BRUSSELS: A man walked to the middle of an empty soccer pitch in a Belgian town and blew himself up in an act authorities said looked like suicide. “We do not think it is a terrorist act,” Hasan Aydin of the local council in Verviers told Reuters. The location — a pitch used by amateur league side CS Verviers — and the timing of the explosion ensured no one else was hurt, he said. The dead man, whom Aydin said was aged about 60 and with European features, was not publically identified. Local media said police were searching the nearby home of a former soldier. Belgium has been rocked by Islamist violence in recent years.
Mr Lopes’s dual career spanned the formative years of both African nationhood and the continent’s literature
French parliament has backed a proposal to ban single-use electronic cigarettes
NEW DELHI: An Indian army major, who was posted with a Strategic Forces Unit and dismissed from service by the...
LONDON: Pregnant Afghan women who are eligible for resettlement in the UK have been told their babies may not survive...
GENEVA: Countries need to increase their taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages, the World Health Organisation...
NEW YORK: The United States has returned four antiquities worth $1 million to Nepal, including a pair of gilt copper...
