In the developing world, only China has received more inward investment than the Mexican border region.
In December 2012, the Libyan Congress declared the southwest desert border region a closed military zone.
But this same cancer has also taken root in the border region of Pakistan.
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He also urged Congress to pass legislation that would create opportunity zones in the border region.
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The two sides fought in the oil-rich border region of Abyei earlier this year.
In any event, Plan Colombia has reminded Brazil that its remote northern border region is wide open.
"There is no diminishing of their ability to operate, " in the border region, a senior U.S. military official said.
But the government wants ITV to do more in Scotland to address the concerns of viewers in the Border region.
We'll spend the next few minutes in a border region that affects the future of two countries, Turkey and Iraq.
The U.S. military in Afghanistan has not commented on the strikes, which typically target Taliban fighters in the border region.
The company also questioned whether most viewers in the Border region would really want to see more of STV's regional output.
In addition to the airstrikes, fighting continued Monday in several areas of the border region, said South Sudan's military spokesman, Philip Aguer.
He speaks numerous languages and knew the Afghan-Pakistan border region very well.
The BBC's Yolande Knell, in al-Arish, said further armoured personnel carriers could be seen overnight on Thursday, heading eastwards towards the border region.
Croatian troops have been moving to the border region, and Eastern Slavonian Serb soldiers are deploying to face what they see as a threat.
Along the border region, locals' guesses of how many people engage in at least some shuttle-trading range from a fifth to half of the population.
Returning to Juba from a visit to Abyei, the SPLM's Secretary General Pagan Amum said the situation in the border region was now calm, although still tense.
But this slice of paradise exists cheek by jowl with the war-torn, lawless border region of Somalia, and last month the two worlds collided, with deadly consequences.
Farmers soak up about 85% of the border region's scarce water, and on the semi-arid land on both sides they grow thirsty cash crops like sugar cane.
If an outbreak occurred in a border region, for example, a swift response would most likely depend on prior agreements between different countries about quarantine and containment.
Acting on intelligence information, Sultan said the soldiers began a routine search operation in the South Waziristan region -- a culturally conservative tribal area in Pakistan's semi-autonomous northwestern border region.
Iraq's border region has been targeted by Syria in the past -- as the Syrian conflict escalated in 2012, there was at least one instance where rockets fired from Syria landed in Al-Qaim.
So his departure could hurt the chances of resolving the Arab-Kurdish dispute over land and oil in the border region around Kirkuk, a city and province which the Kurds say is theirs.
Following Wednesday's vote by Israel's security cabinet, control of northern Ghajar will be handed over to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil), whose mandate is to keep peace in the tense border region.
Would the border region of Alsace-Lorraine, with its rich seams of coal, again be fought over as European nations struggled to control a key commodity, coal to produce electricity, needed for a war-making machine?
The impact on the border region was swift.
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We will long debate whether at a very important moment in our efforts to root out terrorism particularly in Afghanistan and on that border region with Pakistan, whether we took our eye off the ball.
In short, the conference was about changing the narrative about the U.S.-Mexico border by telling the full story about how and why the border region is a key driver of our global competitiveness and shared prosperity.
In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the border region remains "a real problem" for allied troops battling a resurgent Taliban and its al Qaeda allies in Afghanistan, particularly along the rugged border with Pakistan.
Hakura said the Turkish military wanted to conduct a surprise attack against the PKK prior to the springtime, when violent attacks tend to escalate, and when the snow in the mountainous border region leaves the fighters' footprints.
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