• 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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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