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Israel pullback alarms Lebanon border town (Reuters)

November 17th, 2010

A woman walks past concrete security blocks in the village of Ghajar on the Israeli-Lebanese border November 7, 2010. REUTERS/Nir EliasReuters - Israel said on Wednesday it would withdraw troops from a village straddling the Lebanese border, in a gesture to the United Nations that drew residents onto the streets…

Lax Egypt border lets Hamas rearm: Israeli official (Reuters)

November 14th, 2010

Reuters - Egypt is not doing nearly enough to clamp down on arms smuggling into Gaza, allowing the Palestinian militant group Hamas to build up a potent arsenal of rockets,…

Israel set to present Lebanese border plan to U.N. (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will on Monday present a plan to the United Nations for Israel’s withdrawal from part of a disputed village along the Lebanese border, a…

Mexico kills top drug lord at U.S. border (Reuters)

November 6th, 2010

Reuters - Mexican marines killed drug baron Ezequiel “Tony Tormenta” Cardenas in a ferocious gunfight at the U.S. border on Friday, a fleeting victory for President Felipe Calderon that is…

U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

Reuters - U.S. border police have found a sophisticated smuggler’s tunnel the length of six football fields linking Southern California with Mexico and believed to have been used by drug…

Korean border shooting likely an accident-lawmaker (Reuters)

November 1st, 2010

A South Korean soldier checks his rifle before patrolling along a fence in the demilitarized zone separating North Korea from South Korea in Paju, about 50 km (31 miles) north of Seoul in this November 13, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/FilesReuters - An exchange of gunfire across the heavily armed border between the two Koreas last week was likely an accident and not a deliberate provocation by the prickly North,…

North Korea border shooting likely an accident, says official (Reuters)

November 1st, 2010

A South Korean soldier checks his rifle before patrolling along a fence in the demilitarized zone separating North Korea from South Korea in Paju, about 50 km (31 miles) north of Seoul in this November 13, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/FilesReuters - An exchange of gunfire across the heavily armed border between the two Koreas last week was likely an accident and not a provocation by the North, a top…

Koreas exchange gunfire at land border (Reuters)

October 29th, 2010

North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Reuters - North and South Korea exchanged gunfire across their heavily armed land border on Friday, the South’s military said, despite an apparent thaw in tensions on the divided peninsula…

Shots fired at Korean border: South’s defense ministry (Reuters)

October 29th, 2010

Reuters - North Korea fired gunshots across its heavily armed border toward rival South Korea on Friday, a defense ministry official in Seoul said.

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Gunbattles stir panic in 2 Mexican border cities (AP)

October 20th, 2010

Tonnes of marijuana are being incinerated at the military base Morelos in Tijuana October 20, 2010. Soldiers seized 134 tonnes of marijuana on Monday in Mexico's biggest-ever pot haul, the army said. Heavily armed soldiers raided a series of homes in a poor suburb of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, and came under fire at least once as they took the drugs, also arresting 11 suspected traffickers. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW SOCIETY)AP - Mexican soldiers battled gunmen in two cities across the border from Texas on Wednesday, prompting panicked parents to pull children from school and factories to warn workers to…