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The torso of a Chinese woman was found in an apartment complex in Antwerp, Belgium, with investigators believing she may have been linked to a prostitution network.

European investigators have shut down an encrypted communication service that was used as a secure channel for organized crime, they say.

Turkey for a second day on Friday railed against a group of Western countries that temporarily shut their consulates in Istanbul.

A socialist MP working within the EU is suspected to have taken over $100,000 in bribes over the past two years, a report from the bloc’s parliament has claimed.

A Belgian couple who offered to provide their home to refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine say they were left with €36,000 ($39k) in damages. 

An ex-Socialist MEP has admitted to being involved in a bribery scandal plaguing the European Parliament, with the official now promising to share “revealing” details with authorities regarding criminality within Brussels.

Iran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to a lengthy prison term and 74 lashes after convicting him of espionage.

Qatar obliquely threatened to cut the EU from its supply of natural gas amid claims that the Islamist nation bribed officials in Brussels.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán says the massive corruption scandal in the European Union should be used as an opportunity to “drain the swamp” in Brussels.

No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), a pro-human rights and democracy organization, and Fight Impunity, which seeks to bring rights abusers to book, share the same address, on prime real estate in the governmental quarter of the Belgian capital.

The UK has one of the smallest reserves of gas yet is shipping the resource abroad at levels not seen for years as a cold snap arrives. 

Six years after deadliest peacetime attack on Belgian soil, trial of 10 men over suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Jaana Mettala was six months pregnant and on her way to work when the bomb exploded in the heart of Brussels’ European Union quarter. She suffered severe burns, but Mettala and her baby survived – 32 other people did not.

“Hatred of the West” largely inspired rioting Moroccans who flipped cars and set fire to property in Brussels after a World Cup game last Sunday, an expert has claimed.

Law enforcement authorities in six different countries have joined forces to take down a “super cartel” of drugs traffickers.

Supporters of the Morocco football team rioted in Brussels on Sunday to celebrate their victory over their host country, Belgium.

Amid record seizures, authorities in Belgium are now reportedly struggling to get rid of what has been described as a “mountain” of cocaine.

England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland have backed down on wearing LGBT armbands at the Qatar World Cup.

The extensive library of the main suspect in an alleged terrorist attack that left one police officer dead is being analysed by specialists.

A suspected terrorist has stabbed one policeman to death and shot another in the chest with the slain officer’s service weapon, in Brussels, the national capital of Belgium and the principal capital of the European Union. 

A Flemish woman who was present at the Brussels National Airport in 2016 during a radical Islamic terror attack has been euthanised at the age of 23 due to psychological trauma and suffering.

Anti-terror raids targeting a group of suspected far-right extremists left one dead in Belgium after police exchanged gunfire with a man.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgium’s justice minister remained under protection Monday after four people suspected of taking part in a plot by alleged drugs criminals to kidnap him were arrested in the Netherlands.

The Flemish Catholic bishops have published a guide for the accompaniment of homosexual persons including a blessing for gay couples, in apparent defiance of a Vatican directive to the contrary.

Police in Italy and Belgium have arrested five alleged people-smugglers who are accused of using private jets to help ferry illegal aliens from Turkey to Europe for as much as €10,000 (£8,770/$9,983) per passenger.

The Belgian government has created a new asylum centre to facilitate the deportation of fake refugees who have already applied for asylum in another European country.

Farmers Belgium tried to break into Hoogstraten town hall during a protest against the government’s EU-driven push to cut nitrogen emissions.

The European Union now faces up to ten years of “terrible” winters of energy insecurity as a result of its green agenda, with many nations in the bloc having gotten themselves addicted to Russian gas in service of climate crazy ideals.

Former professional Belgian footballer Frédéric Dupré has spoken out after his daughter was one of the victims of alleged sexual assaults by a pair of migrants at a swimming pool in Ghent.

Police officers were called in to deal with a mass brawl between Syrian nationals in the Brussels district of Molenbeek on Friday.

The Spanish Civil Guard rescued a minor girl from a radical Islamic extremist after the girl disappeared earlier this month. 

The European Union tsar in charge of the bloc’s 2050 net zero push has called to implement a national commemoration day for those allegedly killed by the “climate crisis”.

Police in five European countries took part in an operation on Tuesday aimed at dismantling a large migrant smuggling network that organised crossings of at least 10,000 migrants across the English Channel, arresting dozens of people.

Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) slammed the Belgian government’s plans to return terrorists who planned a major attack in France in 2018 to Iran “to plot more terroristic acts” in a “shameful” deal with “the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.” He further warned it would make Europe and the Americas “ripe for more terrorism” at the hands of the Islamic Republic.

A laboratory manufacturing the illegal narcotic ecstasy (MDMA) was discovered on a Belgian NATO base that houses nuclear weapons, with two people arrested in the case, according to prosecutors.

Salmonella has been detected in the world’s largest chocolate factory run by Barry Callebaut in Belgium, but the majority of the products affected remained on site.