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Defectors in South Korea often receive information through informal networks along the Chinese border.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“We lost our beaches and our trails within two weeks,” resident Rebecca Schwarz lamented as she stood with her partner, Todd, and their border collie, Bodie, surveying the Norte fire’s damage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
"Now the situation of the southern border is very unstable," Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Bland, a former primary school teacher and police officer, was among 17 Reform candidates to be returned to the Scottish Parliament in May as the party made its electoral breakthrough north of the border.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
I turned around and saw them coming too, two border patrol trucks rolling up the hill with their headlights full force on us.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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This frontier, it turns out, is both geographic — as embodied by the ever-expanding borders of a nation intent on colonizing and conquering much of the continent — and psychological.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The three main Allied victors of World War II met at Yalta in 1945 to carve new European borders after the Nazis’ defeat.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Countries accustomed to receiving great numbers of aspiring young people from beyond their borders may have to learn to do with fewer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
"Why should Malaysians continue paying the price for irresponsible actions beyond our borders?" she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Jones was a valuable and mysterious secret agent operating along the watery borders between Union and Confederate territory.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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It also extends down into neighborhoods closer to the coast and bordered by the 5 Freeway and Camino Los Mares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
The proposal would create new traffic patterns for ships transiting the strait, which is bordered by Iran on the northern shore and Oman on the southern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The action bordered on farce - even Joe Root attempted a reverse-scoop - yet there was little Duckett could do about a spitter from Sears he fended to first slip.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
It was her favorite one, pale yellow bordered with the cornflowers after which she was named.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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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
He edges closer, bordering on friendly for the first time.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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