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Investigators in three countries continued unraveling the plot behind a brazen $50 million diamond robbery in Belgium in February.

A pair of adult identical twins in Belgium have been legally killed at their request, the men's doctor told journalists.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody in connection with an investigation into an alleged prostitution ring operating in France and Belgium.

Fitch downgraded the sovereign credit ratings of Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Slovenia and Spain on Friday, indicating there was a 1-in-2 chance of further cuts in the next two years.

Moody's on Friday cut Belgium's credit rating by two notches, saying the euro zone debt crisis increases funding risks for countries with high public debt burdens.

Several European countries that banned short-selling have extended the prohibition until the end of September. When concerns about European banks’ exposure to Greek debt sent their stocks plummeting two weeks ago, market regulators in Belgium, France, Greece, Italy and Spain stepped in to prohibit traders from betting on the decline in a share’s price.

A storm swept through an open air music festival in eastern Belgium on Thursday killing at least three people and injuring more than 70 others, an official said.

Belgian media says the country's ultraconservative Roman Catholic archbishop was hit by a pie in the face during an All Saints Day service.

A lone gunman killed a magistrate and a clerk in a Brussels courthouse Thursday, then fled on foot, setting off a manhunt in the center of the Belgian capital.

Belgium's longest serving bishop resigned Friday, saying he was "enormously sorry" for having sexually abused a young boy about ...