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Dozens of Venezuelan migrants are stuck at a makeshift camp on the border city of Cucuta, Colombia, as they wait to cross into their home country. IMAGES
Rumichaca, May 9 (EFE).- A group of 88 Venezuelan migrants who had been stranded for almost two weeks on the border between Ecuador and Colombia were evacuated on Saturday from the Rumichaca pass to Quito, where they will take a humanitarian flight back to Venezuela this weekend.These Venezuelans have been transferred within an agreement between the municipality of Tulcan, the closest Ecuadorian town to the pass, and the Venezuelan Consulate in Ecuador, in order to resolve a humanitarian situation after the regional borders were closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic (Camera: XAVIER MONTALVO).SHOTLIST: STRANDED VENEZUELANS BOARDING A BUS TOWARDS QUITO IN RUMICHACA, ECUADOR.
Emergency medical personnel transport three men injured during clashes with Venezuelan security forces at the Venezuela-Brazil border to a Pacaraima hospital. 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
Guyanese Foreign Minister Hugh Hilton Todd and Venezuelan counterpart Yvan Gil meet in Brasilia to discuss the discuss the simmering crisis on their border over the disputed oil-rich Essequibo region. IMAGES
Police check vehicles at a checkpoint at France's border with Belgium after two Swedish nationals were shot dead in Brussels by a suspect who remains at large, in an attack the Belgian prime minister described as "terrorism". IMAGES