Category: border
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Border measures aimed at responding to Trump’s tariff threat begin
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Article content OTTAWA — Immigration measures announced as part of Canada’s border response to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of 25 per cent tariffs are underway, starting with a ban on what is known as “flying the flag.” Article content This occurs when someone who was in Canada on a…
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Christmas food supplies at risk as new eu border rules threaten chaos, logistics leaders warn
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Christmas food deliveries in the UK are at risk as new EU border checks could disrupt the flow of fresh goods, the UK’s logistics body has warned. The trade group is sounding the alarm over the EU’s upcoming Entry and Exit System (EES), due to launch on November 10, which…
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Israeli strike kills four fighters on Syria-Lebanon border, security sources say By Reuters
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – An Israeli drone strike on a car crossing a Syrian checkpoint near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday killed three Palestinian fighters and one member of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, two security sources told Reuters. The sources said the vehicle was not carrying weapons. There was…
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Israeli strike kills four fighters on Syria-Lebanon border, security sources say By Reuters
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – An Israeli drone strike on a car crossing a Syrian checkpoint near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday killed three Palestinian fighters and one member of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, two security sources told Reuters. The sources said the vehicle was not carrying weapons. There was…
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Post-Brexit Border Delays Threaten UK and EU Horticulture Trade, Industry Leaders Warn
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Plant nurseries and garden centres in Britain and Europe are sounding the alarm over the inefficiency of new post-Brexit border posts, which are causing significant delays, damage and extra costs for plant importers. The Horticultural Trade Association, which represents 1,400 UK retailers and gardeners, along with several European trade bodies,…
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Migrant arrests drop at US-Mexico border as Biden asylum ban rolls out By Reuters
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Written by Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of migrants apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally fell on Friday, a senior U.S. border official told Reuters, saying it suggested the Biden administration’s new restrictive policy was deterring some illegal immigration. The U.S. Border Patrol arrested about 3,100 people who…
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Tensions flare on Poland-Belarus border as more migrants arrive By Reuters
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Written by Barbara Erling, Kuba Stizecki, and Kakper Pimple BIALOVIZA, Poland (Reuters) – Dozens of people gathered near a fence along the border with Belarus, surrounded by dense forest, waiting for a chance to climb over it or push aside its slats to head west into Poland. On the other…
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Argentina’s 300% inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town By Reuters
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Written by Daniela DeSantis and Lucinda Elliott NANAUA, Paraguay (Reuters) – Shoppers in Paraguay used to flock in droves to the border town of Nanawa to buy cheap imports from Argentina, where years of weakness in the peso currency have depressed the relative prices of fuel, medicine and groceries smuggled…
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Brexit Border IT Outages Delay Import of Perishable Items to UK by Up to 20 Hours
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Trucks carrying perishable goods such as meat, cheese and fresh cut flowers from the European Union are facing delays of up to 20 hours at the UK’s busiest Brexit border posts due to a failure in government IT systems. These delays have led to significant disruptions, reducing the shelf life…