Raf Casert

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US plays Belgium for place in World Cup quarters

Raf Casert · June 29, 2014 1:08 pm

Belgium's Jan Vertonghen (5) gets congratulated by fans after he scored during the group H World Cup soccer match between South Korea and Belgium at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Belgium: One team, divided nation

Raf Casert · June 28, 2014 2:09 pm

Brazil's Neymar runs past Cameroon's goalkeeper Charles Itandje after scoring his side's first goal during the group A World Cup soccer match between Cameroon and Brazil at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Neymar leads Brazil; Mexico also through

Raf Casert · June 24, 2014 12:25 am

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY JUNE 15 2014 TO GO WITH STORY WWI-THE GREAT WAR -In this Thursday, April 24, 2014 photo, Kaylene Biggs, great-granddaughter of World War I Australian soldier Andrew Bayne, places a wooden cross with a poppy and a message on the grave at Westhof Farm Commonwealth Cemetery in Nieuwkerke, Belgium on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Bayne's grave lies among the 131 Commonwealth soldiers and a handful of German soldiers in this small cemetery surrounded by a landscape still scarred by countless bomb craters, rusting gas shells, bunkers and trenches. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

National Security

Soldier’s story shows tragedy of World War I

Raf Casert · June 14, 2014 9:37 am

British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses the media upon arrival at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. European Union leaders on Tuesday sought a way to bounce back from the weekend's landmark elections that saw a partly hostile and largely apathetic public question their project of closer cooperation as never before. (AP Photo/Eric Vidal)

EU leaders call for simpler EU after poll setback

Raf Casert · May 27, 2014 11:00 pm

In this Saturday, May 3, 2014 photo, poppies blow near a barbed wire fence in Geluwe, Belgium. Red poppies were first symbolized as a means of remembrance by Canadian World War I soldier and surgeon Lt. Col. John McCrae, in his famous poem, "In Flanders Fields." (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

World War I and the poppies of Flanders Fields

Raf Casert · May 27, 2014 12:40 pm

A graphic shows the estimate results of the European elections, at the European Parliament in Brussels, Sunday, May 25, 2014. Exit polls showed the far right and Eurosceptics making sweeping gains in European Parliament elections Sunday, signaling a major political shift toward parties that want to slash the European Union's powers or abolish it altogether. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

After Euroskeptic rise, EU leaders step into fray

Raf Casert · May 26, 2014 4:21 pm

In this hand out photo distributed on Sunday, May 25, 2014 by the Belgian Federal Police, a surveillance camera shows a man shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, on Saturday, May 24, 2014. Police stepped up security at Jewish institutions, schools and synagogues after three people were killed and one seriously injured in a spree of gunfire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday. (AP Photo/Belgian Federal Police)

Belgium hunts for suspect in Jewish attack; 3 dead

Raf Casert · May 25, 2014 9:29 pm

Belgium faces tough coalition talks after vote

Raf Casert · May 25, 2014 7:56 pm

FILE In this March 20, 2014 file photo, Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo waves as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. Walk through Belgium and feel that giddy sense of unity, the national football team is going to the World Cup again. Follow the election campaign though, and the division between Dutch- and French-speakers seems even worse than four years ago when it took a record 541 days to form a government uniting the bickering sides. (AP Photo/Eric Vidal, file)

Belgians prepare for another standoff after polls

Raf Casert · May 22, 2014 7:40 am

FILE - In this June 8, 1999 file photo, Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene responds to a question during a press conference given in the Parliament building in Brussels. Former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, who led the nation during the 1990s when it granted increasing autonomy to its linguistic regions, has died. He was 73. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, file)

Former Belgian Premier Dehaene is dead at 73

Raf Casert · May 15, 2014 4:56 pm

EU wants ban on driftnets to save dolphins, tuna

Raf Casert · May 14, 2014 3:38 pm