Close to 100,000 protest Belgian plans to cut social services in strategy to reduce debt

13-2-2025 World Washington Times - World 24

Close to 100,000 protesters thronged the center of Brussels on Thursday while airports and public transport were largely paralyzed as trade unions took their ire to the streets over drastic plans of the new center-right government to revamp some of the foundations on which the nation's welfare state was built.

Read The Rest at : Washington Times - World

Top News

US transportation chief says all-female Blue Origin crew was ‘brave and glam’ — but not astronauts
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the all-female crew that flew to space this week may have been "brave and glam," but cannot identify as...
Crew expect record crowd for Messi in Cleveland
Columbus Crew is expecting a record crowd when it hosts Lionel Messi and Inter Miami, after moving the game to Cleveland.
FSU student recalls trauma of losing sister in Parkland massacre after latest shooting at his college
Manuel Oliver, whose 17-year-old son, Joaquin, was killed in Parkland, said: "I don’t understand how anyone could be surprised" by another school...
NYC mom, son found dead inside squalid Bronx apartment — where 4-year-old girl was ‘screaming’ inside for days: sources
A woman and her severely disabled 8-year-old son were found dead in their Bronx apartment Friday night after a relative went there to check on them...
Tren de Aragua gangbanger sobs to Florida cops after crew gets busted in $30K liquor store robbery run
"He's not such a big bad guy when he's locked up. Maybe he's having visions of El Salvador prisons at some point in time in this future."
Ducks fire coach Cronin after just two seasons
The Ducks have fired coach Greg Cronin after missing the NHL playoffs for a seventh straight season.