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Half of Belgium sees US as a rival, survey reveals

According to a recent poll, over 50 percent of Belgians view the US as an adversary. Meanwhile, only 40% to 44% perceive China as a rival. A new survey commissioned by Belgian broadcasters VRT and RTBF and newspaper De Standaard suggests that trust in the United States has fallen sharply among the Belgian public.

Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser

This entire codebase — Rust parsers, TypeScript renderers, tests, and tooling — was implemented by Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant) through iterative prompting. No human-written application code exists in this repository. A browser-based viewer for Office Open XML documents that renders to an HTML Canvas element.

Students clash with police in Brussels over education budget cuts

BRUSSELS — A student protest in Brussels turned violent on Thursday as demonstrators clashed with police in the city center over a controversial education reform. Teachers had been protesting education budget cuts in Belgium’s French-speaking regions since the beginning of the week, with students joining the demonstrations Thursday morning. Videos and photos published on social media showed protesters setting e-scooters on fire and smashing the windows of shops and bus stops near...

All flights to and from Brussels, Charleroi airports cancelled due to surprise strike

BRUSSELS — All departures and arrivals to and from Brussels and Charleroi airports have been cancelled this afternoon due to an unannounced strike by Belgian air traffic controllers. The so-called wildcat strike at national air traffic control provider Skeyes, started at 2 p.m., both airports confirmed. Zaventem’s Brussels Airport advised departing passengers not to travel to the airport for flights scheduled between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., all of which have been cancelled.

Several killed as train and school bus collide in Belgium, local media report