News brief: Big stories of the day

USPresident Donald Trump on Saturday predicted Mexico would strongly enforce a new deal under which it agreed to expand a controversial asylum program and boost security on its southern border to stem Central American migrants trying to reach the United States.

A key protest group on Saturday announced a nationwide "civil disobedience" campaign in Sudan. The campaign would run until Sudan's ruling generals transfer power to a civilian government, the protest group said.

The US ambassador to Israel did not rule out anIsraelimove to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, land that thePalestiniansseek for a state, in an interview with the New York Times published on Saturday.

On Saturday, at the busiest crossing point along Mexico`s porous southern border with Guatemala, evidence of Mexico`s promised crackdown on waves of new arrivals trying to reach the United States was nowhere to be seen.

After a day-long visit to the Maldives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a state visit to Sri Lanka on Sunday.The prime minister will be personally received by his Sri Lankan counterpart Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo today.