A one-year-old baby from Syria has died in a forest in Poland on the Belarusian border, international media said on Thursday. The reports were based on statements from Polish aid workers.

A group of Iraqis arrived back in their country on board a plane sent by the Iraqi government. They had been stranded at the Poland-Belarus border in dire conditions.

Belarus authorities on Thursday cleared the main camps where migrants had huddled at the border with Poland, in a change of tack that could help calm a crisis that has spiralled in recent weeks into a major East-West confrontation.

Ukraine has fortified its border with Belarus, fearing that migrants stuck in the isolated country might try to reach Ukraine next. Its ambassador to Germany said that there may be political reasons for Russia's support of Belarus i1