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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eyewitness reports indicate that the Uzbekistan-Tajikistan border is closed again. ITAR-TASS confirmed it, with references to Sharaf Faizullayev of the Directorate of Border Service Directorate of the Tajik National Security State Committee. All Uzbek crossing points on the Uzbek-Tajik border closed on November 27 all but halting traffic in both direction. Uzbekistan made the decision...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Hamas' security forces Saturday prevented Palestinian hajj-pilgrims, who bypassed the deposed Hamas government when applied to travel to Mecca, from reaching Rafah crossing point on the Egyptian border with Gaza, witnesses said. "They installed checkpoints on the ways leading to Rafah crossing and forced us to go back," said one of the witnesses who declined to give his...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... Hamas and Fatah, the two rival Palestinian organizations. Saeed urged Egypt to re-open the Rafah crossing point between Gaza and Egypt in order to allow thousands of pilgrims to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform hajj rituals at the Grand Mosque of Mecca due to begin on Saturday. The Brotherhood leader also unveiled a series of activities and demonstrations to be launched throughout...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Gaza - Hamas security forces on Saturday prevented would-be Hajj pilgrims who bypassed the government when applying to travel to Mecca, from reaching the Rafah crossing point with Egyp, witnesses said, in the latest incident in the Hamas-Fatah stando...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Day vigil in Missouri City are the Rev. Ted Deaver of New Hope Baptist, the Rev. Craig Hayes of Crossing Point Church, the Rev. Bobby Morgan of Abiding Faith Baptist Church and the Rev. Dennis Young of Missouri City Baptist Church.For more information about the vigils in Fort Bend, call 1-888-777-0033, 281-208-8806, or 512-463-0494.
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RFID (Free subscription) | yesterday
... year) recently received an $800,000 loan from a State of Ohio innovation fund. the first US border crossing points to support RFID-enabled travel documents issued by federal and state government agencies are now operational. Border checkpoints in Blaine, Washington and Nogales, Arizona now accept RFID-enabled enhanced driver's licenses and passport cards that were created as...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
By Aref MohammedSHALAMCHA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iran and Iraq on Sunday exchanged the remains of a total of 241 soldiers killed in their 1980-88 war, resuming a swap that had been suspended since shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.The bodies of 41 Iranians and 200 Iraqis, most of them unidentified, were handed over at the border crossing point of Shalamcha in southern Iraq, while Iraqi...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The bodies of 41 Iranians and 200 Iraqis, most of them unidentified, were handed over at the border crossing point of Shalamcha in southern Iraq, while Iraqi and Iranian military bands played martial music and national anthems.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... Israel in the past three weeks after it launched raids that killed over a dozen gunmen, and closed crossing points with Gaza, limiting aid supplies to the Hamas-run coastal territory.(Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... Israel in the past three weeks after it launched raids that killed over a dozen gunmen, and closed crossing points with Gaza, limiting aid supplies to the Hamas-run coastal territory.(Editing by Mark Trevelyan)© Copyright 2008 Reuters. Reuters content is the intellectual property of Reuters or its third-party content providers. Any copying, republication, or redistribution of Reuters...
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ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Palestinian pilgrims bound for Mecca were prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip via Egypt on Saturday as the enclave's Hamas Islamist rulers and the rival leadership in the West Bank traded blame for the hold-up.The pilgrims, hoping to reach Saudi Arabia next week for the annual Haj pilgrimage, told newswire Reuters that Hamas police set up checkpoints 300 metres from the Rafah border post with...
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Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
RAFAH/RIYADH (AlArabiya.net, Reuters)Palestinian pilgrims bound for Mecca were prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip via Egypt on Saturday as the enclave's Hamas rulers and the rival PA leadership in the West Bank traded blame for the hold-up.The pilgrims, hoping to reach Saudi Arabia next week for the annual hajj pilgrimage, told Reuters that Hamas police set up checkpoints 300 meters (yards)...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Militants have fired dozens of rockets and mortar bombs at Israel in the past three weeks after Israel launched raids that killed about a dozen gunmen, and closed crossing points with Gaza, choking off some food supplies to the coastal territory.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... in the past three weeks after Israel launched raids that killed about a dozen gunmen, and closed crossing points with Gaza, choking off some food supplies to the coastal territory.(Writing by Dan Williams; editing by Alison Williams)© Copyright 2008 Reuters. Reuters content is the intellectual property of Reuters or its third-party content providers. Any copying, republication, or...
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qwstnevrythg.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
http://www.theregister.co.uk… RFID technology that allows the remote identification of travellers in moving vehicles is being rolled out at US land border crossings this month. Crossing points with Canada at Blaine, and with Mexico at Nogales, came online last week, with Buffalo, Detroit and San Ysidro to follow, and a total of 39 planned. The system uses the [...]
