UN warns of 'lost generation' deprived of school

War and upheaval across parts of the Middle East and North Africa in recent years have driven more than 13 million children from school - 40 percent of the affected area’s school-age population, the United Nations said. A report by UNICEF, the U.N. Children’s Fund, cast a sobering new light on the subtle long-term destructive consequences of violent conflicts that have convulsed a region encompassing all or portions of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and the Palestinia...