Hamburg SV midfielder Tatsuya Ito signs transfer agreement with Sint-Truiden
Belgian first-division side Sint-Truiden announced Thursday it has signed a full transfer agreement with midfielder Tatsuya Ito. The 22-year-old, who joined Hamburg SV on a youth contract in July 2015, will join compatriots Daniel Schmidt and Yuma Suzuki at the Japanese-owned club. In December 2017, Hamburg ...
Belgian cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht dies after crash in Tour of Poland
Belgian cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht has died after crashing in the Tour of Poland. He was 22. His team Lotto Soudal announced Monday that Lambrecht had fallen during the third stage of the event and that he was taken to hospital, where he died. The team ...
Sint-Truiden's Daniel Schmidt allows six goals in debut with team
Japan goalkeeper Daniel Schmidt conceded six goals in his first appearance for Sint-Truiden on Friday, as the Belgian top-division club lost 6-0 away to Club Brugge. Schmidt, who transferred from J. League first-division team Vegalta Sendai last month, said he felt like he was taking ...
Belgian woman survives heat wave ordeal trapped in flipped car
A Belgian woman who spent six days trapped in her overturned car without food during one of the country's hottest periods on record says thoughts of her children helped her to focus on staying alive. Corine Bastide ran off the road and into the woods ...
Cannonball highlights how close Napoleon came to victory at Waterloo
A cannonball discovered this week by archaeologists provides a further indication of how close Napoleon Bonaparte came to winning the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The 3 kg (6-pound), rusty cannonball was found on Monday near the site of a field hospital about 600 meters ...
Police in Belgium nab man suspected of planning attack on U.S. Embassy in Brussels
Belgian counterterrorism police have arrested a man suspected of plotting an attack against the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, federal prosecutors said Monday. The police Saturday arrested the man following "converging signs raising fears of an attack against the U.S. Embassy," the prosecutor's office said. "The suspect ...
Belgium says it will work toward giving visas to once-missing Uighur family in China
Belgium says it is working toward providing visas to a Uighur family that went missing after being escorted out of its embassy in Beijing last week under murky circumstances. The woman and her four children disappeared for weeks, alarming her husband, before reportedly being located ...
Belgium seeks Uighur family in Xinjiang after police took them from its Beijing embassy
A Belgian diplomat was expected to travel to China's restive Xinjiang region on Tuesday to confirm the whereabouts of a Uighur family that was escorted from Belgium's embassy in Beijing by police last month. The disappearance of the woman and her four children has alarmed ...
Japan sweeps Belgium; Saki Hayashi named series MVP
Japan's women's basketball team concluded a two-game exhibition series sweep of Belgium with a 84-71 win at Adastria Mito Arena on Sunday. Newcomer Saki Hayashi was the heroine for the second consecutive game as she knocked down five 3-pointers for the Akatsuki Five. "I had a ...
Strong outside shooting carries Japan past Belgium
Japan kept hitting shots from beyond the 3-point line and tamed Belgium 91-75 in the first game of their two-game exhibition series at Adastria Mito Arena on Friday night. Newcomer Saki Hayashi knocked down five 3-pointers in a 19-point performance to lead the Akatsuki Five. ...
Portrait book years in the making explores identity from eyes of mixed-race Japanese
Japanese-Belgian photographer Tetsuro Miyazaki's ongoing project Hāfu2Hāfu, which documents the portraits and thoughts on identity of Japanese mixed-race individuals, is being released after years in the making. Individuals with mixed roots are colloquially referred to in Japanese as hāfu, the Japanese pronunciation of the word ...
Two Belgian women, renouncing Islamic State, fear they will never go home with their six kids
Two Belgian women who joined Islamic State in Syria said on Sunday they were losing hope they will ever go home after a Belgian court overturned a ruling to repatriate them with their six children. Tatiana Wielandt and Bouchra Abouallal, each 26, said that as ...
