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Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie arrives in Bangladesh on a visit to a Rohingya refugee camp ahead of a new UN appeal for nearly one billion dollars to look after the refugee influx. IMAGES
Aid trucks enter Rafah as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visit Egypt's border with Gaza, after Israel vowed to send its troops to fight Hamas in the nearby city of Rafah, even without United States support. IMAGES
A makeshift migrant camp looks nearly empty in Mexico's Matamoros, at the border with Brownsville, Texas, where Democrat US President Joe Biden is expected to meet border patrol and other law enforcement agents. Also heading to the border is Republican former president Donald Trump, who will be about 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the west in Eagle Pass. The Texas showdown comes at a time when record numbers of migrant crossings into the United States are posing a threat to Biden's chances of preventing a Trump comeback in November's presidential election. IMAGES
French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu is on board the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier anchored in the Egyptian port of Al-Arich, where wounded civilians from Gaza are being treated. The minister is spending New Year's Eve aboard the French ship, anchored some 50 kilometers from the Rafah crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, where aid is trickling in. IMAGES
Images of families from Sudan's Darfur region crossing the border into neighboring Chad, as heavy fighting continues in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, despite an announced truce between the army and paramilitaries, whose clashes have brought the country to the brink of a "catastrophe" and could prompt "more than 800,000 people" to flee the country, according to the UN. At least 20,000 Sudanese have sought refuge in Chad since the conflict began, of whom about 5,000 have registered, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). IMAGES
Images of the border between South and North Koreas from the Odusan Unification Tower in the South's Paju. US Vice President Kamala Harris was in South Korea Thursday to tour the heavily fortified border with the nuclear-armed North, on a trip aimed at strengthening the security alliance with Seoul. IMAGES
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