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Dozens of people, responding to calls on social media for protests against measures to check the coronavirus, also began gathering at the Atomium, a landmark building in Brussels. Picture: Twitter.

Brussels

Brussels police move to block anti-lockdown protests

By AFP

Police evacuated one square in front of the main railway station, where some of the protesters were football supporters from Belgian clubs.

  • FILE: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Picture: AFP.

    Johnson jets in to Brussels in bid to save Brexit deal

    Johnson's dash back to the city where once he made his name as an EU-bashing newspaper reporter marks the last chance of a breakthrough before Britain leaves the EU single market.

    615 days ago
  • The restaurant - named after the perfect temperature to cook an egg - was set up by four entrepreneurs with backgrounds in cooking and social care. It serves up high-end French-style food in the Belgian capital’s hip Chatelain district. Picture: 65degres/Facebook

    Dining and Down Syndrome, a winning combination for Brussels restaurant

    The restaurant - part fine-dining establishment, part social inclusion project - ranks first out of more than 2,000 competitors listed on review site TripAdvisor.

    994 days ago
  • FILE: New Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves the Conservative party headquarters in central London on 23 July, 2019. Picture: AFP.

    'Ready and willing' to do a Brexit deal, Britain tells EU

    The EU has repeatedly ruled out renegotiating the Withdrawal Agreement, and The Guardian cited a senior EU diplomat as saying Britain 'does not have another plan'.

    1106 days ago
  • A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May reacting as Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn informs the MPs that he has tabled a vote of no confidence in the Government in the House of Commons in London on 15 January 2019, after MPs voted to reject the government's Brexit deal. Picture: AFP

    May heads to Brussels for Brexit crisis talks

    Theresa May's critics accuse her of wasting time before holding another vote in parliament on her deal, hoping that the looming deadline will change MPs' minds.

    1274 days ago
  • A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May reacting as Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn informs the MPs that he has tabled a vote of no confidence in the Government in the House of Commons in London on 15 January 2019, after MPs voted to reject the government's Brexit deal. Picture: AFP

    May asks lawmakers to send a message to Brussels on Brexit deal

    Parliament will on Tuesday try to shape the future of the country’s exit from the European Union by debating and voting on what changes they want May to seek to her Brexit deal.

    1295 days ago
  • A court sketch made on 10 January 2019 shows Mehdi Nemmouche (L), accused of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, during his trial at the Brussels Justice Palace. Picture: AFP

    Jewish museum attack victims shot with 'surgical' precision

    Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, the alleged jihadist gunman, faces life in prison if convicted of the charges of murdering four people during the anti-Semitic attack on 24 May 2014.

    1303 days ago
  • A court sketch made on 10 January 2019 shows Mehdi Nemmouche (L), accused of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, during his trial at the Brussels Justice Palace. Picture: AFP

    Jewish museum terror attack trial opens in Brussels

    Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, who was in court, faces a life sentence if convicted of the cold-blooded killings in the Belgian capital on 24 May 2014, following his return from Syria's battlefields.

    1314 days ago
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May. Picture: AFP

    Minister urges divided UK MPs to find Brexit consensus

    The prime minister has repeatedly ruled out holding a second referendum, but there is growing support for the idea among opposition Labour MPs.

    1340 days ago
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May. Picture: @TheresaMayOfficial/Facebook.com.

    Wounded May seeks EU compromise to save Brexit deal

    The British leader, who survived a confidence vote staged by her own party's MPs late on Wednesday, now needs to turn a narrow victory on home turf into an unlikely away win.

    1342 days ago
  • FILE: Riot police clash with men wearing "yellow vests" (gilets jaunes) protestors on 8 December 2018 near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during a protest against rising costs of living they blame on high taxes. Picture: AFP

    70 arrested in Brussels during 'yellow vest' protest

    The area housing European institutions including the offices of the European Commission and the European Parliament was sealed off as a precautionary measure.

    1347 days ago
  • FILE: The European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels.  Picture: AFP.

    Swiss faces deadline on EU ties

    The EU wants Switzerland to agree to a broad deal that would simplify relations, currently defined by a messy set of some 120 bilateral accords.

    1348 days ago
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May. Picture: AFP

    May begins intensive campaign to sell Brexit deal at home

    May returns to a mutinous Westminster after sealg the agreement with European Union leaders at a summit on Sunday in Brussels, where both sides insisted this was the best and only option available.

    1359 days ago
  • FILE: British Prime Minister Theresa May in Quebec, Canada, on 9 June 2018. Picture: AFP

    Days from summit, May takes Brexit battle to Brussels

    The British prime minister will enjoy afternoon tea with the president of the European Union Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, with negotiations set to continue right up to Sunday's planned deal-signing summit.

    1364 days ago
  • Police crime scene tape outside the police station at the Kolenmarkt on Rue du Charbon, near the Grand-Place in Brussels, after a man attacked police officers with a knife, early on 20 November 2018. Picture: AFP

    Policeman stabbed in central Brussels, police say motive unclear

    Belgian newspaper 'DH' cited unnamed sources as saying the attacker shouted: “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest).

    1365 days ago
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May. Picture: @TheresaMayOfficial/Facebook.com.

    May seeks to reassure EU leaders on Brexit deal

    But three days after talks stalled over the Irish border “backstop”, thwarting hopes of a deal at the summit, May arrived determined to stress that an accord was still on the cards.

    1398 days ago
  • Prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam (L) sits as he surrounded by Belgian special police officers in the courtroom at the "Palais de Justice" courthouse in Brussels for the opening of his trial, on 5 February, 2018. Picture: AFP

    Paris attacks suspect guilty of attempted murder in Belgium

    Neither Abdeslam nor co-accused Sofien Ayari, who Belga said was also found guilty, were in court to hear the ruling on Monday.

    1576 days ago
  • Firefighters inspect a collapsed building, at the Paardenmarkt in Antwerp on 15 January, 2018, after several buildings collapsed following an explosion. Picture: AFP.

    2 killed after explosion destroys buildings in Belgium

    Belgium has been on high alert since deadly suicide bombings in 2016 and a wave of Islamist attacks across Europe.

    1673 days ago
  • FILE: British Prime Minister Theresa May. Picture: AFP

    Waiting for May, Brussels eyes December Brexit deal

    There has been only a day of top-level talks between the two lead negotiators since a mid-October summit that dismissed May’s call for immediate talks on a future trade agreement.

    1727 days ago
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