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UN: Lebanese children's future at stake amid economic crisis

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s severe economic crisis has left some children hungry and without good medical care, and forced others to drop out of school to help their families, the United Nations said Tuesday. The U.N. children's agency report came as the Lebanese pound traded at 23,500 to...

Former schoolgirl IS recruit hopes for UK return to face trial

A London schoolgirl who left the capital in 2015 to join Islamic State militants in Syria said Sunday she wants to face trial back in the UK. Now incarcerated in a prison camp in northeastern Syria, Shamima Begum asked for representatives of the British government to interrogate her, in...

Key questions answered as Qatar 2022 starts one-year countdown

Qatar 2022, the Middle East’s first football World Cup, is only 12 months away. The opening match of the next World Cup, which was awarded to Qatar in 2010, will be played on November 18, 2022, at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor, located north of the capital Doha. Al Jazeera answers...

Poland: Belarus eyes using Afghan migrants as border pawns

Poland’s leader on Sunday warned against more possible migrant pressures on the European Union’s border with Belarus, this time coming from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, following talks with Lithuanian Prime...