US Opens 1st Northern Border Air Patrol Station
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The US government is stepping up efforts to patrol its porous northern border with Canada by using helicopters, airplanes and boats to monitor illegal immigration and drug traffic, officials said on Friday.
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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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MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania  - The United States and Romania have started military training exercises to test installations that will become the first U.S. facilities in the former Soviet bloc, a plan opposed by Russia.
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The Border Patrol on Thursday graduated a second class of recruits within a week for the first time, days after National Guard troops began leaving the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The airport closest to the nation's capital is now the first to test boarding passes for residue from explosives. A positive test would suggest the passenger had recently handled explosives. The Transportation Security Administration began the pilot project this week at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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The U.S. military's lone outpost in South America is a modest affair &#151; some 220 Americans share space with a local air force wing and an international airport. They are allowed no more than eight planes at a time.
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ALLENBY BRIDGE, West Bank  - The first battalion of Palestinian security forces crossed into Jordan on Thursday to begin training under a U.S. program after nearly a year-long delay.
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A team of U.S. officials and nuclear experts crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea on Tuesday on a rare visit to survey the communist state's nuclear facilities.
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OTAY MESA - The US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday that a biometric identification system, piloted in San Diego three years ago, has been implemented in all 136 Border Patrol stations around the country.
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Extreme cold, ice, darkness challenge Airmen As temperatures hover at 30 degrees below zero, the Airmen and radars of Detachment 3, 22nd Space Operations Squadron stand watch over North America's frozen north.
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Bridges to Mexico in this traffic-choked city began testing a new immigration security program Monday that requires some U.S. visitors to be fingerprinted and photographed as they cross the border.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 11 -- As Air Force One swooped over the Andes Mountains toward this city for the first time in a quarter-century, President Bush and his aides sat in the front compartments with an optimistic message about improved security after decades of civil war and drug trafficking.
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The Department of Homeland Security   on Thursday said it hired Boeing Co. BA.N to build a   projected $2 billion "virtual fence" equipped with sensors and   cameras along the U.S. border with Mexico and Canada to help   control illegal immigration.
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United Airlines on Thursday  launched the first daily flight service to Vietnam from the  United States since 1975.
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The U.S. military said it is testing a system to beam red and green lasers at aircraft in the Washington area as a warning when they enter restricted airspace.
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US authorities have given a European-led consortium peremission to build the first uranium enrichment plant in the United States for 30 years.
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Boeing wins a government contract to monitor the 7,500 miles of borders the US has with Mexico and Canada.