The cause of death of two female visitors to the Tomorrowland dance festival last July in Boom, Belgium, is still drug-related. This is what the Antwerp prosecutor's office informs the VRT.
It was a bit of a shock for about twenty visitors to the Laundry Day music festival in Antwerp. Due to a technical defect they suddenly found themselves at a high altitude in a whirligig on the festival site.
The restart of two of the four reactors at the nuclear power plant in the Belgian Doel has been postponed. Instead of October, it will be December, operator Engie Electrabel reports.
The disaster phase applies due to a major fire in the port of Antwerp. The fire in the shed has been raging since Saturday morning, but the fire department does not get the fire under control. It involves 5000 tons of smoldering nickel sulphide.
Belgian customs have again done a large drug seizure in the port of Antwerp. In a control action, 1561 kilos of cocaine was intercepted, reports the Ministry of Finance. On Friday, 1727 kilos of cocaine had already been seized.
The two young women who died after a visit to the Belgian music festival Tomorrowland did not die from the effects of drug use. This is the conclusion of the prosecutor's office in Antwerp on the basis of the first findings. An investigation has now been opened into the exact circumstances of the deaths.
During the Tomorrowland music festival in Boom, Belgium, two young women were taken to hospital after drug use. A few days later they died of the consequences. The Flemish channel VRT reports this on Sunday evening. The women came from abroad and died in the University Hospital of Antwerp.
A 40-year-old woman was seriously injured in Antwerp after someone threw sulfuric acid over her.
Two swimming pools in the Belgian town of Ghent are not allowed to keep women out of burkini. The court decided on Friday. In case of a ban, the swimming pools would be guilty of discrimination.
During the search for a missing 'Famous Belgian', the adventurer Marc Sluszny, a diver has died. This confirms the rescue services to Het Nieuwsblad. The operation was so risky that even the Sluszny family was reluctant to ask for help- and now it turns out why.
The Iranian-Belgian couple who planned an attack in the French Villepinte last Saturday at a meeting of the opposition party MEK, which was banned in Iran. That has been determined by the court in Antwerp.
Residents of the Belgian Ghent can have their contraceptives such as condoms and the morning-after pill reimbursed by the municipality. Belgians who are financially short of cash can claim this.
A brown, stepped bottle, a white label with red letters: sounds like a bottle of Duvel, is not it? Not always: the Belgian beer brand Filou is also sold in a bottle that resembles that of Duvel as two drops of water. And so Duvel Moortgat went to court to enforce adjustments.
The man on his way to Paris to commit an attack works in the port of Rotterdam.
The Belgian justice and police have thwarted a terrorist attack in France according to Belgian media. They intercepted a couple of Iranian descent in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, which would have wanted to strike a meeting of an Iranian opposition party near Paris.
Because young people have thrown stones on the tracks from a bridge, train traffic between Brussels-North and Schaarbeek is temporarily interrupted on Tuesday evening. 'We do this for safety reasons,' says Thomas Baeken of Infrabel.
Have you planned barbecues, parties or an evening of World Cup matches in the near future? Then it could just be an alcohol-free version. The beer stock is seriously threatened by a shortage of CO2, writes CNN, and beer brewers sweat carrots for the coming weeks.
Belgian Customs has one of the largest drug seizures ever done in the port of Antwerp. In a container with calcium carbonate that was intended for a company in Kontich, more than 954 kilos of heroin was hidden. The party, which has a street value of 55 million euros, came from the port of Bandar Abbas in Iran.
Osteria Francescana in Italy has again been voted the world's best restaurant. The modern restaurant in Modena by chef Massimo Bottura was also the best in 2016, last year it had to be satisfied with the second place in the election of William Reed Business Media.
The Public Prosecution Service suspects a wholesaler of chemicals in Rotterdam from illegally exporting acetone to Syria. That confirms the OM. Acetone can be used as raw material in the production of chemical weapons.
The Belgian nuclear reactor Doel 4 near Antwerp, which has been stolen by a fault in the non-nuclear part of the plant since Saturday night, has been restarted. After completing a test program, the reactor was connected to the electricity grid close to the Dutch border on Monday afternoon. According to a spokeswoman for Engie Electrabel, the power is gradually increased and the reactor is running at full power again tonight.
Belgian customs found 56 kilos of cocaine in counterfeit pineapples in the port of Antwerp. The party has been confiscated. The drugs, with a market value of several millions, were hidden between real pineapples in fake copies, reports the Antwerp prosecutor.
The Belgian nuclear reactor Doel 4 was automatically closed due to a defect on Saturday evening. This means that the entire Doel nuclear power station, which is almost at the Dutch border to the north-west of Antwerp, has now failed.
At the appeal court in Antwerp, the appeal starts on Thursday in the large drug store in which former TV presenter Frank Masmeijer plays an alleged role. Masmeijer received eight years in prison and a fine of 48,000 euros for involvement in the import of 467 kilos of cocaine via the port of Antwerp. Against him seven years in prison had been demanded. The former NCRV television star has always denied his share and therefore appealed.
At a number of places in Belgium, a minute's silence was observed Wednesday at 1:00 pm out of respect for the two police officers and the student who were shot dead in Liège on Tuesday. Political forces, politicians, administrators and citizens in cities such as Antwerp, Brussels and of course Liege also commemorated the victims.
Two Belgian widows of killed IS fighters in Syria challenge the Belgian Minister of Justice to bring their underage children to Belgium. Child Focus, the foundation for missing and sexually exploited children, joins the summons, the Flemish TV channel VRT reports.
A mother of three children died after a horse's kick.
A monogamous relationship or multiple sex partners? Belgian students have a clear preference. Forget about the cliché of the licentious student: according to recent research, more than nine out of ten students of the University of Antwerp have a strong preference for monogamy, according to Het Nieuwsblad.
The 8-year-old Jules is no longer allowed to take lessons from the education inspectorate from a cardboard box.
The Belgian nuclear power station Doel 1 has been shut down this week due to a leak in the nuclear part. The reactor was switched off unexpectedly on Monday. This was necessary for maintenance work at the height of the cooling water, which was then still the explanation. Now operator Engie Electrabel has confirmed to TV East that it was a leak.
