Belgium

As the race for football's biggest prize heats up, the last eight nations in the running include most of the usual suspects, barring one jarring – and much celebrated...

Sale of Arab and African skulls scrapped by Belgian auction house after outcry.

Rioting broke out in Brussels on Sunday following Morocco's victory over Belgium in the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Belgian police have reported. Morocco won 2-0 in the group...

Morocco have boosted their hopes of qualifying for the last 16 of the 2022 World Cup with an impressive 2-0 win over Belgium.

Belgium's Foreign Minister and two other lawmakers cut their hair in Parliament, in solidarity with anti-government demonstrations in Iran triggered by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa...

Internationally, the balance of power, institutions and organisations are changing rapidly. With the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, a renewed quest for influence over the...

Islamophobia remains a growing threat across Europe, with several countries enacting policies that have contributed to the institutionalisation of an issue that should, instead, be stamped out with urgency,...

Five people were arrested in Rome and Brussels for smuggling migrants from Turkiye to western Europe via private jet, in trips costing around 10,000 Euros ($10,000), Italian police said...

A French judge has issued a European arrest warrant against French-born Moroccan Imam Hassan Iquioussen after a court ordered his expulsion to Morocco, French media reported on Friday. Interior...

A Moroccan imam has gone missing after the top administrative court in France issued a decision to deport him back to Morocco, French media outlets reported quoting police sources. According...

Nine European countries on Friday expressed their "deep concern" after the Israeli army closed the offices of Palestinian NGOs in the occupied West Bank, accusing them of being "terrorist"...

Belgian and Luxembourgian associations in solidarity with Palestine organised a protest in several Belgian cities against the participation of an Israeli team, Israel Premier Tech, in the Tour de...

Iran's parliament is to debate a prisoner exchange deal with Belgium, state media said on Monday, after Brussels approved the deal that may lead to the release of an...

Human rights group Adalah yesterday called on the European Commission to take an official and unanimous position against Israel's designation of six Palestinian NGOs as "terrorist" organisations. Adalah's demand...

Belgium today ratified a controversial treaty with Iran that would allow Iranians convicted of terrorism to be extradited to the Islamic Republic. Following a late night debate, voting took...

The Head of Qatar Airways, on Monday, said an "epidemic" of home working has contributed to staff shortages that are being widely blamed for travel disruption in Europe this...

Nine European countries expressed their refusal to stop cooperating with six Palestinian NGOs that the Israeli occupation designated as terrorist organisations in October, due to the lack of evidence...

Belgian lawmakers gave initial clearance on Wednesday to a prisoner exchange treaty with Iran that could lead to the release of an Iranian diplomat convicted of planning to bomb...

Asylum seekers sent from filthy, dangerous Libyan detention centres to Rwanda say their new quarters are a huge improvement but they still want to reach Europe – raising questions...

Fifteen European countries, on Friday, urged Israel to stop plans for more illegal settlements in the West Bank, according to an official statement, Anadolu News Agency reports. "We are...

The Centre for Lebanese Studies has called on donor governments to address the unprecedented education crisis in Lebanon at a funding conference in Brussels today. This includes putting pressure...

UN human rights experts yesterday slammed Israel over its "apparent misuse of anti-terrorism legislation" to attack some of the leading civil society organisations, while calling on the international community...

The Brussels Short Film Festival has removed Israel from its list of partners in the event on 30 April, a statement issued by the Belgian Palestinian Friendship Association announced...

The European Union will host the 6th Brussels conference on Syria next month, the European Commission announced on Friday and Anadolu News Agency reports. The European Union does not...

Israeli diamond traders are helping to fund President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, according to a report in the Haaretz. It's claimed that a loophole in US law allows traders...

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh yesterday received the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, in his office in Ramallah. According to a statement...

Belgium has pledged to donate €70 million ($77 million) as part of a five-year funding agreement with Palestine to support projects in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip,...

The Belgian government has provided an additional €1.4m ($1.6m) towards a programme to regain stability in liberated areas across Iraq, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Friday. The United Nations Assistance...

The leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, arrived in Brussels on an Algerian plane on Wednesday to attend the sixth Summit of the Heads of State and Government...

A Belgian judge has issued an international arrest warrant for the Chairman of Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), Ali Mahmoud Hassan, AFP reported on Friday. The LIA is the sovereign...

Local municipality officials in Belgium's capital, Brussels, removed the tents of migrants waiting to be admitted into the city's asylum centre in the city, Anadolu News Agency reports. Municipal...

The Belgian government's decision on 25 November to label products made in illegal Israeli Jewish settlements is welcome, although it will ultimately prove ineffectual. Belgium has historically shown solidarity...