On Wednesday morning, several people died in a major fire at an apartment building on August Vermeylenlaan on Linkeroever in Antwerp. Police confirm that there are also several people with serious and minor injuries, while fire crews were still searching the building for victims as of this afternoon.
Identical quadruplets were born at a hospital in Veldhoven, which is extremely rare: worldwide, this occurs in only about 1 in 11 million pregnancies.
Six days after Venezuela was struck by a severe earthquake, a 3-year-old child was pulled alive from under the rubble by Jordanian rescue workers.
In Beuvrages, in northern France, two 15-month-old girls were found dead in their beds during a severe heat wave. According to initial findings, the circumstances point to severe dehydration. The parents have been taken into custody and are being questioned.
If you’ve ever been on vacation in Malta, chances are you’ve taken a snapshot of the famous “Kissing Elephants Arch.” This week, however, things went terribly wrong at the tourist hotspot.
Ukraine is increasingly using balloons in creative ways to strike deeper into Russia. One of the most striking new developments is DART, a guided missile that is not fired from an aircraft or launch pad, but is released from a balloon at the edge of the stratosphere.
A year after the stabbing in Antwerp’s Schipperskwartier, 19-year-old Luna S. tells her story to Het Nieuwsblad for the first time. The woman who stabbed her attacker after he harassed her and her friend following a night out says she saw “no other way out” and that she never intended to hurt anyone.
On Monday evening around 9pm, an explosion occurred on Rue Révérend-Père-Louis-Frolla in Monaco, near the French border. Three people were injured, including a Ukrainian oligarch and his partner. Both are in critical condition.
On Sunday, eleven people were killed in a plane crash near Nancy. A pilot, five instructors, and five nurses who were about to make their first parachute jump lost their lives. According to the president of the French Skydiving Federation, the plane took off “at the worst possible moment.”
According to U.S. media, the United States and Iran have agreed to temporarily halt attacks against each other and to meet again on Tuesday in Doha. According to Axios, the talks will focus specifically on the dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, following the recent drone and airstrikes between the two countries. A temporary ceasefire should now give both sides some breathing room for diplomatic talks aimed at reaching a lasting peace agreement.