But at the crossing point they are stopped yet again.
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Arizona became the deadliest crossing point from 2003 through 2013.
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A bridge over the river marks an official crossing point.
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They patrol a crossing point that has come under growing pressure.
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They took Rutba and reached [the Jordanian border crossing point at] Terbil.
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Yet desperate Syrians and Iraqis continue to arrive at the Idomeni crossing point.
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Or a movement-triggered device tethered to a tree at common crossing point.
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State TV said 13 fighters and their families had arrived at the crossing point.
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Some, like Jimenez, walked up to a border crossing point and asked for asylum.
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They include Pakistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia and at least one crossing point with Kuwait.
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His journey home entails a long detour because of the closed crossing-point at Rishton.
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The town was a major crossing point for migrants in the summer and fall of 2015.
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It's a sweetly nondescript location, and one ill-prepared to become a major illegal crossing point.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has suggested adding the Tal Abiyad border as a crossing point.
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But otherwise, Juan says his bosses out at the desert crossing point are untrusting of all phones.
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We conducted our work within 100 yards of the border crossing point which makes client confidentiality impossible.
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"Today there is no viable alternative to this crossing point," he told the council before the vote.
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For Rohingya from Inn Din and other coastal villages, Na Khaung To was the main crossing point.
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Palestine was once a crossing point for visitors hoping to travel to all of the Middle East's nations.
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The inauguration of the crossing point comes just before the 550th birthday of Sikhism's founder on Nov. 12.
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Al-Wafidin is the same crossing point through which an aid convoy entered eastern Ghouta earlier on Friday.
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They snuck past the bridge that spans the Suchiate River, the legal crossing point between Guatemala and Mexico.
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On Saturday Syrian troops hoisted national flags at the border crossing point three years after losing it to rebels.
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The town was a major crossing point for migrants in late 2015, but has hardly seen any arrivals recently.
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At one crossing point, Syrian soldiers, and a few Russians, waited at a checkpoint decorated with posters of Mr. Assad.
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About 40,000 refugees and asylum seekers registered by UNHCR are in Libya, the main crossing point from Africa to Europe.
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Many of the victims were children, and the patients coming in from the crossing point arrived with eerily consistent injuries.
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A Syrian commander told CNN that more than 2,000 people had passed through the Maysaloon crossing point since 10 Tuesday night.
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From the north we explored Narva, the third largest city in Estonia and home to the main easternmost commercial crossing point.
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Wilson, one of the raftsmen at a popular crossing point, said he ferries about ten African and Asian migrants per week.
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But the Houthi-appointed Saada governor denied what he said were Saudi media reports suggesting the crossing point had been captured.
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The incident took place at a crossing point close to the West Bank town of Ramallah, the Palestinian seat of government.
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Kerem Shalom is the crossing point where goods and supplies are brought into Gaza; Erez is the point where people cross.
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If Haitians enter Canada legally at a border crossing point and ask for refugee status, they will likely be turned back.
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BEFORE: Checkpoint Charlie, the best-known former crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin, attracts about 850,000 visitors a year.
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In a bid to compromise with Russia, the Jordanian crossing point was dropped by Belgium, Kuwait and Germany from their draft.
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The crossing point The caravan quickly grabbed the attention of world leaders as word of its formation spread over the weekend.
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In the whole Luhansk region, there is only one crossing point - a bombed out, pedestrian-only bridge on the Seversky Donets river.
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International medical NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres operates six heated tents at the Eko gas station, 15 miles from the Idomeni crossing point.
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It runs alongside the mountainous border and was used as a crossing point by the Kosovo Liberation Army rebels during the war.
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The Russian Defence Ministry website showed what it said was live footage from the al-Wafideen crossing point from Douma into government areas.
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It has the warmth of Grenache but the nerviness of a Dolcetto and, literally, it is the crossing point between France and Italy.
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"I see it as a form of protection" How Ciudad Juárez came to be the preferred crossing point for Cubans remains a mystery.
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Bellamy and Roan drive the rover to find a better crossing point, but when they do find one and radio Clarke, she doesn't answer.
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The WHO said Burundi's health ministry had begun vaccinating health workers at the Gatumba border crossing point on Tuesday using the Merck's rVSV-ZEBOV.
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At a civilian crossing point at Maiorska near the separatist-held city of Horlivka, a dozen cars are queueing to cross into the DPR.
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State television in Syria and the private al-Jadeed channel in Lebanon showed buses full of refugees at the crossing point on the frontier.
