Belgium News
|
By AFP
Apo -
As hospitals face an overload of COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe, innovative medical staff are turning to snorkelling masks from sports stores to stop their lungs collapsing.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
A Paris appeals court on Wednesday granted Malian musician Rokia Traore conditional release despite ruling she could be extradited to Belgium over a child custody dispute -- a decision her lawyer vowed to contest.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Belgium became the latest European country to close its borders to contain the coronavirus Friday, shutting them to all but freight and travellers deemed to be on essential business.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
The UN Security Council made a rare show of unity Monday when it called on all parties to maintain their support for a two state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
The European Commission on Monday slammed a Belgian street parade for featuring anti-Semitic floats that it said were "incompatible" with EU values.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
Belgium has not ruled out participating in a French military initiative in Mali aiming to bring together special forces from several countries, Belgian Foreign Minister Philippe Goffin told AFP Thursday."It's a matter of debate, dialogue.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
Belgium is working to bring home all children of Belgian jihadists held in refugee camps in Syria, providing their mothers' consent, the country's top diplomat told AFP on Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Lille -
At the end of January, French emergency services found the body of a man in a hotel room close to the train station in the northern city of Lille, mutilated with scores of stab wounds.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Albert Kunyuku Ngoma was a young Congolese corporal in the colonial Belgian army when he was forced to battle in WWII as far away as Myanmar.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Belgium's former king Albert II admitted Monday he is the father of a daughter born from an affair half a century ago after a DNA test he was forced to take came back positive.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Belgium's southern Wallonia region, which briefly blocked an EU-Canada trade deal in 2016, said Monday it was "totally opposed" to Europe's new trade pact negotiated with South America's Mercosur grouping.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Police in Brussels said they arrested around 150 people at the Brussels Motor Show on Saturday after Extinction Rebellion campaigners smeared cars with fake blood and staged die-ins around the displays.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Three doctors went on trial Tueday in Belgium accused of not respecting the conditions for euthanasia, a first in a country that legalised assisted suicide nearly two decades ago.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
A Belgian judge on Thursday suspended consideration of a Spanish warrant seeking the return of two Catalan separatist leaders to face trial, their lawyer said.
|
|
By AFP
Ghent -
The grass is greener, the sky is cleaner and dozens of tiny details have been exposed to delight art historians and inspire the devotion of the faithful.
|
|
By AFP
Bastogne -
Seventy-five years after the snow bound hills of the Ardennes saw the bloody turning point of World War II, surviving veterans gathered for perhaps the last time.
|
|
By AFP
Bastogne -
The Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive of World War II, and the Siege of Bastogne the scene of a heroic defence by American paratroopers.
|
|
By AFP
Bastogne -
The Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive of World War II, and the Siege of Bastogne the scene of a heroic defence by American paratroopers.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
UNESCO on Friday withdrew an annual carnival in the Belgian city of Aalst from its heritage list over persistent charges of anti-Semitism.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
For the past year Belgium has had no permanent government, and the kingdom's citizens don't seem to mind. Despite months of talks, party bigwigs appear unable to untangle the Gordian Knot.
|
|
By AFP
Madrid -
Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday issued international arrest warrants for three former Catalan regional government officials who fled abroad after the failed independence bid of 2017, court documents showed.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Belgian authorities have been ordered to repatriate a woman who joined the Islamic State group and her two children from the camp in Syria where she is being held, a lawyer for her family said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Lawyers for former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont vowed Tuesday to fight Spain's efforts to extradite him from Belgium on charges of sedition and misuse of public funds.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Belgium's King Philippe officially named Budget Minister Sophie Wilmes interim prime minister on Sunday, making her the first woman to hold the post.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Belgian Budget Minister Sophie Wilmes has been chosen as the country's new caretaker prime minister -- a first for a woman, the current premier Charles Michel said on Saturday.
|
|
By AFP
Bejing -
The discovery of 39 bodies believed to be Chinese nationals in a truck in Britain is a stark reminder that many in the world's second biggest economy will still take perilous journeys to build a life elsewhere.
|
|
By AFP
Grays -
British police said Thursday that 39 people found dead in a truck near London are believed to be Chinese nationals, in a case that has triggered national outrage over the people trafficking business.
|
|
By AFP
In a dusty camp in northeastern Syria, Umm Osama says she hopes a deadly Turkish offensive against her Kurdish jailers will allow Islamic State group supporters like her to escape.
|
|
By AFP
Apo -
Belgium's advertising regulator said Wednesday it has clocked up hundreds of complaints over a viral hamburger ad showing a comic-book version of a man punching a woman for handing him the wrong sandwich.
|
|
By AFP
Fpo -
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's biggest brewer and maker of Budweiser, on Tuesday priced the Hong Kong initial public offering for its Asia unit at the lower end of its market range, raising US$5 billion.
|
apis-415803 apis-415623 apis-415361 apis-413902 apis-413883 apis-413282 apis-413277 apis-412985 apis-412787 apis-412202 apis-411755 apis-411628 apis-411338 apis-410623 apis-409847 apis-409713 apis-409604 apis-409588 apis-409567 apis-409345 apis-407100 apis-406796 apis-406658 apis-406532 apis-406474 apis-406387 apis-406313 apis-405925 apis-405306 apis-404253
Belgium Image
Belgian police use water cannons against demonstrators in Namur, Belgium, January 29, 2013. YouTube
Dairy farmers spray EU headquarters with milk in protest over high quotas and low prices. European Milk Board
Dairy farmers spray EU headquarters with milk in protest over high quotas and low prices. European Milk Board
The city of Liege, Belgium Stephen Downes
Items from the Neuhaus elegant gift ballotin (box). 3/24/14
Protesting firemen spray police officers with foam in Brussels, Belgium. YouTube
Protesting firefighters in Brussels, Belgium spray police officers with foam. YouTube`
Push the button to "add drama" (screenshot from YouTube video)
Neuhaus' Cornet Dore - Hazelnut gianduja. 3/24/14
Britain's Prince William and wife Catherine are seen on August 4, 2014 in Liege, Belgium, as they attend commemorations marking 100 years since the invasion of Belgium by Germany at the start of World War I Fred Dufour, AFP
Trade unions in Belgium believe the Eurobonds can bring relief to the troubled Euro.
Snowball fighting has been banned in some communities in Belgium. Video screen capture
Dairy farmers spray EU headquarters with milk in protest over high quotas and low prices. European Milk Board
Protesting firefighters spray police officers with water and foam in Brussels, Belgium. YouTube
Headshot of Fellaini Erik Drost
Assortment of chocolates in the Neuhaus ballotin (box). 3/24/14
A train carrying chemicals derailed in Ghent, Belgium on May 4, 2013. YouTube
|
|
