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I once commanded thousands of troops on the border. Building a costly wall alone will not provide real security.

The barbed wire placed in Cyprus’ buffer zone near the villages of Akaki, Peristerona, and Astromeritis to kerb migrant flows is still there, despite government promises to remove it ...

Panama has placed barbed wire across several routes in the Darién Gap, the country’s Ministry of Public Security said in a ...

The Democrat’s sense of vulnerability on the issue may explain why she’s been reticent about the Republican’s ...

Parliament Road in Middlesbrough feels a world away from the establishment it shares a name with, but for one Sunday in August, the terraced streets of central Middlesbrough were at the centre of ...

The Chinese government long denied that the camps existed, but after images of camp construction with watch towers and barbed wire fences emerged, the government acknowledged what they call “re ...

An exhibition featuring crowd control barriers that have gone out of control, twisted railway tracks, barbed wire and tattered union jack bunting - all making a comment on modern British life ...

The Chhattisgarh government assures the high court that measures will be implemented to prevent elephant deaths from ...

“It’s going to come down to the wire. No one knows how this will end. That’s almost the scariest part.” Perhaps some of that lack of change is due to her stance on guns. Vice President ...

The polls are 'tightening now', it's going to come down to the wire: Rich Luchette Precision Strategies Vice President Rich Luchette and Republican strategist Matt Keelen discuss the state of the ...