Sources: Xinhua
A man is shot dead at the Clemenceau metro station in Brussels, Belgium. The shooting is connected to the ongoing drug war in the city since the start of the year, which has already killed another person and wounded three more. 2025-02-15
An agreement is reached among five Belgian political parties to form a new coalition government to be headed by future prime minister Bart De Wever. 2025-01-31
Belgium becomes the first country to introduce a monkeypox quarantine. 2022-05-22
Nineteen-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford returns to Kortrijk, Belgium, to complete her five-month circumnavigation, becoming the youngest female pilot to fly solo around the world. 2022-01-20
The Philippines bans entry to flights from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Additionally, the entry of fully vaccinated foreign nationals from green-list countries that was expected to begin on December 1 is temporarily suspended. 2021-11-28
At least one person is killed after a group of armed men took people hostage in the northern French town of Roubaix near the Belgian border. The hostages are thought to be a bank director and his family. French police say the incident may be related to a robbery and not to the November 2015 attacks in Paris. 2015-11-24
Police in France, Belgium and Switzerland arrest more than two dozen people in connection with the Brussels Airport diamond heist. 2013-05-8
2013 Belgium diamond heist: Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium. 2013-02-18
An investigation by "The Independent" uncovers the first evidence of a UK-based rendition recruitment drive, free of American involvement, suggesting MI5 was directly involved in the 2004 "illegal" transfer of a Moroccan national from a Belgian prison to London. 2010-07-23
Belgium's King Albert accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme, ending his government's term and leading to early elections in June 2010. 2010-04-26