The body of a 64-year-old woman that went missing in the Flemish Brabant municipality of Kortenberg has been found in a pond adjacent to a footpath in the village of Meerbeek 64-year-old Denise Cludts went missing during a walk on Thursday morning She then failed to show up at an appointment early on Thursday afternoon The police were notified at 1:22pm on Thursday Police and the Missing Persons Unit carried out an extensive search of the area around Kortenberg on Thursday They were assisted by dozens of volunteers It was not clear where exactly the Denise Cludts had gone for her walk The search included the area near to the forest at the Old Abbey the 64-year-old’s body was eventually at the De Rotte Gaten nature reserve in the village of Meerbeek Ms Cludts’ body was reportedly spotted by a volunteer or a hiker that was passing by De Rotte Gaten is a nature reserve that is popular with hikers It includes some elevated wooden footpaths above stretches of marshland Denise Cludts’ body was found in a pond next to a footpath The exact cause of her death is being investigated Welcome to www.automotivelogistics.media. 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Read our policy By 2023-10-10T09:59:00+01:00 Belgian vehicle distributor D’Ieteren Automotive has chosen to use vehicle logistics and compound management tools provided by optimisation software specialist Inform which uses artificial intelligence and operations research will be used at D’Ieteren’s compound in Kortenberg D’Ieteren is the official distributor for Volkswagen Group brands in Belgium The company manages network of independent dealers across the country and offers services Inform said the system will promote higher punctuality It will enable D’Ieteren to more efficiently handle yard and workshop operations we aim to leverage their expertise in digital decision-making and AI to enhance our vehicle logistics processes and additional services ultimately delivering better service to our customers,” said Christian Quaedpeerds D’Ieteren distributes all VW Group brands in Belgium It also distributes spare parts and accessories for the group The company said there are around 1.2m VW-branded vehicles on the road in Belgium Vehicle volumes at the Greek port of Piraeus were down in CY2024 but the car terminal is preparing for increased trade from China US tariffs on vehicle and parts imports are forecast to dent automotive sales by pushing prices up for consumers already facing tighter disposable income JLR pauses all US-bound shipments after Trump enforces 25% import tariffs on finished vehicles Site powered by Webvision Cloud Proximus organized a press meeting today to give an update on the rollout of its open fiber network in the district of Leuven In addition to a status on the city of Leuven and the neighboring municipalities of Herent and Kortenberg explanations were given on the works in the cities of Aarschot Proximus will provide over 70,000 homes and businesses in the Leuven district with a fiber connection Belgian citizens and businesses need reliable and fast connectivity It is therefore important that they can rely on fiber in the years to come as fiber is the ultimate broadband technology of the future it allows all members of a household to (tele)work stream videos and play online games at the same time enabling them to fully exploit all the possibilities of digitization and to remain competitive broadband networks such as fiber are now an essential part of public infrastructure more energy- efficient and has a longer lifespan than any other fixed Internet technology Proximus is already present with its fiber technology on almost every street corner The next challenge is to close the last few meters into the home or company with fiber Proximus therefore launched the "Fiber for Belgium" investment plan with the aim of rolling out fiber to the majority of businesses and city centers in Belgium Since 2021 the project was significantly accelerated and expanded supported by the creation of the joint ventures Fiberklaar in Flanders and Unifiber in Wallonia together with a Consortium of Belgian financial partners to bring fiber for up to an additional 1.7 million homes and businesses situated in areas with low population density Such a collaboration would allow to extend the fiber coverage to 95% of all Belgian homes and businesses and to ultimately offer a Gigabit network for the whole territory 1,031,000 homes and businesses were connectable to fiber the broad area around Leuven will also gradually be supplied with fiber over a quarter of Leuven's homes and businesses can already be connected That figure is expected to double by the end of 2023 In the neighboring cities and municipalities more than 25% of homes and businesses can already be connected to fiber The rollout there will continue until the first quarter of 2023 and in Kortenberg the rollout will start early next year the first phase of the project should be completed in all mentioned cities and municipalities The ambition remains to continue to expand the coverage afterwards on which specific information on the progress of the works can be found use a specific e-mail address or call into the local Proximus shop Proximus is proactively contacting each business individually to see which fiber solution best fits their specific needs Fiber Network Program Department Lead at Proximus The rollout of our fiber network is running like clockwork with already more than 1 million connectable homes and businesses across the country This investment is critical to the growth of our economy and to our digital society as a