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U.S., Mexico Border Crossing Closed After Shots Fired

Sep. 23, 2009
The nation's busiest border crossing was closed to northbound vehicle traffic for hours Tuesday after federal agents fired shots to stop three vans suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants from Mexico. The 74 people crammed into the vans were taken into federal custody.
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CAIRO, March 16 (UPI) -- Egypt is planning to open its Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip for a two-day period, an unidentified official says.

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Arrests along U.S.-Mexico border decline

SAN ANTONIO , Dec. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Border patrol says arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico are down nearly 35 percent in Texas and 38 percent in New Mexico.

San Ysidro border crossing reopens

SAN YSIDRO, Calif., May 19 (UPI) -- The San Ysidro, Calif., border crossing re-opened Friday after being shut down by a fatal shooting of a driver suspected of picking up illegal immigrants.

Record death toll at U.S.-Mexican border

TUCSON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The number of illegal immigrants who died crossing the southern border into the United States hit a record 460 last year, the U.S. Border Patrol reports.

Record deaths in U.S.-Mexico crossings

TUCSON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- A record 460 migrants died crossing the United States-Mexico border in the last year, the U.S. Border Patrol says.

Car bomb explosion at Iraq-Jordan crossing

AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Jordan said it was greatly concerned by a car bomb explosion that occurred Saturday near the Turaibeel area, along the Iraqi-Jordanian border.

New Syria-Iraq border crossing

DAMASCUS, Syria, May 10 (UPI) -- Syria said Monday it opened a new crossing on its border with Iraq to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into its embattled neighbor.

Report: U.S. closes Iraq-Syria crossing

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. troops have closed the main border crossing between Iraq and Syria, a Beirut newspaper said Thursday.
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler