Iraqi baby buried as death toll in EU-Belarus crisis grows
Bohoniki, Poland AP 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 first […]
Poland says Belarus border crisis may be prelude to “something worse”
Warsaw, Poland/Vilnius, Lithuania Reuters Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned on Sunday that the migrant crisis on the Belarus border may be a prelude to “something much worse”, and Poland’s border guard said Belarusian forces were still ferrying migrants to the frontier. The European Union accuses Belarus of flying in thousands of people from the […]
EU agrees new sanctions on Belarus, airlines over border crisis
Brussels, Belgium/Warsaw, Poland/Moscow, Russia Reuters The European Union agreed on Monday to step up sanctions against Belarus, which denounced as “absurd” Western accusations that it was driving a migrant crisis that has left thousands of people stranded in freezing forests on its borders with the EU. The Western bloc is seeking to stop what it […]
UN refugee agency presses Poland to help migrants on Belarus border
Warsaw, Poland Reuters The UN refugee agency UNHCR and rights groups have urged Poland to offer medical and legal support and shelter to migrants camping on the border with Belarus, a day after Warsaw said it would build a fence to prevent migrants crossing. Poland and fellow EU states Lithuania and Latvia have reported sharp […]