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The crystal phoenix: 200 years of Val Saint Lambert

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By Leo Cendrowicz Verified
| The Brussels Times Verified
It begins with what looks like an impossible trick. At the end of a long metal blowpipe hangs a glowing blob of molten crystal, orange at its core and almost liquid enough to drip onto the workshop floor. One young artisan twirls the pipe while another waits beside an open mould. They barely speak. A quick puff of breath. A precise twist of the wrists. Another visit to the furnace. Moments later, what had resembled a lump of lava has become the beginnings of an elegant vase.
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The Belgian company betting on Europe's drone future

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By Leo Cendrowicz Verified
| The Brussels Times Verified
For years, drones were widely regarded as useful accessories to modern warfare – valuable for reconnaissance, surveillance and the occasional precision strike, but still secondary to tanks, fighter jets and artillery. Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed that assumption. Today, swarms of relatively cheap drones routinely destroy multi-million-euro tanks, attack strategic bombers hundreds of kilometres behind enemy lines and force armies to rethink decades of military doctrine.
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Why Cambodia built a statue to a Belgian-trained rat

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By Leo Cendrowicz Verified
| The Brussels Times Verified
Standing 2.2 metres tall in the Cambodian city of Siem Reap, the newly unveiled statue of Magawa is perhaps the most unusual war memorial in the world. It honours not a general, soldier or politician, but an African giant pouched rat that spent five years locating hidden explosives in Cambodia's minefields. During his career, Magawa detected more than 100 landmines and unexploded ordnance, helping return vast swathes of contaminated land to farmers and families.
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