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Xi to attend online Biden climate summit

AFP :China’s President Xi Jinping will attend US President Joe Biden’s virtual climate summit this week, Beijing said Wednesday, as the world’s top polluting nations seek rare common ground despite wider political tensions.Biden has...

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Chad President Idriss Deby dies

Reuters :Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of...

Migrant children wait to enter a temporary shelter in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

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Number of migrant children on rises Mexico-US border BBC Online The number of migrant children trying to reach the US from Mexico has increased ninefold since the start of 2021, UN children’s agency Unicef says. The rise from 380 to nearly 3,500 has overwhelmed the facilities at Mexico’s reception centres, it says. The children are mainly from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico itself. Half arrived without parents. Nearly 300 children are added to their number every day, as they wait to cross into the US or are sent back. In border towns like Reynosa migrant families are establishing makeshift camps. “We are deeply concerned that living conditions for migrant children and mothers in Mexico could soon deteriorate further,” said Jean Gough, Unicef’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean. Many families will end up attempting to send their children over the border unaccompanied or via people traffickers, in the hope that – once inside the US – President Joe Biden’s administration will reunite them with family members there, reports the BBC’s Latin American correspondent Will Grant. However, the Mexican government has recently sent troops to its southern border to clamp down on migration north, and many more unaccompanied young people and migrants’ families are likely to be detained in the coming weeks, our correspondent says. Last week, President Biden reversed course hours after signing an order to keep the number of refugees admitted annually to the US at Trump-era levels. Reports say Mr Biden is concerned about letting in more people amid a record influx at the US-Mexico border.

BBC Online :The number of migrant children trying to reach the US from Mexico has increased ninefold since the start of 2021, UN children’s agency Unicef says.The rise from 380 to nearly 3,500 has...

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Oxygen leak kills 22 in Indian hospital

Disruption in the supply of medical oxygen has killed at least 22 patients in a hospital in western India’s Maharashtra state, an official said.Nashik district’s collector on Wednesday said an oxygen tanker leaked outside...

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9 Bangladeshi youths on Forbes list

Online Desk : For the first time, a total of nine young Bangladeshi entrepreneurs have made it to the prestigious business magazine Forbes, the ’30 Under 30 Asia 2021′ list under three categories –...

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Russia expels Czech diplomats over spying row

Russia has announced that 20 diplomats from the Czech Republic will be expelled after the Czechs expelled 18 Russian diplomats.The Russian diplomats are suspected of being intelligence operatives involved in an explosion at a...