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The crossing point at Saan gives access to the main rebel enclave in northwest Syria, including Idlib province and large parts of Aleppo province.
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Macedonia has erected two lines of metal fencing topped with razor wire at the main crossing point for migrants along its southern border with Greece.
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As the Bush administration was closing down Gaza, it was opening a northern West Bank crossing point that allowed Palestinians to trade with the world.
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The 22-year-old woman was thought to have crossed the border between Uganda and Congo at an unmonitored crossing point, the deleted reports said.
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The visit took Mattis near the Texas town of Donna, where U.S. troops have set up a base camp near a border crossing point with Mexico.
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As part of the same agreement, captured Hezbollah fighters began to be released at the same crossing point between government and rebel areas in northwestern Syria.
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"We need to be assured that we will be able to deliver the humanitarian assistance under good conditions," Ali al-Za'tari told Reuters at the crossing point.
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A Haitian boy holds onto his father as they approach an illegal crossing point between Champlain, New York, and Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, on Aug. 7.
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In recent months, the popular crossing point in Hidalgo County has seen an uptick in undocumented immigrants seeking asylum in the United States, according to the Monitor.
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The men entered Nicaragua through an unauthorized crossing point known as La Guasimada in the Cardenas municipality on the southwestern border with Costa Rica, Nicaraguan police said.
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CHECKPOINT CHARLIE was the nickname that the Western Allies gave a well known crossing point of the wall between East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
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Undocumented immigrants and drugs are smuggled through McAllen, but the city is largely a crossing point for that flow of people and drugs, not a destination point.
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It's known for its brimming ecosystem of protected wildlife, its sweeping views of the water and the city, and for being a crossing point on the Bay Bridge.
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Refugees from Mosul were expected to enter Syria at Tel Sefug village, "a crossing point mainly used by smugglers", along the border with Hasaka province, the UNHCR said.
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The stream was a main crossing point for Ethiopian Army deserters fleeing to the rebels, and in recent weeks it had come under threat from advancing Ethiopian troops.
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They crossed at a "green border" zone where there is no formal crossing point, and were handed back to Russia on Saturday, a local border guard spokeswoman said.
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The Israeli military's report was issued hours after Israel lifted restrictions on its main cargo crossing point with the Gaza Strip, ending punitive measures imposed five weeks ago.
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Professor Ferriter, who grew up in Dublin, recalled his shock when, as a child, he saw the heavy military presence at a crossing point for the first time.
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Sebastian Vall, 21, was arrested on Monday at the crossing point of Murriqan with Montenegro after he boarded a bus in neighboring Kosovo, where he had procured the handguns.
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In Turkey, around 100 military vehicles, mostly tanks, took part in the drill near the Habur border gate, a crossing point into Iraq, the private news agency Dogan said.
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Abdul-Wahab Barzani, director of intelligence at the crossing point from the Kurdish region into Turkey, said Iraqi troops are in position on the Turkish side of the border.
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He soon sniffed out a better opportunity in the City of London, the warren of streets laid down by the Romans at the lowest crossing point of the Thames.
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Police said the vehicle had come from the northeastern Evros border region with Turkey, which is a major crossing point for migrants and refugees seeking a better life in Europe.
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Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano, speaking alongside his Austrian counterpart Wolfgang Sobotka at the Brenner Pass, said the extra guards would patrol the Alpine crossing point between the two countries.
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A Syrian prisoner released from a regime jail reacts as he embraces a rebel fighter upon his arrival at the al-Eiss crossing point south of Aleppo on July 18.
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Syrian state television and a witness later said bullets and mortars were fired from inside the rebel enclave at the al-Wafideen crossing point, through which the convoy had entered.
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The buses queued at a crossing point before moving into the enclave along a road on the former front lines that had been cleared of barricades, debris and unexploded ordnance.
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Some are helping themselves: there are now more than 236 police roadblocks shaking down tourists between the country's main crossing-point from South Africa and Victoria Falls, its biggest attraction.
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"Torkham is the most frequented crossing point at Pak-Afghan border, and recently even, most of the terrorists have been found using this gate for entry," the brief statement said.
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At one crossing point, a local militiaman monitored the eastern side, while Syrian soldiers stood on the other, about 200 yards away, while residents rowed across in battered metal canoes.
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This week a crew from the army appeared at the most popular informal crossing point and built a tent camp to allow police and border officials to process the newcomers.
