Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Belgium

Vatican advances beatification process for Belgium's king who abdicated rather than approve abortion

The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium’s late king be beatified

The Independent UK

Belgium mourns five Monument Classics winner Rik Van Looy

90-year-old known as the 'Emperor of Herentals' after dominating with the Flandria red guard in the sixties

Cycling News

Spain Handed Kind Women's Euro 2025 Draw, Holders England In Tough Group

World Cup winners Spain will play Italy, Belgium and Portugal at Women's Euro 2025, while England face a tough path to defending their title at the tournament in Switzerland.

International Business Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Audi Makes 'Painful' Decision to Close a Factory

While Volkswagen Group is still considering whether to close factories in Germany, Audi has taken this drastic decision in Belgium. The factory in Brussels will close up shop at the end of February. Consequently, the Q8 E-Tron and Q8 E-Tron Sportback are being wiped out from the lineup. Due to…

Motor1

End Of The Dubai Dream For Europe's Drug Lords?

Drug lords like Sean McGovern, a top lieutenant of the Kinahan cartel, and Faissal Taghi -- son of the infamous head of the Dutch-Moroccan Mocro Maffia -- used to hang out and party in Dubai's glitzy hotels and restaurants without a care in the world.

International Business Times

Hafta letters: Shehla Rashid interview, geopolitics, Hafta guests, standup comedy

NiranjanFirst-time writer sick of the tirade against Anand, just voicing some support (not that Judge Saab needs it). Modi and government bashing is easy and we have Abhi to do it in very colourful words. I don’t expect Anand to participate in it. Rather than pass black and white judgements…

Newslaundry

'Riskier tactics' by crime gangs lead to more than 70 migrants dying in deadliest year of 'small boats' crisis

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper issued the warning after a meeting in London of the Calais Group, which includes the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, on how to boost action to smash the gangs

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

F1 team-mates' qualifying battles: Abu Dhabi GP

After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.

Motorsport

Belgium Makes History: New Law Grants Sex Workers Unemployment Benefits, Leave, and Pensions

Belgium grants sex workers full labour rights, including pensions and legal protections, in a historic move recognising their profession.

International Business Times UK

Crime against humanity: Why has a court found Belgium guilty of kidnapping?

Thousands of children were forcibly taken from their families in Belgian colonies because they were mixed-race.

Al Jazeera

The 'impossible dream' gets closer as Unbound's only European qualifier opens for entries

Heathland Gravel is held next August in Belgium's Limburg province

Cycling Weekly

$Olympic champion cyclist Remco Evenepoel suffers multiple fractures in training crash with postal vehicle$

Olympic champion cyclist Remco Evenepoel suffers multiple fractures in training crash with postal vehicle

Evenepoel’s bike frame snapped in the incident before he was transported to hospital in Anderlecht for assessment

The Independent UK

Remco Evenepoel taken to hospital after collision with postal van in Belgium

'He has already sent us a message, so we hope everything is okay' says father

Cycling News

Memories evoked as Australia draw Sweden in Davis Cup

Lleyton Hewitt's Australian team will meet old foes Sweden, away, then face Belgium or Chile, in the qualifying rounds for the Davis Cup final 8.

AAP

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reason

Belgian Sex Workers Gain Access to Paid Leave, Right To Refuse Sex Acts

Belgian sex work groups are cheering the new law. But it could come with some downsides.

The Guardian - UK

Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo

Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children

The Independent UK

Belgian court rules against state in a landmark case addressing its colonial past

A Brussels appeals court has ruled that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women in Cmgo who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy

Radio France Internationale

Belgium to pay damages for forced separations in Congo during colonial rule

Belgium’s Court of Appeals on Monday ordered the government to pay compensation to five Congolese women who were forcibly separated from their mothers during colonial rule. The court ruled that the abductions, which happened over 70 years ago, amounted to crimes against humanity.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Top News

Belgium Revolutionizes Sex Work Rights With New Legislation

Belgium's groundbreaking law grants sex workers formal employment rights and benefits, setting a new standard in the industry.

Evening Standard

Belgium grants sex workers maternity leave and pensions in world-first law change

The changes will also entitle sex workers to official employment contracts, health insurance, and sick leave

The Independent UK

A new Belgium law gives sex workers contracts, benefits and safety protection

Belgium is granting sex workers full labor rights, including health insurance, paid leave and pensions, starting Sunday

The Guardian - UK

Belgium’s sex workers win maternity pay and pension rights in world first

Move by lawmakers hailed as ‘huge step forward’, ending legal discrimination against sex workers

The Guardian - UK

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo

Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity

Motorsport

F1 team-mates' qualifying battles: Qatar GP

After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.

The Independent UK

Voices: Before voting on assisted dying today, I urge MPs to remember the definition of insanity

COMMENT: If the House of Commons had good reason to reject assisted suicide in 2015, when the idea was last debated, they have even greater reason to do so now, says Tanni Grey-Thompson

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.