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US President Donald Trump says progress had been made in trade talks with Canada, as he met the country's prime minister on the margins of a G7 summit in Quebec. SOUNDBITE
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump laid out his plans for building a wall along the southern border of the USA and Mexico, as part of his 10 point plan for immigration, during a speech in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday night. The speech came just after Trump touched down from his first formal visit to Mexico as a presidential candidate.
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
Thousands of Indian farmers riding tractors resumed their push towards the capital New Delhi on Wednesday after failing to reach a deal with the government on their demands for higher crop prices. 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