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Details: The priority would be to build a barrier along 104 miles in the Rio Grande Valley, which is a popular crossing point and has few barriers, Vox's Dara Lind reported.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian state television on Friday reported that rebels in eastern Ghouta were shelling and shooting at the al-Wafidin crossing point to stop civilians leaving the besieged rebel enclave.
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Hurd, who said "we should not use children as a deterrent, plain and simple" in a social media post, last week visited the facility, which is near a border crossing point.
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In the spring of 1948, the war around Israel's creation changed the bridge's meaning from a welcome connection to a threat — a crossing point for an Arab expeditionary force from Iraq.
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In a second crash on Wednesday, one person was killed and four others injured when a train collided with a car at a crossing point in El Alamein, state media said.
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While Papers, Please simulated a generic border crossing point in a fictional, vaguely Eastern European country, Orwell is much more specific about how it deploys the real world into its political fictions.
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What was once the heart of a booming oil industry has now become the epicenter of a gasoline smuggling operation into Colombia, and a crossing point for the millions leaving the country.
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Relations between the two nations soured last week after Rwanda blocked Ugandan cargo trucks from entering its territory at the busiest crossing point, Katuna, and barred its nationals from crossing into Uganda.
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Syrian government forces have been on the offensive in eastern parts of Daraa province for the past five days in an operation that aims to reach a main border crossing point with Jordan.
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Trump officials have been expressing growing concern about the caravan, which started its journey in Honduras before crossing into Guatemala on its way to Tapachula, the primary crossing point from Guatemala to Mexico.
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The countries have blamed each other for the fighting that broke out on Sunday at the main crossing point between them over the construction of a new border post on the Pakistani side.
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The local official familiar with SDF operations told Reuters the airdrop operation aimed to secure a crossing point for forces coming in boats across the Euphrates, which began arriving at dawn on Wednesday.
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Taie said the bridge in the Hawi al-Kaneesa area would also spare fleeing civilians from making a long journey to the nearest crossing point, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Mosul.
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The Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy has become the main crossing point for asylum seekers and economic migrants seeking a better life in Europe, after a clampdown on sea crossings from Turkey.
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It was the second large drug shipment to be caught this year in the former Portuguese colony on the Atlantic Coast, long a major crossing point for Latin American cocaine headed to Europe.
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For the 2.8 million Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, the main crossing point to enter East Jerusalem (and Israel, if they have the proper permits) is through the Qalandiya military checkpoint.
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On Wednesday, a Syrian commander told CNN that more than 2,000 people had passed through the Maysaloon crossing point since Tuesday night -- that number has increased following the latest group to make the journey.
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But the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the national force with jurisdiction between border posts, says it intercepted 1,280 refugees between April 2016 and January 2017 at the most popular illegal-crossing point in Quebec.
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A Russian military webcam at the al-Wafideen crossing point near Douma showed small groups of civilians continuing to flee the danger of further bombardment into government territory, carrying children and sacks of belongings.
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"EUBAM Rafah maintains readiness to redeploy to the Rafah crossing point when the security and political situations will allow," said Mohammad Al-Saadi, press officer for the EU Coordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support.
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After six days of standoff, the globe didn't tip off its axis into nuclear war, but the crossing point remained a symbolic ground zero of the Cold War and seam of a divided city.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Monday said they had secured a river crossing point enabling them to open a new front against Islamic State and further tighten their grip on the militants' capital Mosul.
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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Sunday that its fighters captured Dashishah in the northeastern province of Hassakeh, a major crossing point between Iraq and Syria when IS ran its self-styled caliphate.
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Libya became a major crossing point for migrants to Europe after the 2011 ouster and killing of Gadhafi, when the North African nation was thrown into chaos, armed militias proliferated and central authority fell apart.
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She simply followed the established procedure by presenting herself at an official border crossing point and requesting asylum because her life was in danger in Honduras — nevertheless, her 18-month-old was taken from her.
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Other permanent members of the Security Council had sought to add a fifth crossing point and extend the mandate for another year, but were forced to back down in the face of Russia's veto threat.
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Hours earlier, a senior U.N. official accompanying the convoy said he was "not happy" to hear loud shelling near the crossing point into eastern Ghouta despite an agreement that the aid would be delivered in safety.
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Mr. Halabi was arrested on June 15 at the Erez crossing point between Israel and Gaza, the territory controlled by Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union.
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One recent afternoon, Mr. Mberabagabo, the border official, surveyed the crossing point with the Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands of people, goods and animals flowed back and forth, punctuated by shouts, cries and animal grunts.
