Ukraine's military intelligence agency claims it faked the reported death of an anti-Kremlin commander in order to stop an assassination plot by Moscow. Denis Kapustin, the leader of the Russian ...

2025 was not a banner year for businesses in Belgium - quite the opposite, in fact. With 11,697 court rulings, it was the worst year since 2013 in terms of bankruptcies. Compared to 2024, there was a ...

This year saw a rise in drivers under the influence of multiple drugs, according to the National Institute of Criminology and Criminalistics (INCC). Out of 8,289 saliva samples from drivers testing ...

A young man found dead in the the village of Denée in the province of Namur on Monday was the leader of a French far-right group. Brieg Luz, 21, was on holiday in the region when he disappeared late ...

A new tax on financial capital gains will take effect on 1 January 2026, forecasted to generate the government €500 million annually. Until now investors in Belgium benefitted from a unique tax law ...

Former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton has criticised the US government’s travel ban against him, comparing it to the McCarthy-era campaign against American communists in the 1950s. On Tuesday, the ...

Saint-Gilles was the scene of two shootings and two explosions this week, causing concern among local residents.

Belgium's politics is famously complicated, and people can often no longer see the forest for the trees. Therefore, The Brussels Times will provide an overview of the different political parties, how ...

Feared and reviled down the centuries, freemasons are still treated with suspicion. Seven starving Belgian political prisoners sat around a table in barrack Number 6, a wooden hut in the Nazi ...

Contemporary Belgian politics often seems too complex for its good, but the political landscape in the Middle Ages and the early modern period could have been even more bizarre. Belgium was once a ...

It is fair to say that Laurent Simons is special. Last year, the 12-year-old child prodigy received his bachelor's degree in physics with distinction from the University of Antwerp, after completing ...