• If (low-cost, high-speed rail) is a success I can imagine for cross-border lines the next years there will be opportunities to go to Brussels and Amsterdam, and perhaps from and to London and to Spain.

    CNN: Can Europe get its high-speed rail network together?

  • Would the President accept militarized -- U.S. troops on the border if there is a border backing the 1967 lines?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Tao Duanfang, a commentator for Sohu news portal, is baffled at how North Korea has switched from making telephone overtures to US President Obama to threatening to cut phone lines at the border post in Panmunjom.

    BBC: China media: Wen's mixed legacy

  • However during the final session, MEPs broadly rejected this, preferring enhanced co-operation, along the lines of the Schengen agreement on border controls.

    BBC: Special committee on Energy

  • The European Commission insisted this week that Italy's reluctance to expand cross-border trading and to build new international transmission lines was partly to blame for the latest blackout.

    ECONOMIST: Why do the lights keep going out?

  • What makes Mr Blair prone to accidents in Scotland is that politics north of the border divides not just on the usual left-right lines, but also over the constitutional issue, between those who want to keep Britain together and those who do not.

    ECONOMIST: Scottish politics

  • Speaking in near apocalyptic terms, Obama warned of criminals going free, longer security lines at airports, reduced military readiness, fewer border guards, pre-schoolers losing access to Head Start programs and other problems if the full brunt of the spending cuts occur.

    CNN: Debate on spending cuts seeks blame, not solutions

  • Speaking in near apocalyptic terms, the president warned of criminals going free, longer security lines at airports, reduced military readiness, fewer border guards, pre-schoolers losing access to Head Start programs and other problems if the full brunt of the spending cuts occur.

    CNN: Debate on spending cuts seeks blame, not solutions

  • Outside of oil and gas, Hunt owns stakes in power plants in the Northeast, transmission lines in Texas, including a 150 megawatt cross-border line with Mexico built in 2007.

    FORBES: 'Dallas' Actor Hawks Solar Power, But Billionaire Who Inspired J.R. Ewing Is Focused On Natural Gas

  • The army's push into eastern Moxico, which was partly launched from over the border in Congo, is intended to sever the rebels' supply lines, and to seal some of their escape routes.

    ECONOMIST: Angola

  • The French aim is to cut off their lines of supply, helped by Algeria's reinforcement of its border security.

    CNN: Mali: The long, troubled desert road ahead

  • The Palestinians' core demand is that the future border between Israel and Palestine be based on the pre-1967 Mideast War lines, with modifications through land swaps.

    NPR: Bush Pushes Middle East Peace Talks

  • He is one of hundreds of thousands of Arabic-speaking Turkish Alawis, most living near the Syrian border, and fears the sectarian conflict next door could open the same fault lines in Turkey especially as relations between the two former allies become increasingly hostile.

    WSJ: Turkey's Shiites Fear Contagion

  • The Republicans' version of homeland security is to seal off the Mexican border, beef up protection of military bases and limit screening at ports and transportation lines.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Those positions included an Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines - including the division of Jerusalem -- and the stationing of foreign forces along the border with Jordan.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Netanyahu must play for time

  • This would be a logical next step: border bureaucracy and endemic crime make it horribly difficult for any Russian firm to maintain fast and reliable supply lines of components from abroad.

    ECONOMIST: Russian computers

  • So do classical economists and, in principle, communists. (In practice, though, Stalin did not erase the lines on his maps, playing with them instead like a spiteful child.) Today the border is under attack from more prosaic people: businessmen and bureaucrats.

    ECONOMIST: Good fences

  • " As she put it, "The initiative does discuss the 1967 lines, but it would be great if we were in a position where the conflict was a border dispute.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's man in Mecca

  • Automatic budget reductions must be applied to nearly every Department of Homeland Security program, including Customs and Border Protection, and "will negatively affect the mission readiness and capabilities of the men and women on our front lines, " the agency said in a statement responding to questions about sequestration.

    CNN: Survey: U.S. Customs is driving visitors away

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