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RAMONISKIAI BORDER CROSSING POINT, Lithuania (Reuters) - Lithuania has began constructing a two-meter high wire fence along its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad ahead of military exercises Moscow is planning to hold there in September.
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The IDF said several attempts to "harm or breach the security infrastructure" along the border had taken place, including the detonation of an explosive device near the disused crossing point at Karni, and the throwing of firebombs.
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Now, a similar crowded encampment, fenced in with portable toilets, water coolers and camouflage netting draped overhead for shade, appeared over the weekend near the border's busiest crossing point for migrants from Central America, in McAllen, Tex.
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The private Uzbek news agency Novosti Uzbekistana quoted the country's Border Guard Service as saying that the reinforcement on its side of the border arose from a temporary closure of the border crossing point during road repairs.
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The city was held by Sunni extremists, a crossing point between Syria and Iraq for jihadists who started as al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and morphed into Islamic State after he was killed.
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TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - On Saturday, at the busiest crossing point along Mexico's porous southern border with Guatemala, evidence of Mexico's promised crackdown on waves of new arrivals trying to reach the United States was nowhere to be seen.
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Austria is set to introduce a new border management system at Spielfeld, a key crossing point on its south-eastern border with Slovenia, which aims at speeding up applications and making the country less attractive to asylum seekers.
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A total 500 migrants were pulled to safety from overcrowded boats on Tuesday, according to the Italian Coast Guard, which coordinates rescue operations in the stretch of sea which has become the world's deadliest crossing point for migrants.
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"People were near or at the mosques when the strikes hit," Shimale said, estimating that at least 30 civilians were injured near Bustan al Qasr, the last remaining crossing point between rebel and regime-held sides of Aleppo.
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A temporary relaxation of one crossing point during one weekend last month brought frantic scenes as over 100,000 Venezuelans flooded into the Colombian city of Cúcuta desperate to buy the basic goods they can no longer find at home.
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At an Alternative for Germany rally that I witnessed in Freilassing, a nearby border town that became a main migrant crossing point, one speaker referred to the "biological, totally natural sexual needs" of the men coming over the border.
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In the first two months of this year, nearly 303 asylum seekers crossed from Russia into Finland near Salla, a crossing point west of Kandalaksha in the Finnish region of Lapland, compared with none in same period last year.
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More than a hundred cargo trucks carrying fuel, food, construction materials and other items from Kenya and Uganda have been stranded at Katuna, the busiest crossing point on the Rwanda-Uganda border since the blockade started on Feb. 27.
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" The proposal also would condemn the diversion of resources in Gaza to building tunnels to infiltrate Israel and equipment to fire rockets and express "grave concern" at the destruction of the Kerem Shalom crossing point to Israel "by actors in Gaza.
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The shocking attacks in Yuen Long, close to a major crossing point between Hong Kong and mainland China, drew swift criticism of police from lawmakers and pro-democracy activists, who questioned why officers took so long to respond to the violence.
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Earlier on Friday, which Palestinians were calling a "Day of Rage", I had tried working at the Kalandia crossing point into the West Bank, but the Israelis had thrown tear gas and I knew this would make taking good photographs difficult.
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The Rafah border -- a key crossing point in the south of the Gaza Strip -- has been subject to frequent closures by Cairo, as part of a restrictive blockade imposed on Gaza by Egypt and Israel aimed at cutting off Hamas.
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The city of Reynosa, and a nearby stretch of the Rio Grande that divides Texas from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, is by far the busiest crossing point along the northern Mexican border for migrants seeking asylum in the United States.
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" Lowcock said that the World Health Organization had warned that the removal of the Iraq crossing point from the cross-border aid operation would lead to "a reduction in the medical services available and a growing shortfall of medical supplies.
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There is one crossing point between the Israeli and Syrian sides, which until the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011 was used mainly by United Nations forces, a limited number of Druze civilians and for the transportation of agricultural produce.
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Most of the wall the administration wants to build would be in the Rio Grande Valley — the easternmost sector of the border, which has been the most popular crossing point for the past several years, especially for Central American children and families.
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"No one is talking about trade or holding candles at the border any more," he says—a mocking reference to vigils held by Pakistan's peace lobby at Wagah, the only crossing point along the 2,900km (1,800 mile) border with India (see picture).
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Consider the northern West Bank city of Jenin: Israel decided 15 years ago that if it opened a crossing point so Israeli Arabs could shop in the West Bank, it would be a stabilizer, even though the Second Intifada rebellion was ongoing.
