#Belgium

Rain over eastern Belgium on Monday morning aided firefighters battling to contain the country’s biggest wildfire on record, which had threatened to reach the German border. Wildfires have ripped ...

Firefighters battled with the aid of Dutch helicopters on Sunday to contain Belgium’s biggest wildfire, which has already burned 3,000 hectares of land and which local authorities said was heading ...

The European Union deployed three helicopters and two water bomber aircraft to tackle a record wildfire in eastern Belgium, the bloc’s crisis commissioner said on Saturday, after Belgium requested ...

Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has welcomed the appointment of Mark van Bommel as the country’s new coach and said he would talk to him about whether he continues his ...

A 53-year-old man arrested in Belgium in April after a European arrest warrant was put out in his name by the Cypriot authorities, who suspect he was behind a case ...

A train crashed into a school minivan at a level-crossing in the Belgian town of Buggenhout on Tuesday, killing four people including two special needs pupils, authorities said. As well ...

A synagogue in the Belgian city of Liege was damaged by an explosion early on Monday, Belgian broadcasters VRT and RTBF reported, citing local police. No injuries were reported. The ...

The Belgian government on Monday reached an agreement on its budget for next year after months of tense negotiations, Prime Minister Bart De Wever said. De Wever earlier this month ...

Belgium will buy defensive kamikaze drones from a Latvian company, the defence ministry said, after a string of incursions that have disrupted airports, military bases and a nuclear plant. Belgian ...

Belgium’s Liege airport has resumed flights after a temporary halt due to a drone sighting, the country’s air traffic control service said on Fridayin the second such incident ...

Brussels Airport is closed after the reported sighting of a drone, said the Belgian air traffic control service and a spokeswoman for the airport. “There are no flights currently landing ...

A group planning attacks on Belgian politicians, including Prime Minister Bart de Wever, has been thwarted, the public prosecutor’s office and deputy prime minister Maxime Prevot said on Thursday. “...

McLaren’s Lando Norris edged out his championship-leading teammate and title rival Oscar Piastri for pole position at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday. The Briton blasted around the long ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos met his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prevot in Brussels on Monday, with the pair discussing a range of issues related to the two countries. In a post ...

Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky won a thrilling women’s road race as she held off a high-calibre lead group to retain her title on a rain-drenched Zurich course on Saturday. ...

 By this stage of the European Championship, favourites France and contenders Belgium would have wanted to be well into their stride and hitting their straps as they enter the knockout ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, is visiting Bruges, Belgium, on Wednesday, where he will address the College of Europe. Government Spokesperson Constantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday that Christodoulides will address the college ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will leave for Belgium on Wednesday, where he will visit the College of Europe in Bruges, participate in the European Council summit in Brussels, and hold public ...

A shop has opened in Brussels selling still-sealed unwanted Amazon parcels by the kilo, effectively a lottery ticket which could win the holder a connected watch, a smartphone – or a ...

French and Belgian farmers set up dozens of blockades on highways and on access roads to a major container port on Wednesday to press governments to ease environmental rules and ...

A woman was killed and two people were injured by a large Christmas tree that fell over during stormy weather in the Belgian city of Oudenaarde, authorities said on Friday. ...

Belgium’s number one goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has said he will not go to next year’s European Championship in order to fully recover from a knee injury, he told ...

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury has issued new sanctions orders concerning three Cyprus-based entities on Wednesday. The new sanctions include three ...

A 45-year-old Tunisian gunman suspected of killing two Swedish football fans in Brussels died on Tuesday after being shot by police in a cafe, Belgium authorities said, while Sweden’s ...