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Several people at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border died in a fire that broke out at the facility overnight, according to media reports. IMAGES
People gather outside a detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, for a vigil dedicated to the dozens of migrants who died there in a fire. The migrants were believed to have lit the fire as a demonstration because they feared they would be deported, according to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. 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 attempt to reach the United States by swimming across the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Some then swim back to the Mexican side of the river after being warned away by Texas authorities. IMAGES
Images from the scene of a deadly fire in Hanoi. Dozens of people have been killed after a huge fire at an apartment block in the Vietnamese capital, state media says. IMAGES
Mexican police arrives at a bar in the town of San Luis Rio Colorado, in the northern state of Sonora, after a man set fire to it in revenge for being thrown out, killing 11 people. IMAGES
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