Not surprisingly, the makers of the soap about the border are planning a second series.

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Bauer, Shourd and Fattal left early Friday in a taxi for Ahmed Awa, a touristic town near Iraq's border with Iran, planning to hike in the mountains there, according to Peshrow Ahmed, spokesman for the security manager of Sulaimaniya.

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The Young Civic Unions of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Sucre and Tarija are directly challenging the state's authority not only staging road blockades, but also occupying state buildings and are even planning to shut down border entry points.

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Units are inter-operable so Nato countries can put together a defensive package and deploy it to a far-flung region, as the Alliance is planning to do on the Turkish-Syrian border.

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We are also planning a new half-hour, weekly current affairs and politics programme for Border that will focus on the stories, issues and concerns of viewers across the whole region.

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He also said he expected an agreement soon for Pakistan to reopen its border with Afghanistan to military shipments of departing NATO forces, which would resolve a sticky issue in planning the withdrawal of foreign forces.

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Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg says he is planning to produce a film, a part of which will be set on the de facto border in the disputed region of Kashmir.

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