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Belgium have lowered the age for the Gardasil vaccine to 9 years
Christina England
It has been revealed by the European Medicines Agency that Belgium have decided to change their vaccine policy, regarding the Gardasil vaccine, lowering the original age group from 11 – 12 to as young as 9 years of age. The change made on the 24th June 2010 by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has shocked and angered many campaign and action groups.
EU and Belgium Accused for Distorting Truth and Promoting Pseudo-Kurdish Terrorism in Iraq
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The following press release bears witness to the EU´s commitment to the cause of terrorism in Iraq. After they fabricated an inexistent concept, that of a hypothetical Kurdish nation, they bribed criminal gangsters of whom they made the supposed leaders of the otherwise inexistent nation. Then...
"Jai ho" wins again in Belgium
Entertainment Desk
Oscar winner musician A. R. Rahman´s "Jai ho" has again won laurels at prestigious World Soundtrack Academy awards in Ghent (Belgium). This song from "Slumdog Millionaire" won in "best original song written for film" category at the ninth World Soundtrack Awards announced at Ghent, and...
UN AGENCY HAILS BELGIUM´S DECISION TO ACCEPT IRAQI REFUGEES
International Desk
The United Nations welcomed the return of Belgium´s refugee resettlement programme marked by the transfer of some 36 Iraqis who were previously sheltered in Syria and Jordan. This first group of Iraqi refugees to settle in Belgium included some single mothers and their children, UN High ...
Belgium has free public transportation and their citizens are enjoying it tremendously!
Joseph Raglione
Democratic and humanitarian concepts are often interpreted as socialism. Free for all Medicare is one example and free public transportation is another. Why do these systems work so well in free and Democratic countries such as England, Belgium and France; and why have they not been introduced within the United States? Read the articles and find out.
DUE TO HEALTH HAZARDS A DISTRICT COURT IN BELGIUM BANS THE INSTALLATION OF A CELL PHONE TOWER
Christiane Tourtet B.A.
The construction work of the installation of a 28-metre cell phone tower, that had already been started in Drongen (Belgium) was halted, by the judgment of the District Court of Ghent, on May 18, 2009. Phones companies , as it happens so often, had decided to install the new cell phone tower for th...
Greenpeace uses 4000 windmills to call on Belgium and E.ON to quit coal
International Desk
Antwerp - More than 80 activists placed thousands of windmills with the message to "Quit Coal" at the site of E.ON´s proposed coal fired power-plant in Antwerp Harbour. The action illustrates the choice facing Flemish authorities: authorise the construction of a huge coal power plant, or inves...
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