The Borders region was the only area to register a fall in August, dropping by 8.1% on the same month last year.
The 1998-2003 war in Congo is sometimes called Africa's World War as fighting and refugees crossed borders, destabilizing the region.
And Hertling said Nineveh -- home of the country's third-largest city, Mosul -- is an important geographic region because it borders Syria.
If America can obtain Russian help in squeezing Iran's nuclear and missile programmes, and if Russia also backs down on its threatened deployment of missiles in the Kaliningrad region, which borders Poland, it would be easy for the administration to walk even further away from missile defence.
All 37 tusks that Dr Wasser tested matched the elephant genetics of Zambia and the region slightly outside its borders.
In contrast, South America has made much progress in fixing borders since democracy was restored in the region in the 1980s.
The BBC's Nikolai Gorshkov, in St Petersburg, says the CIS backed Russian aims to mend relations with the West over Iraq, with all members hoping to see a stable regime in the region close to their southern borders - but they mostly discussed their own economic problems.
Scottish Borders Councils said all school transport across the region had also been cancelled.
The firm, which has offices in Galashiels, has grown in part thanks to winning a major contract from Scottish Borders Council to provide care services across the region.
Business organisations in the Borders can win a far better deal for the region if they speak with a single voice, according to a business leader.
He said he wanted the EU "to develop special programmes for additional aid to the countries of the region which are to remain outside its borders for some time to come".
Like many suspected al-Qaeda operatives, he was able to exploit the region's lax law enforcement and porous borders to move around and avoid detection.
El Obeidi said that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb treated the whole region as one theater and was oblivious to the desert borders that divided the countries of the Sahel.
In the Valais region, an arc that runs along the French and Italian borders and home to the Matterhorn, the local fondue variety calls for a tomato coulis.
Manfred Kayser says ancestry markers can - at best - trace an individual to a broad region: "Human migration history has produced no sharp genetic borders and no sharp appearance borders, " he explains.
It is certainly the case -- and I think we have been clear about this -- that any military action in that region threatens greater instability in the region, threatens -- as you point out, because Iran borders both Afghanistan and Iraq -- we have civilian personnel in Iraq, we have military personnel as well as civilians in Afghanistan.
Shopfront grants have also been issued throughout the region as part of another scheme to improve the retail offering across the Borders.
BBC: Scottish Borders high street footfall 'grounds for hope'
Councillors in the Scottish Borders have approved updated guidance on criteria to be applied to wind farm applications in the region.
In normal circumstances, the great continental power in the region would be expected to step in and maintain peace and stability on its borders.
Conditions in the region were "continuing to deteriorate rapidly, " the medical charity Doctors Without Borders said in a statement posted on its Web site.
Scottish Borders Council has rejected a bid to expand a Sainsbury's store being built in the region.
Scottish Borders Council has agreed a set of planning "briefs" for a number of prominent buildings and land across the region.
More recently, however, the idea of closer co-operation among Dutch-speakers across national borders has been given a boost by a Dutch Christian Democratic senator and by the premier of Belgium's Flemish region.
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