IN BRIEF.

MEXICO & USA In December, Mexican officials sped up the transfer of thousands of migrants from southern Mexico to other regions as it prepared to receive asylum seekers from the USA. INDIAN OCEAN A new assessment of coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean indicates they are at high risk of collapse in the next 50 years due to global heating and overfishing. Joe Biden's administration said it would re-instate the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a Trump-era policy that requires asylum seekers to wait out their cases in Mexico. [Extracted from the article]