A year ago the San Diego region secured $300 million to plug a decades-long wastewater pollution crises in waters that snake across the U.S.-Mexico border and dump raw sewage, trash and sediment into the Pacific Ocean.
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In a condemnation case relating to a family’s property along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, a federal court in the state granted the federal government’s motion for immediate possession. The family argued the taking discriminates against them because of their opposition to the border wall.
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Dueling trips to the border by Republican and Democratic lawmakers came amid a partisan divide on how the government is responding to the dramatic spike of undocumented migrants flowing into the U.S. since President Biden’s inauguration.
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Kenya pulled out of the case at the last minute, accusing the U.N.’s highest court of bias.
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Hearings will continue with only representatives from Somalia after Kenya’s request to postpone the case for a fourth time was denied.
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Beijing has reopened its borders to certain travelers from the Philippines who have been inoculated with a Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccine, its embassy in Manila said Monday.
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The move comes as U.S. authorities saw a 60% increase in children crossing the southwest border alone between January and February to more than 9,400.
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The European Commission has secured an agreement with Pfizer-BioNTech to get an extra 4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to fight a worrying surge of coronavirus clusters that are prompting EU nations to slap on border restrictions.
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The troop deployment is part of a broader border policing surge launched in Texas over the weekend.
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In its second set of arguments before the appeals court, the owner of a duty-free gas station on the U.S.-Canada border said Michigan summer gas volatility regulations cannot be applied to the fuel it sells.
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A group of Russian diplomats and their family members returned to Russia from North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley on Thursday because the coronavirus pandemic has halted all passenger traffic between the countries, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a Facebook post.
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The ruling says customs officials can rummage through highly personal information even absent any reason to think their owner did something wrong.
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In a warning sign of the border crises that marked former President Donald Trump’s term, larger numbers of immigrant families have been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the first weeks of President Joe Biden’s administration.
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Politicians in Britain, Northern Ireland and the European Union on Tuesday condemned threats against border staff that prompted authorities to suspend post-Brexit checks on animal products.
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Gas is much cheaper in Slovenia, so neighboring Friuli Venezia Giulia uses a discount at the pumps to keep customers on Italy’s side of the border.
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Trials for 10 people accused of attempting to flee Hong Kong by speedboat during a government crackdown on dissent began in China on Monday, a court official said.
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Trucks inched slowly past checkpoints at the English port of Dover and headed across the Channel on Thursday to the French port of Calais, after France partially reopened its borders with Britain following a scare over a rapidly spreading new coronavirus variant.
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The United Nations’ high court held Friday it has jurisdiction to hear a South American border dispute dating back to the 1800s.
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South Korea’s parliament on Monday approved contentious legislation criminalizing the flying of anti-communist leaflets by balloon toward North Korea, despite fierce criticism that the country is sacrificing freedom of expression to improve ties with the rival North.
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The Trump administration pushed the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday to let it label immigrants as ineligible for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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