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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
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
Hundreds of Central Americans from a new migrant caravan try to force their way into Mexico by crossing the river that divides the country from Guatemala. IMAGES
Migrant women and children walk through the Guatemala-Mexico border bridge after Mexican authorities allowed them to pass into its territory, as thousands more waited to cross hoping to continue their journey toward the United States. IMAGES
A school in central Nigeria collapsed on Friday killing at least 21 people, mostly pupils as they were sitting their exams. "We have about 69 injured casualties in four hospitals and also 21 dead," Red Cross spokesman Nuruddeen Hussain Magaji told AFP. SOUNDBITE
View of North Korea and South Korea's border area from the South's Paju city. Seoul's military said Tuesday it had fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border this week, with tensions high over Pyongyang's trash-carrying balloons and Seoul's loudspeaker propaganda campaigns. IMAGES
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