Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft have recently joined the European Union’s anti-racism efforts to crack down online hate speech in an ‘online code of conduct’ which the four internet giants helped to create. The code will allow the Silicon Valley titans to review requests by government to remove access to hate-filled contents and block comments or remarks that espouse racism, discrimination, and xenophobia.
A nuclear plant security guard was killed in his home in Belgium just two days after the twin suicide bombings in Brussels that killed 31 people and injured more. Meanwhile, investigations are underway to determine the murder’s possible link to terrorism.
Details about the attackers are starting to surface as Belgium’s heavily criticized security agencies are being mobilized to uproot the terror roots sprawling across the heartland of EU. Meanwhile, the interior and justice ministers offered to resign from their posts after it was revealed that they received warnings about one of the attackers.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan claimed one of the identified attackers was deported by Turkey in 2015 but Belgium did not heed warnings.
Leaders from EU member-states are locked in contentious marathon talks to reach a compromise with Britain on a number of hot-button issues ahead of “Brexit” referendum in the UK to be likely held in June.
EU faces multiple challenges that threaten its survival including a possible Brexit referendum in the UK this year as the 28-nation bloc convenes Thursday in Brussels.
Belgian officials stated that they have found an apartment in Brussels that could have been a bomb factory for the terrorists who attacked Paris.
Two Belgians have been arrested under suspicion of plotting to attack Brussels during the New Year's festivities.
Brussels, the capital of Belgian, has been put on high alert with officials warning citizens of a "serious and imminent" threat similar to the attacks on Paris a week ago.
With the temperature pushing 30 degrees Celsius in Belgium, a heat wave is officially confirmed.
