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A 21-year-old man has been ordered to pay €380,000 in damages for making a series of hoax bomb alerts in Brussels, Charleroi, Mons and Liège.
Three-hundred people were evacuated from a conference at the National Bank of Belgium after ticking alarm clocks hidden underneath their seats started to ring at the same time.
Two trade unions representing security staff at Brussels Airport have demanded an urgent meeting with ministers to discuss "known security issues" at the Zaventem base.
Belgium is lacking 3,700 police officers, with big cities the worst affected by police under-staffing, the interior ministry has revealed in response to a parliamentary question.
Belgian police are braced for an exceptionally busy few days - with the arrival of world leaders for a Nato summit in Brussels coinciding with Belgium's World Cup semi-final against France.
Travel company Tui is maintaining flights to Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, despite Brussels Airlines and Thomas Cook cancelling services due to security concerns.
A man wearing a fake explosive belt made of bags of biscuit crumbs, who prompted a terror scare on Brussels' Rue Neuve, has been jailed for a year.
Belgium is in the final stages to conclude an agreement with the United States to allow US Customs and Border Protection to check all passengers in Brussels Airport with a direct flig
Only 260 of the 589 municipalities in Belgium have so far joined the Be-Alert platform, which allows for the sending of messages to the public in case of emergency, writes Le Soir
