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Protesters in London try to block the removal of migrants from their temporary accommodation, as the UK government began detaining people before controversial deportation flights to Rwanda start. The protesters occupy the road in front of a bus believed to be waiting to take asylum seekers from a hotel in the Peckham area of the British capital to an accommodation barge moored off the south coast of England. A London Metropolitan Police statement said a number of people had been arrested. IMAGES
France's largest squat - which has housed up to 450 migrants, most of them legal migrants according to associations - is being evacuated in the southern suburbs of Paris, 100 days ahead of the Olympic Games. IMAGES
During his State of the Union Speech, US President Joe Biden hits out at his predecessor and 2024 White House opponent Donald Trump's rhetoric on immigration. "I will not demonize immigrants saying they're 'poisoning the blood of our country,'" Biden says, referring to Trump's words, and urging Congress to pass immigration reforms. SOUNDBITE
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski welcomes Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron to Warsaw, with the two counterparts shaking hands ahead of a bilateral meeting. Ex-prime minister Cameron is in the Eastern European country to shore up support for Poland's neighbour Ukraine against Russia's invasion and discuss tackling migration. IMAGES