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BrusselsUpdated 3 September 2026
Brussels restaurant Flamme closes temporarily after kitchen fire
Restaurant Flamme in Saint-Gilles has announced a temporary closure following an August fire in its kitchen extraction system, La Libre reported on Thursday.
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Can Brussels’ new drugs commissioner turn coordination into results?
Brussels’ recruitment of a regional security and drugs commissioner entered its final phase on 3 September, with 11 candidates still reported to be in contention and an…
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Can Bouchez withhold €131 million from Brussels social housing over the Mostefa affair?
MR president Georges-Louis Bouchez said on 3 September that his party is blocking €131 million for Brussels’ regional housing agency until Lotfi Mostefa leaves the chairmanship of…
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ACV Puls has filed a strike notice at Brussels Airlines over compulsory crew assignments to Tel Aviv, but no strike date has been announced and the union says any action will be…
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Stray bullet enters sleeping woman’s bedroom during third Brussels shooting of the weekend
A bullet entered a sleeping woman’s first-floor bedroom near Porte de Hal in Saint-Gilles on Sunday morning, 23 August, without injuring her, according to reporting by Het…
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Federal–Brussels talks have ended without an agreement to halt the planned removal of 1,000 reception places, two days after aid organisations and trade unions mobilised in…
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