He was born in Texas, probably near the border with Arkansas.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

She was born right near the Italian border, but just in abject poverty.

她的出生地就在意大利边境附近,但是真的很贫寒

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And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.

在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁

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The women were arrested in March near the border with China.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

Six South Koreans were killed when the North opened the gates to a dam near the border, flooding the banks of a river shared by both sides.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The routine flight from the capital of Papua province, Jayapura,to the town of Oksibil, near the border with Papua New Guinea, should have taken just 50 minutes.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

But tensions remain between the United States and Pakistan, particularly about Mr.Obama's decision to continue firing missiles from unmanned aircraft at suspected al-Qaida bases in Pakistan's tribal regions, near the border with Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Brennan promised that the United States will keep up the pressure on terrorist havens worldwide, including those near the Afghan-Pakistani border.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

The residents left their homes near the country's border with Guinea-Bissau after recent increases in attacks by Senegalese rebels in the area.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Some stories end tragically. More than 200 suspected border crossers died last year in the desert near Tucson.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Karen communities also reported a build up of both military and pro-government militia forces near the Thai border town of Mae Sot.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

At the request of Nkunda's lawyers a preliminary hearing was held yesterday in Gisenyi,near the Congolese border.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

The small pilot project involved 10 video consultations between stroke patients and a team of rehabilitation specialists in Thunder Bay, a mid-size city near the U.S.border.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Environmental activists say plans by Laos to build a dam in the Don Sahong area near the Cambodian border could doom the nearly extinct Irrawaddy dolphin.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

South Korea says it is accelerating a project to build its own dams near the North Korean border to prevent surprise floods like this in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

He says that a new pipeline will be laid between Mindana and Bazargan, near the Turkish border, to increase the volume of Iranian gas sold to Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

The reported advances near the Afghan border come a day after army officials took journalists into the region for the first time since the operation started in mid-October.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Since the Pakistani military launched operations against them near the Afghan border in mid-October, most of the militant attacks have targeted security forces, including the country's separate army and naval headquarters.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The arrests in Swat are the latest blow for the Taliban insurgents in Pakistan whose chief commander Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a suspected U.S missile attack on his hide out in the South Waziristan region near the Afghan border.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

I don't want to be an alarmist here." "But the one thing that is very important is that as the ISAF (NATO) forces operate in the areas near the Pakistan border, that the impact on Pakistan be taken into account at all times and that the Pakistani security forces are properly aware of what the military actions are so they can do what is necessary to protect your border,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.04