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World’s ‘ugliest’ city finds allure in decay

Charleroi, Belgium — Belgian artist Nicolas Buissart started doubling as a tour guide as a joke after a newspaper in the neighbouring Netherlands named...

Belgium commemorates Brussels jihadist bombings 10 years on

BRUSSELS – Belgium on Sunday marked 10 years since the 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, a trauma that still scars the country and that...

Away from the manger: Jesus stolen from Brussels nativity in ‘zombie’ row

Brussels, Belgium—A baby Jesus has been stolen from a Christmas nativity scene in Brussels which sparked an online furore over its faceless depictions of Christianity's...

Flights cancelled as strike hits Belgium

BRUSSELS – A national strike over a government savings plan grounded flights and disrupted public transport in Belgium on Tuesday, with tens of thousands...

Bulgaria rips Portugal in 3, advances to worlds’ Final 8

A MONSTER block from 21-year-old, sub-in middle Preslav Petkov proved to be the match winner for Bulgaria as it went on to post a...

Portugal rips Colombia in 5, boosts bid

BEHIND outside hitter Nuno Marques, Portugal needed five sets to get past Colombia, 23-25, 21-25, 25-20, 25-21, 15-11, on Wednesday, to keep its hopes...

Transgender cyclist wins exclusion case in Belgium

BRUSSELS—A court in Belgium has ruled in favour of a transgender cyclist who sued the International Cycling Union (UCI) after it refused her a...

2 countries turn away Rody

Australia, Belgium unwilling to be ‘third country’ for ex-president The governments of Australia and Belgium have both rejected requests to host former Philippine President Rodrigo...

AG&P ships 120 high-specification modules to Belgium

AG&P Industrial, a global infrastructure development and operations company based in Manila, recently completed and shipped 120 high-specification modules for INEOS’ Project ONE in...

PH lifts import bans on German, Belgian meat items

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has lifted import bans on animal products from Germany and Belgium after both countries declared recent livestock disease outbreaks...

Belgium’s green light for red light workers

ANTWERP – A police station in the historic sailors’ quarter of the Belgian port of Antwerp is surrounded by sex workers’ neon-lit red-light windows. The...

DA imposes ban on poultry items from Belgium

The Department of Agriculture said Monday it imposed a temporary ban on the importation of wild and domestic birds from Belgium following an outbreak...

Never forget

Gisele Niango, born on October 11, 1943, in a ‘Lebensborn’ maternity hospital in Belgium, one of many set up by the German Nazi regime...

Flights cancelled as strike hits Belgium

BRUSSELS—Belgium was hit by a national strike on Monday, with air and rail traffic severely affected as workers protested against pension reform plans. About 40...
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