowd of about...
...Belgian brewers, Tod said, typically make use of aromatics like orange peel and coriander for flavor, adding candy sugar to produce an elevated average alcohol content of nine percent...
...according to Tod, proper enjoyment of a Belgian beer requires attention to this yeast component: three quarters of the beer is poured first, with the remainder swirled inside the bottle to lift any settled yeast before being added to the glass...