LIEGE, Belgium: Government leaders and royalty will gather in the Belgian city of Liege on Monday to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, a small Balkans conflict that went global with the German invasion of neutral Belgium in August 1914.

Liege, a gritty industrial hub in the east of the country built on coal mining and steel, was the Germans' first obstacle.

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