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New Maine-New Brunswick border crossings open
Calais :: ME :: USA | 9 days ago
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Maine— A new border crossing complex in Maine and New Brunswick is open for business. The 54-acre, $125 million project in the United States and Canada opened on Monday with little fanfare. The Bangor Daily News says a formal opening ceremony is scheduled...
Tags: Maine-New Brunswick, border crossing, Calais, Calais Maine, Penobscot County Maine, Maine, Milltown International Bridge, St. Stephen ￢ﾀﾓ Calais Bridge, Cities in Maine, Bridges in Maine, Washington County Maine
Illegal immigrants and smugglers get border fence freedom?
Over 300 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexican border that was supposed to prevent illegal immigrations and smugglers from crossing was stripped by Congress from a Department of Homeland security bill. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) had offered an amendment...
Tags: illegal immigrants, border fence, border crossing, drug smugglers
Police: Federal Agents Felt Trapped In Border Gun Battle
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility An investigator said federal agents felt trapped when they fired guns at a van packed with suspected illegal immigrants at the San Ysidro Port of Entry...Kevin Rooney said Wednesday that the agents were on foot and didn't have an area where they felt...
Tags: U.S.-Mexico, illegal immigration, San Diego, border crossing, federal agents, felt trapped, related terms, agents felt, van packed, ysidro port
U.S.-Canadian border crossing closed
Cornwall :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility The international border crossing at Cornwall, Ontario, was closed for hours Saturday over a beef between Canadian officials and area Mohawks, police said. Cornwall police directed traffic away from the crossing bridge from about 12:30 p.m. to 5:30...
Tags: border crossing, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Cornwall Island, Canadian Border Services Agency, Canada, Cornwall
Police Head in Bulgaria's Kardzhali Resigns Prompted by Minister
Sofia :: Bulgaria | 3 months ago
Credibility Domestic August 23, 2009, Sunday Stefan Angelov, head of the police in Kardzhali, has resigned after a prompting by the Interior Minister. The Regional Interior Ministry Director in the southern Bulgarian city of Kardzhali, Commissar Stefan Angelov, has...
Natives blockade Ont. bridge in sympathy protest
Cornwall :: Canada | 5 months ago
Credibility A bridge in eastern Ontario blockaded Sunday night by native protesters will remain shut until the federal government moves to resolve a standoff with Akwesasne Mohawks that has closed a Canada-U.S. border crossing, one of the native protesters said Monday....
Tags: Ontario, protesters block, eastern ontario, border crossing, border guards
Egypt nabs sheep headed for Gaza
Gaza :: Palestine | 8 months ago
Credibility Egyptian police said that on Sunday night they discovered and seized a flock of 560 sheep set to be transported into Gaza through underground tunnels -- the main artery for food entry into the strip. A security official said the flock was discovered in...
Tags: Gaza Strip, Gaza Tue, Egyptian, Rafah, egyptians police, rafah border, Israel, security official, border crossing, palestinian mothers
Suspected illegal immigrants found in Calif. pipe
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Eight suspected illegal immigrants, including a 16-year-old boy, were found inside a drainage pipe at the nation's busiest border crossing late Saturday after a daylong search by authorities. None of the six males and two females appeared to have suffered...
Tags: border crossing, U.S
Tracking chips could ease border crossings
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility U.S. authorities unveiled technology Thursday at the nation's busiest border crossing to read chip-enabled travel documents up to 30 feet from an inspection booth. The system promises shorter waits but raises concerns about targeting by computer hackers.
Tags: border crossing
Egypt slams Israeli 'murder'
Cairo :: Egypt | 9 months ago
Credibility Egypt condemned Israel's Saturday air raids on Gaza that killed at least 195 Palestinians as "murder" and opened its Rafah border crossing with the territory to allow the wounded through for treatment. "We call for an immediate end to Israeli military...
Tags: Gaza-Egypt, Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Hamas-Fatah, Gaza Strip, Islamist Hamas, Spokesman Gaza City, Gaza Arabs, Palestinian Authority, Cairo, border crossing
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