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Qatar apologizes, investigates forced airport examinations

by Jon Gambrell
| October 28, 2020 12:03 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar apologized Wednesday after authorities forcibly examined female passengers from a Qatar Airways flight to Sydney to try to identify who might have given birth to an abandoned newborn baby, even as Australia said it was only one of 10 flights subjected to the searches.

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