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Some prefer to take their chocolate hit--and run . Gina Sodergren, 27, likes to stop in for a prework brew at the Leonidas Chocolate Café in Santa Monica, one of two opened in the Los Angeles area in the past year by the Belgian chocolate company. "They have stuff like Orange Velvet and Peppermint Delight and Mexican Cocoa," she says, "drinks you can't find anywhere else...
...Belgian police detained Youssef Belhadj, below, on Feb. 1 for his alleged role in the Madrid bombings. Authorities say he could be the al-Qaeda spokesman who claimed responsibility for the attacks on video...
...name as Mohammed Sharam, 19. Sica then flew to Vienna to compare notes with investigators there. He is next expected to make a quick trip to Brussels, where police last week arrested two Arabs and charged them with conspiracy to commit a crime. Also arrested was their host, a Belgian video store owner in the provincial town of Hasselt, in whose possession police found 40 lbs. of explosives. The Belgian had been previously convicted on charges of illegal arms possession. The disclosure seemed to support suspicions by law-enforcement officials that links exist between terrorist networks and arms suppliers...
...free trade with neighboring Canada. Meanwhile, the U.S. and the European Community are holding talks in an effort to resolve an argument over restrictions on American agricultural exports to Spain and Portugal. The U.S. has threatened to retaliate with tariffs and quotas on such imports as French wine and Belgian chocolate. Warned a senior American official: "We are dangerously close to kicking off a trade...
...wretched conditions, but on the whole, household income is up, and especially in big cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg, people are ready to splurge. The spending boom is creating a merger wave in sectors as varied as banking, brewing and confectionery. Alongside the Dixons deal, the huge Belgian beer company InBev is finalizing the last pieces of a $730 million acquisition of Russian beer giant Sun Interbrew, and Coca-Cola recently agreed to buy Multon, Russia's second largest juice company, for an estimated $600 million. Excluding the energy sector, mergers and acquisitions of Russian firms soared to more...