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Pope Francis arrives to the Mavrovouni migrant camp on Lesbos island, where he is expected to plead for better treatment of refugees as attitudes towards migrants harden across Europe. IMAGES
Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni visits an under-construction asylum processing centre in Albania, set to be run by Italy, with her Albanian counterpart Edi Rama, days ahead of European elections. Under a controversial deal between Rome and Tirana, Albania has agreed to take in asylum seekers plucked from the seas off Italy, register them at a migrant centre on the Adriatic Sea and then house them at another centre inland while their claims are processed. 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
Dozens of migrants camp at the US-Mexico Border in Tijuana as they wait for the expiration of the so-called Title 42, a strict protocol implemented by Donald Trump to deny entry to migrants and expel asylum seekers based on the Covid pandemic emergency. President Biden's administration is officially lifting Title 42 on May 11. IMAGES
The United Nations calls for an independent investigation into the deaths of at least 23 people after about 2,000 migrants tried to cross from Morocco into Spain last week. SOUNDBITE
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