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More than 200 dancers were performing their version of "Do Re Mi", in the Central Station of Antwerp. with just 2 rehearsals they created this amazing stunt!

Note: The following news brief is a quote: - In cooperation with various other countries, Dutch authorities have rounded up a big cocaine gang that had links with Hezbollah. Seventeen suspects were arrested on Curacao, the biggest island of the Netherlands Antilles, the Public Prosecutor's Office (OM) has revealed. International cooperation between police and judicial services of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles, Belgium, Colombia, Venezuela and the US led to the arrest of the 17 suspects by the Curacao police. They are believed to be part of a drugs and money-laundering organisation with international branches, thought to be responsible...

The following news brief is a quote: http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/news/awi/newsbriefs/general/2009/04/26/newsbrief-02 Algerian, Moroccan stowaways arrested in Canada 26/04/2009 Authorities in the Canadian port of Halifax found five Moroccan and two Algerian illegal immigrants hiding on a Swedish cargo ship arriving from Antwerp, Belgium, Echorouk reported on Saturday (April 25th). The stowaways, all young men in their twenties, were taken into custody on Thursday night. Border officials are conducting interviews to determine whether to deport them or allow them to begin a refugee claim process, Canadian press reported.

Tension in Gaza leads to extra measures in Belgium The Jewish community in Belgium is receiving extra protection. The Jewish community in Belgium is receiving extra protection due to the escalating tension which is spilling over to Belgium from Gaza. Police presence during demonstrations will also be heightened. This was decided by the new Home Affairs Minister Guido De Padt. The concrete measures were discussed at a meeting at the Home Affairs crisis centre, organised by Minister De Padt. The impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza and consequences for Belgium were discussed and analysed. In the police zones of...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - A man stole $28 million worth of diamonds from an Antwerp bank where he had been a trusted customer for a year using a stolen Argentine passport, officials said Monday. Authorities now believe that he was using a false identity because a passport in that name was stolen in Israel a few years ago. ---------------------- They said he speaks English with an American accent and often wears a baseball cap, and they are appealing to anyone who got to know him during his time in the city to come forward. The bank discovered the theft on March...

Last Saturday’s riots in Antwerp, when Moroccan “youths” went on the rampage in Antwerp’s historical center, destroying cars and beating up reporters, has led to frustration among police officers because the authorities prevented them from stopping the violence.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Antwerp will dim the bright new lights along the Belgian port city's waterfront after prostitutes complained they were putting off potential clients. "We had some remarks from the prostitutes that there was too much light, both for them and the clients," city council spokesman Jorn Verbeeck said. "We are investigating the possibility of lowering the light there." Prostitutes complained to city and police officials that the lights installed in December did not give them enough privacy and hurt business, he said.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) Prosecutors said on Tuesday they will charge a Dutch chemicals dealer as an accomplice to genocide for supplying Saddam Hussein with lethal chemicals used in the 1988 chemical attack on a Kurdish town that killed an estimated 5,000 civilians. Wim de Bruin of the national prosecutor's office said the suspect, who was arrested in Amsterdam on Monday, will face charges ''for violating the laws of war and involvement in genocide.'' Prosecutors said Frans van Anraat, a 62-year-old chemicals dealer, had been a suspect since 1989, when he was arrested in Milan, Italy, at the request of the...

BRUSSEL - In de stad Antwerpen is het verboden om over straat te gaan in een burka, een allesbedekkend gewaad dat sommige islamitische vrouwen dragen. Dagblad Het Laatste Nieuws meldde zaterdag dat de korpschef van de Antwerpse politie dat in samenspraak met de burgemeester heeft vastgelegd. (Excerpt: See Article for complete text (in Dutch).

BRUSSELS, June 8 (Reuters) - Belgian police have arrested 15 people on suspicion of planning terror attacks in coordinated raids that also spanned Italy, France and Spain, officials said on Tuesday. Italy earlier arrested an Egyptian man considered to be a mastermind of the Madrid train bombings in the first Europe-wide raids on Islamic militants linked to the March attack in which 191 people were killed. "We know them to be part of a terrorist group," the director of the federal police bureau of Brussels, Glenn Audenaert, told reporters. He said 200 police were involved in the operation and that...

