Sources: BBC China Daily News24
The DR Congo national football team announces that it will maintain its planned schedule, including two friendly matches in Belgium and Spain, before going to Houston, Texas, United States, for the World Cup, despite being warned to isolate, stating the entire squad is based outside of the DRC. 2026-05-23
An investigation by "Humo" magazine and the website "Apache.be (nieuwswebsite)" reveals that Belgian Vlaams Belang politician Filip Dewinter worked as a "senior political advisor" for China for several years. 2024-03-25
The Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) of Belgium is the first parliament in the world to adopt a resolution in support of Agent Orange victims. 2023-10-5
The death toll from flooding in Europe increases to 188, of which 157 died in Germany and 31 more in Belgium. The flooding is also spreading into Bavaria. 2021-07-18
Belgium temporarily restricts the use of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine to people over 55 years old following a report from the European Medicines Agency that there is a "possible link" between the vaccine and very rare blood clotting cases. 2021-04-7
Belgium is to provide iodine pills to all its citizens, around 11 million people, to protect against radioactivity in the event of a nuclear accident at either of Belgium's ageing nuclear power plants, the Tihange Nuclear Power Station and Doel Nuclear Power Station, according to Health Minister Maggie De Block. Germany has recently called for the Belgian government to close the nuclear power plants over safety fears. 2016-04-28
The Italian Coast Guard states that at least 17 people have died and 4,200 have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea attempting to travel to Europe in the past 24 hours. Ships from nations including Italy, Republic of Ireland, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom have been involved in rescue efforts. 2015-05-30
Greek anti-terror police arrest four people in Athens, Greece in alleged relation to the January 15 failed terrorist plot to kill police officers in Belgium. 2015-01-17
Five people are killed and one injured in Zeebrugge, Belgium, when a bus rolled off into the water. 2012-12-21
Firefighters hose down the Belgian prime minister's office in protest over plans to increase their retirement age. 2012-02-10