Demands for refugee status by Venezuelans crossing the land border with Brazil in the northern state of Roraima have been surging in the last two years.
Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday agreed to reopen one of its busiest border crossings after 14 days of closure that caused huge financial losses to traders and badly affected the cross-border movement, officials said.
Turkey has launched "Euphrates Shield" operation against the Islamic State (IS) in northern Syria early Wednesday with U.S.-led coalition forces, the prime minister' s office said in a statement.
Washington is seeking closer coordination with several Latin American countries to tackle a jump in migrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East who it believes are trying to reach the United States from the south on an arduous route by plane, boat and through jungle on foot.
Venezuela and Colombia agreed Thursday (Aug 11) to reopen pedestrian border crossings between their countries, a year after Venezuela closed the frontier in a dispute over security and smuggling.
A woman surnamed Zhong from south China's Guangzhou visited Vietnam on July 23. While entering the border, the Vietnamese border staff asked Zhong to hand in her passport and wrote offensive languages on it.
Senior officials and military officers of Pakistan and Afghanistan are scheduled to meet in Kabul on Tuesday under the high level consultation mechanism for coordination on border management and related security issues, the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad said.
Pakistan Army Chief, General Raheel Sharif, on Wednesday ordered military officials not to allow any anyone to cross the border into neighboring Afghanistan for violence.
Border trade has been booming along the Chinese border with Vietnam, after intense government support to improve customs clearing processes, officials said during the China-South Asia Expo in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Pakistan on Monday summoned Afghan charge d'affaires to lodge protest over cross-border shelling by Afghan troops that injured at least two soldiers and nine civilians, the Foreign Ministry said.
Pakistan Army said late Sunday that the Afghan forces fired at the Torkham border crossing, injuring a soldier from the Pakistani side.
Myanmar said on Thursday that it will not reopen the long-closed Phaya Thonzu border crossing before formal demarcation is made on the controversial boundary.
Pakistan enforced a new mechanism on one of its busiest border crossing points with Afghanistan last week that requires every Afghan to carry legal travel documents for entering the country.
Pakistan said the quartet on peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan is still intact and that political negotiation is the best option to solve the years of conflict.
Pakistan introduced a new mechanism on Wednesday that requires Afghans to carry valid travel documents for crossing the border.
Turkey's military killed at least 28 Islamic State fighters in shelling north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday in retaliation for the latest attacks against a Turkish border town, broadcaster CNN Turk said, citing a military statement.
E-commerce companies have been given a one-year buffer period to rethink their cross-border strategies, after the government released new regulations, which ease controlsintroduced in April on certain imported goods sold online.
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