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Vibe: The restaurant is a cozy wooden cabin; warm and welcoming. It’s a relaxed place that works well for families, dates or groups of friends. The setting is adaptable to every occasion, whether you’re heading out to spend a lazy afternoon, or planning for a romantic dinner. Who’s picking up the check? Although it’s viewed as one of the city’s most iconic and upscale spots, the prices are surprisingly reasonable by Brussels standards. The entrées range between €14 and €22 while the main dishes cost from €22 to €32. Insider tip: Planning a dinner visit? Arrive a little early to…

At least three civilians have been injured following Russian drone attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. The attack started fires and caused extensive damage to local infrastructure with a church and pharmacy among the damaged buildings, regional authorities reported. Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 97 drones early Tuesday morning, of which 57 were shot down.The drone attack against Odesa was followed by the shelling of the port city of Kherson on Wednesday morning. The strike resulted in one fatality and at least three injuries, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Services. Last week, the Russian military received international condemnation…

Updated: 16/04/2025 – 15:05 GMT+2The children said they practiced every day during their spring break from school and many visitors to the event applauded their compelling performance. … More Kabuki theatre performances by children have been featured at the Nagahama Hikiyama Festival in western Japan.The festival is registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.Children’s Kabuki is the highlight of the festival in Nagahama City and is performed on stages built on elaborately decorated floats called hikiyama.The children said they practiced every day during their spring break from school and many visitors to the event applauded their compelling performance.

On Monday, the European Commission’s tech chief Henna Virkkunen visited ASML’s headquarters in the Netherlands. The EU executive is gearing up for a second major chipmaking support plan, which will focus on chips powerful enough to train artificial intelligence models. “Advanced microchips are the essential building blocks of AI systems,” Virkkunen said Monday. AI is currently “the driver of the market,” ASML’s Fouquet said Wednesday. Orders for ASML’s machines came in below analysts’ expectations. ASML’s share price was down roughly 5 percent in response to the disappointing results. ASML executives broke down several ways in which tariffs could impact the…

Another 2,649 people, 27 percent of the total, were staying in nonconventional housing, including nonapproved accommodation structures, temporary accommodations or squats. 1,539 people, 16 percent of the total, were staying with third parties. According to Bruss’Help, “the scale of the problem exceeds all individual initiatives,” and it hopes that the current report will help policymakers develop “more effective, structural and humane public policy measures.” The Bruss’Help study, which is carried out every two years with the help of volunteers, tracks various forms of homelessness across the region. A more detailed, qualitative analysis is expected in June.

The United Kingdom Supreme Court has ruled the definition of a woman under the country’s equalities law refers to someone born biologically female. This definition would reject the Scottish government’s argument that the definition should include transgender women. Five judges at the court ruled unanimously, according to Justice Patrick Hodge.This means that a transgender person with a certificate recognising them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes. The court did emphasise that the ruling “does not remove protection from trans people,” who are “protected from discrimination on the ground of gender reassignment.”The case stems from a…

The long-running legal challenge was brought by the For Women Scotland campaign group — who argue sex is biological, binary and can’t be changed — against the Scottish government. The case dates back to 2018 when the Scottish administration, led by then-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, passed legislation to establish gender quotas to get more women serving on public boards. It was eventually amended to count trans women with gender recognition certificates, confirming their female gender, as women for the purposes of the legislation. Scottish courts ruled, and then upheld in the Scottish government’s favor, that sex is “not limited to…

Updated: 16/04/2025 – 11:37 GMT+2A Russian drone strike injured three in Odesa, damaging civilian infrastructure. Over the past day, Russia conducted 109 airstrikes on Ukrainian positions and settlements. … More Three people were injured overnight as a result of a Russian drone strike in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa.The attack took place late at night and caused damage and a fire at a civilian infrastructure, local authorities reported.Ukraine’s General Staff reported that during the past 24 hours, Russia carried out 109 airstrikes on Ukrainian military positions and settlements, dropping 177 guided air bombs and deploying more than 2,000…

Van Peteghem’s remarks come on the heels of a government agreement last week to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense and finally reach NATO’s decade-old current target. Belgium will seek to activate the national escape clause — a mechanism authorized by the European Commission to loosen fiscal rules — and benefit from some of the €150 billion in loans offered by the EU’s executive branch, he said. Amid Russia’s all-out war on Ukraine and increasing belligerence, NATO leaders are widely expected to raise the defense spending target to more than 3 percent of GDP during a June summit in…

But the American penalties against him were “inconsistent with U.S. foreign policy interests,” Rubio’s spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday, adding that the secretary of state had spoken with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó to inform him the measures had been dropped. The two top diplomats also spoke about “ways to strengthen U.S.-Hungary alignment on critical issues and opportunities for economic cooperation,” according to a readout of their call. Orbán, from the hard-right Fidesz party, was the first European leader to endorse Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and is a vocal ally of the Republican. Trump, in turn, hosted the Hungarian…