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WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- , R-Calif., is urging a pardon for two jailed U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks. 'These men, as well as their families, have suffered enough,' Duncan said Thursday after ...

Senator Barack Obama said he was "puzzled" recently when his early experience as a community organizer was mocked by Governor Sarah Palin at the Republican Convention. "I would think that that's an area where Democrats and Republicans would agree," he ...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) ? Arkansas' colleges and universities can admit illegal immigrants, the Arkansas attorney general's office says. Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said in an advisory opinion Wednesday that schools don't have a duty to verify the ...

(AXcess News) New York - Long before the 9/11 attacks, the Federation for American Immigration Reform warned that our unsecured borders and lax enforcement of our immigration laws posed a threat to our national security. We have advocated for specific ...

has not taken a position on the borders of a future Palestinian state. 'While the discussions between the parties are confidential, we can state that the parties have not in any way prejudiced long held views on borders,' the US State Department said in ...

Pakistan's army chief has criticised the US military for making unilateral cross-border raids in the the hunt for al-Qaeda's top leadership, as tensions between the allies reached new heights on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America. In an ...

MEXICO CITY, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Cuba and Mexico are discussing how to clamp down on the flow of illegal Cuban immigrants through Mexico to the United States, Cuba's Ambassador Manuel Aguilera said on Thursday. Aguilera said the two countries could reach ...

KABUL: President Hamid Karzai endorsed Thursday a new US focus on the Afghan and Pakistan border in its war on terror, saying it was something his government had been pushing for years. The change in strategy or a new strategy is something I and my ...

PRESIDENT George Bush has secretly approved orders that for the first time allow American special forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials. The ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Cuba and Mexico are discussing how to clamp down on the flow of illegal Cuban immigrants through Mexico to the United States, Cuba's Ambassador Manuel Aguilera said on Thursday. Aguilera said the two countries could reach an ...

LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he'll discuss a new approach to policing the Afghan-Pakistan border in talks with U.S. President George W. Bush.Brown said the two leaders were holding a video conference on Thursday to assess the work of ...

Pakistan has rejected US claims that the rules of engagement gave the coalition forces in Afghanistan the right to enter its territory, saying the nation's sovereignty will be defended at all costs. 'The rules of engagement with the coalition forces are ...

Islamabad, Sep 11 (PTI) In an unusually strong public statement, Pakistan's army chief has lashed out at the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan over the cross-border raids in the tribal belt and vowed to defend the country's sovereignty and ...

LAREDO, Texas Pfc. Jose Rodrigo Torres was arrested in June 2007 after driving through a Border Patrol checkpoint in a van loaded with 24 undocumented immigrants. Prosecutors say the van was leased by the Texas Army National Guard. Torres and another ...

A man pleaded guilty Thursday to running an organization that authorities said smuggled dozens of illegal immigrants per day through a live bombing range in southeastern California.Javier Sanchez Perfino, 30, acknowledged running a group from 2003 to ...

At the same time, fighting between Pakistan security forces and militants elsewhere in the wild lands bordering Afghanistan killed 32 militants and 2 soldiers, The Associated Press reported, citing a Pakistan Army spokesman, Major Murad Khan. The missile ...

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The United States praised last weekend's visit by Turkish President Abdullah Gul to Yerevan, but reiterated that it would continue to push Turkey to open its land border with Armenia, the Turkish Daily News (TDN) reported on Thursday. 'We were delighted ...

They expressed fears of a popular uprising in the lawless Tribal Areas on the north-west frontier with Afghanistan if the US continues its new aggressive policy. Admiral Michael Mullen, the US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said earlier this ...

(RTTNews) - Ruling out any co-operation with US forces in its proposed cross-border raids into Pakistan targeting Taliban and al Qaeda militants, NATO made it clear that it will stick to its mission within Afghan borders. About 53,000 troops of the ...