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Mikhail, 5 holds a scarf with the inscription "Ukraine" during a public screening of the Euro 2024 match between Ukraine and Belgium in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Ukrainians take heart from team’s inspiring play at Euro 2024

By Derek Gatopoulos and Anton Shtuka - Associated Press

Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde arrive for a Group E match between Belgium and Romania at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, June 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

More royalty turns up to attend Euro 2024

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This Feb. 15, 2007 file photo shows then Bishop of Bruges Roger Vangheluwe, in Bruges, Belgium. Pope Francis has defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. (AP Photo/Peter Maenhoudt, file)

Belgian bishop defrocked 14 years after admitting to abusing nephew

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Police spray a water canon during a farmers demonstration in the European Quarter outside a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. European Union agriculture ministers meet in Brussels Monday to discuss rapid and structural responses to the crisis situation facing the agricultural sector. (AP Photo/Harry Nakos)

Angry farmers clash with police near the European Union’s headquarters in a fresh show of force

By SYlvain Plazy and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Tractors face military vehicles on a blocked highway, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. Farmers have captured France's attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay bales. Protesters say it's becoming harder than ever to make a decent living from their fields, greenhouses and herds. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Traffic-blocking farmers now closing in on EU capital in a protest seeking better market conditions

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Pope Francis arrives in the Paul VI hall on the occasion of the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis says he wants to be buried in the Rome basilica, not in the Vatican

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Belgium's Romelu Lukaku, centre, celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal from a penalty kick during the Euro 2024 group F qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Sweden at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Soccer friendly between Belgium and Serbia switched from Brussels to Leuven after heavy rain

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A Belgian military diver is getting ready to dive under the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, during an international training exercise which prepares military divers to find and remove unexploded underwater ordnances. Hungary this year hosted the 10-day exercise for the second year in a row and provided the soldiers from Hungary, Germany, Belgium and Lithuania with hands-on training in a variety of environments, like facing the powerful current of the Danube River. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

Hungary hosts international training for military divers who salvage unexploded munitions

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

FILE - Belgian Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Brussels, on Oct. 17, 2023. Belgium's justice minister resigned on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 after it was discovered that Tunisia was seeking the extradition last year of an Islamic extremist who shot dead two Swedes and wounded a third this week in Brussels. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Belgian minister quits after ‘monumental error’ let Tunisian shooter slip through extradition net

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

German police officers stand guard in front of the building complex of the Kahal Adass Jisroel community, which houses a synagogue, a kindergarten and a community center, in the center of Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. European Union interior ministers met Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, to discuss how to manage the impact of the war between Israel and Hamas on the bloc, after a firebomb assault on a Berlin synagogue and killings in Belgium and France by suspected Islamist extremists. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

EU seeks answers to rising security challenges as Israel-Hamas war fuels new concerns

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Supporters lit their mobile phones lights after suspension of the Euro 2024 group F qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Sweden at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Two Swedes were killed in a shooting late Monday in central Brussels, police said, prompting Belgium's prime minister and senior Cabinet minister to hunker down at their crisis center for an emergency meeting. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

UEFA says result of Belgium-Sweden soccer qualifier will stand after Brussels shooting

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, left, and Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, right, lay a floral tribute and a Swedish soccer jersey on the pavement during a commemoration for the victims of a shooting in the center of Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Police in Belgium on Tuesday shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish soccer fans in a brazen attack on a Brussels street. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Deadly attack in Belgium ignites fierce debate on failures of deportation policy

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Belgian police stand behind a cordoned-off area close to where a suspected Tunisian extremist has been shot dead hours after a manhunt looking for him Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Police in Belgium have shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish soccer fans in a brazen attack on a Brussels street before disappearing into the night on Monday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Police shoot dead suspected extremist accused of killing 2 Swedish soccer fans on a Brussels street

By Lorne Cook, Sylvain Plazy and Raf Casert - Associated Press

Supporters are on the stands after suspension of the Euro 2024 group F qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Sweden at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. The match was abandoned at halftime after two Swedes were killed in a shooting in central Brussels before kickoff. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Soccer match between Belgium, Sweden suspended after gunman kills two Swedes in Brussels

By Samuel Petrequin and Steve Douglas - Associated Press

FILE -Passengers walk through a quiet Brussels Midi Station during a train strike on Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Belgium acknowledges that its major rail gateway has become a festering sore of drug abuse, poverty and violence. The Brussels Midi Station is a major stain on a nation preparing to take on the presidency of the European Union next year. (AP Photo/Thierry Monasse, File)

Brussels Midi Station, once a stately gateway to Belgium, has turned into festering sore of nation

By Raf Casert and Sylvain Plazy - Associated Press

FILE - Belgium's Yannick Carrasco, left, vies for the ball with Croatia's Josip Juranovic during the World Cup group F soccer match between Croatia and Belgium at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, on Dec. 1, 2022. Belgium midfielder Yannick Carrasco brushed off criticism of human rights Thursday following his transfer to Al-Shabab FC from Atletico Madrid. Carrasco, who trains this week with the Belgian squad ahead of a couple of European Championship qualifiers, asked the national team's staff to organize a press conference so he could explain the reasons behind his move. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Carrasco dismisses criticism of human rights in Saudi Arabia after transfer to Al Shabab

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Romelu Lukaku arrives in Rome, Tuesday Aug. 29, 2023. Romelu Lukaku has ended his standoff with Chelsea by flying into the Italian capital with the aim of joining Italian club Roma in a season-long loan deal that would see the Belgium striker look to revive his career in a third spell under coach Jose Mourinho. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)

Belgium coach counts on Lukaku to assume leadership in the absence of De Bruyne and Courtois

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Southampton's Romeo Lavia, left, and Arsenal's Martin Odegaard vie for the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Southampton at Emirates stadium in London, on April 21, 2023. Chelsea completed the signing of 19-year-old defensive midfielder Romeo Lavia from Southampton on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, after agreeing to a reported transfer fee of 58 million pounds ($74 million). (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Big-spending Chelsea signs midfielder Romeo Lavia on transfer from Southampton

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Lens' Lois Openda reacts after scoring during a French League One soccer match between Lens and Marseille at the Bollaert stadium in Lens, France, Saturday, May 6, 2023. Leipzig has signed Belgium forward Loïs Openda from French team Lens for the Bundesliga club’s record transfer. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

Leipzig signs Belgium forward Lois Openda from Lens in club-record transfer

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Belgium's goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois holds a trophy as he celebrates his 100th match during the Euro 2024 group F qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Austria at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Belgium keeper Thibaut Courtois ‘deeply disappointed’ by his coach’s comments in captaincy row

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press