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BANGKOK, July 12 (Reuters) - Foreign investment pledges in Thailand surged 33.6 percent in value in the first six months of 2011 thanks to large new projects and expansion plans by foreign manufacturers already in the country, the Board of Investment ...

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WASHINGTON - THE US government will now require gun dealers in states along the Mexican border to report large sales of powerful firearms in a bid to curb the flow of weapons to Mexican drug gangs. The move, announced on Monday, comes after Mexican ...

Gun rights advocates are expressing concern over the Obama administration's plans for a new gun control push six months after the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., and they warn that attempts to curb gun rights could provoke a political fight. Attorney Alan ...

Seventy-eight men, eight women and two children boarded a flight to Mexico City from Tucson on Monday that kicked off the eighth annual Mexican Interior Repatriation Program. U.S. and Mexican officials hope these recently apprehended illegal border ...

(RTTNews) - The United States has called on Afghanistan and Pakistan to continue to engage cooperatively to lower tensions on their borders and to ensure protection of the local population in the border regions.The call was made by State Department ...

ISLAMABAD, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has threatened that the government will pull back troops from the tribal regions along border with Afghanistan in reaction to the suspension of nearly 800 million U. S. ...

Washington, July 12(ANI): Pentagon spokesman Marine Corps Colonel Dave Lapan has emphasized that the delayed US aid to Pakistan is 'a hold, not a halt,' and that the funds may be delivered if the two nations resolve certain issues. Lapan told reporters ...

ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said that Pakistani troops will pull back from the Pak-Afghan border in reaction to the suspension of nearly $800 million worth of US military aid. Speaking exclusively on the Evening Hour ...

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LOS ANGELES Fifteen suspected illegal immigrants who were stranded on a remote Southern California island for three days were being held Monday after what may have been a 300-mile journey in a rickety boat. Fourteen men and a woman in their 30s and ...

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After using law abiding gun shop owners as a scape goat for their deadly Operation Fast and Furious, the Department of Justice has issued more regulations for gun shops operating near the U.S.-Mexico border. Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued the ...

Gun dealers in states bordering Mexico will have to report whenever they sell more than two semiautomatic rifles to someone in a five-day period. As a backlash mounts over the government's failed Fast and Furious gun-tracing operation, the Justice ...

HALIFAX Streamlining cross-border trade between Atlantic Canada and New England is critical to the economic rebound of both regions, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada told a conference of premiers and U.S. governors Monday. Despite protectionist ...

TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) - An annual program of voluntary repatriation flights to take Mexican illegal immigrants nabbed in the Arizona desert back to their homes in the Mexican interior resumed on Monday, authorities said. The joint program coordinated by ...

New Tour Shows Truth About U.S.-Mexico Border TUCSON, Arizona A new tour promises to show tourists the truth about the life, dynamics and problems on the border between Arizona and Mexico. We want people to see life on the border with ...

The family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry wants justice, and that may include suing the federal government. "If the evidence shows Brian's death was proximately caused by the negligence of the federal government, there may be a cause of ...

During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, many state churches didn't join the fight to end Jim Crow laws and racial segregation. Some cross-burning members took off their hoods and sat in the pews with everyone else on Sunday mornings, and ...

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