His father, the Marxist ideologue Ralph Miliband, was born in Brussels and spent the first sixteen years of his life in the Belgian capital.

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In a series of raids in and around the Belgian capital, police made 14 arrests and seized a quantity of documents that are now being analysed.

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Brussels, historically a Dutch-speaking city, is officially bilingual (admittedly with a French-speaking majority now) but is also the capital of Dutch-speaking Flanders in addition to being the Belgian capital.

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Elsewhere, Britain's Tom Lancashire shrugged off an impromptu sprint through the streets of the Belgian capital to lower his personal best in the 1500m to 3.33.96 as he finished fifth.

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In early 1973, Black September took the American ambassador and his deputy (along with one Belgian diplomat) hostage in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and, after President Nixon refused to negotiate, murdered them.

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