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After that I had enough corners filled to move to the next level, which today included a few flavors of pun: At a crossing point, 42A and 29D, Mr. Fagliano hinted us to use the odd and even characters in his clues.
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The Tohono O'odham (pronounced Toh-HO-noh AW-tham) reservation has been a popular crossing point for unauthorized migrants and one of the busiest drug-smuggling corridors along the southern border, in part because the federal government strengthened the security at other spots.
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Image 2 of 2 BEIRUT – Rebels said Friday that they have reached an agreement with Russian mediators to end violence in southern Syria and surrender the crossing point with Jordan after Syrian government forces, following an intense aerial campaign, captured new areas along the border.
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Sheikh Abdullah Alyawer, a tribal leader in the town of Rabia, on Iraq's border with Syria, told CNN Monday that dozens of ISIS militants and their families were fleeing the city each day, and crossing into Syria at Ba'aaj, an ISIS-controlled crossing point south of Sinjar.
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Last year Finland's 1,340 km-long (833-mile) frontier with Russia - marking one of the external limits of the European Union's passport-free Schengen travel zone - became the northernmost crossing point to the EU for migrants keen to avoid the perilous Mediterranean sea route to the continent.
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Separately in Syria's northeast, the UN has suggested that the Tal Abiyad border crossing between Syria and Turkey could be used to deliver aid to civilians after Russia and China blocked the world body from using a crossing point on the Iraqi border to provide help.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia failed on Friday in a bid to get the U.N. Security Council to extend authorization of Syria cross-border aid deliveries from two points in Turkey after Moscow vetoed a rival draft resolution that would have also approved a crossing point from Iraq.
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Greek riot police officers forcibly removed groups of Afghan protesters from train tracks at a migrant camp in Idomeni, Greece, a crossing point to Macedonia and a gateway toward Northern Europe, after Macedonia abruptly announced that Afghans would be classified as economic migrants, disqualifying them from political asylum.
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The Israeli army said in a statement Friday that 10,000 Palestinians took part in what it called riots in five locations along the fence that separates Gaza from Israel, and that hundreds attempted to enter Israel by burning the fence adjacent to the now-disused Karni border crossing point.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has suggested that the Tal Abiyad border crossing between Syria and Turkey could be used to deliver aid to civilians in northeast Syria after Russia and China blocked the world body from using a crossing point on the Iraqi border to provide help.
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The migrant caravan, which started out more than a week ago with less than 200 participants, has drawn additional people along the way and it swelled to an estimated 5,000 Sunday after many migrants found ways to cross from Guatemala into southern Mexico as police blocked the official crossing point.
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STEPHEN HAWKING: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COULD END THE HUMAN RACE "Singularity is the concept that [mankind&aposs] brain will be surpassed, this is the tipping point, crossing point, that artificial intelligence, computer intelligence surpass [mankind&aposs] brain and that is happening in this century for sure," Son was quoted as saying at the conference.
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In the Mediterranean, the most common crossing point for migrants and refugees from war-torn parts of the Middle East and Africa, a toddler became the first reported casualty of 2016, drowning on Saturday off the Greek island of Agathonisi after the dinghy he was traveling in crashed into rocks on the shore.
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The border town is a crossing point into Mexico for asylum-seekers from all over the world and has developed a reputation as a prison for those who are too poor to continue north, spending their lives hiding from Mexican immigration agents and facing long waits to hear if Mexican authorities have granted their asylum requests.
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And I thought of the many vulnerable families trying to legally claim asylum at this crossing point who ended up deciding their only option was to try another, more dangerous way into the US — after being forced to wait for sometimes days in the middle of a bridge in the heat of Texas without readily available food or water.
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Prior to starting Mass, Pope Francis was seen atop a ramp that overlooked the river between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico – a famous crossing point for those trying to gain access into the U.S. A large cross, surrounded by several smaller ones, stood behind the pope, as a symbol of the migrants who died as they attempted to cross the border.
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All names have been changed to preserve anonymity unless otherwise noted.) Across the English Channel from the clifftop town of Dover, the port city of Calais is the principal ferry crossing point between France and the UK and has, since the 23s been an important transit route for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Syria, Darfur and South Sudan, wishing to reach the UK. With no legal safe passage, many attempt to cross the channel by stowing away on lorries, ferries and cars, often risking (or losing) their lives in doing so.
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