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In California, US town fears migrant invasion
Days after things nearly turned ugly here, several residents kept up their protest against a surge of undocumented migrants near the border with Mexico.
05 July 2014
S.Korea president apologises for army shooting
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye apologised Monday for a deadly front-line shooting rampage by an army conscript and called for a close look at abuses in barracks.
30 June 2014
US says Mexican chopper crosses border, shoots twice
A Mexican military helicopter ventured around 100 yards (meters) into the United States and fired two shots, the US border security agency said Friday in a claim quickly denied by Mexico.
28 June 2014
Mexican police attacked in ambush
One policeman died and three were wounded in an ambush in a Mexican state along the US border that is ravaged by drug cartel violence, officials said.
27 June 2014
Biden to discuss child migrants at Guatemala visit
US Vice President Joe Biden travels to Guatemala on Friday to discuss the growing numbers of unaccompanied minors from Central America and Mexico illegally trying to cross the US border.
20 June 2014
Police officer killed, plane shot down in Ukraine's east
A Ukrainian plane was shot down as fighting continued in the east of the country on Friday, amid signs the government was losing control of parts of its border with Russia.
07 June 2014
Obama urges Putin to rein in Ukraine insurgents
US President Barack Obama urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a phone call Monday to press pro-Moscow groups to lay down their arms in Ukraine, as the Kiev government sought UN help to tackle the growing insurgency.
15 April 2014
North, South Korea trade live fire over sea border
The two Koreas traded live artillery fire across their disputed maritime border Monday, forcing South Korean islanders to take shelter a day after the North drove up tensions by threatening a new nuclear test.
31 March 2014
Russia to deploy Iskander missiles at Kazakhstan border
Russia will place its Iskander mobile ballistic missile systems at the border with Kazakhstan.
28 March 2014
Putin takes first steps for Russia to absorb Crimea
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday took the first steps to absorb the Ukrainian region of Crimea into Russia, in what would mark the most significant redrawing of Europe's borders since World War II.
18 March 2014
Syria army in hot pursuit of rebels on Lebanon border
Syrian regime forces were Monday readying an assault on the last rebel-held areas in the Qalamoun mountains, strategically located on the Lebanese border, after overrunning key opposition bastion Yabrud.
17 March 2014
Mexico uncovers tunnel for smuggling migrants into US
Mexican authorities in the border city of Tijuana found a tunnel designed to smuggle people without documentation into the United States, the government said.
14 March 2014
Reunited Korean families hold tearful final farewell
The joy of being reunited for the first time in decades turned to grief for North and South Korean families Saturday as a rare cross-border visit ended, with participants unlikely to ever see their relatives again.
23 February 2014
Australia sorry for Indonesia intrusion but vows to stop boats
The Australian government apologised unreservedly to Jakarta on Friday after its navy "inadvertently" violated Indonesian waters during border security operations, but vowed to pursue its policies to halt asylum-seeker boats.
17 January 2014
1,500 N. Koreans escape to South in 2013: ministry
More than 1,500 North Koreans fled to South Korea last year, maintaining a recent fall in the number of escapees that coincided with a clampdown by new leader Kim Jong-Un.
13 January 2014
Seven heritages of Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev
Kazakhstanis have gained seven precious heritages as a gift, said President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the meeting dedicated to the celebration of the Independence of Kazakhstan.
18 December 2013
Russia’s Foreign Ministry sends note of protest to Kazakhstan over killing of Russian fisherman
November 25 Kazakh border guards fired shots when trying to detain two boats with eight Russians of Dagestan origin, killing one of them and injuring another.
29 November 2013
US drone strike kills two in NW Pakistan
A US drone strike targeting a militant compound killed at least two suspected insurgents in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Friday, officials said.
29 November 2013
Morocco unveils scheme to recognise illegal immigrants
Morocco has unveiled details of an "exceptional operation" to give official papers to some of its 25,000-40,000 illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, many of whom hope to reach Europe.
13 November 2013
International organizations compromise Central Asian integration
According to Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Kazakhstan Marat Shaikhutdinov, external players are more concerned with the integration of Central Asia than the region itself is.
05 November 2013