The Mexican president blamed the extreme right of the Republican Party for pushing the administration of US President Joe Biden, a Democrat, to approve new wall construction ahead of the US 2024 presidential election.

Lopez Obrador emphasised officials must address root causes driving migration, including people's need to find work and improve their living conditions.

US Homeland says border patrol agents have seen a 50% drop in the number of migrants crossing the border.

Nineteen people died after gunmen attacked the prison a few miles south of El Paso, Texas, killing guards and inmates and triggering a mass escape that included cartel kingpin Ernesto Alfredo Pinon de la Cruz.

The incident occurred in the Tawang sector of India's northeastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, which borders China's south and is also claimed by Beijing.

Finland has a history of wars with Russia, but the forest-covered border is still only marked with signs and plastic lines for most of its 1,300km length.

For some, smuggling is a matter of course but for others, illegal activities are far more dangerous.

The flood water inundated more than 2,000 households in Mae Sai township in Thailand's northern Chiang Rai province as well as Myanmar's Tachilek border town, local media reports.

To the already imposing obstacles for people trying to enter the US, Covid-19 adds another: a quick-fix health rule called Title 42 that allows authorities to remove anyone simply because they might be carrying the disease.

New Zealand had some of the toughest border controls in the world during the Covid pandemic as part of government efforts to keep the coronavirus out.

The aviation hub, a key gateway for people arriving in Asia, joins other countries in the region that have recently dropped travel curbs as they shift to living with Covid-19.

This is to facilitate the movement of traffic with the reopening of the Malaysia-Singapore land border beginning April 1.