Warning that disaster prevention must be improved, Germany and Belgium on Thursday commemorated the deadly floods that hit a year ago with high-profile memorials to pay tribute to the more than ...

In Belgium, the Royal Meteorological Institute (KMI) issued an amber warning in the Limburg and Liège Provinces while the rest of the country remains under a code yellow.

In Belgium, the province of Liege was hit by severe flooding, with authorities receiving hundreds of requests for assistance and 150 firefighters deployed, governor Herve Jamar said.