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Sandy Evrard, the mayor of the small village of Mesen in southern West Flanders on the border with France, expressed his anger yesterday at colleagues from other First World War cities in the prov
Two workers were killed in an accident in Ypres, West Flanders, yesterday, when a shell dating back to the First World War exploded.
Yesterday it was revealed that an installation in Poelkapelle, West Flanders, maintained by the army’s bomb disposal squad Dovo for the dismantling of toxic weapons has not functioned since 2012 b
An exhibition featuring the lives of average Belgians during the German occupation of the First World War has opened in Brussels to mark the centenary of the beginning of the four-year conflict.
The Museum of the City of Brussels is preparing to launch an exhibition to mark the beginning of First World War, but with a different approach than other centenary events around Belgium, and Euro
