Sources: AP via NDTV
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
Five construction workers are killed and nine more injured after a school building site collapse pulling down the scaffolding supporting it, in Antwerp, Belgium. 2021-06-18
Belgium's Consultative Committee announces that it will tighten its restrictions on social contacts by banning fans from sporting events, closing amusement parks, and imposing a limit of 200 people allowed in theatres, concert halls, and cinemas. The measures take effect immediately and will last for four weeks until November 19, in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 threatening to overwhelm hospitals. 2020-10-23
Highest-ever temperatures are recorded in Germany (at 40.5°C or 104.9°F), the Netherlands (at 39.2°C or 102.5°F), and Belgium (at 38.9°C or 102.0°F). 2019-07-24
In addition to the European Parliament and regional elections, voters in Belgium head to the polls to vote for the members of the Chamber of Representatives. 2019-05-26
A local doctor in Belgium grants euthanasia to a terminally-ill minor, marking the first case of such procedure performed since the 2014 removal of age restrictions. 2016-09-17
Thirteen are killed and 34 others injured after a bus carrying Erasmus exchange students returning from the renowned Falles fireworks festival in Valencia, crashes near Freginals, Spain. The regional government of Catalonia said in a statement that, "... according to the latest data, the ill-fated bus had students from Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Ukraine, Holland, Belgium, France, Palestine, Turkey, (and) Greece." 2016-03-20
Police in France, Belgium and Switzerland arrest more than two dozen people in connection with the Brussels Airport diamond heist. 2013-05-8
Firefighters hose down the Belgian prime minister's office in protest over plans to increase their retirement age. 2012-02-10