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A 40-year-old woman from Dongen, Brabant, was sentenced to 1.5 years in Belgium for stealing copper drain pipes from eighteen churches in Belgian Limburg. The court in Tongeren...

The council chamber in Flemish Turnhout has confirmed the arrest of a 38-year-old Dutchman on Friday. He is suspected- together with two other Dutchmen- of involvement in the...

A Belgian couple has rented out their home to people who have made a shed of it in a year.

The condemned meat merchant Willy Selten, who sold horsemeat beef on a large scale, was raided in his home in Dessel in Belgium last weekend. Selten (48) and his wife were mistreated. The armed robbers took off with money and a Mercedes.

Belgium wants guarantees from the Netherlands that the agreements on gas supply are fulfilled now that the extraction is reduced. Minister Eric Wiebes of Economic Affairs had this week the Belgian Minister of Energy Marie-Christine Marghem on the line.

A Belgian former prison director must himself behind bars because he has sexually abused detainees in exchange for a more favorable regime. The court in Turnhout deems the now retired Jef B. guilty of sexual assault in the prison of Wortel. He receives a prison sentence of four years, two of which are conditional.

In a prison in the Belgian town of Turnhout, detainees have been revolted Sunday night. They did not want to go back to their cell because they did not agree with new rules from the management. After long consultation, the uprising was resolved without violence and all prisoners returned.

The 26-year-old Sophie H. from the Belgian Westerlo was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday because of the murder of her newborn baby. The baby died from asphyxiation because she lay down with her head down in the toilet bowl.

78 jobs will be lost at the Philips Lighting factory in Turnhout.

The Belgian police Tuesday conducting a large-scale action against the motorcycle gang No Surrender an investigation into arms trafficking. Agents searched clubhouses and dozens of other places in both Flanders and Wallonia.

A call in television Detection Verzocht Tuesday police have not made much wiser about the disappearance of the Belgian kickboxer Marc de Bonte. The police had so far nine rebounds, but concrete evidence about the fate of the 26-year-old man sitting is not there, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The 26 year old Belgian kickboxer Marc de Bonte been missing since Friday. reporting the Dutch and Belgian police that he was last seen in the Belgian town of Turnhout.

Dirk Hermans comes with a fright: the BMW X3 that made parking Belgians 'Valet' at Schiphol Airport, which was then miraculously stolen, after months of wrangling yet reimbursed by the company Central Parking. The parking company on Tuesday night under threat of a lawsuit reached a settlement with him.