In the dusty badlands along its disputed border with Afghanistan, Pakistan is carving out a massive trench to keep out separatists, smugglers and militants in an attempt to bring order to a lawless, tribal region. But like the Berlin Wall or Israel’s West Bank barrier, the planned 485-km trench is …

 Foreign ministers of NATO member states and Ukraine condemned Tuesday Russia’s military build-up in Crimea and its alleged deliberate destabilization efforts in eastern Ukraine. ”We condemn Russia’s military build-up in Crimea, as well as the worsening human rights situation on the Crimean peninsula,” an official statement said.

For the first time, NATO has approved a special combat force to protect the alliance against the threat posed by Russia in wake of its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. Foreign ministers of the 28-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) gave their go-ahead for the stationing of Rapid Deployment Force …