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Dries Van Noten to exit his eponymous label in June

After 38 years, Belgian designer Dries Van Noten – who rose to fame as part of the Antwerp Six – is set to exit his role as creative director of his namesake brand

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UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant

Campaigners say Ineos project in Antwerp will turbocharge plastic production on a scale not seen before in Europe

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Jim Ratcliffe’s vast petrochemical plant in Antwerp faces new legal challenge

Proposed Project One cracking plant is ‘hugely destructive’, says Client Earth

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Tour of Flanders 2024 route

Approach to Koppenberg changes to make race safer, eliminating Kortekeer and Kanarieberg, adding Kapelleberg

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Tractor blockade disrupts operations at Belgian port of Antwerp

Farmers across Europe demand higher prices and looser environmental rules

The Guardian - UK

Farmers’ protests continue across Europe as tractors head to Antwerp port – as it happened

Demonstrations expected to continue in several countries as European parliament will hold exchange with stakeholders

The Guardian - UK

Protesting farmers block trucks from crossing Belgian-Dutch border

A key crossing near Antwerp has reportedly been blocked

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EU Ports Join Up To Fight Drug Smuggling

The EU on Wednesday launches a "European Ports Alliance" to harmonise methods in the fight against drug smuggling and to combat the hubs' infiltration by criminal groups.

International Business Times

EU Ports Urged To Team Up To Fight 'Very Creative' Drug Smugglers

Drug smugglers in the EU have become so "very creative" that the bloc's seaports should join forces to combat their ever-changing tactics, Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden told AFP. That idea is to be promoted Wednesday when Verlinden, along with the European Commission, meets top representatives from around 20 EU…

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Stolen Chagall and Picasso paintings found in Antwerp basement

The artworks were stolen from a collector in Israel in 2010

Evening Standard

Stolen Chagall and Picasso artworks found in Antwerp basement

Months-long covert police operation recovers paintings stolen from Tel Aviv art collector 14 years ago

The Guardian - UK

'Mathieu van der Poel never stronger at cyclocross than he is now' says Alpecin-Deceuninck management

Cyclocross World Champion in league of his own at Antwerp World Cup

Cycling News

Wout Van Aert: I don't have the form yet to go full gas for the whole hour

'I'm glad I didn't burn myself out and rode my own race' Jumbo-Visma rider finishes second to Mathieu van der Poel at Antwerp World Cup

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Crash, illness hampers Tom Pidcock's performance at Antwerp World Cup

'I didn't do any training all week, I'm tired' says Ineos Grenadiers rider

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Mathieu van der Poel in a league of his own at Antwerp World Cup

No 'big-three' contest as Wout Van Aert finishes distant second, Pidcock crashes off the start line

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Fem van Empel maintains perfect record at Antwerp World Cup

Brand puts up fierce resistance but has to settle for second behind world champion

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Volcano erupts in Indonesia, mass evacuations underway, ash fills sky

Dive into the thrilling match of UEFA Champions League: Royal Antwerp FC triumphs with a 3-2 victory over Barcelona in a pulsating football showdown!

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Hotel August offers a modern-day sanctuary in Antwerp's Green District

Hotel August is a former Augustinian convent quirkily reimagined by Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen

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‘Diamonds are in my blood’: The Jain jewellery traders of Antwerp

How did followers of Jainism, a faith that shuns attachment to material goods, come to boss the global diamond industry?

Cycling News

Tom Pidcock confirms cyclocross calendar and four-race Christmas clash with Van der Poel and Van Aert

'Big three' to face off at X2O Trofee Koksijde and World Cup rounds in Antwerp, Gavere and Hulst

The Guardian - UK

How Interpol traced the identity of ‘the woman with the flower tattoo’

Rita Roberts from Cardiff was found in an Antwerp river in 1992. Operation Identify Me has 21 other women it wants to name

The Guardian - UK

‘Woman with the flower tattoo’ killed in Antwerp in 1992 is identified as Briton

Rita Roberts identified through appeal seeking information on 22 women killed in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany

Evening Standard

Madonna says she’s not feeling well seven days into global Celebration Tour

The singer, 65, said she wasn’t feeling her best while on stage in Antwerp, Belgium

The Guardian - UK

‘The tsunami just keeps coming’: Europe’s growing cocaine market

Customs officials face losing battle as €10bn cocaine trade leads to dramatic increase in violent crime in north-west Europe

The Guardian - UK

EU ‘very close’ to finalising Russian diamond ban, says Belgian PM

Belgian backing for Russian diamond embargo critical as about 90% of world’s diamonds pass through Antwerp

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