A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump's administration to update its immigration services website to reflect 600,000 Venezuelans with temporary protected status are legally allowed to live and work in the United States.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has met with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever in Antwerp to discuss increasing intelligence sharing efforts to combat transnational drug smuggling.

Belgium plans to recognize a Palestinian state, joining a growing list of countries to take the step.

Coca-Cola has recalled some of its soft drinks in Europe after higher-than-normal levels of a chemical called chlorate were detected in bottles and cans at a Belgian production plant.

Belgium is granting sex workers full labor rights, including health insurance, paid leave and pensions, starting Sunday.

American gymnast Shilese Jones is aiming for the 2028 Olympics after a left knee injury ended her shot at reaching Paris.

The University of Amsterdam has canceled classes and shut buildings for two days after the latest demonstrations over the war in Gaza turned destructive.

Gymnastics star Simone Biles is taking her show on the road following the Paris Olympics.

Reigning WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart has re-signed with the New York Liberty.

The number of antisemitic acts registered in France and Belgium have risen sharply since Hamas’ attack on Israel triggered the war in Gaza.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on the world’s biggest diamond mining company and its chief executive officer as part of what it says is its “unwavering commitment” to Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Simone Biles has won two more gold medals at the 2023 gymnastics world championships.

Led by Simone Biles, the U.S. women have won a record seventh consecutive team title at the gymnastics world championships.

Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected to newly mandatory school sessions in some parts of the country.

Moving a masterpiece is never easy, even more so when it measures 4.11 by 6.75 meters and weighs 560 kilograms.

The Belgian city of Antwerp has put its faith in monkey business to put kids at ease for their first COVID-19 jab.

An advisory body in Belgium has suspended a government-ordered closure of the cultural sector.

Belgium has decided to further tighten restrictions in anticipation of the surging omicron variant.

The European Union aims to combat growing antisemitism with new plans to tackle hate speech, raise awareness about Jewish life and protect places of worship.

A school undergoing construction work has collapsed in the Belgian city of Antwerp, killing five workers and injuring nine others, according to local authorities.

Moderna and vaccine promoter Gavi have announced a deal by which the pharmaceutical company will provide up to 500 million coronavirus vaccines doses for the U.N.-backed program to ship to needy people in low- and middle-income countries by the end of 2022.

Despite its flagging vaccination drive, the European Union says it is still on target to reach what it calls “sufficient community immunity” by the end of June.

Belgian health authorities are urging residents to limit their social contacts to a bare minimum and to massively opt for remote working to avoid another wave of COVID-19 infections. Obligatory mask-wearing outdoors, night-time curfews and restaurant and bar closures have been in place since the start of November. AdDe Croo said that most new cases were being found in schools and in the work place. The number of elderly people catching or dying from the virus is dropping as Belgium’s vaccination program kicks in. Van Laethem said earlier that Belgium is “standing at the foot of a third wave of infections,” but that people can help turn that into a “mini-wave” by respecting the rules.

Belgium's federal prosecutor's office says a police operation of an unprecedented scale targeting organized crime is taking place across Belgium on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. With thousands of containers reaching Antwerp every day, the Belgian port city is one of Europe's main ports of entry to Europe for cocaine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)BRUSSELS – Belgian police made 48 arrests Tuesday during an operation of unprecedented scale targeting organized crime, after investigators cracked an encrypted communications network popular with criminals, prosecutors said. With thousands of shipping containers reaching Antwerp every day, the Belgian port city is one of Europe’s main entry ports for cocaine. AdDutch police and prosecutors seized 28 firearms in the port city of Rotterdam.

The government on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 presented scientific projections of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, indicating it would be very risky to extensively loosen the current restrictions over the coming weeks. Based on a model that would relax measures as of next week, Belgium could be faced with its biggest spike yet in coronavirus cases, while a similar relaxation on April 1 indicated a far more muted increase. The projections were based on the spread of the more contagious variant first identified in the U.K. AdThe point to give citizens more freedom again, however, is approaching, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said. “An important message from the projections is that we approach a point where the risk of a third spike seriously decreases," De Croo said.

An Iranian official on Thursday was convicted of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court that rejected his claim of diplomatic immunity. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)ANTWERP – An Iranian official identified as an undercover agent was convicted Thursday of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court, which rejected his claim of diplomatic immunity. Assadollah Assadi, a Vienna-based diplomat detained in Belgium, refused to testify during his trial last year, invoking his diplomatic status. AdDuring the trial, lawyers for the plaintiffs and representatives of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq opposition group, or MEK, claimed without offering evidence that the diplomat set up the attack on direct orders from Iran’s highest authorities. The National Council of Resistance of Iran is a part of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, an exiled Iranian opposition group largely based in Albania and Paris.

Representatives of all the religious faiths recognized in Belgium have joined forces to urge federal authorities to increase the number of people admitted inside places of worship during the coronavirus pandemic, it was announced Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, file)Representatives of the religious faiths recognized in Belgium have joined forces to urge federal authorities to increase the number of people admitted inside places of worship during the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne, the religious representatives argued that the number of people allowed should instead be linked to the space available. They proposed a return to the “one person per 10 square meters" rule which applied in June last year when Belgium exited the spring lockdown. The letter was signed by representatives from the Roman Catholic, Protestant-Evangelical, Jewish, Anglican, Muslim and Orthodox faiths.

