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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
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
Special counsel Jack Smith announces that Donald Trump has been indicted over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election -- the most serious legal threat yet to the former president as he campaigns to return to the White House. Trump is charged with four counts in the 45-page indictment brought by Smith, including conspiracy to defraud the United States. SOUNDBITE
Rescue teams return to Calais harbour from operations at sea, during which they tried to locate and save possible survivors after a boat carrying migrants bound for Britain sank off the French port. At least 31 migrants died, according to French authorities. IMAGES
Migrants, part of a caravana heading to the United States, resume their journey after waking up in a makeshift camp in Nuevo Morales, Mexico. IMAGES
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