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CBP One app offers far too few appointments, meaning asylum seekers must wait or pay human trafficking groups, report revealsA US government smartphone app that tightly limits asylum appointments at the US-Mexico border is stranding vulnerable migrants in Mexico and enriching organised crime groups, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).The report, which draws on interviews with more than 100 migrants,...

Images from Gaza, Ukraine, Madagascar and the US border chosen by global jury from more than 60,000 entries• World Press Photo winners 2024 – in picturesPhotographs documenting the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, migration, family and dementia have topped this year’s World Press Photo awards – one of the world’s most prestigious photography competitions.Mohammed Salem, Lee-Ann Olwage, Alejandro Cegarra, and Julia Kochetova have been...

This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest stories on the total eclipse below:If you missed today’s total solar eclipse just wait … until 2044Millions across US, Mexico and Canada witness rare total solar eclipseFirst contact is when the moon’s outer edge first appears to touch the sun, creating the beginnings of a partial eclipse and a crescent sun reducing in...

Almost 32 million people in the path of totality as moon’s shadow crossed the Mexico-Texas border and then traversed 15 statesIf you missed the total solar eclipse just wait … until 2044Total solar eclipse over Mexico, US and Canada – in picturesThe ethereal spectacle of a total solar eclipse swept across North America on Monday afternoon, giving tens millions of people in Mexico, the...

Rare celestial event on Monday will see the moon block out the sun for a few minutes and day turn to night, with fans hoping the clouds don’t spoil the viewAcross the US, Mexico and Canada, people have rushed to stake out spots to witness a rare total solar eclipse, while forecasts for cloudy skies worry some hopeful spectators.The phenomenon happens when the moon...

The total eclipse visible in North America may be seen as a partial one in some UK areas – weather permitting Millions of people in the US, Canada and Mexico are planning to gather to watch Monday’s solar eclipse, when the daylight skies will be momentarily engulfed in darkness as the moon passes between the sun and the Earth.More than 31 million people live...

US looked into claims that Andrés Manuel López Obrador allies took money from cartels, according to a New York Times reportOfficials with the justice department and the Biden administration have downplayed a report that US law enforcement spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, were investigated for taking millions of dollars from drug cartels after the president...

Greg Abbott says he will defy Biden and US supreme court and install more concertina wire to try to prevent migrant crossingsThe fight between Texas and the federal government over the control of the US-Mexico border has further intensified after state governor Greg Abbott announced he will defy the Biden administration and US supreme court by ordering the installation of even more razor wire...

People forced to bring overdose-reversal drug naloxone from US, as critics accuse Mexican government of creating shortageEvery day, people cross the US-Mexico border with drugs – but not all of them are going north. Some head in the opposite direction with a hidden cargo of naloxone, a life-saving medicine that can reverse an opioid overdose but is so restricted as to be practically inaccessible...

Conditions at Ciudad Juárez zoo on US-Mexico border not suitable so container takes Benito to conservation park 1,000 miles away A giraffe named Benito has started a 50-hour road trip to leave behind the cold and loneliness of Mexico’s northern border city of Ciudad Juárez to find warmth – and maybe a mate – in his new home 2,000km (1,200 miles) to the south.A...