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Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Ali Naimi, points to an unexplored area on the Iraqi-Saudi border the size of California, and argues that such untapped resources could add 200 billion barrels to his country's tally.
ECONOMIST: Why the world is not about to run out of oil
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President BUSH: To secure our border we're doubling the size of the Border Patrol and funding new infrastructure and technology.
NPR: Fact-Checking the State of the Union Speech
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So Israel may drop its objection to Egypt's long-standing demand to increase the size of its border force, which is limited by a mutual treaty.
ECONOMIST: Diplomacy after the Gaza war
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Bush said the nation has more than doubled the size of the Border Patrol during his presidency and has sent home about 6 million people entering the United States illegally.
NPR: Bush Calls for Troops, Funds to Secure Border
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Zaatari is a sprawling camp made up of canvas tents and prefab shelters in the Jordanian desert, close to the Syrian border, which has tripled in size in the last three months, in order to accommodate the thousands of refugees arriving every day.
CNN: Syrian refugee crisis 'spiralling out of control'
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If Egypt is permitted to mass its forces in the Sinai, then the IDF will be forced to respond by steeply increasing the size of its force mobilized along the border.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The perils of a remilitarized Sinai
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The three semi-desert states, which border Niger, Chad and Cameroon, are roughly the size of England or the US state of Illinois but have a population of just 10 million.
BBC: Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria air raids target militants
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The Home Affairs Committee also said that for years the UK Border Agency had repeatedly supplied it with incorrect information about the size of the backlog of asylum cases.
BBC: UK Border Agency 'not good enough' and being scrapped
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CNN: Mobile Landing Page
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It covers an area roughly half the size of France within the Upper Paraguay River Basin, extending over the border into Paraguay and Bolivia.
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