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Ukrainian border guards defending a Black Sea island defiantly told an invading Russian warship to “go f–k yourself” when asked to surrender and were killed when the warship opened fire. The 13 guards were posted on the small but strategic Snake Island off Ukraine’s southeastern border when they were approached by two vessels on Thursday, according to Ukrainian media outlets. The Russians contacted the guards and identified themselves as a “Russian Warship,” demanding that they surrender “to avoid bloodshed,” or else they will open fire according to audio of the exchange. “Russian warship, go f–k yourself,” the Ukrainian guards bluntly...

In an effort to stop migrants from crossing the Mediterranean, Austria's chancellor has said EU border patrol guards should be sent to northern Africa. Sebastian Kurz has made cracking down on immigration a priority.Frontex border control agents should be allowed to operate in northern Africa in order to prevent further migration to Europe, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag,published on Sunday. Kurz's comments appeared to foreshadow the Austrian government's plans for when it takes over the EU Presidency for six months starting in July. Read more: Follow the money: What are the...

Criminal networks with Latin American roots, such as MS-13 and the 18th Street gang, are using the administration's open-door policy at the border to slip in recruits that are causing a huge spike in murder and violence throughout the nation, according to an immigration expert. Testifying Thursday at a House hearing on the border surge of young Latinos, the expert said, "Established gangs have been able to transfer an unknown number of experienced foot soldiers from Central America to help colonize new criminal territory in the United States." Jessica M. Vaughan, the policy director for the Center for Immigration Studies,...

/begin my translation Two Chinese Border Guards Shot Dead by N. Korean Soldiers in Hunchun on Jul. 16 On Jul. 20, we are told by a source in (Sino-N. Korean) border area that two Chinese border guards were shot dead on Jul. 16 by N. Korean soldiers near the border between N. Korea and China's Hunchun. It is not clear yet why the shooting happened. After the killing of the two on Jul. 16, Chinese customs are imposing tougher inspection. It is disrupting the flow of grains, such as rice, and everyday necessities into N. Korea. The price (of goods)...

<p>My friend, the wonderful sf writer Peter Watts was beaten without provocation and arrested by US border guards on Tuesday. I heard about it early Wednesday morning in London and called Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She worked her contacts to get in touch with civil rights lawyers in Michigan, and we mobilized with Caitlin Sweet (Peter's partner) and David Nickle (Peter's friend) and Peter was arraigned and bailed out later that day.</p>

OTTAWA — Canada’s newly armed border guards have claimed their first victim: a hapless moose. The creature was felled by the duty sidearm of a border officer in late August, newly disclosed documents show. The incident — marking the first time a border-guard sidearm has been discharged on duty — occurred about 25 kilometres west of Creston, B.C., as an unidentified intelligence officer with the Canada Border Services Agency was driving on official business to Nelson, B.C. The officer was behind an RCMP vehicle when both drivers spotted an injured moose struggling in the westbound lane of Highway 3. The...

Former U.S. Border Patrol agent Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos wakes up in the middle of the night expecting a guard to shine a flashlight in his face. Jose Alonso Compean, his colleague, still has nightmares that he's not really home. It has not been easy readjusting to life outside their one-man prison cells where they spent the last two years of their lives in segregation. Since the commutation of their sentences by President Bush on his last day in office, the former agents, who were charged with the non-fatal shooting of a Mexican national after he abandoned a load of marijuana...

Bangladesh uprising quashed after tanks roll into Dhaka A tank rumbles towards the Dhaka headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles where the mutineers were holed up (Pavel Rahman/AP) Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent, and Fariha Karim in Dhaka Thousands of mutinous Bangladeshi border guards surrendered last night in the capital after two days of fighting that claimed at least 18 lives, but the rebellion appeared to be spreading to other parts of the country. Dozens of officers were unaccounted for after the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) occupying their headquarters in Dhaka lay down their arms. The head of the BDR, Major-General...

A group of Canadians say they were chastised and forced to wait for hours in a bus at a border crossing between Buffalo, N.Y., and Fort Erie, Ont., because they had spent the weekend shopping in the U.S. The trouble for the shoppers, part of a group of 20, started when the bus arrived at the Peace Bridge border crossing on Sunday afternoon, said Angela Deason, a teacher from Barrie, Ont., who was on the vehicle. "We had an amazing time until we tried getting back into our country. We were stuck at the border in excess of five hours...

/begin my translation [Interview with Escaped N. Korean Border Guards] "We would have been Killed, so had to Escape" Asahi TV's on-site interview with the guards... "99% of guards are into smuggling." [2007-02-13 19:02] Asahi TV of Japan reported on Feb. 12 that they scored an interview with two recently escaped N. Korean border guards in an undisclosed Chinese city near Sino-N. Korean border. The Daily NK first broke the story on Feb. 4 that approximately one platoon-full of border guards from Hoiryong District escaped to China, and (N. Korean) tracking squads are dispatched to capture them. After our...

