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The first three days of the 3,479km Tour will be in Belgium, beginning with a 6.1km prologue in Liege on Saturday, 30 June, before it heads into France.

This effort became even more efficient after 1997, as a result of aid from the Directorate-General for Development Cooperation (DGDC, Belgium), beginning in 1998.

12.27pm "USSR v Belgium 1986," begins David Ljunggren.

BELGIUM Belgium have improved, but remain weaker than the sum of their parts.

MARCH 2 TO 4, BINCHE, BELGIUM Carnival of Binche, beginning with the parade of Mam'selles and ending with the March of the Gilles, when hundreds of men in sinister-looking masks march to a relentless drumbeat, tossing oranges to bystanders.

Belgium officials have begun contacting Interpol and other major international police bodies for help in carrying out the warrant, related to the killing of ethnic Tutsi in Congo in 1998, the prosecutors said.

The offer is a 50% premium to SABMiller's share price on Sept. 14, the last business day before speculation began about Belgium-based AB InBev's interest in the company.

While the Flemish nationalists who entered the coalition government had initially pledged to shelve plans for an independent state, they backtracked on that commitment in January, when news broke that the New Flemish Alliance had begun work to turn Belgium into a confederation — with many Belgium-watchers suspecting it was a ploy to dissolve the state altogether.

Marlise Simons (NYT) BELGIUM: EXPANSION TALKS The 15-nation European Union began membership talks with Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania and Slovakia, which are hoping to become members within a decade.

In Wallonia, literature in French began a revival in 1881 with the creation of the La Jeune Belgique ("The Young Belgium") movement, which supported the creation of distinctively Belgian literature and opposed romanticism.

Other firms rushing out skin estrogens include Belgium-based Solvay, whose Estrogel should hit the market this summer, and California biotech firm Vivus, which will begin final-stage testing of an estrogen spray this year.