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Pope Francis blesses baby Jesus statues during Angelus

Pope Francis on Sunday blessed the statuettes of Baby Jesus brought by hundreds of children to the Angelus prayer in St Peter's Square.

Finland

Finnish minister apologises for Instagram poll on fate of IS women

An online poll on the repatriation of women linked to so-called Islamic State sparked controversy and embarrassed for the new government.

Green News

Frozen 2’s eco message overshadowed by sale of plastic toys

Disney has been criticised for selling plastic merchandise following the release of the second Frozen film.

World

The challenge to educate the children uprooted by the siege of Marawi

In partnership with The European Commission

Two years after Marawi's siege, 66,000 Filipinos still live in tents or shelters and only a small amount of displaced children have resumed school regularly. Improving access to education is among the aims of a project, funded by EU Humanitarian Aid, which has been a gamechanger for many families.

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Slovakia

80% of adolescents worldwide not exercising enough, says WHO

Lack of physical activity in adolescence can impact health, as well as cognitive development and sociability.

United Kingdom

UK to repatriate orphaned children of suspected IS fighters from Syria

"These innocent, orphaned, children should never have been the subject to the horrors of war," says Dominic Raab

Europe News

Shooting instead of school: the stolen childhood of children in Yemen

The 20 November marks the 30th anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. But in Yemen and in other conflict areas, children are the main victims of human rights violations

France

French nannies strike against government 'coercive' reform

The strike is a "big shot of anger" at "purely budgetary logics which should not apply to childcare," a spokesperson for the movement told Euronews.

Europe News

The Brief: MEPs vote to condemn Poland's anti-sex education bill

Parliament voted overwhelmingly to condemn a bill proposed by the Polish government that would criminalize sex education in schools.

World News

Pneumonia 'killed one child under five every 39 seconds last year'

Save the Children said the disease killed more than 800,000 children last year and that it was a "forgotten global epidemic".

Green News

WATCH | Turning plastic waste into buildings

A new initiative to fight plastic waste can give hope to Ivorian school children.

United Kingdom

Watch: UK charity struggles to meet demand for children's shoes

A UK charity that donates school shoes to children around the world is receiving requests closer to home. Shoes are distributed through baby banks or often requested by concerned teachers.

World

Niger: Mothers 'best asset' for early diagnosis of child malnutrition

In partnership with The European Commission

38,000 children under the age of five-years-old are estimated to die every year from causes linked to malnutrition

Syria

MEP calls for humanitarian corridor for Europe’s children of IS

A Belgian MEP has called for a humanitarian corridor to be established to return Europe’s children of the so-called Islamic State (IS).

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Reinventing the wheel with a Nigerian kids' unicycle coach

In a driveway of a suburban Lagos house, 14-year-old Kehinde Oguntokun juggles colourful circus clubs as he swings around on a unicycle.

World

Guatemala: nearly half children under five suffer chronic malnutrition

In partnership with The European Commission

Nearly half of Guatemalan children are under-nourished - among the highest rates in the world. And aid agencies say that in the worst affected parts of the country, the number of acute cases is higher than official estimates.

Europe Decoded

UEFA sanctions loophole as Romania invites 30,000 children to football

UEFA had ordered Romania to play the match behind closed doors, after failing to control their supporters.

USA

Watch: Sesame Street tackles US opioid addiction crisis

The show will tell the story of the puppet Karli, whose mother is battling addiction. There are 5.7 million children under 11 living with a parent with a substance abuse problem in the US.

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Firefighters rescue boy dangling from fourth-floor window in China

In order to prevent him from falling, the rescuers quickly fastened a security rope around his chest, while residents from the building held out quilt below.

United Kingdom

Scotland becomes first country in UK to ban smacking

Members of the Scottish Parliament on Thursday voted by 84 votes to 29 in favour of a ban on all physical punishment. But where else in Europe is smacking children banned?