My NewsSign Out Sign InCreate your free profileSections news Alerts national flag at the Waelkens flag company in Oostrozebeke 4.Francois Lenoir / ReutersA worker sews stars on a U.S 4.Francois Lenoir / ReutersBy Teddy Nykiel ET: When President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term on January 21 it's a decent bet that one of the flags fluttering behind him on the U.S based in the small town of Oostrozebeke in Flanders supplies around 2,000 flags a year to the United States with clients including the Pentagon and other U.S government departments as well as the United Nations But it's not just the far side of the Atlantic where the company is gaining ground - it also makes flags for NATO the European Union and just about every country in the world "We have a lot of know-how about how we have to make flags and a big tradition of embroidery," said Benedikt Waelkens "There aren't a lot of people in the world who can and are making handmade flags." Continue reading. In Pakistan's largest city, 'Old Glory' is flammable and profitable The TimesA serial killer thought to have been a care worker killed three elderly people by poisoning them with insulin in a Flemish nursing home There were also attempts to kill six other residents of the Rozenberg care centre in Oostrozebeke between July 2020 and August last year The perpetrator has not been identified and there are fears they could have moved to another care home Managers at the home went to the police in November 2020 but an investigation did not find a culprit and in August last year the killings stopped An 87-year-old man survived two poisonings