whole and we are therefore very pleased to be able to introduce more than 70,000 residents in the wide area around Leuven to the benefits of fiber by the end of 2024 Get all our press releases delivered straight to your inbox Attack mode! (With a spiderweb on my head lol 😹) A photo posted by Thor The Bengal (@bengalthor) on Aug 23 24 (UPI) -- A house cat's unique mix of striped and spotted fur has turned it into an international sensation This is my Facebook page that is runned by my servants," Thor's page description states Thor's owner Rani Cucicov told the Huffington Post they adopted the 3-year-old Bengal cat while in the Netherlands in 2013 "We actually came to look at another kitten but then the breeder said she had another one that was available and then she came with Thor in her hands," Cucicov said "We immediately fell in love with his beautiful 'orange brown' colors." Cucicov added that despite the multitude of photos of Thor across social media some people questioned whether his unique coat was real or photo shopped 2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of the First World War We will bring you pictures from 100 years ago on a regular basis - photos that were taken 100 years ago to the day on that particular day - to allow you to follow the Great War in pictures The first landmark for Belgium was set on 4 August King Albert is pictured here with Queen Elisabeth On 31 August 1914 the queen and the children and the lion's share of Belgium's gold reserves left Antwerp aboard the ferry Jan Breydel The steamer was escorted by four Royal Navy vessels An English drawing of reprisal killings at Kortenberg near Leuven: local inhabitants shot at German forces the previous day attracting the ire of the advancing forces The drawing was published in the German Illustriete Zeitung on 17 September 1914 Before the war people training for the priesthood and teachers were not obliged to fulfil their military service At the beginning of the war they were called up to serve as stretcher-bearer Initially they didn't get proper uniforms only wearing an armband with a red cross on it The German Zeppelin bombardment of Antwerp's city centre triggered the decision to move the art treasures away from the city cathedral (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkathedraal) a couple of days later in order to give them a safe place One of the works that is being removed is Rubens' "Descent from the Cross" as can be seen in this picture The gigantic painting is taken to the cellars of the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp so-called francs-tireurs (from French 'franc' = free and 'tireur' = shooter) a scene that was repeated various times at different places in the first war months Parts of Leuven were destroyed on 25 August 1914 as dozens of houses were systematically set ablaze German propaganda media (like this postcard) afterwards said the Belgians were to blame claiming that "German soldiers had bended over backwards to avoid that the Leuven City Hall would be eaten by the flames" after the city had been "set ablaze by the Belgians." During the night of 24 August a German Zeppelin aircraft dropped scores of bombs on the peace-loving people of Antwerp: 12 people were killed and two scores were injured Indignation is great especially as the royal palace on the Meir was among the targets The attack prompts the king to send his children to safety in England The city of Antwerp immediately decides to introduce a black-out On 23 August 1914 674 civilians or around 10% of the local population were murdered in the Walloon city of Dinant Townspeople were driven together at seven places told to stand against a wall and shot dead These are bodies including that of a young boy near the Bourdon Wall near the edge of the city of Dinant An estimated 27,000 French soldiers perished during fights that took place along a 400 km frontline on 22 August 1914 Most soldiers were killed in the Belgian Ardennes; the village of Rossignol in the Gaume region saw over 7,000 French victims This makes it the deadliest day in French war history All this makes 22 August the deadliest day of the Great War as a whole Bridges over the river Meuse between Andenne and Seilles (west of Liège) have been blown up by the Belgian army This obstruction triggers outrage among the German troops as 262 citizens are killed with guns and axes The German authorities inform the local population that all men are being held hostage Each shot aimed at the Germans will result in the shooting of at least two hostages while the dead are being buried without any form of ceremony German soldiers assemble on the Brussels Central Market Square in front of the city hall German troops march through the city coming from Leuven Road (Leuvensesteenweg) as from 9am the American journalist Richard Harding wrote "The arrival of the first enemy troops sparked some exceitement But we got bored after watching grey lines of soldiers marching in for 3 consecutive hours One got fascinated and returned to watch it It was something mysterious and at the same time threatening like a thick fog coming in from the sea." On 19 August the Brussels home guard was ordered to quit greater Brussels In recent days the home guard had prepared to defend the city but now it becomes clear that Brussels will be yielded to the German aggressor without a fight The inhabitants of Brussels interpret the decision as a signal to flee the city Older members are disarmed and told to go home The Belgian artillery falls back on Leuven pulling out of the eastern city of Tienen (pictured here) In this photograph