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Iraqi official says Iranian troops cross border (AP)

June 5th, 2010

Israeli soldiers, top, fire tear gas canisters to disperse Palestinian youths during an anti-Israeli demonstration in the West Bank village of Iraq Burin, near the city of Nablus, Saturday, June 5, 2010. Israeli forces seized Saturday the Gaza-bound 1,200-ton Rachel Corrie aid ship without meeting resistance, preventing it from breaking the Israeli maritime blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory days after a similar effort turned bloody. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - A senior Kurdish official in northern Iraq says Iranian troops have crossed the Iraqi border in pursuit of Iranian Kurdish rebels.


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NKorea threatens to ban border traffic (AP)

May 26th, 2010

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walks down the steps of her aircraft upon arrival at the Seoul Military Airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)AP - North Korea threatened Wednesday to block all cross-border traffic and blow up any South Korean loudspeakers blasting propaganda northward after a six-year hiatus, as tensions soared over the…

NKorean navy boats violate sea border amid tension (AP)

May 16th, 2010

South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan, center, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, center left, and Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, center right, walk at Bulguk Temple in Gyeongju, South Korea, Sunday, May 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - Two North Korean naval boats briefly crossed the tense western sea border with South Korea in the first such violation since a South Korean warship sank in the…

Report: Kim’s train crosses border into China (AP)

May 2nd, 2010

AP - A news report says North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s personal train has crossed the border into China, indicating that Kim may have begun a much-speculated trip there.

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Red tape idles aid trucks at Haiti’s border (AP)

April 2nd, 2010

A youth carries roosters from the Dominican Republic to Haiti at the border in Malpasse, Haiti, Thursday, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - After six days of waiting at Haiti’s border, Mario Polanco was losing patience with the red tape holding up his truck full of earthquake relief supplies.


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N. Korea accuses U.S., S. Korea of disturbing border (AP)

March 29th, 2010

A North Korean border guard marches in the truce village of Panmunjom in 2009. North Korea complained on Monday that the South was engaging in psychological warfare along their heavily militarised border and warned of unpredictable results including AP - North Korea warned the U.S. and South Korea of possible deadly consequences Monday in retaliation for what it called psychological warfare involving journalist tours to the South’s portion…

NKorea accuses US, SKorea of disturbing border (AP)

March 28th, 2010

AP - North Korea has warned the U.S. and South Korea of “unpredictable incidents” after it says they have been disturbing security at a buffer zone bisecting the peninsula.

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Fear grips Mexican border families amid violence (AP)

March 17th, 2010

A child peers from behind a fence outside his home on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. The violence has risen to such levels in Ciudad Juarez that everyone feels at risk in the city of 1.3 million, where innocent people have been increasingly caught in the crossfire. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - Elodia Ortiz drops her children at school in the morning, picks them up in the afternoon and makes an occasional trip to the supermarket. Anything else, she says,…

New border violence erupts with Mexico cartel rift (AP)

March 13th, 2010

AP - This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico’s bloody drug war for years, but now the bodies are…