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No work, no trade on empty Silk Road in northern Afghanistan
Hairatan, the only crossing between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, is an ominous bellwether of economic activity in northern Afghanistan.
25 May 2016
Kazakh-Kyrgyz boarders opened with Kyrgyzstan's accession to EEU
The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and Almazbek Atambayev, President of Kyrgyzstan, have opened the customs border between the two countries.
14 August 2015
Kazakhstani popular tourist destinations open for foreigners again
Kazakhstan government has revised the decree that made many popular resorts a special border zone requiring special passes. Foreigners will no longer have to obtain permits to visit them.
06 August 2015
Bangladesh, India exchange land islands in historic deal
Bangladesh and India prepared to swap tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes.
31 July 2015
Thousands celebrate historic India-Bangladesh border pact
Thousands living near the Bangladesh-India border celebrated an historic agreement that will allow them to choose their nationality.
08 June 2015
Chase and gunshots stop poachers at Caspian Sea
Kazakhstani coast guards have stopped four Azeri poachers, who were trying to escape the territorial waters of Kazakhstan with nearly a ton of sturgeon.
31 March 2015
Separatists doubt Kiev will control 'their' Russian border
The separatist guard at a crossing point between Ukraine and Russia poured scorn on Kiev regaining control despite a new peace deal.
14 February 2015
Kazakh Border Services recieve $3mln worth of equipment from USA
The US has presented Kazakhstani Border Services with modular shelter complexes and related equipment totally worth $3 million.
26 November 2014
New ship to guard Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea border
Kazakhstan’s Border Service has added a new ship to guard the country's border at the Caspian Sea.
14 October 2014
Ukraine prepares to close Russia border to halt 'intervention'
President Petro Poroshenko instructed his government to consider temporarily closing Ukraine's porous border with Russia.
25 September 2014
Mexico stops migrants from climbing 'Beast' train
Mexican authorities have launched operations to block Central American migrants from illegally hitching rides on a freight train.
09 August 2014
Myanmar makes $2.3mn heroin bust in 'Golden Triangle'
Myanmar authorities have seized 140 kilograms (310 lbs) of heroin packed into blocks and hidden in a car in the notorious "Golden Triangle" area near the Thai border, police said.
31 July 2014
Obama, Central American leaders meet on child migrants
President Barack Obama met Friday with three Central American leaders to try to get control of an humanitarian crisis triggered by a tide of child migrants crossing the southern US border.
26 July 2014
Canada expels 20 Hungarians for human trafficking
Canada announced the extradition of 20 Hungarians convicted in what authorities described as the largest human trafficking case in Canadian history, for forcing eastern European refugee claimants into slavery.
23 July 2014
Texas governor to send 1,000 troops to Mexico border
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced plans to send 1,000 military reservists to the state's border with Mexico, to tackle a surge in immigrant children flooding into the United States.
22 July 2014
Prize-winning reporter freed after being held at US border
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and activist Jose Antonio Vargas, who revealed in 2011 that he is an undocumented immigrant, was freed by US border agents after being held for several hours.
17 July 2014
Ukrainian plane hit by missile, say villagers on Russia border
Two men lean on the smouldering wreckage of a Ukrainian airforce plane. They poke among the debris, looking for anything of value. Using an iron bar, one of them moves a Kalashnikov rifle to reveal what appears to be a charred human limb.
15 July 2014
Two dead, 18 missing as boat capsizes off Malaysia
At least two people died and 18 others were missing after an overloaded boat carrying illegal Indonesian immigrants capsized off the coast of southern Malaysia, a maritime official said.
15 July 2014
Body of Guatemala teen sent home after failed attempt to enter US
The body of a 15-year-old who died while trying to migrate illegally into the United States was repatriated to Guatemala Friday, amid a raging US debate over how to stem a flood of similar cases.
12 July 2014
Northern Israel hit by rocket from Lebanon: army
A rocket fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel early Friday, causing troops to hit back with artillery fire over the border, the Israeli army said.
11 July 2014