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Germany faces grim COVID milestone with leadership in flux

ESCHWEILER, Germany (AP) — Germany is set to mark 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 this week, passing a somber milestone that several of its neighbors crossed months ago but which Western Europe's most populous nation had hoped to avoid. Teutonic discipline, a robust health care system and the...

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...

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...

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...