A Polish imam recited prayers on 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 snow of the season fell overnight, Aleksander Ali Bazarewicz, the imam, waited in hopes that the child’s father – in a refugee centre and with his wife hospitalised in serious condition – would arrive. When he didn’t appear, Bazarewicz lead the funeral rites in front of an old wooden mosque and later a…

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