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Belgium becomes the first country to introduce a monkeypox quarantine.
2022-05-22

Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland and the Czech Republic expel Russian diplomats.
2022-03-29

Belgium expels five far-right Danish activists associated with Rasmus Paludan, ahead of a planned Quran burning event in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels. The area has a large Muslim community and it was feared that the Quran burning could spark civil unrest. Asylum Secretary Sammy Mahdi said the group is a "serious threat to public order".
2020-11-12

Belgian incumbent Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès is admitted to an intensive care unit nearly a week after testing positive for COVID-19.
2020-10-22

Catholics in France and Belgium are recovering from ISIS attacks including numerous acts of violence and aggression, fires set in churches, an assault on a priest, the desecration of a tabernacle and the hacking of more than 100 Catholic websites.
2016-06-2

Police in Brussels, Belgium, forcibly break up an apparent far-right demonstration with water cannons after they joined a crowd of people paying tribute to the victims of the bombings. The demonstrators claim to have marched against terrorism but police intervened when the demonstrators confronted Muslim women and made Nazi salutes.
2016-03-27

France and Belgium agree to break up and partially nationalize Dexia, Belgium's largest bank.
2011-10-10

Belgium's parliament votes to ban the wearing of burqas and other face coverings in public.
2010-04-29

Halle train collision: 20 people die in a train collision in Halle, Belgium.
2010-02-15