MPs have criticised bonuses totalling £295,000 paid to UK Border Agency officials last year, saying it was still clearly under-performing.UK Border Agency documents show a raft of cases where there is no formal record of applicants having le
KABUL - Afghan officials said Sunday that 26 militants were killed in a gun battle with border security guards along the Pakistan frontier. NATO also reported that an Afghan woman was killed when she was struck by an international forces vehicle in
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia says nine of its soldiers fighting Yemeni rebels on the border are missing and the kingdom's monarch is vowing to defend the country. A defense ministry statement said the fate of the soldiers remains unknown. The
MEXICO CITY - Residents in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez will soon be able to report crime through an anonymous international tip line, Mayor Jose Reyes said Wednesday. Reyes said officials teamed up with the international organiz
MEXICO CITY - A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. Brian Quigley, a spokesman for the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, said U.S. citizen
KABUL - Five Afghan border security guards have died in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. Gen. Abdul Raziq, a border security commander, said Sunday that the bombing occurred before dawn on a heavily used road in t
ZAGREB - The Croatian parliament ratified on Friday a deal with Slovenia for international arbitration to resolve a border row between the two countries that blocked Zagreb's bid to join the European Union. Today we are concluding a major and impo
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. State prosecutor's spokesman Arturo Sandoval says the c
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