BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Antwerp is regaining its glitz as Belgium eases a two-month nationwide coronavirus lockdown that virtually halted business in the world's largest diamond trade centre. The return ...

With its flat-fronted 1960s buildings and plain color scheme, Hoveniersstraat might be dismissed as one of the most drab streets in the pretty baroque Belgian city of Antwerp. In fact, it's one of the ...

STORY: Antwerp, Belgium – one of the largest diamond trading hubs in the world – has a Russia problem. It was only a few weeks after Russian troops invaded Ukraine last year when diamond firms in ...

My 24-year-old son Gabriel lives 5,663 away in Brussels, Belgium; 5662 miles too far for a Jewish mother. Fortunately, I visited him this summer. Sadly Rabbi Zevi and Sara Ives, who Gabriel goes to ...

BRUSSELS, April 12 (Reuters) - Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) Chief Executive Ari Epstein resigned unexpectedly on Thursday, the AWDC's board of directors said in a statement. A spokesperson for ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — When the armored car set off for the Brussels airport carrying $50 million worth of precious stones from Antwerp’s diamond district, eight gunmen knew all about it. One of the biggest ...

In the hours after the Louvre heist, Belgian police received an alert from their French counterparts, urging them to be on the lookout for anyone trying to hawk the stolen jewels, according to two ...

LONDON/BRUSSELS, March 14 (Reuters) - Antwerp's diamond dealers are facing long and expensive delays in their imports of the precious stones due to an EU ban on Russian-origin diamonds that came into ...

ANTWERP, Belgium -- A diamond is forever. Too bad that the market for it isn't. Prices of the precious gems have dropped like a rock in recent months as the worldwide economic downturn strikes fear in ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is welcomed by Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo prior to a meeting at the prime ministers office in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (Yves ...

BRUSSELS - Unlike the brilliant thieves in "Ocean's Eleven," it appears that those behind the clockwork-precision, $50 million diamond heist at Brussels Airport may not get a Hollywood ending. After ...