When Schreiner got close to the city on Friday he ran into Suzanne Shortway-DeAugustines, a crossing guard in Ridgewood, N.

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Meanwhile, the first major ground shipment of food aid arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday after crossing the Iranian border, a U.N. aid official said.

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Those numbers are increasing, with 5, 000 Syrians crossing borders each day, according to Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the U.N.

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