Horn border foes given one year
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Eritrea and Ethiopia are given a year to physically mark out their shared border or face having it set for them.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - One night in May 1994, former U.S. naval officer Saul Sanchez and his wife Abigail were getting ready for the theater in this northern Mexican city when armed men banged on their door and dragged them away. They were never seen again.
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Border Patrol efforts to fight back against smugglers who pelt them with rocks and ball bearings over the border fence are reported to be taking a toll on innocent local residents, raising many a hackle.
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ALI JEGK, Arizona  - Members of a traditional Indian nation spanning the Arizona-Mexico border are complaining that work to put up a new barrier to secure the border has desecrated an ancient burial ground.
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It is a Texas showdown, a war of words over illegal immigration at the border.
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PADUA, Sep 5 (IPS) - 'Stop the Wall', say the posters on the  three-metre high metal panels that have come up to  isolate the  migrant estate on Anelli Road from their surroundings in Padua.
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A U.S. border security program that photographs and fingerprints visitors from most foreign countries has apprehended just one terrorism-related suspect since its 2004 inception, officials said on Wednesday.
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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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Some of the presidentâs allies view him as pursuing amnesty for foreign law breakers when he should be focusing on border security.
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Fighting people smugglers and drug runners is old hat for China&#039;s border police who now have a new duty -- defusing marital squabbles and other disputes.
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
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Eleven years after the war ended, local political leaders are inflaming ethnic tensions and risking further instability -- or even possibly violence
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House Republicans seeking to build a pre-election record for getting tough on illegal immigration plan a new vote Thursday on a border fence proposal that won House approval last December.
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More than 1,300 members of the armed forces  receive criminal convictions while serving in Northern Ireland.
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Over the last year, illegal immigrants and their families have retreated from community life under the pressure of tougher federal and local enforcement.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given Argentina a one-year extension on repaying $US1.1 billion ($A1.58 billion) in debt.
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The US and Mexico try to defuse a row about increasing violence near their shared border.