Non-essential shops in Belgium are reopening on Tuesday in the wake of encouraging figures about declining infection rates and hospital admissions because of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)BRUSSELS – Nonessential shops in Belgium reopened Tuesday in the wake of encouraging figures about declining daily coronavirus infection rates and hospital admissions. But even if lines were long outside some multinational chains, there were few people in smaller shops and in provincial towns. Belgium, host to the headquarters of the 27-nation European Union, has been one of the hardest-hit countries in Europe during the pandemic. Belgium has reported more than 16,500 deaths linked to the virus during two surges in the spring and the fall.

With nothing on their agendas for months to come, organizers of music festivals in Belgium want to use their know-how to help the coronavirus vaccination campaign. The Belgian government has set up the goal to vaccine about 70 percent of the country's population, the equivalent of eight million people, when efficient COVID-19 shots become available. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)BRUSSELS – With nothing on their agendas for months to come, music festival organizers in Belgium want to use their know-how to help the country's coronavirus vaccination campaign. The Belgian government has set a goal of vaccinating about 70% of the country's population, about 8 million people, when approved COVID-19 vaccination shots become available. The task will pose many logistical challenges, including the creation of vaccination centers that festival organizers say they can help set up.

A customer, right, waits to pick up an order at Sergio Herman's Le Pristine restaurant in Antwerp, Belgium, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. If that were the case for the high-end restaurant industry, the coronavirus pandemic should have offered ample opportunities for creativity and renewal. But this pandemic so far mainly has chefs just thinking of how to get through each day. A box from Le Pristine, without drinks but with a few supplements, can easily push past 100 euros (around $115) a head. Le Pristine is his latest project.

A miniature scene is set into a boot scraper outside a front door in Antwerp, Belgium, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Belgian artist Elke Lemmens is transforming disused boot scrapers in the port city of Antwerp into miniature scenes depicting what is important in the lives of the owners of the house. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)ANTWERP – Life can feel smaller, even tiny during the coronavirus pandemic as public health restrictions limit social contacts to a bare minimum. But Belgian artist Elke Lemmens has found a way to build connections during the ongoing crisis. “Soon, there will be a walking map so people can find these boot scraper scenes,” Lemmens said.

“We are deep in the second wave,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels. German officials have agreed to a four-week shutdown of restaurants, bars, cinemas, theaters and other leisure facilities in a bid to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus infections, Chancellor Angela Merkel said. French President Emmanuel Macron announced a second nationwide lockdown from midnight Thursday until Dec. 1, but said schools would remain open. The loud but peaceful rally contrasted with angry scenes in the last few days, when anti-mask protesters clashed with police in the German capital, the Czech Republic and in several Italian cities. The Czech Health Ministry said the country’s daily increase in new infections hit a record high of 15,663 on Tuesday — more than was reported Wednesday in Germany, which has eight times the population.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks via video conference into a press room at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels that Europe is confronted “with two enemies at this time. Michel said nations must coordinate their approval of new coronavirus tests and of tracing systems aimed at halting its spread. Von der Leyen said the EU's executive arm will use 100 million euros ($117 million) in emergency funds to buy rapid antigen tests. “I think that this year’s Christmas will be a different Christmas,” von der Leyen added.

People walk by chairs and tables of an empty terrace in the historical center of Antwerp, Belgium, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020. The new surge of coronavirus cases has already prompted several hospitals to delay nonessential operations to focus on treating COVID-19 cases. As of Monday, 2,485 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized in Belgium, including 412 in intensive care. Authorities have warned that intensive care units will hit their capacity of 2,000 beds by mid-November if new cases continue to soar at the same pace. “We have three times as many people in intensive care in hospitals.

Judicial and law enforcement authorities in Belgium have dismantled an organized criminal network responsible for drugs trafficking involving corrupt police officers as they seized more than 2 million euros and some 3.5 tons of cocaine. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, File)BRUSSELS – Authorities in Belgium and another three countries have dismantled a criminal drug trafficking network that allegedly relied on corrupt police officers to ship hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine into Western Europe, officials said Thursday. Authorities also seized weapons, about 40 vehicles, 1.3 million euros in cash, 700,000 euros ($822,000) on various bank accounts as well as stocks worth 62,000 euros ($72,850). “The quantity we seized can seem gigantic, but it's infinitely small compared to what really goes through," Van Leeuw said. “It's not only cocaine that is imported," Van Leeuw said.

Two men called the police on themselves after finding themselves stuck in a shipping container full of cocaine in the Belgian port of Antwerp. (CNN) - As Belgium experienced its hottest day on record on Wednesday, two men found themselves in a sticky situation -- trapped in a shipping container full of cocaine, the men became so hot that they called the police on themselves. Police were called to the port of Antwerp on Wednesday by the men, who were trapped inside a shipping container for several hours, a spokesman for Antwerp's shipping police told CNN. "They called the police to get them out of there, because the container was locked from the outside," a spokesman for Antwerp's shipping police told CNN. "They found a lot of cocaine inside the container," the spokesman said.