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Belgium Interior Minister Blames Neglect On Security Failures

4:25pm March 30, 2016

by Teri Schultz

Belgium's interior minister agrees there were mistakes made by the country's security services before the attacks on March 22, but he blames years of neglect that hampered an effective response to violent extremism.

French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech after the weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

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Hollande Abandons Plan To Strip Convicted Terrorists Of French Citizenship

12:11pm March 30, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The measure has sharply divided France since it was proposed three days after the November attacks in Paris.

Surveillance Video Suggests ISIS Is Interested In Building A Dirty Bomb

11:38am March 30, 2016

by Dina Temple-Raston

Members of ISIS had been spying on a Belgian nuclear researcher. Police think they were considering kidnapping his family to force the researcher to give them material they needed for a dirty bomb.

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Belgian police and soldiers secure the area outside the Zaventem Airport in Brussels on Tuesday. The airport has been closed since the March 22 suicide bombing, and there's still no date for reopening it.

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A Week Later, No Word On When Brussels Will Reopen The Airport

4:38pm March 29, 2016

by Melissa Block

The European capital hasn't had any flights in or out since the March 22 suicide bombing. And authorities still aren't saying when the Zaventem Airport might reopen.

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1 Week After Brussels Attack, More Government, Other Offices Reopen

2:36pm March 29, 2016

by Dina Temple-Raston

Many Belgians awoke to news that the only man police have arrested and charged with playing a role in the bombings at the airport and on a metro train, has been released because of lack of evidence.

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Playwright Ismaël Saïdi speaks to a mostly-Muslim students at a school in the Brussels district of Laeken, where two suicide-bombers grew up.

In Tough Brussels District, School Urges Students To Fight Intolerance

12:17pm March 29, 2016

by Teri Schultz

Belgian playwright Ismael Saidi is taking his anti-radicalization message to schools in heavily Muslim neighborhoods. He finds extremism still has appeal, even after last week's terrorist attacks.

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A passenger leaves a hijacked EgyptAir plane after it landed at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus.

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EgyptAir Hijacking Standoff Ends With Arrest In Cyprus

9:57am March 29, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Cypriot officials describe the suspected hijacker as "unstable." They say he wanted to speak to his Cyprus-based ex-wife, and later requested political asylum. All passengers and crew were released.

A batch of sourdough starter can live indefinitely, but it also requires a certain amount of care and feeding. In Sweden, bakers jetting off for vacation can leave their precious starters in the care of a sitter at the airport.

Love Your Sourdough Starter? In Stockholm, You Can Hire A Sitter For It

8:03pm March 28, 2016

by Sidsel Overgaard

A batch of starter can live indefinitely, but it also requires a certain amount of care and feeding. Apparently, that can pose a problem for Swedes and their five weeks of annual vacation.

In the wake of the Brussels bombings, Belgians are visiting a makeshift memorial in the heart of the city and raising flags of countries around the world. In a country known for its divisions, some Belgians say the traumatic events has united them in ways

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In Divided Belgium, Some Find That Trauma Unites Them

5:24pm March 28, 2016

by Melissa Block

Belgium is divided linguistically, culturally and politically. Yet the Brussels bombings have also brought citizens together in ways they hadn't expected.

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Adam Hochschild is a cofounder of Mother Jones. His previous books include To End All Wars and King Leopold's Ghost.

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In Many Ways, Author Says, Spanish Civil War Was 'The First Battle Of WWII'

4:06pm March 28, 2016

According to Adam Hochschild, about 2,800 Americans fought in the Spanish Civil War, and some were bombed by Nazis years before the U.S. entered World War II. His new book is Spain in Our Hearts.

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