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The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, congratulates Croatia on joining Europe's border check-free Schengen area but expresses disappointment after accession bids by Bulgaria and Romania were blocked in an EU ministers' meeting."You deserve to be full members of Schengen, you deserve to have access to the free movement in the Schengen area," she says. SOUNDBITE
A coach full of Ukrainians fleeing the war arrives at the Greece-Bulgaria border. Violence rages 12 days into the war between Russia and Ukraine, even as a third round of peace negotiations was starting on Monday and the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers eyed talks in Turkey later this week. IMAGES
The EU Migration Commissioner Ylva Johansson visits a mobile refugee camp at the Romanian/Ukrainian border. More than half a million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded the country on February 24th. IMAGES
Bulgarian authorities said hundreds of Europeans have travelled to Bulgaria to cross into Turkey, with some then entering Syria to join the Islamic State, Bulgarian Interior Minister Veselin Vuchkov told AFP.
Images of the Atanasio Girardot International Bridge closed and guarded by police on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, days before the presidential elections. Caracas ordered the armed forces to close the border between Friday 26 July and Monday 29 July to "guarantee the inviolability of the border and prevent the activities of persons who could pose a threat to security" as Venezuelans are expected to vote in presidential elections on July 28. IMAGES
Donald Trump tells the Republican National Convention he will "end the illegal immigration crisis" by closing the border and finishing the wall. SOUNDBITE
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