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A man attempts to resuscitate a man from Mexico who is unconscious and lays on the shore of the Rio Grande River in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, #Mexico, February 24, 2024.REUTERS/Cheney Orr

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In the early evening of Feb. 24, a small group of Guatemalan migrants approached the Rio Grande at Piedras Negras carrying their belongings, led by their coyote (smuggler guide) as they sought to cross to Eagle Pass, Texas. Photographer Cheney Orr saw them enter the water. At first they seemed nervous but excited. But it soon became clear the current was strong and the group lost their footing and returned to the Mexican side. Then they decided to try again. This time the mood was more somber. A U.S. National Guard officer arrived on the opposite bank and shouted at them in Spanish through a megaphone to return, telling them the river was dangerous. This time, as they reached the center and again lost their footing, they became separated and were dragged away by the current. Men came running to help and managed to grab one of them, pull him out of the water and resuscitate him. It turned out to be the smuggler, who was escorted away from the river by authorities, along with other survivors of the incident. Reuters was unable to establish his name or what happened to him afterwards. Orr did trace the families of two of the migrants who drowned in the failed crossing attempt - 25-year-old Rossanna and her partner, 26-year-old Widman. Exact numbers are hard to come by, but a recent investigation by the Washington Post and others found at least 1,107 people drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande between 2017 and 2023.
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Eliana, 22, a migrant from Venezuela, holds her three-year-old daughter Chrismarlees as she shouts towards an Army National Guard soldier after he halts her from breaching a razor wire-laden fence along the bank of the Rio Grande river in El Paso, #Texas, U.S., March 26, 2024. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

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The woman caught - literally - in rolls of razor wire at the U.S.-Mexican border in this photo gave her name as Eliana, a 22-year-old Venezuelan who was attempting to cross with her two young daughters into Texas in March. Photographer Adrees Latif met her as she hid with some migrants while others cut a hole in the fence. “After weeks of traveling north from her home country of Venezuela, the opportunity she awaited was only moments away,” said Latif. “Her aim was to make a 100-meter dash past the razor-wire fence, without being stopped by Army soldiers and state troopers, towards the border wall, where she would be allowed to surrender to immigration officials.” Once a space was cleared, the migrants began running through. Eliana’s six-year-old daughter Ariana crossed with another Venezuelan migrant. Right behind her was Eliana, carrying three-year-old Chrismarlees. Then she got snagged on the wire. At the moment of the photo, she is trying to push through, but a U.S. National Guard soldier has arrived and is telling the migrants to return. Eliana backed away, said Latif. Nursing cuts from the wire, she huddled with the remaining migrants - and said she would seek to return. Reuters was unable to determine what happened to Eliana or her daughters after the incident. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency declined to comment.
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Helen, a 5-year-old migrant girl from Venezuela traveling with her family and seeking asylum in the United States, covers herself from the cold during the celebration of Epiphany Day, at the border between Mexico and the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, #Mexico, January 6, 2024. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

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A group of migrants waits to be treated by the Red Cross after arriving on a fibreglass boat, at the beach of Castillo del Romeral on the island of Gran Canaria, #Spain. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

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An inflatable dinghy carrying migrants makes its way towards England in the English Channel, #Britain, May 4. REUTERS/Chris J. Ratcliffe

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The artwork Bright Dreams by French-Swiss artist Saype, which represents a girl holding a lighthouse pointing to a dingy boat filled with migrants, in support of the humanitarian sea rescue association SOS Mediterranee, in Irchelpark, Zurich, Switzerland, May 12. The work covers an area of 4,500 square meters using biodegradable pigments made of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

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People wait to be assisted after the arrival of a rescue ship in the port of Arrecife, #Spain. The Guardamar Urania vessel saved 147 people from three inflatable boats, including 46 survivors of a sunken dinghy. At least four people have died and four others are missing.

Photograph: Adriel Perdomo/EPA

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Syria's new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will guarantee the rights of all religious groups and called on the millions who fled the war to return home. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Ciarán Donnelly is Senior Vice President of International Programmes at the International Rescue Committee. He says that this is a moment of real opportunity but also of real danger for Syrians.
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#Climate Change made the Dangerous Humid #Heatwave in West #Africa 10 times more likely


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Climate Change made the Dangerous Humid Heatwave in West Africa 10 times more likely

By Welissa Mulei Human-caused climate change made the humid heatwave in southern West Africa during February ten times more likely, according to rapid analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists from the World Weather Attribution …
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