Sudan releases four foreigners detained last month near in the disputed area near the border with South Sudan, officials say.

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A drone strike took place early Friday in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region of North Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan, a Pakistani military official said.

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Turkey expresses regret over the deaths of 35 young Kurdish civilians in an air strike near the border with Iraq.

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At least three people have been killed in grenade attacks in eastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia, officials say.

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In the middle of the Pakistani night, near the border with Afghanistan, a team of FBI agents dressed in native garb descended on a hotel room. One of those agents, Sean M. Joyce, kicked in the door, tackled a screaming Pakistani man and threw him to the ground. The 1997 raid resulted in the capture of Mir Aimal Kasi , who was later executed for murdering two CIA employees outside the agency’s Langley headquarters. And it marked a milestone in the ascension of Joyce, who in September became the FBI’s deputy director, the bureau’s second-ranking job. Read full article > >

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KABUL – The governor for Afghanistan’s Paktia province escaped unhurt from a Taliban commando-style attack Sunday, his spokesman said, the latest strike of its kind in recent days by the insurgent guerrillas. Juma Khan Hamdard was in a convoy of vehicles when three suicide bombers began firing at it outside his headquarters in the town of Gardez, the provincial capital of Paktia, near the border with Pakistan, Rohullah Samoon said. Read full article > >

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A woman and teenage boy have been found near the border in County Monaghan after they were kidnapped from their home in Belfast.

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At least five people are reported to have been killed in a series of attacks in southern Israel, which began with an attack on a bus near the border with Egypt.

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BEIRUT — The Syrian military widened its crackdown on anti-government protesters Tuesday, dispatching tanks to at least two more locations, including a town near the border with Iraq, as the government sought to extinguish an expanding rebellion that has appeared to threaten the army’s cohesion. Tanks moved into position on the outskirts of the eastern border town of Deir al-Zour, site of some of the biggest protests of the three-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Activists said tanks were also converging on the town of Maarat al-Nouman on the highway between Hama and Aleppo, where protesters reportedly burned government buildings over the weekend. Read full article > >

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A 65-year-old Palestinian farmer has been shot dead by the Israeli army near the border, doctors in Gaza say.

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Farmer shot in Gaza ‘buffer zone’

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran met with Lebanese leaders and was expected to head to Hezbollah-dominated parts in the south, near the border with Israel.

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A woman dies after going missing while canoeing with friends on a river near the border between Staffordshire and Cheshire.

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At least three Palestinians are reported killed by Israeli tank fire near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

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Israeli tank kills three in Gaza