Panel fears border fence violates treaty
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A planned, much-debated fence along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to keep people from crossing the Rio Grande could exacerbate flooding and skew the national boundary, a binational commission said Wednesday.
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Agriculture Secretary nominee Mike Johanns will draw sharp questions from Midwestern lawmakers about the U.S. decision to reopen its borders to Canadian beef despite a second case of mad cow disease in Alberta.
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The U.S. government has a blunt message for landowners along the Mexico border: Let us on your land or we'll sue. It's the latest battle over a border fence. Eloisa Tamez isn't about to give up land in her family since 1767. "I am not backing down," she told CNN.
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Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski downplayed in a newspaper interview fears Poland could block agreement on a new treaty to replace the defunct European Union constitution at a summit in Brussels this week.
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Technical and management troubles have caused the government's effort to secure a portion of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border with a chain of surveillance towers to fall behind schedule, jeopardizing the success of a costly project meant to showcase the Bush administration's tougher stance on...
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An influential UN-appointed panel challenged the Bush administration&#39;s right to use military force against an enemy that does not pose an imminent military threat.
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SRINAGAR: Illegal fencing by India of Line of Control in Kashmir has been going in violation of agreements and most of the projected work is reportedly nearing completion.
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns  told a U.S. cattle industry group on Friday that he had  "concerns" about the government's plan to open the border on  March 7 to imports of beef from Canadian animals over 30 months  of age.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 11--U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva is pushing a bill that would prod the federal government to find alternatives to building a 700-mile border fence across major public land preserves.
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WASHINGTON -- Political events in bordering countries can be as disturbing as a family from &quot;the other side of the tracks&quot; moving into one&#39;s neighborhood.
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GENEVA  - A United Nations human-rights panel expressed concern Britain limits its adherence to the global treaty against torture when it comes to its troops' actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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SBInet, a set of perimeter protection technologies that would be used to guard U.S. borders, could cost $30 billion, and Democratic members of Congress are questioning the oversight and methods for design and construction.
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A scientific panel of international experts has concluded that the unintended spread of  U.S. genetically modified corn in Mexico poses a potential threat that should be limited or stopped.
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AT ISSUE: Critics accuse Border Patrol of underreporting number of illegal immigrants who die crossing border. Border Patrol says its vigilance has helped reduce deaths.
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Mexico and four Central American nations condemned the U.S plan to build hundreds of miles of triple-layered fencing on its southern border, saying it would not stop illegal immigration.
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WASHINGTON -- Without their knowledge, millions of Americans and foreigners crossing U.S. borders in the past four years have been assigned scores generated by U.S. government computers rating the risk that the travelers are terrorists or criminals.
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Building a fence in an attempt to secure the U.S. border with Mexico is impractical and would simply lead illegal immigrants to cross elsewhere, according to former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and other experts.