Belgium is fast becoming a smuggler’s paradise for illegal cigarettes, with a third of all cigarettes puffed in the country ...

BRUSSELS, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A 19-year-old man was shot dead in Brussels on Saturday night, the local prosecutor's office said, as drug gang violence in the Belgian capital shows no signs of abating.

Police in the northeast and northwest of the country say they have received six separate complaints so far this year – and they fear there are others who have yet to come forward ...

Authorities have linked most of the gunfire to drug trafficking and disputes between gangs attempting to gain territory ... Police are still looking for the perpetrator. On Monday, Belgium’s Interior ...

The gang is also accused of helping migrants who had their asylum claims rejected in Belgium to travel to the UK on small boats. Three of the men appeared at London's Westminster Magistrates ...

Belgian prosecutors say the men arrested were ... and we currently have 70 live investigations into the gangs involved in it NCA deputy director Craig Turner Three appeared at Westminster ...

Those migrants who had their asylum claims rejected in Belgium would then be moved on to the UK using small boats. The gang is suspected of transporting significant numbers in this way.

The agency said migrants who had their asylum claims rejected in Belgium would be moved to the UK on small boats by the gang, who are suspected of transporting "significant numbers" in this way.

But Belgium-based International Crisis Group warned in a new report that it could be dangerous to hold elections prematurely given a surge in gang violence. Haiti is led by Prime Minister Alix ...