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Thirty-five people from Afghanistan, including a man who later died, were discovered in a container at Tilbury Docks in the UK on Saturday.
The federal anti-terrorism agency OCAD has joined in an investigation of an oil leak at the nuclear power reactor Doel 4 in Beveren, East Flanders.
A 34-year-old Brussels woman was kidnapped 30 years ago from Guatemala and sold by her kidnapper to a Belgian couple for adoption, local police said.
Belgium and the Netherlands have for the first time agreed to exchange DNA data, leading to a possible breakthrough in hundreds of cases.
Mehdi Nemmouche, the French national accused of the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May, in which four people died, has been handed over to Belgian custody by French authorities.
Mehdi Nemmouche, the man accused of shooting four people in the Jewish Museum in Brussels, will be extradited from France to Belgium, according to a ruling by the French Court of Cassation.
Jean-Marie Tinck, the man arrested in May on suspicion of being a member of the notorious Brabant Killers gang, has been released from prison but remains under suspicion, his lawyer said.
Three police officers have been suspended from duty accused of assaulting a man who was handcuffed and lying on a trolley in the Saint-Pierre hospital in central Brussels (photo).
The bishop of Bruges has expressed shock at news that a church deacon in Wevelgem has been arrested for murder.
