Five women born in the former Belgian Congo in the 1940s and forcibly taken from their mothers are suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity, according to legal documents seen Thursday by AFP.
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When it comes to ruthless colonialism and racism, few historical figures are more notorious than Leopold II, the king of the Belgians who held Congo as his personal property and was responsible for the deaths of millions of Congolese more than a century ago.
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In a closely watched case involving asylum seekers, the European Court of Human Rights found Tuesday that Belgium isn’t obligated to give humanitarian visas to Syrian refugees.
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South Korea says at least 74 people who had been diagnosed as recovered from the new coronavirus tested positive for the second time after they were released from hospitals.
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Differences in countries’ Covid-19 response measures mean that in one shop on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium, you can buy baby clothes but not men’s pajamas.
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Belgium can’t be forced to extradite a Spanish rapper convicted of glorifying terrorism until it determines if his lyrics are a crime under Belgian law, the European Union’s top court ruled Tuesday.
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In Belgium, a country where beer is the culinary king, its brewing also creates magic for mushrooms.
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Belgium’s euthanasia law survived a key test on Friday when a high court acquitted three doctors of charges of manslaughter by poisoning in a landmark ruling involving a woman who suffered from mental problems.
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The arrest warrant targeting Carles Puigdemont has been suspended by Belgian judicial authorities because of the Catalan separatist leader’s immunity as a European lawmaker, his lawyer said Thursday.
Read moreA rare southern white rhino was born at a zoo in Belgium, boosting efforts to save the endangered species, the park said on Monday.
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Like many other 9-year-olds, Laurent Simons likes TV and his pet dog. But he also wants to make artificial organs, and is about to get the qualifications to set him on his way.
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Classic Belgian beers, some of the most famous ales in the world, are fermented with rare, hybrid yeast species, according to a study published Monday in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
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Europe’s highest court rapped Belgium on Monday for extending the life of two nuclear power stations without performing the necessary environmental checks.
Read moreEurope’s top court fined Belgium on Monday to the tune of $5,600 a day for noncompliance with rules on high-speed electronic communications networks.
Read moreNational courts of European Union member states have the authority to review where air quality sampling stations are placed for the purposes of determining whether plans to curb air pollution are adequate, the European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday.
Read moreIn Belgium, the seat European Parliament, national election results are predicted to split along language lines, likely leading to a difficult coalition process.
Read moreA French citizen suspected of working for the Islamic State group in Syria was convicted Thursday of murdering four people at a Jewish museum in Belgium’s capital, an attack that crystalized fears in Europe that foreign fighters would return to sow terror at home.
Read moreA Belgian environment minister resigned Tuesday after claiming she had confirmation from state security services that massive climate demonstrations in recent weeks were staged as a plot against her.
Read moreMore than 10,000 students skipped school again in Belgium to join a march demanding better protections of the globe’s fragile climate.
Read moreThe trial of a man accused of shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Belgium in 2014 after fighting alongside extremists in Syria started in Brussels on Thursday amid high security.
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