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By Krishn Kaushik and Mei Mei Chu NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Reuters) -India and China have begun implementing an agreement to end a military standoff on their disputed Himalayan border, the two sides said on Friday, in the biggest thaw between the Asian giants since deadly clashes between their armies four years ago. Troops who were eyeball-to-eyeball at two points on the frontier in India’s Ladakh region in the western Himalayas had begun pulling back, an Indian […]
WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a strategy to limit illegal migration amidst tensions with Belarus, which Warsaw accuses of channelling migrants across its border. “One of the elements of the migration strategy will be the temporary territorial suspension of the right to asylum,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday. “I will demand this, I will demand recognition in Europe for this decision,” he told a […]
SEOUL, June 15, 2024 (AFP) – North Korea’s military has been building roads and walls inside the Demilitarized Zone that separates it from the South, the Yonhap news agency reported Saturday. The construction activities are taking place north of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) that runs through the middle of the DMZ, the South Korean agency said, citing an unnamed military source. The report follows an incident last week when South Korean forces fired warning […]
By Danny KEMP WASHINGTON, June 5, 2024 (AFP) – The United States will temporarily close its Mexico border to asylum seekers from Wednesday, as President Joe Biden tries to neutralize his political weakness on migration ahead of November’s election battle with Donald Trump. The 81-year-old Democrat signed a long-awaited executive order taking effect at midnight to “gain control” of the southern frontier with Mexico, after record numbers of illegal border crossings sparked concerns among voters. […]
HELSINKI, April 4, 2024 (AFP) – Finland on Thursday said it would extend its border closure with Russia “until further notice”, after it was shut in response to a surge in migrant crossings. Finland, which joined the NATO military alliance following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says the surge in asylum seekers has been orchestrated by Russia, a charge that Moscow has denied. The two neighbours share a 1,340-kilometre (830-mile) border. The Nordic country closed the […]
HOUSTON, March 22, 2024 (AFP) – A “large group of migrants” crossing into the United States from Mexico broke through razor wire Thursday and rushed the border wall, the border patrol said, the latest episode in a simmering national immigration crisis. Illegal immigration is a hugely contentious topic in the United States, and an issue already figuring prominently in the campaign for the November presidential election. Republicans blame President Joe Biden for the recent record […]
EAGLE PASS, United States (AFP) – Joe Biden and Donald Trump traded blame for America’s immigration crisis as they made dueling visits to the US-Mexican border Thursday, putting the hot-button issue at the heart of their race for the White House in November. In near-simultaneous speeches in Texas, Republican former president Trump called the record numbers of border crossings a “Joe Biden invasion” — while the Democratic incumbent urged his rival to stop “playing politics” […]
JERUSALEM, Feb 14, 2024 (AFP) – The Israeli military said Wednesday its fighter jets “began a series of strikes in Lebanon”, raising fears of a war between the two countries after months of cross-border fire. The military gave no further details of the air strikes, while Lebanese media reported three villages were hit. The strikes came hours after fire from Lebanon wounded multiple people in northern Israel, according to medics. Seven people were wounded, five […]
YANGON, Myanmar, Dec 28, 2023 (AFP) – China’s embassy in Myanmar on Thursday asked its citizens to leave a northern district along the countries’ shared border, citing heightened security risks as ethnic minority armed groups battle the junta. Fighting has raged across Myanmar’s northern Shan state since October, when the so-called “Three Brotherhood Alliance” of ethnic minority groups launched an offensive against the military. The alliance has seized several towns and border hubs vital for […]
By Barbara AGELVIS CARACAS (AFP) – The discovery of vast oil deposits is blamed for reigniting a decades-old territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana that fast worsened as Guyana started granting licenses to multinationals to exploit crude in waters claimed by both countries. This is what we know about the showdown over the Essequibo region that has the world on edge. – How much oil in Essequibo? – The 160,000-square-kilometer (62,000-square-mile) territory has been administered […]
By Patrick FORT MANGO LANDING, Guyana, Dec 14, 2023 (AFP) – Robinson Flores, a Venezuelan who has been living in Essequibo for years, has no time for politicians fighting over the disputed oil-rich region run by Guyana. Life in this sleepy border village along the muddy Wenamu River is just fine, thank you, he says. And the flap that exploded in recent months as Venezuela lays claim to Essequibo is an unwelcome disruption. “Politicians do […]
NUIJAMAA, Finland, Nov 17, 2023 (AFP) – Dozens of asylum seekers arrived at four Finnish border crossings with Russia on Friday, just hours before they were to close, a border guard captain told AFP. Finland is to shut half of its eight crossings along its eastern land border with Russia from midnight (2200 GMT). Authorities have accused Russia of seeking to destabilise Finland by letting undocumented migrants — mainly from the Middle East and Africa […]
