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I Walked Across The Gaza Border And It Was Surreal And Depressing
Crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip was supposed to be easy.The $35-million, 375,000-square-foot border terminal at Erez looks like an international airport, with a soaring wave-like dome reaching...
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The Paris Attacks Could Be Used As Justification For Tighter Borders And More...
Paris (AFP) - Increased Internet surveillance and tighter border checks are "urgently" needed to foil jihadist attacks of the sort that rocked Paris this week, European, US and Canadian security...
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This chart shows how almost every country in the world has a disputed border
The borders of the world's countries don't change that often any more. And when they do, it's big news.The peace agreement that allowed South Sudan to break off from the rest of Sudan in 2011 came...
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What it's like to live in the shadow of the US-Mexico border fence
Perhaps no debate in the US has been as heated in the past decade as the one over control of the US-Mexico border. At the center of the argument are cities like Brownsville, Texas, which is so close to...
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Jordan's most important trade route has been cut after the Syria border closure
Amman (AFP) - When security fears forced Jordan to close its last border crossing with Syria this month, it severed its most important trade route to the outside, further straining an economy already...
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20 striking photos of international borders from around the world
History, politics, and demographics have helped to shape the international borders that separate countries around the world. While some boundaries simply consist of markings on a road, in areas of...
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9 countries that ceased to exist in the 20th century
There's nothing quite like the bragging rights of a new, exotic stamp in your passport. However, that won't be happening with the following countries, which, as of astonishingly recently, no longer...
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M.I.A. takes on the refugee crisis in provocative new music video for 'Borders'
M.I.A. takes on the global refugee crisis with a self-directed video for her recently released single, "Borders."The new video features M.I.A. joining refugees as they climb barbed-wire fences, wade in...
View ArticleHere's how the map of the United States has changed in 200 years
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This epic map shows the border disputes that could tear Asia apart
As the US makes a military and strategic "pivot to Asia," it is entering a highly complex and fluid geopolitical environment.China's territorial disputes with its neighbors in the South China Sea have...
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The EU's most powerful official says 'borders are the worst invention ever'
The European Union's most powerful official says increasing border control is not how Europe should deal with the continuing challenge of the refugee crisis.Speaking at the European Forum Alpbach on...
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The EU's most powerful official says 'borders are the worst invention ever'
The European Union's most powerful official says increasing border control is not how Europe should deal with the continuing challenge of the refugee crisis.Speaking at the European Forum Alpbach on...
View ArticleTrump is not alone — animated map shows 6 border walls being built around the...
One of Donald Trump's most controversial campaign promises is to build a wall on the border between the United States and Mexico in an attempt to control illegal immigration. Trump's idea has been...
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24 striking photos of international borders from around the world
There was a lot of discussion of the US border during Wednesday night's final presidential debate. While Republican nominee Donald Trump reiterated his plans to build a wall between the border of the...
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Britain is building the world's most advanced warship in Scotland next year
Britain will start building the world's most advanced warship on the Clyde, in Scotland next summer, said the UK defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon.Fallon announced the timing for the construction of...
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A border expert told us why we keep building more walls and why they won’t work
In 1990 there were 15 border walls in the world — today there are almost 70.Not only is the number of brick divisions increasing; the number of deaths at borders is as well.Border restrictions have...
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A border expert told us why we keep building more walls and why they won’t work
In 1990 there were 15 border walls in the world — today there are almost 70.Not only is the number of brick divisions increasing; the number of deaths at borders is as well.Border restrictions have...
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23 striking photos of international borders from around the world
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to begin the funding and construction of a border wall between the US and Mexico, one of his long-standing campaign promises. While its...
View Article5 state borders in America that make no sense
The United States is a collection of oddly shaped territories whose silhouettes have become instantly recognizable. How did Michigan lay claim to the Upper Peninsula and not Wisconsin? Here are the...
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Trump administration demands nations provide more traveler info or face...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department will require all nations to provide extensive data to help it vet visa applicants and determine whether a traveler poses a terrorist threat, according...
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