About 40 people were ordered out of their homes around midnight after a suspect package was seen in a parked car. An army bomb disposal squad was called in, but no explosives were found.

The US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), whose sprawling headquarters are in a Brussels suburb, is seen as a terrorist target notably due to its new operations in recent years in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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