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VIENNA: More efforts are needed to secure and control Afghanistan's borders to prevent militants slipping in and out of the country, a senior United States defence official said Tuesday.Daniel P Fata, US deputy assistant secretary of defence for European ...

BUENOS AIRES, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Latin American leaders on Tuesday voiced their 'deep rejection' of the immigration policy adopted recently by the European Union (EU). Presidents of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) 'member states and associate ...

It's been said football is a game of inches, but so is life, at least when it comes to birth on the U.S.-Mexico border. A baby boy born early Tuesday when his mother, a legal U.S. resident, was in line at El Paso's Bridge of the Americas is as much a ...

The Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog investigated two specific detainee deaths to see whether the government did everything it was supposed to do. The report was issued Tuesday amid continuing accusations that Immigration and Customs ...

Since deserting his unit in Iraq and fleeing to Canada two years ago, Corey Glass has become the poster boy of the 'war resistors' movement. Thursday in Toronto, supporters are planning to protest his scheduled deportation back to the United States. But ...

Presidents of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) 'member states and associate states reject any attempt to criminalize the irregular migration and the adoption of restrictive immigration policies, in particular against the most vulnerable sectors ...

South American heads of state have ended a regional summit with a fierce attack on European Union immigration policies. The meeting of the regions biggest trade bloc Mercosur, also voiced concern about rising food prices. The EU tightened its immigration ...

SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMAN, Argentina - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused Europe on Tuesday of taking a page from Washington by adopting a barbaric immigration policy, in stark contrast to moves by South American nations to enable passport-free travel ...

VIENNA, Austria A senior U.S. defense official says more efforts are needed to secure and control Afghanistan's borders. Daniel P. Fata, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy, also says members of the International ...

Dawid Pietrek, a Polish immigrant, couldn't vote, run for public office or obtain a U.S. passport. But he signed up to serve a country that wasn't yet his, and last month he gave his life for that country. Pfc. Pietrek, 24, of Bensenville, Ill., was one ...

SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMAN, Argentina: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Europe has taken a page from Washington in adopting a 'barbaric' immigration policy. Chavez says new European Union rules on expelling illegal immigrants amount to a virtual 'wall in ...

KABUL (AFP)--U.S.-led coalition troops in Afghanistan used gunship helicopters and fighter jets to kill 33 Taliban militants near the Pakistani border after spotting them from the air, the force said Tuesday. The rebels, armed with rocket-propelled ...

WASHINGTON ? When it comes to immigration, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agree. It's just that they don't want to say so. Instead, the White House rivals accuse one another of flinching when it mattered most, during and after last year's ...

VIENNA, Austria: More efforts are needed to secure and control Afghanistan's borders to prevent insurgents slipping in and out of the country, a senior U.S. defense official said Tuesday. Daniel P. Fata, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for ...

Editor's note: Here are the latest entries from Joel Stewart's blog. I'm sure the readers of this Blog know that most of the nation's immigration lawyers went to attend the AILA Conference in Vancouver, BC. While at the conference, many of the lawyers ...

MEXICO CITY, July 1 (Reuters) - The amount of money sent home by Mexicans living abroad fell 3.41 percent in May from the same month in 2007, the central bank said on Tuesday, as workers made less money in the slowing U.S. economy. Remittances, one of ...

When it comes to immigration, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agree. It's just that they don't want to say so. Instead, the White House rivals accuse one another of flinching when it mattered most, during and after last year's Senate debate on a ...

Courting the increasingly influential Latino vote, the rival presidential candidates each pledged Saturday to make overhauling the nation's immigration policies a top priority. In separate appearances before the National Association of Latino Elected and ...

The U.S. Department of Labor is auditing all the permanent labor certification applications filed by Cisco's immigration law attorneys at . The is to determine whether the nation's largest immigration law firm improperly instructed clients to contact ...

HANOI, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam and the United States had fruitful cooperation on individual resettlement from 1986 to 2007,Vietnamese newspaper Youth on Tuesday quoted a local official as saying. In the period, Vietnam cooperated with the United ...