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Qatar apologizes, investigates forced airport examinations

by Jon Gambrell
| October 27, 2020 8:33 PM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar apologized Wednesday after authorities forcibly examined female passengers from a Qatar Airways flight to Australia to try to identify who might have given birth to a newborn baby found abandoned at the airport earlier this month.

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