border
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A Home Office spokesperson said: "The Border Security Command works around the clock to monitor the Channel and protect our border."
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
A big wild card for the project remains al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate that has expanded its war against the Somali government into border areas of Kenya.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
"We will be unrelenting in our efforts to protect our Jewish communities, root out antisemitism in this country, and maintain our border security," she added.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
There were clashes along the shared border in August, suggesting it remains an active concern for the Ethiopian government.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
It came from the east, from beyond the border of Mozambique, where her nameless village lay on the banks of an uncharted stream.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Culver City secured an agreement with the operator of the Inglewood Oil Field to shut down the part that lies within its borders by 2029.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
In Chobe, a wildlife-rich district in northern Botswana near the borders with Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, a local MP raised concerns after residents reportedly collected portions directly from a carcass at a school.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The central frieze’s action is explicated by Latin captions and framed by upper and lower borders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Only bands local to the Pikes Peak region, including those close to but outside the borders of Colorado Springs, are invited to play.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Sometimes a herd of cows grazed on this land, or a man on horseback rode the borders, a sombrero shading his face, his shirt stained yellow with sweat.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
The place: Opened in November 2025, One&Only’s first U.S. resort occupies 240 acres, bordered by more than 17,000 acres of permanently protected land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The cars are connected to charging points by the garages for the flats, which are in traditional red buildings bordered by birch trees and a large golf course.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The pre-fight feeling was that this occasion bordered on the absurd as a sanctioned world title contest, but Verhoeven went a long way to proving the boxing fraternity wrong.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Gray described a place of old stone walls where the earth smelled faintly of tar and hemp, bordered by a river.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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MCALLEN, Texas — Vanessa Ovalle has a “frontline view” of Texas schools as a single mom and a speech pathologist at a local school in McAllen, a city in the Rio Grande Valley bordering Mexico.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Communities across all states bordering Wyoming face darkness, breathing difficulties and roofs collapsing under accumulated ash.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Boundaries are extremely tricky to maintain with people who are insistent and/or bordering on pushy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
He has won six out of the seven counties bordering the lake in all of his three presidential runs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Mary Lou pointed to the tall stalks bordering the pond.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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