The Belgian authorities on Thursday charged four Palestinian men with the murder of a nine-year-old Palestinian boy at an asylum seekers’ center near Antwerp, prosecutors said. “The facts are qualified as hostage-taking and murder,” the prosecutor’s office in Antwerp said in a statement without giving much detail.
China said Thursday its navy warned off a French warship that had entered the Taiwan Strait earlier this month, and lodged an official protest over the rare move by a European power. Chinese defense ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang said the French warship “illegally entered China’s territorial waters” on April 7. ...
