Belgian airports cancelled almost all flights on Wednesday due to a national strike over pay and working conditions that halted activity at ports, hit public transport and led to blockades outside factories.

Tarik Jadaoun -- known by his nom de guerre Abu Hamza al-Beljiki -- earlier pleaded not guilty to a range of terror, insisting he had "got lost" and pleading for mercy.

A machete-wielding man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is the greatest) wounded two policewomen in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi on Saturday ...

Twelve people suspected of planning new attacks were arrested across Belgium overnight after police carried out about 40 house searches in the country, the federal prosecutor's office said ...

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The sole suspect charged over last week's Brussels attacks was released on Monday following a lack of evidence linking him to the carnage, Belgian prosecutors said.

One person was wounded and detained in a major police operation in the northern Brussels borough of Schaerbeek on Friday, Belgian public broadcaster RTBF quoted the local mayor as saying.

Belgian police were hunting for a "third man" filmed with two Islamic State suicide bombers at Brussels Airport as investigators accumulated evidence that the same jihadist network was involved in the Paris attacks.

Belgian prosecutors said they had established the real identity of an accomplice in last year's Paris attacks as 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui, until now known by the false name of Soufiane Kayal.

Belgian investigators believe explosives used in the attacks in Paris in November may have been made in an apartment in Brussels that was rented under a false name and where a fingerprint of a key fugitive was found.