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U.S. NEWSThursday 17 March 2016
Hunt on for 2 in Belgian raid linked to Paris attacks UK unveils billions
in budget cuts and
JOHN DAHLBURG Spokesman for the Belgian Federal Prosecutors Office, Thierry Werts, right, and Belgian Federal a sugary drink tax
LORI HINNANT Prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt address the media during a press conference in Brussels on Wednes-
Associated Press day, March 16, 2016. Belgian investigators were hunting Wednesday for two suspects who fled DANICA KIRKA
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian an apartment linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, after a police sniper killed a third man and Associated Press
investigators were hunting uncovered weapons, ammunition and an Islamic State flag, officials said Wednesday. LONDON (AP) — Britain’s
Wednesday for two sus- Treasury chief unveiled a
pects who fled an apart- (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) budget Wednesday that
ment linked to the Nov. 13 included billions in cuts
attacks in Paris, one day The dead man was identi- Mohamed Belkaid, whose year-old theft charge, said and an eye-catching levy
after a police sniper killed fied as an Algerian man only contact with authori- Thierry Werts, a Belgian on sugary drinks, under-
a gunman holed up inside living illegally in Belgium, ties appeared to be a two- prosecutor. scoring his claim that this
and authorities found a was a plan for the next
stock of ammunition and generation.
an Islamic State flag, offi- George Osborne warned
cials said. of “a dangerous cocktail
Four officers were wound- of risks” as he delivered a
ed in Tuesday’s joint spending plan in which Brit-
French-Belgian raid in a ain acts “now so we don’t
Brussels neighborhood af- pay later.” He offered 3.5
ter unexpectedly coming billion pounds ($4.9 billion)
under fire in an apartment in cuts by 2020 to achieve
they believed was empty. his target of balancing
Prosecutors on Wednesday the books in the face of
released without charges weaker global economic
two men they held in the growth and repeatedly in-
wake of the raid, leaving sisted he was focused on
the hunt on for two sus- the future.
pects who have not been He announced changes
identified. in the school system and
pledged taxes on sugar-
Workers tear down migrant camp in Calais, France laden sodas to cut obe-
sity in the young, a cause
CALAIS, France (AP) — The prefecture, or state au- the job began. hunger strike. Nearly 4,000 championed by celebrity
A destruction crew on thority, which ordered the Violence marked the start migrants — most hoping chef Jamie Oliver.
Wednesday tore down the dismantling of the south- of the operation on Feb. to sneak across the English “In this budget we choose
last of more than 1,000 tents ern sector of the camp — 29 as riot police went after Channel to Britain — live the long term,” he said.
and huts in a large swath of a veritable village on 7.5 protesting migrants stand- in the migrant camp. Au- “We choose to put the
a makeshift migrant camp hectares (18.5 acres) of ing on the roofs of their huts thorities put the popula- next generation first.”
in the French port city of land — said workers guard- or burning them before tion of the southern sector But he was forced to ac-
Calais, a job marked by ed by police finished pull- they were taken down. at 1,000, but associations knowledge that debt
fiery protests, an ongoing ing down the flimsy dwell- A group of protesting Ira- working there say it served would rise as a proportion
hunger strike and several ings at 2 p.m. Wednesday, nian migrants sewed their as a temporary home to of gross domestic product,
arrests. less than three weeks after mouths shut and went on a several thousand. missing his own target.
