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Reports that European leaders have urged their citizens to brace for an incomprehensible tragedy with hopes dimming for thousands of European tourists still missing after the Asian tsunamis in December 26, 2004. Rage at political leaders over perceived slow responses to the disaster; Estimated number of missing people from Scandinavia, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Belgium; Decision of some countries to temper or cancel their year-end celebrations.

The article discusses the Belgian prisoner Benjamin Herman's hostage-taking, killing a civilian and police officers on May 29, 2018 in Liège, Belgium.

CORRECTION APPENDED ROME -- The longest-serving bishop in Belgium resigned Friday after admitting to sexually abusing ''a boy in my close entourage'' many years ago, becoming the latest cleric to quit in a spreading abuse scandal. The development added to a corrosive catalog of disclosures that has damaged the credibility of the Roman Catholic Church and shaken the trust of many believers in their spiritual leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on a Belgian court's rejection of a crucial component of a government-backed plan to create a successor airline to Sabena. Plans to create the subsidiary Delta Air Transport, which was not included in Sabena's bankruptcy filing; Details of the ruling; Implications; Reaction to the decision.

Details the Coca-Cola Company crisis in Belgium. Chronology; Admittance of manufacturing mistakes; How Coca-Cola tried to minimalize reports of illness; Product recall across Europe.

Reports a May 1999 Belgian incident of illness connected to consumption of Coca-Cola, four weeks prior to the June 8, 1999 ban on Coca-Cola products. Details of the May incident; Company response; Question of company handling of the incident.

Reports on the instances of students becoming ill in Belgium after drinking Coca-Cola in June 1999. Details of the symptoms experienced by Sash Cockx; Decision of Coca-Cola Co. to recall 2.5 million bottles of their soft drink in a 25 mile radius of Belgium; Lifting of a government ban which allowed Coca-Cola's factories in Belgium to begin production again.

Focuses on the Coca-Cola Company in light of Belgian health authorities' June 23, 1999 removal of a ten-day ban on the company's products, permitting it to resume production in Belgium of soda that was blamed for illness. Company promises to those who became ill; Outlook for the effectiveness of their public relations campaign; French inquiry into contamination of products there; Questions which remain.

Reports that the parents of four Belgian teenagers who became ill after drinking Coca-Cola in October, 1999, have demanded a meeting with Coca-Cola Company representatives. Identification of the children, who attend the same school at Bornem; Their symptoms as of December 1999; Coca-Cola efforts to recover from the scandal associated with the product recall that followed June 1999 illnesses; Details.

Reports that in Belgium, two women victims of a sex-crimes case, Eefje Lambrecks, 19, and An Marchal, 17, were buried on September 7, 1996. Impact the deaths had on Belgium; Length of time the women were missing; Where the bodies were discovered; Name of the chief suspect in the case.

The article discusses an agreement by Great Britain, Belgium, and Denmark to aid the United States' military campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL), noting that the countries agreed to military operations in Iraq but not to operations in Syria. Topics addressed include British parliamentary debate over efforts to stop ISIS, as well as the views of British prime minister David Cameron.

PARIS -- The deal reached at the emergency European summit meeting in Brussels last Friday was supposed to cement a consensus for better fiscal discipline and reassure the financial markets about the European Union's resolve. By Wednesday, it was clearly not convincing investors. The market bid the value of the euro down below $1.30 for the first time since January, and pushed the interest rates the Italian government must pay on new bond issues up again, apparently unconvinced that a little more austerity and a little more bailout money would save the euro. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]