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Iraqi baby buried as death toll in EU-Belarus crisis grows

A Polish imam recited prayers Tuesday over the tiny white casket of an unborn Iraqi boy, the latest life claimed as migrants from the Middle East have tried to slip into the European Union illegally and found their path blocked by soldiers in the forests of Poland and Belarus. After the...

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...