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The Colombian government and dissidents of the FARC guerrilla group that signed a 2016 peace pact, start talks with a view to demobilizing some 3,500 fighters and putting an end, once and for all, to their armed insurgency. The parties have also agreed to observe a bilateral ceasefire until January 15, according to the defense ministry. Negotiations between the government of President Gustavo Petro and leaders of the so-called Central General Staff (EMC) kick off in Tibu in the country's northeast, an area surrounded by drug crops and hard-hit by the ongoing violence. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Mexico's Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena hold a press conference in Mexico City, following high-level security talks helds at the National Palace. IMAGES
Senior US officials led by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken hold a press conference alongside Mexican authorities in Mexico City during talks on tackling drug smuggling and migrant flows, amid signs of diplomatic frictions over a US plan to extend a controversial border wall. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden lands in Mexico City and receives a red-carpet welcome from his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Biden arrives in Mexico for talks on migration and drug smuggling, as well as a North American leaders' summit, after a politically charged stop at the border. IMAGES
Lawyers for Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, arrive at a federal courthouse in Washington, DC, as she is expected to be sentenced after pleading guilty to charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. IMAGES
Washington (USA), Nov 3 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Shawn Thew) Thousands of people continue to flock to the Washington polling stations for the last day of early voting before the general elections on November 3.