BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian authorities searched Wednesday for a man pictured at the Brussels airport with two apparent suicide bombers, amid growing suggestions that the bombings of the Brussels airport and subway were the work of the same Islamic State cell that attacked Paris last year. The European Union’s capital …
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Prosecutor: Suicide bomber left will on computer
BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on the attacks in Brussels and related investigations (all times local): 1:30 p.m. A Belgian prosecutor says a suicide bomber who attacked the Brussels airport left a will on a computer found in a trash can in a Brussels neighborhood. Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw …
Read More »Security guards replace tourists as Europe’s capital mourns
BRUSSELS (AP) – The rain has washed away the defiant chalk slogans from the square in front of Brussels’ stock exchange, the barriers are gone from many subway stations and trams are back running in the streets. Europe’s capital returned to work Wednesday but it isn’t business as usual. A …
Read More »Pedestrian strip becomes canvas of support in Brussels
BRUSSELS (AP) – A pedestrian strip outside the stock exchange in Brussels became a colorful canvas of support and defiance after Tuesday’s deadly bombings as those wanting to show solidarity chalked messages – in French, Flemish, English, Arabic and Cyrillic script and more. A few thousand people were gathered at …
Read More »In Buenos Aires, Obama aims to boost Argentina’s new leader
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) After years of anti-American posturing by its leader, Argentina has a new president whose outstretched hand has been eagerly accepted by the United States. President Barack Obama will reward the South American nation on Wednesday with a state visit aimed at keeping that promising trajectory on …
Read More »How the FBI might hack into an iPhone without Apple’s help
NEW YORK (AP) – For more than a month, federal investigators have insisted they have no alternative but to force Apple to help them open up a phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. That changed Monday when the Justice Department said an “outside party” recently showed the …
Read More »Explosions rock Brussels airport, subway; 26 reported dead
BRUSSELS (AP) – Attackers detonated bombs at the airport and on a metro train beneath the European Union’s capital on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and confirming the worst fears of European officials, who proclaimed the continent at war. Two explosions, at least one likely caused by a suicide …
Read More »European airports increase security after Brussels attacks
MOSCOW (AP) – Authorities in Europe and beyond have tightened security at airports, on subways, at the borders and on city streets after deadly attacks Tuesday on the Brussels airport and its subway system. With Brussels on lockdown and the French prime minister saying that Europe is “at war,” European …
Read More »Fearful of China’s reach abroad, dissidents try risky voyage
BANGKOK (AP) – Dong Junming was detained several times in his Chinese homeland before he and his family fled to Bangkok in February 2015. A year later, he was preparing to make a more desperate journey to evade Chinese authorities who still felt dangerously close. In the months since he …
Read More »Minute of silence in Spain for Brussels victims
BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on explosions at Brussels airport and metro station (all times local): 2:25 p.m. A minute of silence has been held outside the Spanish parliament and Madrid’s town hall at noon in memory of the victims in Brussels. The Spanish government says the attacks Tuesday in …
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