It had demanded the Columbia River border because of the Hudson's Bay trading center on the river.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

People who like chimpanzees can visit Gombe Stream National Park on the western border of the country.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

He said the dam should be built in an area called Boulder Canyon on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Last week, President Obama attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the French-German border.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

On election day, hundreds of men from Missouri crossed the border into Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

And Turkey acts as a buffer on Iran's border from the encroachment of Western NATO powers and to some extent Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Relations between the two countries have been strained for a year because of a disputed ancient temple on their border.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

On December 30,he was invited for a meeting inside a U.S facility in the Afghan border province of Khost.

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

Other gun owners openly showed their weapons as they stood at the border of Washington on Virginia ground.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

He told a news conference in Beirut that Lebanon and the U.N.disagree on the demarcation of the border.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Israeli and Lebanese troops exchanged fire in an incident that broke years of relative calm on the border.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

North Korea opened floodgates Sunday morning on a hydropower dam on its side of the North-South border.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

But this is the village of Tecun Uman, on the Guatemalan border with Mexico, and those involved are hundreds of kilometers from home.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

It was the deadliest eruption of violence on the border since the Lebanon War in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon has backed Israel's version of events following the most serious border clash in four years on Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

She notes the Mauritanian border town of Rosso, on the banks of the Senegal River, also has been lashed by heavy rains and devastated by floods.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

"As we always have said Afghanistan is a victim of terrorism, but the sources of the terrorists and their sanctuaries are on the other side of the border,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

But he made clear it is regional in nature - designed to deal with the threat posed by militants and extremists on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

There are also indications the new strategy will include additional aid for Pakistan, conditioned on improvements in the way the government is tackling the problem of militants along the Afghan border.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The regional Interpol office is also focusing on increasing piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, illegal drug trafficking, arms smuggling, cross-border highway banditry, computer-based crimes, and the poaching and trade of protected animals.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

and Mexican officials. Every day, thousands of people on foot and in vehicles go back and forth across the border here, and millions of dollars worth of products cross the line in trucks and railroad cars.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The recent killing of three people with ties to the U.S.consulate in Juarez,Mexico, and the shooting death of a popular rancher on his property in Arizona, are increasing the anger over drug-related violence on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

That is something that we can stop," President Calderon has repeatedly urged the United States to crack down on arms shipments south of its border, saying 90 percent of weapons in the hands of drug traffickers originate in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

And Presidents Barack Obama and Felipe Calderon have pledged cooperation on a wide range of issues - especially border security aimed at battling drug and gun trafficking, and the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

The CIA facility was located opposite to the Waziristan tribal region and was reportedly playing a key role in gathering intelligence information to guide U.S.unmanned spy planes to launch drone strikes on al-Qaida and Afghan militants hiding on the Pakistani side of the border.

VOA: standard.2010.01.09