we see plumes of smoke from the heavy fighting outside the town Belgian forces suffer heavy losses at Tienen Citizen guards and boy scouts at a barricade in Brussels The citizen guard units were a kind of urban militias entrusted with the task of maintaining public order in times of peace Their task switched to defending the country in war times The citizen guards had a lack of training and carried the reputation of being no more than "operette- soldiers" Better trained units were scarce and were mostly found in major cities The scouts served as go-betweens transferring messagesin the first months of the war The final obstacles on the German way to Brussels are out of the way An execution takes place in the village of Blégny near Liège are shot after they had been taken hostage by the Germans It's a German retaliation act on charges of "continuous shootings by Belgians civilians" Over 50 citizens had been killed in the village in the days before commander-in-chief of the Liège Stronghold takes a central place in the picture as he watches "the final resistance" of his troops at the Fort Loncin fortress The ammunition room of the fortress was hit by heavy German shellfire and exploded Some 150 soldiers died at once - dozens of them are still buried under the rubble at present General Leman was taken prisoner by the Germans but was allowed to keep his sabre out of respect for "the brave resistance of the Belgian troops" in Liège Belgian lancers are on the alert in the area of the Lion's Mound in Waterloo The Belgian army had troops ready for combat in the area around Wavre and Perwez from the beginning of the war but a confrontation with the German army would never follow The Belgian troops retreated together with the rest of the Belgian army into the Antwerp fortresses belt On 13 August 1914 the infamous German super-cannon Big Bertha was used for the first time Two Big Berthas were used in the attack on the Pontisse Fortress near Liège The cannons were capable of firing 1,000 shells and were made in the Krupp factory in the German city of Essen Dead soldiers and dead horses after the Battle of Halen that is better known as the Battle of the Silver Helmets It was the last battle on the Western Front in which the Kaiser’s army used horses The battle was celebrated as a great Belgian victory The 180 Belgian losses were even slightly higher than the losses on the German side There are many photographs of the battle as Belgian press photographers were allowed to operate freely among the Belgian troops While the Belgian forces continue to offer resistance thousands of German troops flood into Belgium Lines of German troops often kilometres long filled the roads in the east of the country Today's archive photo features a Germany Army attack on Belgian positions The picture was taken either during the Battle of Orsmaal-Gussenhoven on 10 August or the Battle of Tienen a week later This is a print issued to French soldiers in August 1914 to enable them to recognise colleagues from allied armies Many civilians also didn’t recognise the various armies’ uniforms when the German Army arrived in Liège on the night of 5 August many locals at first believed that they were British troops On 8 August 1914 the village of Herve and the nearby town of Melen are burnt down by advancing German troops including 8 women and 4 girls under 13 years of age A witness said that the German troops forced young children to dance and sing in front of the dead bodies This German drawing represents the attack on the city Liège You will notice two armed civilians shooting at the German soldiers in the left corner the so-called francs-tireurs (from French 'franc' = free and 'tireur' = shooter) There is no hard evidence that Belgian civilians took up the arms against the German invaders but this was nevertheless the argument used by the German to justify the hard repression acts against the civilian population The small village of Vottem was the scene of heavy fighting during the Battle of Liège 33 soldiers: 22 Belgians and 11 Germans lost their lives On 6 August the local Mayor rand the parish priest took photographs of the deceased in the local church hall to aid their later identification At the end of the afternoon the German army starts attacking the fortifications that surround the city of Liège The Belgian forces launch a counter-attack at Fort Barchon King Albert I rides on horseback towards parliament where he will ask the Belgian People to resist the German invasion with “tenacity” The Chamber of Representatives and the Senate unanimously the war budget and a series of emergency measures a "Chasseur à Cheval" - the regiment was involved in reconnaissance activities - is taking a closer look at the horizon They are awaiting the imminent arrival of the German troops after the Belgian government rejected the German ultimatum The area close to the German border is being "prepared" for the German arrival to take up their positions in the strongholds around the city of Antwerp Among them are quite a number of older volunteers that had not been called to the front for the occasion of the general mobilization This photo is on display in the Royal Army Museum in Brussels where the names of 32 of the people in the picture are mentioned 14 of them had died before the end of October People are queuing up at the National Bank in Brussels in order to trade in paper money for metal coins or gold Some shopkeepers refuse to accept paper money due to uncertainty about its future An increasing number of people is working on an extra stock of food as the war threat is becoming more imminent