Flanders sends 'first unmanned boat' ocean
antwerp October 1, 2018 20:32Flanders is going to have an unmanned boat cross the Atlantic. In May 2019 the vessel, Mahi, departs from the west coast of France for a trip to Guadeloupe.
Flanders is going to have an unmanned boat cross the Atlantic. In May 2019 the vessel, Mahi, departs from the west coast of France for a trip to Guadeloupe.
More concrete problems were detected during inspections in the two Belgian nuclear power plants. It was already clear that the concrete is being 'degraded' in bunkers with emergency systems in two reactors of the Doel and Tihange power plants. Now it has been found that the concrete in the bunker ceilings of two more reactors does not meet the requirements.
No car could be seen in dozens of Belgian city centers. Among others, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, Kortrijk and Mechelen participated in Autoloze Zondag. 'By car-free streets, cities and municipalities are not only more livable, but sustainable transport is also good for the environment and health', according to the organizers. In Brussels, the entire public transport was free on Sundays.
In 41 Belgian cities and municipalities Sunday is not allowed to take the road by car. On the car-free Sunday, numerous activities take place with regard to sustainability, the environment and health.
A 28-year-old Dutchman was killed after he drove a van on a traffic jam on the A12 in the Belgian village of Breendonk. The man was dead instantly.
Belgians are in great embarrassment now that it appears that a compatriot may be responsible for 110 beheadings in Syria.
The member of a Belgian political party has been discredited after being caught with three kilograms of heroin. The timing can not be worse: in fact, his party is launching a plan against international drug suppliers in the battle for the forthcoming Antwerp municipal elections.
The cause of death of two female visitors to the Tomorrowland dance festival last July in Boom, Belgium, is still drug-related. This is what the Antwerp prosecutor's office informs the VRT.
It was a bit of a shock for about twenty visitors to the Laundry Day music festival in Antwerp. Due to a technical defect they suddenly found themselves at a high altitude in a whirligig on the festival site.
The restart of two of the four reactors at the nuclear power plant in the Belgian Doel has been postponed. Instead of October, it will be December, operator Engie Electrabel reports.
The letter that Marc Dutroux will send to next of kin falls badly in Belgium. Carine Russo, the mother of victim Mélissa, and Jean-Denis Lejeune, the father of victim Julie, talk about 'bullying behavior' and mental torture. 'I can guarantee that when released, I will be around.'
The disaster phase applies due to a major fire in the port of Antwerp. The fire in the shed has been raging since Saturday morning, but the fire department does not get the fire under control. It involves 5000 tons of smoldering nickel sulphide.
Belgian customs have again done a large drug seizure in the port of Antwerp. In a control action, 1561 kilos of cocaine was intercepted, reports the Ministry of Finance. On Friday, 1727 kilos of cocaine had already been seized.
The two young women who died after a visit to the Belgian music festival Tomorrowland did not die from the effects of drug use. This is the conclusion of the prosecutor's office in Antwerp on the basis of the first findings. An investigation has now been opened into the exact circumstances of the deaths.
During the Tomorrowland music festival in Boom, Belgium, two young women were taken to hospital after drug use. A few days later they died of the consequences. The Flemish channel VRT reports this on Sunday evening. The women came from abroad and died in the University Hospital of Antwerp.
A 40-year-old woman was seriously injured in Antwerp after someone threw sulfuric acid over her.
Flemish museums have written an open letter to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, because they feel that the ban has been passed on naked images. Facebook also removes painted nude from Flemish masters and that is too strict, according to the museums.
The Belgian police have fired an inspector who himself would have made a threatening letter from terrorist group IS. The man would have posted the document two weeks after the attacks in Paris at the gate of the police station.
Two swimming pools in the Belgian town of Ghent are not allowed to keep women out of burkini. The court decided on Friday. In case of a ban, the swimming pools would be guilty of discrimination.
The whole of Belgium turns black-yellow-red again, because our southern neighbors play a blood-curdling semi-final at the World Championships against France. Reporter Niels Kalkman mixes between the festivities.
During the search for a missing 'Famous Belgian', the adventurer Marc Sluszny, a diver has died. This confirms the rescue services to Het Nieuwsblad. The operation was so risky that even the Sluszny family was reluctant to ask for help- and now it turns out why.
A united Belgium is hard to write history on the World Cup. After the sensational victory of the Red Devils on Brazil, the southern neighbors wake up with a hangover of happiness. One that they want to take part twice more in the coming week.
The Iranian-Belgian couple who planned an attack in the French Villepinte last Saturday at a meeting of the opposition party MEK, which was banned in Iran. That has been determined by the court in Antwerp.
Residents of the Belgian Ghent can have their contraceptives such as condoms and the morning-after pill reimbursed by the municipality. Belgians who are financially short of cash can claim this.
A brown, stepped bottle, a white label with red letters: sounds like a bottle of Duvel, is not it? Not always: the Belgian beer brand Filou is also sold in a bottle that resembles that of Duvel as two drops of water. And so Duvel Moortgat went to court to enforce adjustments.
The man on his way to Paris to commit an attack works in the port of Rotterdam.
The Belgian justice and police have thwarted a terrorist attack in France according to Belgian media. They intercepted a couple of Iranian descent in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, which would have wanted to strike a meeting of an Iranian opposition party near Paris.
A Dutch driver of a van was killed this morning in a collision at the E19 Breda-Antwerp.
Because young people have thrown stones on the tracks from a bridge, train traffic between Brussels-North and Schaarbeek is temporarily interrupted on Tuesday evening. 'We do this for safety reasons,' says Thomas Baeken of Infrabel.
Have you planned barbecues, parties or an evening of World Cup matches in the near future? Then it could just be an alcohol-free version. The beer stock is seriously threatened by a shortage of CO2, writes CNN, and beer brewers sweat carrots for the coming weeks.