Belgium Archives

Shani takes over as conductor of the Munich orchestra for the 2026/27 season

Entertainment

Belgian festival axes German orchestra over Israeli conductor

A Belgian festival said Thursday it stood by its decision to axe a leading German orchestra’s performance over concerns about its Israeli conductor —...

AFPSeptember 11, 2025

Police put the turnout at 70,000, while the organisers said 120,000 had marched

World

Tens of thousands march for Palestinians in Belgian capital

Tens of thousands took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday to express support for the Palestinian cause, days after Belgium’s foreign minister said...

AFPSeptember 7, 2025

'It is clear that... the credibility of the European Union's foreign policy on this particular issue is collapsing,' said Prevot

World

EU not ‘living up to responsibilities’ on Gaza war: Belgian FM

Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot told AFP Friday that the EU’s credibility on foreign policy was “collapsing” due to the bloc’s failure to act...

AFPSeptember 5, 2025

A Belgian warehouse where US-funded contraceptives have been stored -- and which the US intends to destroy

World

France says it cannot save contraceptives US plans to destroy

France said Friday it could not seize women’s contraception products estimated to be worth $9.7 million that the United States plans to destroy, after...

AFPAugust 1, 2025

Antarctic ice holds clues to earth's changing climate

World

From Antarctica to Brussels, hunting climate clues in old ice

In a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores tens of thousands of years old in search...

AFPJuly 17, 2025

Belgium hosted the Quadball World Cup, , a sport inspired by quidditch in the Harry Potter books

Sports

Belgium conjures up win at quidditch world cup

With a fair bit of wizardry on the pitch, Belgium became the first European country to win the quidditch world cup on Sunday.

AFPJuly 13, 2025

Shipbreaker Mizan Hossain, whose back was crushed in a 10-metre fall, showing his swollen hands

Business

New rules may not change dirty and deadly ship recycling business

Mizan Hossain fell 10 metres (33-foot) from the top of a ship he was cutting up on Chittagong beach in Bangladesh — where the...

AFPJune 17, 2025

Sex workers in Belgium can, since December, access legal protections and labour rights

World

Belgium’s green light for red light workers

A police station in the historic sailors’ quarter of the Belgian port of Antwerp is surrounded by sex workers’ neon-lit red-light windows. The station...

AFPApril 30, 2025