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Concerns are being voiced in Belgium that an Iranian diplomat serving a 20-year sentence for plotting a bomb attack outside Paris could be repatriated in a possible prisoner swap. An opposition MP and lawyers for a dissident Iranian group said…
A French court on Friday jailed a man for 20 years over dozens of rapes and sexual assaults he committed over a 30-year period along the border with Belgium. Dubbed the “Rapist of the Sambre” for the river running through…
Swiss firm Barry Callebaut said on Friday no salmonella-contaminated chocolate had been shipped to clients, a day after acknowledging it had halted production at the world’s largest chocolate factory, in Belgium. “Based on internal investigation, Barry Callebaut confirms that no…
Swiss firm Barry Callebaut said Friday that no chocolate contaminated with salmonella was shipped to clients, a day after halting production at the world’s largest chocolate factory in Belgium. “Based on internal investigation, Barry Callebaut confirms that no chocolate products…
Production has been halted in the world’s biggest chocolate plant, run by Swiss giant Barry Callebaut in the Belgian town of Wieze, after salmonella contaminations were found, the firm said Thursday. A company spokesman told AFP that production had been…
A Belgian court imposed a three-year suspended sentence Thursday on Abid Aberkane, convicted of assisting the sole surviving jihadist behind the November 2015 Paris attacks by housing him in Brussels. The ruling came a day after a French court sentenced…
Thirteen members of a Dutch gang that blew up bank machines in Germany have been arrested by police in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, Europol said Wednesday. The arrests took place between March and June in four Dutch towns including…
Belgian police raided an illegal lab producing the rave drug ecstasy on an air base that reputedly houses part of the US nuclear arsenal in Europe, investigators said Tuesday. Two suspects — not military personnel — were arrested during the…
Slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba’s only surviving remains, a single tooth, arrived in Kinshasa on Monday where it is due to be laid to rest later this week. The nationalist politician became an anti-colonial icon when he delivered a…