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...denunciation of immigrants, especially from Mexico, has become one of the major campaign topics in the primaries, with each candidate willing to say whatever it takes to appear tougher than the rest on border security...
...Gaza, people may be celebrating this blow against Israel, but realists among the Palestinians know that this first suicide bombing after a year's hiatus will make it more difficult to argue the case with the Egyptians of keeping the Rafah border open - the only entry and exit point into Gaza. Egypt says it is prepared to keep the fence open - but only if Hamas and Fatah share responsibility for it. After the breakdown of three-way talks in Cairo last week, that seems unlikely. Hamas has agreed to help Egypt reseal most of the border fence, but even that...
...Morin did over the weekend, French officials are describing the timing of Thursday's rebel push from Sudan as designed to disrupt impending deployment of the European Union's 3,700 EUFOR peacekeeping force along Chad's eastern border. Those troops are charged with establishing safe zones to protect refugees from violence-torn Darfur. That imposition of well-armed foreign soldiers, French officials say, would have complicated Khartoum's plans to destabilizing the Chadian regime...
...because many diplomats see that offensive as just one part of wider patchwork of cross-border African conflicts, some are intimating threats of additional peacekeeping operations as a means of making life harder on troublemakers in the region. "We are not involved in this war," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said as he welcomed people airlifted from Chad to Paris Monday. "For now, there's no change in that. But if there's a [United Nations] Security Council resolution, or if there was another suggestion [for a more active role] during an African Union summit...
...bombing seemed to confirm fears by Israeli security chiefs that terrorists had joined thousands of Palestinians who streamed through the breach made last week in the security fence between Egypt and Gaza. The bombers' route probably took them into the Sinai, where Egypt's long and sporadically unpatrolled desert border is riddled with smugglers' trails used by Bedouin. For the right amount of money, these tribesmen are willing to bring anything into Israel - drugs, weapons, Russian prostitutes, even terrorists, say Israeli security officials. Earlier, Egyptian police in Sinai claimed to have captured two teams of Palestinian militants laden with explosives...