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Belgium to extend shop opening hours
Baltic News Network
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July 18, 2025
The Belgian government has decided to relax rules on shop opening hours, allowing businesses to work longer in the evenings and scrapping one mandatory day off per week, writes Politico. Supermarkets in Belgium will now be allowed to stay open an...
Tomorrowland music festival opens with new stage after blaze
RTL Today
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July 18, 2025
Belgium's Tomorrowland, one of the world's largest electronic music festivals, opened its doors as planned on Friday, after the event was thrown into doubt by a fire that destroyed its main stage. Organisers said an "alternative setup" was put in...
Tomorrowland music festival opens after its main stage was destroyed by a huge fire
Brandon Sun
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July 18, 2025
BOOM, Belgium (AP) — Fans roared in excitement and organizers sighed with relief as the Tomorrowland music festival kicked off Friday — just two days after a massive fire engulfed the main stage and threw one of Europe’s biggest summer concert...
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The Porterville Recorder - California
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Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' is canceled by CBS and will end in May 2026 CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May, shuttering a decades-old TV institution and removing from air one of President Donald Trump's most prominent...
UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 Quarter-Final Live Streaming, Spain vs Switzerland: How to Watch Free Live Telecast of ESP-W vs SUI-W on TV and Online Stream Details of Football Match in India
Latestly
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July 18, 2025
Spain Women's National Football Team vs Switzerland Women's National Football Team UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Live Streaming: World champions Spain will be facing Switzerland in the third quarter-finals of the UEFA Women’s Euro Cup 2025 this evening....
‘Smurfs’ is one of the worst movies of the year — I Smurf-ing hated it!
New York Post
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July 17, 2025
movie review SMURFS Zero stars. Running time: 92 minutes. Rated PG (action, language, some rude humor). In theaters. It’s Hanna-Barbaric. I have just endured a film in which an army of little creatures cruelly tortures humans. No, not “Gremlins.”...
Belgian king, in shadow of colonial past, to visit DR Congo
The Standard
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Historians say that millions of people in the Belgian Congo were killed, mutilated or died of disease as they worked on rubber plantations belonging to Leopold II, Belgium's monarch from 1865-1909 and the brother of Philippe's great great...
Wisconsin cinema brewery wins big at U.S. Open Beer Championship
WISC Channel 3000 - Wisconsin
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MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin cinema brewery earned two medals at the 2025 U.S. Open Beer Championship, as announced in a press release. Flix Brewhouse Madison, located on 85 East Towne Way, took home a gold medal for its Tangerine Saison in the...
'He didn't break, but you expect a little bit more' - Remco Evenepoel's Tour de France bid takes a hit on stage 12 to Hautacam but Belgian salvages podium hopes
Cyclingnews
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July 17, 2025
The chances of Remco Evenepoel bettering his third place in the Tour de France last year suffered a major hit after the Soudal-Quickstep rider lost contact with his rivals as Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) attacked to leave Jonas Vingegaard...
Five things we learned as England reach Euro 2025 semi-finals in dramatic fashion
Thurrock Gazette
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A double salvo from Lucy Bronze and Michelle Agyemang late on put England back in the game at 2-2 before they triumphed 3-2 on penalties after a scoreless extra-time. Here are five things we learned from the tense encounter… Italy next up… Believe...
Pogacar wins in commanding fashion on summit finish to regain Tour lead
BBC
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July 17, 2025
It was on this climb that Vingegaard struck the decisive blow on the 2022 Tour, taking a minute out of Pogacar as the Dane won stage 18 en route to clinching his first Tour title. "I was trying with my head through the wall to get back the yellow...
Belgian Fire under control, evacuations lifted
Kitsap Sun - Washington State
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Brinnon residents were cleared to return home late Tuesday night after a residential fire started to rapidly spread earlier that afternoon. Teams from Kitsap and Mason counties joined the Brinnon Fire Department Tuesday afternoon to keep the...
In Belgium, a mother fears for her children under Israel’s bombs in Gaza
Al Jazeera
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Every nook and corner of Rawan Alkatari’s home in Aalst, a city in Belgium, is filled with pictures that remind her of her family in Gaza. “People who come to visit my home say it is beautiful. But I’ll see it as beautiful when it is filled with...
A parent's guide to Rihanna's new 'Smurfs' movie
Oak Ridger - Tennessee
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Don't stop the Smurfin' music. Those little blue folks that first appeared in Belgian cartoonist Peyo’s 1950s comics – and became a 1980s pop-culture staple – have returned to the big screen with the hybrid animated/live-action adventure “Smurfs”...
Determined to dance: Shock and sadness as Tomorrowland music festival opens after fire
RTL Today
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July 17, 2025
Shocked, sad but determined to dance, tens of thousands of electronic music enthusiasts started to arrive at Tomorrowland in Belgium Thursday, a day after the festival's main stage went up in flames. Organisers said the event, which was expected...
Shock and sadness as Tomorrowland opens in Belgium after main stage destroyed by fire
Channel News Asia
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July 17, 2025
FANS ARRIVE TO KEEP SPIRIT ALIVE Despite the fire, around 40,000 people were expected to stay at the festival’s DreamVille campsite on Thursday night. "It was so sad, we almost cried, it was horrible," said Marie, a festival-goer arriving with her...
Tomorrowland Music Festival Main Stage Catches Fire Just Two Days Before Opening
Breitbart
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July 17, 2025
The Tomorrowland electronic dance music festival in Boom, Belgium, suffered a setback this week when its main stage caught fire just two days before the opening act. The music festival announced on Wednesday that it will be “focused on finding...
Main stage of Tomorrowland festival in Belgium destroyed by fire
AKIpress News Agency
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July 17, 2025
AKIPRESS.COM - A massive fire has completely destroyed the main stage at Tomorrowland festival in Boom city of Belgium before its opening on July 18. Up to 100,000 guests are expected at the event, which, according to reports, will still take...
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Massive fire destroys Tomorrowland music festival main stage days before opening
1310 KFKA - Colorado
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July 17, 2025
Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images (BOOM, BELGIUM) — A massive fire severely damaged the main stage at Belgium’s Tomorrowland, one of the world’s largest electronic dance music festivals, just days before its scheduled opening. The blaze...
Tomorrowland music festival stage destroyed by fire
Azzet
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July 17, 2025
The main stage at Belgium’s Tomorrowland music festival was destroyed by fire two days before the electronic music event’s first weekend was set to begin. Tomorrowland will still go ahead as planned, organisers said. The festival had estimated...