After we touched down, I asked U.S. Army Colonel Steve Williams - that's the NATO Deputy Commander - about the border area we'd just seen.

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Nada and Ali Himat, were held for questioning in Lugano, Switzerland, just across the border from their homes in Campione D'Italia, said Italian police Lt.

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Currently, transactions within the shadow economy have to be made face to face, but an electronic System D currency would enable remote and even cross-border transactions.

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Eager to do my small part to expedite travel across that border, I asked the biologist whether he'd actually visited Las Vegas while researching his book.

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"How he'd gone into the hills, how he wound up crossing the border I have no idea, but never in the year we've been in correspondence has he indicated any interest in covering Iran, " she told the Associated Press, adding that Mr Bauer did not speak Farsi.

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Twice since Friday they'd gotten on trains and been turned back minutes later by delays at the Czech border.

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Josh Elmore crossed the border into Iraq three years ago, he had no idea what he'd gotten himself into.

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The men were arrested by Dutch border police shortly after their flight landed at Schiphol on Monday, said Dutch Public Prosecution spokesman Theo D'Anjou at a press conference.

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