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National strike brings Belgium to standstill
Feb 13, 2019 12:57Belgium slowed to a standstill on Wednesday as a national strike closed airports, shuttered businesses, and caused major disruption to railways.
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Massive strike in Belgium to ground all flights Wednesday
Feb 09, 2019 05:40All flights scheduled to arrive in or depart from Belgium next Wednesday will be cancelled due to a massive country-wide strike over wage disputes.
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Belgian PM resigns in row over UN migration pact
Dec 19, 2018 09:17Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel offered his resignation on Tuesday amid a political crisis triggered by differences over accepting a UN migration pact.
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Belgium: Trade unions protest against pension reforms in Brussels
Dec 14, 2018 18:31Hundreds of trade union members took to the streets of Brussels on Friday, as part of a nationwide general strike against the federal government’s pension reform.
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Flawed policies fueling French protests, yellow jackets spill into Belgium
Dec 03, 2018 17:22France, along with other western countries, which had tried to blow out of proportion the isolated incidents of economic protests in Iran as a mass movement against the Islamic Republic, is now facing nationwide demonstrations against the government as Paris is presenting the spectacle of a war zone, threatening to bring down the ruling regime.
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Thousands march against global warming in Belgium
Dec 02, 2018 17:25Thousands of people marched on Sunday in Brussels urging the Belgian government to respect its commitments on countering climate change as a United Nations conference on keeping global warming in check begins in Poland.
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Macron raps Belgium’s F-35 purchase as 'against European interests’
Oct 27, 2018 13:07French President Emmanuel Macron has blasted Belgium's decision to purchase US-manufactured F-35 fighter jets instead of rival European planes, saying that the move “strategically goes against European interests”.
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German ambassador summoned over extradition of Iranian diplomat to Belgium
Oct 11, 2018 06:19Iran has summoned the German ambassador to protest Berlin’s extradition of an Iranian diplomat to Brussels over his alleged link to a planned July attack against the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in France.
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Belgium officials criticize security failure after attack
May 30, 2018 07:45Belgian officials have criticized the potential security failure that led to the furloughing on Tuesday of a prisoner with a long criminal history who killed two police officers and a bystander in an attack on that same day.
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Two police officers shot dead by gunman who took woman hostage in Belgium
May 29, 2018 12:17A gunman shot dead two police officers and a passer-by in the center of the eastern Belgian city of Liege.