21.   Iraq has made no unusual movements along its desert border with Kuwait, a spokesman for a UN observation force said Sunday.

22.   Yemen is currently negotiating with Saudi Arabia to demarcate their desert border and end a decades-old dispute.

23.   Young Egyptians are increasingly trying to slip across the desert border to fight Israelis, in a new form of popular support in Egypt for the Palestinian uprising.

24.   Kuwaiti security forces and Iraqi infiltrators have exchanged gunfire along the northern desert border, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Tuesday.

25.   Often whole families cross the desert border or enter the emirate by sea.