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The Work Productivity Tool Giving Hope To Belgium's Bereaved

10:52pm March 25, 2016

by Naomi LaChance

As people continue searching for their loved ones, they are turning to social media for help. One site, Trello, lets friends and family keep an active list of those who remain unaccounted for.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stands alongside Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel during a meeting in Brussels on Friday.

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Americans Were Among Those Killed In Brussels Attacks, Kerry Says

4:29pm March 25, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Speaking in Brussels Friday, Kerry said he was grieving with "the loved ones of those who have been very cruelly taken from us — including Americans." It's the first confirmation of American deaths.

Police stand at a checkpoint during a raid in the suburb of Schaerbeek in Brussels on Thursday.

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Belgian Authorities Identify Third Suspected Bomber In Brussels Attacks

2:18pm March 25, 2016

The man on the left in a widely-circulated surveillance image is 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui, according to the Belgian federal prosecutor's office.

Policemen search passengers at the entrance of the De Brouckere metro station in Brussels on March 24, two days after the terrorist attack on the city.

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Investigation Continues As Brussels Recovers From Terror Attacks

6:59pm March 24, 2016

by Dina Temple-Raston

The ISIS cell behind this week's attacks in Brussels may have aspired to build a radiological bomb, officials with knowledge of the investigation say.

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Police patrol outside the council chamber of Brussels on Thursday during ongoing investigations into the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks. More than 30 people have been identified as being involved in a network behind the Paris attacks on Nov. 13, wit

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Brussels Unites In Grief As Search For Attacker — Or Attackers — Continues

3:43pm March 24, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Police are still determining the number of suspects involved. Meanwhile, Salah Abdeslam, the suspect in the Paris attacks who was arrested last week, now says he is not fighting extradition to France.

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A photo from the personal Facebook page of Adelma Tapia Ruiz and provided by her brother Fernando Tapia Ruiz shows Ruiz and her Belgian husband, Christophe Delcambe.

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'You Can't Help But Notice Her': What We Know About 3 Brussels Victims

8:21pm March 23, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Belgian authorities aren't releasing names of the victims, but some information has trickled out. Here's what we know about three of the deceased.

Passengers wait to check in at Chicago's O'Hare Airport in June 2015. TSA screenings at U.S. airports are beyond ticket counters, baggage claim and other heavily trafficked areas; after terrorist bombings at the Brussels, Belgium, airport targeted those

Officials Consider How U.S. Airports Could Stop A Brussels-Style Attack

6:40pm March 23, 2016

by David Schaper

Authorities around the world are boosting security at airports and train stations after the suicide-bombings in Belgium. One option, used in other countries, is screening passengers at the front door.

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A man wears the Belgian flag as people observe a minute of silence Wednesday at the Place de la Bourse, in honor of the victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Brussels.

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Brussels Attacks, One Day After: What We Know

4:08pm March 23, 2016

by Meghan Collins Sullivan

Terrorist attacks in Brussels killed at least 31 and wounded at least 270 on Tuesday. As the city mourns, police continue to search for a suspected accomplice.

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A Libyan fireman stands in front of a flaming oil storage tank in northern Libya's Ras Lanouf region on Jan. 23. It was set alight in fighting with the Islamic State, which has established a strong presence in the country and taken control of the city of

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Squeezed At Its Base, ISIS Grows More Dangerous Elsewhere

3:52pm March 23, 2016

by Greg Myre

The Islamic State has been steadily losing ground in its self-described caliphate of Syria and Iraq. But it is becoming more potent with its terror attacks in Europe and North Africa.

This image provided by the Belgian Federal Police shows a man at Belgium's Zaventem airport whom officials have identified as Ibrahim el Bakraoui. A Belgian prosecutor named him as a suspected suicide bomber in Tuesday's attack on the airport.

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Turkey Says It Deported Ibrahim El Bakraoui And Warned Belgium In 2015

3:23pm March 23, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Belgium was warned about the terrorist ties of one of the brothers suspected in Tuesday's suicide attack in Brussels.