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After his friend Rosa was swept away, 14-year-old Benjamin Van Bunderen Robberechts sat watching the treetops sway left to right outside the window. He slouched in the chair because if he sat up, he could still see the raging stream that had taken her as they tried to reach their campsite base in Marcourt, Belgium. “I thought then this is a moment I’m going to remember for the rest of my life,” he says. “I could hear the water and I could see the flashes of sirens through the window - police, ambulance, fire. But I was just sitting there looking at the trees.” Rosa Reichel, 15, was one of more...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva President Ilham Aliyev, the incumbent leader of Azerbaijan, has welcomed leaders of several countries known for their anti-Western sentiments and in some cases, questionable human rights and freedoms records in recent weeks. Among the leaders shaking hands and signing agreements with President Aliyev since April 2024 were Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmon, the President of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Slovakia's Prime Minister, and the President of Bulgaria. In April 2024, Slovakia elected a populist president w...
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The account of Vlaams Belang, Belgium’s Flemish nationalist party, posted an advertisement on April 26 with a video of young people fighting at a Geel bus stop. “Have you also had enough of the ‘enrichment’ of the multicultural society?” the caption reads in Dutch. “Only Vlaams Belang is talking about this…and will restore law and order!” For between €600 to €800, Vlaams Belang got up to 125,000 Facebook impressions and 60,000 on Instagram from this ad, largely from their intended audience of 18 to 34-year-olds in Belgium’s north, according to Meta Ad Library data. For some, the social media c...
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Water resilience in the face of the climate crisis is the focus of Green Week in Brussels. The 2024 EU Green Week is part of a wider communication campaign dedicated to fostering awareness and promoting solutions in the face of the climate crisis. Floods have hit Europe with increasing intensity, such as those in eastern Belgium in July 2021, where 240 people died. In a report published this month, the European Environment Agency sounded the alarm that 12 per cent of Europe's population lives in areas at risk of flooding. Alain Maron, Brussels Minister for Climate Transition commented that it ...
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Key updates on May 28: Belgium signs security deal with Ukraine, pledges $1 billion in aid this yearZelensky arrives in Portugal, signs bilateral security dealSending troops to Ukraine 'shouldn't be ruled out,' Polish FM saysWSJ: Russia aims to produce 6,000 Shahed-type drones a year in TatarstanCzechia backs Ukraine striking Russian soil with Western-provided weaponsUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement in Brussels on May 28, the Presidential Office announced. Belgium becomes the 11th country to sign s...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Key updates on May 28: Belgium signs security deal with Ukraine, pledges $1 billion in aid this yearZelensky arrives in Portugal, signs bilateral security dealSending troops to Ukraine 'shouldn't be ruled out,' Polish FM saysWSJ: Russia aims to produce 6,000 Shahed-type drones a year in TatarstanCzechia backs Ukraine striking Russian soil with Western-provided weaponsUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement in Brussels on May 28, the Presidential Office announced. Belgium becomes the 11th country to sign s...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Ukraine urgently needs the West's go-ahead to launch attacks on Russian territory with donated weapons, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday after signing a long-term security deal with Belgium that includes the provision of 30 F-16s fighter jets by 2028. The deal, however, prohibits Ukraine from deploying the sought-after aircraft to strike targets located on Russian soil. This follows a long-held policy by Western allies that compels Kyiv to use donated weapons and ammunition strictly within its territory, parts of which are currently occupied by Russian forces. Allies worry that if...
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By Sean Walsh Belgium have omitted Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois from their provisional 25-player squad for Euro 2024. Courtois has spent much of the 2023/24 season recovering from an ACL tear, while he also spent further time on the sidelines having suffered a meniscus injury shortly before his initial return to action. The 32-year-old made four appearances down the final stretch of Madrid's successful La Liga campaign, while he could also play in Saturday's Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund. However, Courtois will have the summer off after being overlooked for Belgiu...
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Belgian arms which are to be supplied to Ukraine under the recently signed security agreement, including F-16 fighter jets, are intended for use only on Ukrainian territory, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said during a press conference on May 28. "Everything which is covered by this agreement... is for the utilization by the Ukrainian defense forces on Ukrainian territory," De Croo said in response to a journalist's question about whether Ukraine will be able to use Belgian F-16 jets to down Russian planes in Russian airspace. De Croo and President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the secur...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Belgian arms which are to be supplied to Ukraine under the recently signed security agreement, including F-16 fighter jets, are intended for use only on Ukrainian territory, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said during a press conference on May 28. "Everything which is covered by this agreement... is for the utilization by the Ukrainian defense forces on Ukrainian territory," De Croo said in response to a journalist's question about whether Ukraine will be able to use Belgian F-16 jets to down Russian planes in Russian airspace. De Croo and President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the secur...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
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