Sources: AP via NDTV
The World Health Organization reports the first sexual transmission case of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a Belgium resident who traveled there. 2023-11-23
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
Rioting erupts overnight in the Belgian capital Brussels following the death of a 23-year-old black man in police custody, who was reportedly arrested for violating local COVID-19 restrictions. A police station was set on fire in north of the city, and King Philippe's vehicle was attacked while travelling through the area. 2021-01-13
Bulgarian customs agents seize 191 kg of heroin in transit for Belgium and the Netherlands at the border with Turkey. The drugs, with a street value of €6 million, were hidden under tile glue and detected by a sniffer dog. 2018-05-25
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
Today's European Union summit with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in Brussels, Belgium, will discuss ways to stanch the flow of European-bound migrants. 2016-03-7
Paris prosecutor François Molins says three jihadist cells, apparently multinational teams with links to the Middle East, Belgium, and possibly Germany, as well as France, staged coordinated attacks at bars, a concert hall, and a soccer stadium, killing 132 people and injuring 350, including around 90 who are in a serious condition. 2015-11-15
Spanish police remove more than 100 rowdy Belgian students from an aeroplane. 2011-02-6
The Vatican expresses its "astonishment" and "indignation" at the "violation of the graves of the Cardinals Jozef-Ernest Van Roey and Leon-Joseph Suenens" by Belgian police making holes in the crypt at Mechelen Cathedral during a child sex abuse search. 2010-06-25
A judge and court clerk are shot dead at the Law Courts of Brussels, the main courts in the Belgian capital. 2010-06-3