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A US delegation led by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken leaves Mexico's National Palace after two hours of closed-door talks with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and other top Mexican officials in hopes of tackling surging migration, which has become a major political headache for President Joe Biden as he enters an election year. IMAGES
A top US delegation led by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrives at Mexico's National Palace to discuss surging migration with Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The unusual Christmas week trip by the top American diplomat was abruptly scheduled as the rival Republican Party presses President Joe Biden to crack down on migration as a condition for providing the votes in Congress for one of his key priorities -- support for Ukraine. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the Elysée Palace ahead of the start of the UN's "Generation Equality Forum" on gender equality, the largest international conference on the theme since 1995. IMAGES
Following in the footsteps of the Ecologists, the Insoumis MPs take their turn in the National Assembly, boosted by the Left's success in the legislative elections and with their hopes of governing intact despite the absence of an absolute majority. IMAGES
Mexico's national guard secures a Forensic Medical Service building in Acapulco, where the body of recently elected mayor Salvador Villalba Flores is being kept after he was assassinated. Villalba -- who was to take office in October in Copala, a town of about 4,000 residents about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Acapulco -- was shot dead while traveling on a highway, according to prosecutors in Guerrero state. IMAGES