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Supporters and opponents of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan demonstrated on Monday evening as Turkey's leader arrived in Brussels to meet EU officials.
Antwerp's Red Star Line Museum, which relates the story of the passenger ships that took millions of Europeans to the New World, is looking for letters, postcards, diaries or other written d
Contrary to what many people think, Brussels is more cosmopolitan than big, hustle-and-bustle cities like New York and London. In fact, it’s the second most international city in the world.
That’s the opinion of Bert De Bock who works on the frontline of the homelessness crisis in Belgium.
Today, people of almost 200 nationalities call Brussels home. Migration has long shaped the city, and it’s hard to imagine it without its international dimension.
Brussels-based Syrian refugee Obada Otabashi (pictured, above) was one of the three top winners at the first European MoneyGram Awards 2019
In a situation eerily reminiscent of the 39 bodies found in a refrigerated lorry in Essex last week, police discovered 12 people in the back of the same kind of lorry today in Antwerp province.
Belgium's federal prosecutor has opened an investigation after 39 bodies were found in a refrigerated truck in the UK which had passed through Zeebrugge port.
Residents of Brussels and cities across Flanders will find footprints painted on pavements and squares today.
