LONGYEARBYEN - Svalbard, once an isolated destination for researchers and miners, is increasingly visited by tourists.

POPPEL - Nederlandse tractors steken dag en nacht via kleine zandweggetjes de grens over, om in België goedkoper te tanken. Sinds Nederland in 2013 het belastingvoordeel voor rode diesel afschafte, bl ...

OUDSBERGEN/YELLOWSTONE - Na een eeuw afwezigheid sluipt de wolf opnieuw door onze landschappen. In bossen en weilanden wordt ...

BRUSSELS - Which is more sustainable: a woollen jumper or a polyester one? The European Union proposes a universal calculation to find out. The answer may surprise you: although polyester is a ...

BRUSSELS - IRPI has been awarded the Honorary Title for Freedom of Expression as part of Difference Day 2025, organized by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Université libre de Bruxelles ...

BRUSSELS - Spring and mineral waters from the Ardennes, the High Fens and East Flanders contain traces of ultra short PFAS. Analyses ordered by Apache show that TFA has seeped deep into the natural ...

BIAŁOWIEŻA - Since March, Poland has imposed an asylum ban at its border with Belarus. Officially, there are exceptions for children, pregnant women and the sick, but in practice these are ...

TANGIER - When fishmonger Mohsin Fikri is crushed in a rubbish truck, the Riffins have had enough. They demand that their region finally be developed after decades of backwardness: they want more jobs ...

AUSTIN - When a Belgian filmmaker moves to Texas and becomes a mother, she is confronted with a reality barely comprehensible in Europe: preschoolers trained to keep quiet in a dark closet, schools ...

ANTWERP / RIEME - No one knows how many harmful substances are emitted from the chimneys of Flemish factories. However, the emissions of the limited group of “Substances of Very High Concern” reported ...

With an average age of just 27, Kyrgyzstan's largest demographic group consists of those who have come of age in the post-Soviet era. These young individuals are on a mission to challenge prevailing ...

BOSASO - After almost a decade of silence on Somalia's northern coast, piracy seems to be making a comeback. Driven by hunger and desperation, old smuggling routes are being reopened and strategic ...