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Belgium headed for new government as PM set to resign after general election | Belgium

Belgium is heading for a new government after a general election in which an expected surge by the far-right Vlaams Verand party failed to materialize and the outgoing coalition government led by liberal Prime Minister Alexander De Croo lost the ability to form a majority. Mr Vlaams-Belan’s main rival, the nationalist New Flemish Union (N-VA), […]

Belgium Promises First F-16 Fighters and $1 Billion to Ukraine This Year

BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy received a second $1 billion in military aid pledge in two days on Tuesday during a whirlwind visit to three European Union countries, while President Vladimir Putin warned that attacking Russian territory with Western-supplied weapons could send the war on a dangerous new path. The 2024 aid pledge […]

Belgian man whose body makes its own alcohol cleared of drunk-driving | Belgium

A Belgian man has been found not guilty of drink-driving because he has automatic brewing syndrome (ABS), an extremely rare condition in which the body produces alcohol, his lawyer announced. Ansu Ghesquière said on Monday that in “another unfortunate coincidence” that her client worked at a brewery, three doctors who independently examined him confirmed he […]

Ex-MP Sentenced to Year in Prison in Belgium over Hate Speech

Court rules that group chat “jokes” are actually hate speech of “Nazi ideology…white supremacy” and that group chats constitute a public forum, sentencing former Flemish MP to prison handed down the verdict. The Ghent Criminal Court sentenced former parliamentarian Dries van Langenhove to a year in prison and a 10-year ban from holding public office, […]