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Every day, roughly three dozen drivers speed through Schaerbeek at a speed of 86km per hour in areas that have a 50km per hour speed limit.
Volvo has recalled 40,000 diesel cars in Belgium for safety reasons, amid concerns of a potential fire hazard in engine components.
A mobile application to help women report incidents of sexual harassment around Brussels has been discontinued due to lack of funding.
Three quarters of people in Belgium say they feel almost always safe in their neighbourhood, according to a major survey by federal police into the public's perception of crime.
A hit-and-run driver who killed a woman on a pedestrian crossing in Schaerbeek has been ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service - a sentence that campaigners say is "unbearably lenient
A poster has been placed at the site of a hit-and-run road incident in Schaerbeek, suggesting street prostitution is the way "to slow male drivers down".
Three-dimensional zebra crossings are being painted on several roads in Flanders, in an experiment to see whether they make drivers slow down.
A demonstration calling for an end to nuclear power in Belgium has been called for 26 April to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Federal and local police across Belgium are gearing up for an Anti-Drink Driving Weekend, with extra checks along motorways, provincial roads and motorway exits from 18.00 on Friday to 6.00 on Mon
