Today the main border-crossing near Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore is at times almost deserted.
Ruili, the main border-crossing between northern Myanmar and China's province of Yunnan, has become a seedy boomtown.
This was evidently a pivotal gesture, enabling us to move on with the next portion of the border-crossing ritual: bribery.
India rejects Mr Musharraf's claim that he has put a stop to border-crossing by terrorists, and that their camps have been dismantled.
The trailblazingly democratic and bourgeois Netherlands never nurtured the border-crossing habits of the kings and nobles whose avidity as collectors survives in the major museums of Paris, London, Vienna, and Madrid.
When painting the start of the stripe at Checkpoint Charlie, a former east- west border-crossing where new building has almost entirely blotted out the past, Eberhard Diepgen, Berlin's mayor, felt obliged to calm unease by declaring that there was no intention to split the city again.
Several hundred female supporters of Hamas went to the border crossing -- the only one in Gaza that Israel doesn't run -- to demand that the gate be opened and that six Palestinians be allowed to cross for medical treatment.
From 1961 to 1989 it was the best-known border crossing between East and West Berlin.
They were wounded during a battle at the Yaarabiya-Rabia border crossing a few days ago.
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They added that the convoy had been headed from Rabia to the al-Waleed border crossing in Iraq's Anbar province when it was attacked.
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On 4 March, the soldiers were being escorted to the al-Waleed border crossing further south in Anbar province when they were ambushed near the town of Akashat, Iraqi officials said.
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These NGOs proposed that Canada, Australia and some European Union countries take the residents of two smaller camps, one inside Syria and another in a no man's land at the Iraq-Syria border crossing.
Five thousand people were gathering in a depot close to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, while 2, 000 were at the border crossing of Reyhanli, which houses one of the largest refugee camps set up by Ankara for Syrians fleeing the violence, officials said.
Gaza businessmen never know when the border crossing will re-open once it's been closed.
The 10 EU monitors left the terminal and waited at the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom border crossing for calm to be restored, he said.
The wooded area a few miles east of a highway border crossing is a well-known smuggling route for drugs and firearms, and a spokeswoman for the US attorney for the Western District of Washington told the BBC smuggling prosecutions are "a large part of our practice".
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Grass sprouts from the rooftops of tall apartment buildings and lambs can be found grazing on these aerial pastures, the occasional ill-starred creature crossing the border of its tiny world and plummeting into traffic, only to be stolen away almost immediately by a hungry citizen.
"We don't want to inconvenience people too much, " protest organiser Lorena Garvey-Shepley told CBC at a border crossing with the US state of Michigan.
Nationalist politicians warier of cross-community amity warn that just a few violent incidents caused by the settling of old scores could ruin this budding Greek-Turkish friendship and close the border crossing points again.
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It also requires electronic verification of the license of every Mexican truck driver crossing the border who is carrying high-risk cargo.
In May, a 19-year-old Mexican woman died while crossing the border with her infant daughter.
Dozens of families have taken advantage of the concrete truck shelters at this border crossing, moving their tents into the hangar-like structures, hoping the roofs will provide a little more shelter.
The normal rules of search and seizure do not apply at a border crossing, so you may wish to re-think corporate policies if you or your employees routinely carry sensitive, proprietary, or even classified information when you travel.
Their community awareness camps educate families in rural villages and city slums about the dangers of sex trafficking, and a daily patrol at crossing points along the India-Nepal border successfully rescues an average of four Nepali girls a day.
The crossing is the first Palestinian-controlled international border and opened to the public in November.
As the Syrian government attempted to utilize the media to enhance Assad's image abroad, advisers attempted to keep tabs on journalists violating government restrictions by illegally crossing the Syrian border to report inside the conflict-ridden nation.
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Following the Israeli sea-born raid, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to be opened.
With a distinctive white beard, for years he was regularly seen at Pakistan's Wagah border crossing with India holding a Pakistani flag and wearing colour-co-ordinated clothing as the famous ceremony was played out each day.
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Brian was super young and a guy and had a lot less to lose by crossing the border into Canada on the roof of a round-hole hopper.
Egypt's military leadership, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, said 35 assailants -- terrorist factions from Gaza -- were involved in Sunday's attack near the Rafah border crossing.
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