Inhabitants of Belgium’s cobblestone-and-canal city of Bruges are clear: summertime tourism has hit capacity. “It’s really reached a red line now,” says one, 55-year-old architect Arnout Goegebuer, as he sits…
Tough talk and flag-waving patriotism have been rare in Belgium in the wake of this week's terror attacks, the worst to strike the divided nation at the symbolic heart of…
The economically depressed Belgian region of Wallonia finds new cohesion and purpose as its people unite against a looming deal they fear will make them even poorer. Charleroi, Belgium (dpa)…
If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belem, Brazil were bound to…
HERE is so much spin, so much deceit, so many lies that one can’t be blamed for not believing anyone — anyone in a position of power and authority —…
WITH 26.2 million children out of school, the state may have to revive its model of public-private partnership (PPP) to widen the net of access and equity in education. Pakistan…
French resident Emmanuel Macron scored a major diplomatic coup by declaring his intention to recognise a Palestinian state but the move risks being followed by bitter retaliation from Israel while…
There have been periodic calls for continuity in economic policies, regarded as critical by successive economic team leaders, to achieve development – a call that in the past decade or…
On a humid August afternoon, the skies over Karachi looked deceptively calm. Then thunder cracked, and in a few short hours, the city was drowning. Streets vanished under muddy water,…
WHERE on earth is Eswatini? It is one of the smallest countries in Africa, a landlocked kingdom ringed by South Africa and Mozambique. It is now the new home for…
