Immigration officials and National Guard officers on January 20 rounded up dozens of migrants who crossed the border from Guatemala to Mexico, in a new challenge for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's efforts to contain migration at the bidding of the United States. The mostly Honduran migrants appeared to grow impatient on the bridge over the Suchiate River that connects the two countries after some were denied permission to cross by assembled Mexican migration officials.

Migrants scuffle with Mexican troops while trying to cross river into Mexico

India, the world's biggest sugar producer, is poised to break its own export record this year thanks to a flurry of overseas sales in the past few months, prompted by attractive global prices, trade, and industry officials said on Tuesday.

Indian sugar exports poised to hit record 5 million tonnes this year

The United States and Honduras are discussing how to increase temporary legal employment opportunities for Hondurans in the United States, as the governments work to hammer out details of an immigration agreement.

United States, Honduras discuss temporary work opportunities for Hondurans

Honduras is not considering a so-called safe third country designation for migrants seeking refuge in the United States, foreign minister Lisandro Rosales said late on Monday, denying reports of a deal agreed with US officials.

Not considering safe third country migration deal with US: Honduras

The United States on Monday congratulated Alejandro Giammattei on winning Guatemala's presidential election and pledged to work with him on halting migration from the Central American country.

US looks to work with new Guatemala president Alejandro Giammattei on migration

Conservative Alejandro Giammattei swept aside his centre-left rival in Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday and now inherits an unpopular migration deal agreed under duress with the Trump administration that could severely test his country.

Guatemala conservative Alejandro Giammattei romps to landslide win, faces big migration test

Guatemalans on Sunday elect a new president who will face a major challenge after the country agreed with Washington to act as a buffer against illegal immigration under pressure from US President Donald Trump.

Guatemala elects a new president to inherit Donald Trump migration bind

Guatemala`s refugee agency meets only sporadically and operates on a bare-bones basis, adding to doubts about how the crime-wracked, impoverished Central American country will cope with a surge in asylum-seekers under a deal signed with Washington.

Guatemala's shortcomings raise doubts about US migration deal

The two contenders to be Guatemala's next president questioned on Saturday the validity of a deal struck by the country's government with the United States that aims to curb the flow of migrants north from Central America.

Guatemalan presidential candidates question US migration deal

President Donald Trump announced Friday that a "landmark" asylum agreement has been reached with Guatemala, as the United States ratchets up pressure on its southern neighbours to stem the flow of migrants towards its border.

US President Donald Trump announces controversial asylum deal with Guatemala

US President Donald Trump's administration plans to divert more than $40 million in humanitarian aid for Central America to support the US-backed opposition in Venezuela, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.

Trump administration plans to divert $40 million in aid to Venezuela's opposition

A Guatemalan asylum seeker left some members of a US House panel visibly shaken on Wednesday with the story of her daughter's death, saying the toddler had contracted a deadly lung infection during 20-day detention near the US border with Mexico.

'World should know,' migrant tells US Congress of toddler's death

Guatemalans on Sunday (June 16) voted for a new president, who will face the daunting challenge of curbing drug gang violence that has ravaged the country and helped spur illegal immigration to the United States, stoking tensions with President Donald Trump.

Polls close in Guatemala presidential race as secound round looks likely

A Mexican judge has freed two migrant rights activists who organised caravans, said a member of their legal team and a rights group on Wednesday, a week after their arrest which their supporters said was meant to appease the Trump administration.

Two prominent migrant rights defenders freed in Mexico

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.

It's business as usual at Mexico's southern border despite Trump deal

At least 18 citizens in Guatemala were killed on Wednesday night after they were hit by a semi-trailer truck on a highway, Guatemalan rescue officials said. The accident occurred at the entry point to the western town of Nahuala, which has a population of around 65,000, the majority of whom are K’iche’ Maya.

At least 18 Guatemalans dead after being hit by truck

A new US-bound caravan of Honduran migrants grew to nearly 1,000 people as it neared the Guatemalan border on Tuesday, a Honduran official said, while US President Donald Trump seized on news of the group to try to drum up support for a border wall.

US-bound Honduran migrant caravan grows as Trump argues for wall

United States President Donald Trump on Saturday once again blamed the Democrats, who obstructed his plans of building a wall in the southern border with Mexico to stop illegal migration, for the death of migrant children crossing into the US.

Trump blames Democrats for deaths of children at the border

President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States will eliminate all economic assistance to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in retaliation for the caravans of Central American migrants arriving at the southern border.

'Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are doing nothing for US,' says Trump vowing to end all aid

'US can't be world's policeman': Trump defends Syria pullout in surprise visit to Iraq President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria and said that his country cannot be the world's policeman in a surprise visit to troops deployed in Iraq.

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Migrant children will receive more thorough medical checks after an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy died in US custody this week, the US government said on Wednesday, and his mother expressed grief and despair over his death.

US expands medical checks after Guatemala boy dies; mother 'in despair'

Guatemalan authorities declared a red alert and evacuated around 4,000 people Monday after the Fuego volcano erupted for the fifth time this year, sending bursts of ash and lava down the mountain before its activity decreased.

Thousands evacuated as Guatemala volcano erupts, then eases

Guatemalan authorities on Monday declared a red alert after the Fuego volcano erupted again, forcing about 3,000 residents to flee. A fiery glow rose from the crater of Fuego which is erupting for the fifth time this year, one month after the last one and following a June 3 rain of rocks, ash and toxic gases that left almost 200 people dead and 235 missing.

Red alert after Guatemala volcano erupts again, 3,000 flee

Migrants form Human Chains to cross river at Guatemala and Mexico border

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