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At least 100 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials said Friday.

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations said 12 German troops and a Belgian soldier serving in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali were wounded Friday in an attack in the country’s restive north.

Joe Biden’s first NATO summit has concluded, with members welcoming a “new chapter” in relations that resembles the pre-Trump status quo. 

A 14-year-old Belgian girl committed suicide four days after a group of youths allegedly gang-raped her in a cemetery in Ghent.

Chinese spies could be able to access “sensitive” information in Belgium through investments made into the Liège Airport by the Jack Ma-owned e-commerce giant Alibaba, the country’s justice minister admitted this week.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Police have detained 132 people who took part in an illegal party in a Brussels park to protest COVID-19 restrictions, authorities said Sunday.

Joe Biden’s first foreign trip as President of the United States of America will be to the UK and Belgium in June for major international summits, the White House has confirmed.

A Brussels court has ordered the Belgian government to lift “all coronavirus measures” within 30 days after finding they were instituted on an insufficient legal basis. The court order is part of a growing legal backlash across Europe to the draconian emergency restrictions introduced by governments to counter the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

A new Dutch translation of the medieval classic, the Divine Comedy by Italian poet Dante Alighieri removes mention of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, who appears in Hell.

A Belgian advocate-general has called for the acquittal of one journalist in a court of appeals and the conviction of another who is said to have been involved in aiding the trafficking of illegal migrants.

A Belgian bishop said this week he is “ashamed” of the Vatican’s ruling that clergy are not permitted to bless homosexual unions.

A Franco-Ivorian man and his Belgian wife have been convicted of killing a British businessman a quarter of a century ago.

Belgian police launched an operation of unprecedented scale against organized crime on Tuesday, according to the country’s federal prosecutor´s office.

Former football player Dylan Duby has admitted to Belgian police that he was paid €10,000 (£8,645/$12,115) to murder entrepreneur Frank Goes, who was stabbed to death in the street last year.

The Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), a group the French government wanted dissolving in the aftermath of the murder of Samuel Paty, is expected to relocate to Brussels under a new name.

A 23-year-old man convicted of sexually abusing his 8-year-old sister during the Wuhan virus lockdown claims the charges were brought due to the colour of his skin.

A former municipal elections candidate in Belgium who stood for the pro-sharia Islam party has been sentenced after a court found him guilty of making death threats.

Belgian authorities sentenced an Iranian diplomat to 20 years in prison on Thursday for his role in a 2018 bomb plot targeting an exiled Iranian opposition group near Paris. The sentencing was announced as part of “the first trial of an

Belgian police arrested more than 300 people in Brussels before two banned demonstrations against coronavirus lockdown measures.

Since 2014, the Belgian police have identified and closed 192 entities, including prayer rooms and organisations, linked to radical Islamic terrorism in Brussels as part of an anti-terror project.

A Belgian cyclist says she was denied a management job with a men’s cycling team after she appeared in Playboy. Tara Gins, 30, posed for the magazine last year and also posed for a nude calendar.

Young French-speaking Muslims are three times as likely to be antisemitic, homophobic, and sexist compared to atheists, a study suggests.

Roma gypsy migrants ordered to leave French territory have been using an EU loophole to avoid deportation, spending just hours across the border in Belgium and then returning.

Rioters attacked the car of the King of Belgium while he was inside during protests over the death of “Ibrahima B.” in police custody.

Around one-third of Belgium’s population are either foreign nationals or from migration backgrounds, according to the country’s statistical agency Statbel.

Ten people will face trial in connection with the 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks including Osama Krayem, a former resident of the Swedish multicultural city of Malmö.

Leading European Union parliamentarian Guy Verhofstadt says Britons backed Brexit to demonstrate their right to be stupid, and that the country’s youth will take it back into the EU.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium has joined the Netherlands in banning flights from the UK and also banned rail connections in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of coronavirus that is sweeping across southern England does not spill over on its territory.

The Centre of Fine Arts in Brussels announced the celebration of the 250th birthday of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven by posting a portrait of the composer as a black African man.

Belgium’s Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne will meet with religious leaders Wednesday to work out more equitable coronavirus restrictions, following a court ruling that found current measures “disproportionate.”

BRUSSELS (AP) – With nothing on their agendas for months to come, music festival organizers in Belgium want to use their know-how to help the country’s coronavirus vaccination campaign. The Belgian government has set a goal of vaccinating about 70%

Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden has warned her fellow countrymen that police will knock on doors at Christmas if needed to enforce Wuhan coronavirus measures.

A trial for the shooting of a two-year-old during a high-speed chase between police and suspected smugglers seeking to get to Britain.

A Sudanese migrant was arrested over the weekend after attempting to grab the firearm of a police officer during a coronavirus check

To ensure the merriment of millions of children, the government of Belgium is offering a special exemption from strict coronavirus measures.

Belgian police have arrested two teenagers who are suspected of plotting to stab police officers and had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.