Border guards at a crossing in southeastern B.C. walked off the job overnight, in response to a U.S. police bulletin about an armed and dangerous fugitive. Montana police had issued an alert to the Roosville border crossing south of Fernie that they were chasing a man believed to be armed and dangerous – and heading north. The lone guard stayed on duty until the shift change early Thursday morning.

Official Conduct in the News Sofia,Bulgaria: Two Bulgarian border guards are facing a variety of theft charges after a high-tech mobile phone – issued to US Ambassador John Beyrle was found in one of the guards’ pocket. The Ambassador had set the phone down near the X-ray screening machines while his baggage was being screened by the two guards,and, when he glanced back, he saw the phone was missing. The guards denied the phone had even been there;but, to their sorrow,the phone had a built-in tracking device,which-when activated-pinpointed its location in one of the guard’s pocket. (Can you hear me...

Link Wray's Border Blues Was the surf guitar legend the target of racial profiling? Surf rock legend Link Wray was to perform live at the unlikely venue known as The Yale Hotel this past Sunday. When I first saw the one lone poster slapped to a pole with electrical tape at the last minute, I figured it was nothing more than some mediocre Link Wray cover band. I reasoned if it truly were Link Wray, I would have known about it far in advance, and it wouldn’t be at Vancouver’s number one "greasy-white-guys-with-mid-life-crises-trying-to-play-the-blues" bar. When I discovered that Wray really...

Take a moment to consider all of the pressing issues facing America today. There is a war we are waging, and rightfully so, to rid the threat of Islamo-Fascist terror. That might rightfully, be placed right at the very top of our national concerns. After all tax-cuts, spending, education, and Social Security reform will take a back seat very quickly if terrorists were to strike here in America. So let us agree, for the purpose of this column, to assume the war on terror is the pre-eminent issue facing America. Now let us examine how the Bush administration has handled...

On April 15 Russian border guards began their long-awaited withdrawal from the "Moskva" patrolled areas of the Tajik-Afghan border, handing over control of the sensitive area to Tajikistani border units. Despite Russia's apparent step back from its well-established role in Tajik border security, Moscow will retain an important advisory role in the future development of the independent border arrangements now placed in the control of Dushanbe. What was once regarded as a regional issue, with the problems of illegal narcotics transiting the border areas, has become internationalized, resulting in less economic strain on Moscow. Tajik border officials will continue to...

Jeremy Wright of Ensight.org, famed for many things including selling his blog for profit, auctioning his services on ebay and for being an all round good guy, has been detained, strip searched, and banned from the United States after attempting to legally cross the Canadian-United States border on a trip to New York to meet with uber-publishers McGraw Hill, who were set to sign him as a consultant to the company on blogging. Whilst posts to his site (since removed for legal reasons) are not clear on all the circumstances of the detention, Wright writes that US Immigration officials accused...

Viking ship cracking upEperts are worried about one of Norway's national treasures. Archaeologists have discovered cracks in the hull of he famed Oseberg Viking ship, which may halt plans to move the vessel to a new museum.The archaeologists have been carefully going over the nearly 1,200-year-old ship, and are concerned about what they see, reports newspaper Aftenposten.Removal of the vessel's top deck has revealed some exciting new details, like graffiti from the Viking age and details of the ship's rigging. But it's also exposed cracks that make archaeologists worry the ship won't tolerate any move to new quarters.There have been...

Welfare cheats on the riseMore than 300 persons were charged with cheating Norway's welfare system last year. Officials are trying to crack down on a rising trend."Welfare fraud is a crime," says Arild Sundberg, director of the Norwegian social security system known as Rikstrygdeverket. "We're reacting swiftly to swindlers and have little tolerance."The 308 persons charged in 2004 are alleged to have cheated the system to the tune of NOK 46 million (about USD 7.5 million).Most of the abuse came in the form of accepting sick pay while continuing to work on the side.

After an embarrassing performance in the world championships 'normal' hill team event on Sunday Norway's ski jumping flops headed for a bar in downtown Oberstdorf to drown their sorrows. Rumours that the waterhole was called "The Shameful Scandies" have been denied.Norwegians are renowned party animals, but most - apart from the saisonnaires littered around many Alpine resorts like Val d'Isère - draw the line at mixing sport and alcohol.The hapless jumpers' evening bar crawl thus made front-page headlines in Norway on Tuesday morning."We were out very late," admitted Lars Bystoel, who also confirmed that he did the driving.The healthy-looking Bystoel...

-- the summary in English of the article's content -- Duri-hana mission disclosed this incident in their press briefing materials. On Apr. 2, after having escaped N. Korea the day before, 24 N. Korean refugees, made up of a few families, were on their way to Mongolia in order to reach the S. Korean embassy there. Chinese border guards spotted them in the city of Manzhouri Yochi near Sino-Mongolian border and opened fire on them, killing 1, arresting 17. 6 are missing. In another incident, according to Yonhap News, an escaped N. Korean soldier scaled a steel fence and entered...