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Sofles - Adnate
Street art in Belgium (Hasselt)
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Belgium (Brussels - St-Gilles)
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Belgian woman, 24, granted euthanasia death over depression
A 24-year-old Belgian woman who suffers from depression and has had a "death wish" since childhood has been granted the right to die — even though she's not terminally ill. Doctors gave the young woman, identified only as Laura, the go-ahead to be euthanized by lethal injection after she spent her life battling suicidal thoughts, she told Belgian newspaper De Morgen. "Life, that's not for me," she said. "Death feels to me not as a choice.
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Brussels raids: Paris Attack Suspect Abdeslam Arrested
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been wounded and arrested in an anti-terrorism raid in Brussels, officials say.
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Attacks on Brussels airport, metro kill 34
Thirty-four people were killed in attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, according to public broadcaster VRT, triggering security alerts across Europe and bringing some cross-border traffic to a halt.
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Poland gives up pledge to host refugees following Brussels bombings
Poland abandoned a pledge to shelter migrants under a European Union relocation agreement, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said, shifting her country’s stance a day after suicide bombers killed dozens of people in the bloc’s de-facto capital. Poland’s previous government agreed to host several thousand migrants under a deal forged by the EU’s 28 member states to address the hundreds of thousands of mostly...
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Belgium Fears Nuclear Plants Are Vulnerable
As a dragnet aimed at Islamic State operatives spiraled across Brussels and into at least five European countries on Friday, the authorities were also focusing on a narrower but increasingly alarming threat: the vulnerability of Belgium’s nuclear installations. The investigation into this week’s deadly attacks in Brussels has prompted worries that the Islamic State is seeking to attack, infiltrate or sabotage nuclear installations...
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Jihadi Cool: Why Belgium’s new extremists are as shallow as they are deadly
The old-line extremist networks have no connection to today's “jihadist cool” aficionados.
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Belgian police break up street protests as attack investigation widens
Belgian police briefly used water cannon to control several hundred rowdy protesters in central Brussels on Sunday after they ignored an official call for marches to be postponed following Tuesday's bombings. Amid fears of further attacks, officials wanted to give police the scope to focus on investigations which have widened to other countries, leading to the arrest of an Algerian in Italy and intelligence cooperation...
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Brussels attacks: Belgium releases terror murder suspect
A man known as Faycal C, the only person arrested and charged with involvement in the Brussels attacks, has been released for lack of evidence. Belgian media said the man had been suspected of being the mystery third man in CCTV footage of the bombers. But a judge found there was no evidence to justify holding him, the prosecutor's office said. Last Tuesday's attacks on the airport and the city's metro system killed 35 people and injured more than 300.
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Paris attacks: Key suspect Abrini 'arrested'
The key remaining suspect in November's Paris terror attacks, Mohamed Abrini, has been arrested, Belgian media say.
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Spain sacks ambassador to Belgium for 'absenteeism and abuse of power'
Report says Ignacio Jesús Matellanes Martínez made no contact with Belgian government during his tenure
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Brussels attackers meant to target France, says Belgian prosecutor
The terrorist cell that killed 32 people in attacks on Brussels last month had initially intended to strike France again, but swiftly decided to target the Belgian capital because the police investigation was closing in on them, prosecutors have said. Belgium’s federal state prosecutor said on Sunday that “numerous elements” in the investigation showed the group “initially had the intention to strike in France again” following November’s Islamic State attacks on Paris that killed 130.
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Brussels jihadists: Belgian recruiter Zerkani given longer term
Khaled Zerkani has been given 15 years in jail by a Belgian appeal court for recruiting Islamists, including some of the Paris and Brussels attackers. He was jailed last July for 12 years but prosecutors called for a longer sentence, arguing he had corrupted entire communities of youth. Among his recruits were Paris attackers Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Chakib Akrouh, and Brussels bomber Najim Laachraoui. Zerkani's fellow recruiter Fatima Aberkane was also given 15 years.
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Wild Bluebells
Wild bluebells, which bloom around mid-April, turning the forest completely blue, form a carpet in the Hallerbos, also known as the "Blue Forest", near the Belgian city of Halle.
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Brewery builds a pipeline, sending beer lovers into a froth.
Belgian brewer De Halve Maan’s ‘beer pipeline’ will transport 1,500 gallons of suds an hour. Locals’ requests for home taps are going nowhere.
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Venom, Belgium
It was a nice weekend.
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Meanwhile, during the finals at the Eiffeltower in Paris
During the entire championship millions of French people were protesting and/or on strike. Where I live, Belgium, there was nothing about those demonstrations in the media. And before that not even that much more. I mean, so much people protesting, even riots happened, tough ones I might add? That's a crude performance of censorship, no?
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The President of Belgian Magistrates: Neoliberalism is a form of Fascism
Neoliberalism is a species of fascism. It must be fought and humanism fully restored.
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Man yelling in Arabic wounds two Belgian police with machete, then shot dead
A machete-wielding man yelling "Allahu Akbar!" (God is greatest) injured two female police officers before being shot outside the main police station in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi on Saturday, police in the city said. The attacker, who was shot by a third officer, subsequently died of his wounds, but the police officers were out of danger, they added. Prime Minister Charles Michel took to Twitter to condemn the attack, while Interior Minister Jan Jambon called it cowardly.
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