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The 19th-century Belgian priest Joseph de Veuster, better known as Father Damien, who is venerated as a saint for his work with leprosy patients, is to have a street named after him in New York, w
The Polish seaport city of Gdánsk is hosting “Flanders Week in Gdańsk” later this month to highlight the links between the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium and Poland.
The British School of Brussels (BSB) in Tervuren recently laid down the first symbolic stone for its new sports centre during a festive ceremony (pictured).
The Cabinet is due to decide this morning whether to send a small reconnaissance mission to Baghdad, Iraq, to prepare for the deployment of 50 Belgian soldiers on the ground in the Iraqi capital.
The number of foreign children adopted by Belgian parents dropped by about half in the last four years, reports La Dernière Heure. In 2010, there were 394 international adoptions, compare
Nearly 35,000 Belgians leave their country each year to live abroad, reports Jobat.be. Mostly engineers, entrepreneurs and people working in the tourism sector emigrate for their work.
Outgoing Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo confirmed on Tuesday that Belgium had received a formal request from the US to take part in the military operation against Islamic State (IS), namely with the
Thirteen years after the 9/11 attacks on New York’s Twin Towers, a Belgian victim has been formally identified.
The City of Brussels has struck off two people who have gone to Syria to fight from the population register.
