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InternationalFatal crash near Lisbon

What caused the Lisbon-area bus crash that killed two women?

A bus struck pedestrians at the Agualva-Cacém transport terminal near Lisbon on 7 July, killing two women and injuring 20 people; the operator’s internal review later pointed to…

InternationalExtreme heat

Spain records 45.7°C as wildfire forces evacuations in southern France

Spain recorded its highest temperature of 2026 in El Granado on Thursday, while a wildfire in France’s southern Ardèche department forced about 30 people from a hamlet and…

InternationalEnergy and daily life

What does Washington’s sweeping Venezuela oil arrangement mean for Belgium?

InternationalCrew safety dispute

Can Brussels Airlines crews refuse to fly to Tel Aviv without facing sanctions?

Brussels Airlines confirmed on 3 September that pilots and cabin crew may declare themselves unfit to operate Tel Aviv services without repercussions, after a disputed flight left…

InternationalDispatch from Kyiv

Ukrainian veteran’s Kyiv letter lays bare the fear of round-the-clock Russian attacks

Ukrainian veteran Roman Trokhymets has published a first-person dispatch describing how intensifying Russian attacks have led him to consider keeping an escape rope, respirator…

InternationalBlack Sea security

Unidentified drone crossed into Bulgaria and exploded near strategic gas pipeline

InternationalViolent robbery in Italy

What is known about the knife attack on two Belgian tourists in Naples?

Two 18-year-old Belgian tourists were injured in a violent robbery in central Naples, with one stabbed in the abdomen and the other punched as attackers allegedly seized a gold…

InternationalSolidarity after disaster

Why is a Leuven family travelling into Nepal’s flood zone to help rebuild its village?

InternationalCivilian crews in a war zone

Who protects merchant seafarers as the Black Sea war reaches their ships?

Twelve seafarers aboard the ageing Volgo-Don 5021 recovered $83,000 in unpaid wages after an August 2026 strike in Samsun, according to El Mundo, but their case exposed a wider…

InternationalDrone war reaches deeper

How does Russia’s warning to Britain raise the stakes for Belgium and the EU?

InternationalCustody and rule of law

Did Pakistan comply with the court order when it moved Imran Khan to hospital?

Pakistani authorities briefly moved former prime minister Imran Khan from prison to an Islamabad hospital on 21 August, then returned him to jail, prompting a dispute over whether…

InternationalSecurity alert

Berlin airport evacuates Terminal 1 public area over unidentified substance

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