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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith defended the government&#39;s anti-terror measures Monday after the head of cross-border police agency Interpol warned it was not doing enough to secure its borders.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Minuteman Project, an anti-illegal-immigrant organization that has monitored the southern border, is embroiled in a nasty legal fight over accusations of financial improprieties that has splintered the group and probably will sideline it during the busiest time of the year for...
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President Bush tried to assure Republicans that border security was a force behind his push for immigration change.
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Visiting Defense Minister Robert Hill defended on Friday Canberra&#39;s proposal on a new maritime security zone following Indonesia&#39;s rejection.
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The United States and Mexico sought to defuse their spat over a U.S. alert about drug-gang violence along the border, issuing a joint statement Saturday in which Washington said its announcement was not meant to keep Americans from traveling south of the border.
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ONE of Scotlandâs most senior police officers has backed calls for householders to have the legal right to kill or injure intruders in order to defend their homes and families.
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Bank of England boss Mervyn King is defending his role in the Northern Rock banking crisis.
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Police investigating how pro-hunting protesters breached Commons security before storming the floor of the house have reason to believe it was an âinside jobâ, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens said today.
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ROMA, Texas  - Dozens of paddlers took to the waters of the Rio Grande on Saturday to protest a planned security fence along the U.S.-Mexico border that supporters say will stem the tide of illegal immigration from the south.
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Mexico warned the United States not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday after criticism by Washington over lawlessness along the border.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 22  - US authorities on Wednesday defended a decision to deny entry to former British pop star Cat Stevens and deport him back to Britain &quot;on national security grounds.
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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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SASABE, Mexico -- Mario Alberto Diaz, a biologist nearing completion of his master's degree, crawled under a barbed-wire fence marking the border with the United States one evening this summer. He had 48 hours to go in his illegal trek across the desert.
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The Mexican government called for an investigation Friday into a shooting by two federal agents that left one person dead at the world&#039;s busiest border crossing. A union representing the Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting defended the officer&#039;s conduct.
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JAKARTA: Australia defended a controversial maritime anti-terror plan on Friday after harsh words from neighbouring Indonesia that it breached international law and Jakartaâs sovereignty over its own waters.
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GLASGOW  - Walter Smith slipped into the Scotland manager&#39;s chair and immediately insisted he had not abandoned all hope of guiding the ailing national squad to the World Cup in Germany in 2006.
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Port Elizabeth - Graeme Smith hailed his team&#39;s performance after they fought their way back into the first Test against England at St George&#39;s Park ON Sunday.