BRUSSELS, March 16 (Reuters) - NATO member Belgium threatened on Sunday to cut off its airspace and the port of Antwerp to the U.S. military if the United States invades Iraq in violation of international law. The United States has been using Antwerp and the Dutch port of Rotterdam to ship equipment from Germany to the Middle East for possible use in a war against Iraq. Washington, which accuses Baghdad of developing weapons of mass destruction, has threatened to invade Iraq with or without a fresh United Nations resolution authorising the use of force. Belgium says military action without...

ANTWERP, Belgium, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Belgian police have arrested four suspects in connection with last week's multimillion-dollar diamond robbery in Antwerp, the city's public prosecutor confirmed Tuesday. The alleged thieves, believed to be three Italians and one Dutch woman, will appear in court Thursday charged with masterminding the diamond capital's biggest-ever jewel heist. The news will bring some relief to Antwerp's tight-knit community of diamond cutters, buyers and sellers, who have dominated the global trade in the precious stones since the end of the 19th century. More than 80 percent of the world's diamonds pass through the prosperous Belgian...

If the Belgian government does not stop the American troop movements in Belgium, he will ask the Arabic European League (AEL) to block the harbor of Antwerp. AEL-leader Abou Jahjah said this Wednesday at a press-meeting in Kallo right before an action of the PvdA (extreme-left party, not directly connected to the Dutch PvdA) in the Waaslandhaven (the harbor). Jahjah said that Antwerp would be the symbloical place for action against the Belgian involvement with the American war against Iraq. "Sunday we will hold a protest march in Brussels. This will only be a first step to what is coming...

Artisanal mining was not illegal in the DRC prior to the 1980s, but diamonds could only be sold within the mining zone, or in adjacent villages. It was illegal to sell diamonds in Kinshasa and in the main urban areas in the Kasai provinces, although this was not fully respected. Corrupt officials allowed a limited trade to exist, but government attitudes vacillated and harsh measures were taken intermittently to purge the diamond fields of prospectors, especially in areas around or within the concession of La Société Minière de Bakwanga (MIBA), the diamond mining parastatal. MIBA provided the bulk of Zaire’s...

AEL-leader Dyab Abou Jahjah incited the riots in Antwerp on Tuesday, during the manifestation after the murder of a 27 year old Moroccan. "We will become the rulers... We shall show them who we are, even if we have to demolish everything", he shouted in Arabic. That became appearent from one of the police investigations. Financial investigators also searched houses in Antwerp and Charleroi on Sunday. In Antwerp the company where Jahjah's brother is employed was also investigated. The investigators suspect that thru this Belgian-Lebanese company money was transferred to the AEL. According he lawyers of Jahjah this is not...

Antwerp race riots militant charged By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Filed: 30/11/2002) A Muslim firebrand accused of inciting two days of race riots in Antwerp was charged yesterday with conspiracy to foment disorder, destroying vehicles, and assaulting a police officer. Abou Jahjah, 31, a Lebanese-born extremist who once fought for Hizbollah, was blamed for stirring up ethnic conflict in the Belgian city's North African quarter after a Moroccan teacher was murdered on Tuesday by a white dockworker said to be mentally ill. The Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, vowed to put a stop to the open lawlessness of Abou Jahjah's militant organisation,...

28 Nov 2002 09:41Antwerp police hold 20 after murder provokes riots BRUSSELS, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Antwerp police were holding 20 people on Thursday after making 127 arrests following riots in the port city after a Belgian shot dead a young Arab, a police spokeswoman said. The murder of 27-year-old schoolteacher Mohammed Achrak triggered riots in the immigrant area of Belgium's second city into the night on Tuesday and sporadic unrest throughout the day on Wednesday. Hundreds of angry young men took to the streets on Tuesday night, smashing windows, wrecking cars and stoning police. Tension continued on Wednesday with small groups...

Brussels, April 4, IRNA -- About 4000 people took part in a demonstration in the Belgian city of Antwerp, 50 kms from Brussels, Wednesday evening in support of the Palestinian people. The demonstration was organised by the Antwerp-based Arab European League (AEL). In a statement released today, the AEL said that after the demonstration ended riots broke out between groups of Arab youth and the police in the streets of Antwerp. The police used water canons and tear gas to disperse the crowds that reacted in destroying police cars and other cars and shops. ''What happened today in Antwerp is...