Contradicting the French prime minister, Pascal Boniface, director of French think tank the Institute of International and Strategic Relations, external, says speaking of a war with the jihadists is a "fundamental mistake".

Mr Boniface, interviewed in Belgian newspaper L'Echo, says Europe is dealing with criminals and must be stoical as it faces the risk of further attacks.

"Calling it a war is giving the attackers the status they desire," he told the newspaper.

The hospital is on Bruynstraat / Rue Bruyn in northern Brussels.

Brussels' Fantastic Film Festival is to go ahead next week despite Tuesday's terror attacks.

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Speaking at a joint news conference in Brussels with the European Commissioner Jean Claude Juncker, Mr Valls said:

"I think unity is all the more essential when we are under attack, this brings us together as Europeans, we have reaffirmed our attachment to the European project and we want to make sure that Europe is stronger in future than it is today."

He added:

"Against us we have a terrorist organisation with its strike forces, its strongholds, its resources, its affiliates and cells hiding in our society. We are at war. A war has been declared against us. Our determination must be total."

Commuters in Brussels faced delays this morning as parts of the city's Metro network were closed following yesterday's deadly bomb attacks.

BBC video Journalist Howard Johnson spent the morning talking to people in Brussels to gauge their mood as they made their way into work.

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One of the suicide bombers who launched a deadly attack at Brussels airport left a note in which he said: "I don't know what to do". 

Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said Belgian national Brahim El Bakraoui was identified as having carried out the suicide attack at the airport on Tuesday morning by his fingerprints. 

He said a note was found on a computer in a bin during a raid in Schaerbeek in which El Bakraoui wrote:

French media have reported this last comment is a reference to suspected Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam, who was arrested last week.

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Two of the suicide bombers who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday are named as brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui.

BBC Monitoring

Blame is being hurled around in the Middle East press, where concern is laced with cynicism over the attacks in Belgium. US policies, Islamic State (IS), Hezbollah and Iran's involvement in Syria all come in for criticism.

There are "black days" ahead with "Daesh [IS] waging a war on the world", says a commentator in Lebanese pan-Arab leftist daily Al-Safir.

Saudi private daily Al-Riyadh wants the world to stand up to Iran, which it accuses of cooperating with Al-Qaeda and Lebanon's Hezbollah in Syria, saying that Tehran is fuelling sectarianism and terrorism.

Syria's pro-government daily Al-Thawrah blames the West for "allowing the Israelis to provide Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey with expertise to strengthen Al-Qaeda, Daesh and Al-Nusra Front".

Egypt's state-flagship Al-Ahram daily also blames the West, which it accuses of failing to support anti-terror efforts in Egypt and the region.

The Emirati private daily Al-Ittihad appeals to Europeans not to take tough reactionary measures against Arab and Muslim communities. "This is what the terrorists want", it says.

A commentator in Jordan's pro-government daily, Al-Dustour, warns that until the US decides to take a firm stance, Europe "will continue to pay the price in the form of a massive refugee crisis and transnational terrorism".

A commentator writing in Israel's Yisrael Hayom says Europe is "sunk in agreements" that limit measures like surveillance, "entering Muslim neighbourhoods", detention and interrogation. The writer says Europe should "set off on a defensive war" otherwise, it will find itself "defeated in the evil war its enemies are initiating".

Most of the victims of the terror attacks in Brussels have been identified and they include the citizens of at least 11 nations.

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A clear connection is emerging between the attacks last November in Paris and the bombings in Brussels on 22 March.

Soon after the Paris attacks, it became clear several bombers had come from Belgium and some of the bombs had been made in a flat in Brussels.

Both attacks have been claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), and key individuals are now being linked to the planning and execution of both.

Read our analysis of the links here.

A British woman photographed sheltering with her family in the aftermath of the Brussels airport attack has been describing her ordeal.

Pauline Graystone, who has lived in Belgium for 20 years, was checking in at Zaventem airport when the bombs went off.

The photo of her cowering amid the chaos of the attack has been used by media worldwide.

(Image credit: Ralph Usbeck/AP)

Local media are reporting that another body has been found at Zaventem Airport. 

L'Echo reported that a wall collapsed during the police investigation at the airport.

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Belgian Health Minister Maggie De Block has been visiting the injured in hospital, and told reporters:

Belgium's friendly against Portugal next week has been switched from Brussels to Leiria in Portugal.

The match was called off for security reasons before Portugal's football association offered an alternate venue.

The Belgium team will train at the King Baudouin Stadium - where the match was originally to be staged - on Wednesday.

The game will be played next Tuesday (19:45 GMT), as initially scheduled.

Belgian team captain Vincent Kompany yesterday reacted to the attacks, asking people to "reject hate and its preachers".

BBC Monitoring

Russian newspaper headlines say the Brussels attacks are an "echo" of those in Paris last year, with most commentators saying that they are a "natural result" of European migration policy as well as the "complacency" of the security services after one of the organisers of the Paris attacks was arrested.

"Europeans have failed to realise what millions of migrants mean… Now they have paid the price for being reckless," Yakov Kedmi says in the pro-government Izvestiya website, external.

Yevgeny Shestakov in the state-owned dailyRossiyskaya Gazeta, external says that the Paris and Brussels attacks "have confirmed terrorists' intention to intimidate Europe [and] compel its people to gang up against migrants who have already gone there". 

"We are dealing with a hydra - one head is off, another grows in its stead," commentator Vladislav Belov  writes in the centrist daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, external.

Terror expert Alexei Filatov meanwhile tells popular daily Moskovskiy Komsomolets that security lapses are to blame for the attack, saying that security measures have remained the same in Europe despite the situation changing "radically".

Jonathan Marcus
BBC Diplomatic and defence correspondent

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Whether it be terrorism, migration or geopolitics, the wider Middle East is now intruding into the European consciousness on a day-to-day basis, says Jonathan Marcus.