The insider-trading case announced on May 9th follows the trail across half-a-dozen borders and a raft of complex corporate structures.
The government will re-examine charges that the Irish police may have helped Irish Republican Army guerrillas single out victims in a dozen border area killings in the 1980's and 1990's.
First he called the governors of a dozen border provinces to Kabul for a public dressing down, then he threatened to resign and call a new loya jirga, or grand council, to appoint a replacement if they did not agree to send the customs revenues they have been holding back to Kabul.
Standing there, the random American walking half a dozen Kyrgyz border guards through the wonder of that little machine — completely nonverbally — the world got small and easy and friendly and funny.
The T.P.P. would have created a Pacific trade zone not unlike the zone that NAFTA created in North America, but comprising a dozen countries bordering the Pacific Japan, Vietnamam, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Peru, and Chile.
This year's budgetary impasse has already caused President Obama to miss a major summit meeting of Pacific Rim countries in Indonesia and has forced the United States to pull back work on the major trade deals it is negotiating with a dozen countries bordering the Pacific Ocean and with Europe.
Visits to more than a half-dozen border locations over the past two years show that the levels of control vary significantly along the line in ways that Congress and the White House have yet to fully acknowledge.
U.S. officials said it was one of nearly two dozen border incursions by Mexican soldiers into southern Arizona in the last four years.
The twins appeared at the news conference with a dozen armed Thai border police officers standing guard alongside 12 other God's Army followers, most of them children.
The measure bans nearly a dozen countries, most bordering on the Caspian and Black seas at the boundary of Europe and Asia, from exporting the world's most expensive wildlife food.
