• Tension between the new neighbours has been strained, with rebellions breaking out on either side of the border and a dispute over oil which escalated to the brink of war in April.

    BBC: Sudan's Bashir orders political prisoner release

  • Since South Sudan's independence, tension between the new neighbours has been strained, with rebellions breaking out on either side of the border and a dispute over oil which escalated to the brink of war last April.

    BBC: Humanitarian crisis in Sudan south gets worse, says UN

  • The Asian Age echoed a similar sentiment, saying the incident was "new point of friction" between the two neighbours.

    BBC: Sarabjit Singh death: Indian media reaction

  • The new road will link Tajikistan (and neighbours, such as Uzbekistan) with the Karakoram highway.

    ECONOMIST: Tajikistan

  • Just down the road, a steady stream of neighbours was filing through the brand-new home of Marohso Jantarawadee to pay their respects to his widow, Rusanee.

    BBC: Putting a face to the conflict in Thailand's south

  • The bill proposes a new land registry based on testimony by the displaced and their neighbours.

    ECONOMIST: Land and violence in Colombia

  • In China Daily, Prof Gong Jianhua, a maritime affairs specialist at Guangdong Ocean University, welcomes the new coast guard, but says China should promote joint development with neighbours in the South China Sea on the basis of a China-Asean free trade zone to ease "anxiety and suspicion".

    BBC: China media: Railways ministry

  • Despite the relaxation being temporary, "the effects of the changes in terms of new development on neighbours and localities will be permanent", it added.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • The not-so-subtle American message is that the neighbours might be better off throwing in their lot with new-formula sanctions than sticking with Mr Hussein.

    ECONOMIST: The Arabs�� chat-show

  • Worse, several countries have connived in Russia's divide-and-rule approach notably Germany, which even under its new chancellor, Angela Merkel, has been far too keen on bilateral deals, such as the building of a new under-sea pipeline, heedless of the concerns of its nearest eastern neighbours.

    ECONOMIST: Russia and the West: In search of a Putin policy | The

  • Except in Portland and Minneapolis, each local government is free to make its own decisions about whether to permit the building of a new office block or shopping mall, regardless of any cost the decision imposes on neighbours.

    ECONOMIST: Urban sprawl

  • Under the revised scheme, as set out by Mr Pickles, homeowners wishing to build extensions under the new powers would notify their council with the details and the local authority would then inform the adjoining neighbours.

    BBC: Eric Pickles amends home extension plans

  • It was not until 23:00 (21:00 GMT) that local police found out from the family's neighbours at a nearby campsite that the family had a second daughter, and launched a new search involving a helicopter and police dogs, one report says.

    BBC: France shootings: Girl hid under bodies in car

  • The colourful pieces of its sectarian kaleidoscope, and the contributions of meddling neighbours, never cease shifting into new shapes.

    ECONOMIST: Two writers unpick Lebanon��s complexities

  • Still others suggest that the tense regional situation, made tenser by speculation over the policies of Israel's new prime minister toward its neighbours, is making Syria's leaders averse to taking risks at home.

    ECONOMIST: Bashar in the steps of his father

  • China also happens to be the source of much of this new military spending, as its neighbours gear up defence spending to keep Sino-ambitions in check and to protect assets, including oil fields, in disputed waters.

    BBC: Shipyards on the slipway

  • The affair injected new heat into Peruvians' traditional animosity towards their southern neighbours.

    ECONOMIST: Injuries, real and imagined

  • Other plaintiffs were farmers who feared that new housing tracts would lead to complaints from neighbours annoyed by the fact that agriculture is smelly and noisy.

    ECONOMIST: Who owns the beauty of Oregon?

  • Neither Russia nor the West wants a new government in Syria to export jihadist zealotry to its neighbours such as Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, let alone to Palestinians under Israeli occupation or in Gaza.

    ECONOMIST: Syria

  • The government is slowly persuading its neighbours to stop supporting them, and has new oil riches to help it equip its army.

    ECONOMIST: Sudan

  • As for foreign policies, the new government is expected to become more pragmatic as tensions between Japan and its neighbours have scratched Japan's interests...

    BBC: Shinzo Abe (November 2012)

  • The fastest-growing new members will probably soon be loth to subsidise their less competitive neighbours.

    ECONOMIST: Federalism

  • The agency is seeking sites for new camps, while trying to persuade Afghanistan's neighbours to open their borders.

    ECONOMIST: Afghan refugees

  • Tunisia still has to chart a path for its new constitution between looking out across the sea to Europe, or turning towards its Arab Muslim neighbours.

    BBC: Tunisia election: Loving and loathing Islamists

  • Indeed, some of the new arrivals in Hong Kong already have aunts, nieces, former students, teachers, or neighbours who are there, and gossip from home spreads like wildfire.

    ECONOMIST: Out of misery, some extraordinary lessons

  • While America was preoccupied with Afghanistan, and later Iraq, China took advantage of Washington's new focus to minimise tension with the superpower and enhance its standing and its influence with its Asian neighbours.

    ECONOMIST: Is China the new enemy?

  • Brazil, like its neighbours, also has big debts which limit the state's ability to put its own money into new power projects.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil's energy crisis

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