MADRID Officials say some 400 sub-Saharan migrants stormed Spain's multiple-barbed-wire border fences separating its North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco, but failed in their bid to enter Europe.

A regional government statement said Spanish and Moroccan police, aware of the pending attempt, managed to force most of the crowd back early Wednesday.

It said some 150 migrants managed to get into the area between the fences but were returned to Morocco.

Spain's North African city enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta are regularly targeted by large groups of African immigrants living illegally in Morocco and trying to cross into Europe in search of a better life.

Both countries stepped up vigilance in February after 15 migrants drowned trying to reach Ceuta.

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Brazilian organizers brought in 600 extra security forces Sunday and put up higher perimeters fences for the World Cup game at the Maracana Stadium after ticketless fans broke into the venue at both previous matches there.

Around 40 police officers lined up behind new fences at the specific part of the stadium where nearly 100 Chilean supporters forced their way in ahead of Wednesdays Spain-Chile game, then rampaged through the press center breaking down walls in an apparent attempt to get into the sold-out match.

For Sundays fixture between Belgium and Russia, there were also black-uniformed military police, some with dogs, patrolling outside the Maracana. A special contingent of 600 police, some carrying assault weapons, began blocking off streets and setting up barricades around the Rio de Janeiro stadium before dawn and police were checking fans tickets as they left the train station to make the short walk to the game.

Riot police in body armor also stood in a line outside the 74,000-seat stadium.

The head of military police for Rio de Janeiro state had announced earlier that the 600 extra officers would be assigned to the Belgium-Russia game, bringing the police presence to over 3,000 for the third of seven games at the Maracana, which also hosts the World Cup final July 13.

The increase in security followed the breach by Chilean fans that world football body FIFA called embarrassing.

During the breach, at least 88 fans were detained after rushing past a security checkpoint and gaining access to the media room, then breaking down partition walls and running up and down a corridor close to the field. They were detained by private security officers around 15 minutes after they busted in.

At the first World Cup game at the Maracana between Argentina and Bosnia four days earlier, at least 10 Argentina fans were detained after jumping fences to try to see their team play.

FIFA is investigating a possible racial discrimination case after photographs circulated of fans with blackface makeup at Germanys match against Ghana.

Images posted on social media networks showed two men, appearing to be Germany fans, with blackened faces in the Fortaleza stadium on Saturday.

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Supporters broke through fences and the security cordon to try and gain access to Maracana Stadium Brazil will expel the 85 people who invaded, with the Chile fans to leave the country in the next 72 hours Fans burst into press area as they attempted to enter the ground Police and security battled for an hour to try and restore order Chile face a crucial Group B clash against Spain

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Chilean fans broke through fences and the security cordon around the Maracana and stampeded through the media in an attempt to gain access to their teams match with Spain.

Brazil will expel the 85 people who invaded, with the Chile fans to leave the country in the next 72 hours

Presumably without tickets, they forced openings in the inner walls of the press area to reach the concrete bowels of the stadium.

Journalists were torn between fleeing the mob and reporting the first incident of its kind in World Cup history.

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Franklin Lakes Trying to find a solution to deer impalements in the borough, officials appear to be straddling the fence between animal protection and practicality.

Council members and officials at a Feb. 4 meeting favored passing a law that would prevent property owners from erecting spiked fences in the future, but would not require residents to remove such fences that are already standing.

Some deer have attempted to leap over the fences, but instead have fallen short and landed on the sharp spikes atop the fences, leading to a slow death.

Officials said they need to consider the cost for property owners to remove fences, which caused four deer deaths last month and an estimated six annually in recent years, according to Mayor Frank Bivona.

"You have a situation here where someone's spent an enormous amount of money to put up some of these fences," Bivona said. "What's our ability to go back and say, 'You can't have this fence,' after we allowed them to put this fence in?"

Borough Administrator Gregory Hart said the borough currently has no ordinance that is specific to spikes or fences.

However, Bivona said, the borough has attempted "to hang [its] hat on" an existing ordinance as a means to get residents to remove spiked fences.

The borough's current property maintenance ordinance prohibits "exterior surfaces or parts of buildings or structures containing sharp, rough or projecting surfaces or objects which might cause injury to persons coming in contact therewith."

"If there's something that's egregious out there, I think that we should go after it," Bivona said.

Bivona said there are many spiked fences in the borough, but many of them have small spikes that are not a threat to deer. He said the new ordinance would target fences that have "big impaling-type spikes."

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Citing security and recommendations by law enforcement, district officials approved the plan in February that would place the fences around each of the five properties.

Recently contractors began removing vegetation from areas around where work is to be done. Actual construction on the fences is expected to begin once school is out for the summer.

At a Friday, June 13 afternoon Facility Committee meeting, about two dozen residents attended the meeting with many of them speaking up and raising concerns over the project.

My concern is that the fence plan is going to interfere with our enjoyment of our property and detract from the value of our property, said Berwyn resident Rob Adams.

Other speakers raised concern over the costs of the project when the district has complained about financial constraints.

You really need to convince stakeholders that a 5-foot chain link fence is worth $250,000 when we have such financial woes, said Kathleen Johnson.

Several residents also brought up the idea questioning the effectiveness of a five-foot fence in keeping out an intruder when one resident said, Theres hardly anybody in this room that if they wanted to get over that 5-foot fence couldnt get over it.

Johnson also expressed concern over the security and the potential for an evacuation of students.

We are concerned about emergency situations. While I have been told and many of us have been told in our constant questions over the past several weeks there is no scenario that would require all of the children to be evacuated from a school property. Thats just not an answer that parents want to hear. We understand that evacuation plans cannot be publicly divulged. We understand the details of those plans cannot be publicly divulged. Were not asking for that. What were asking for is confidence that when you completely enclose a school property that you can get our children off [school property]. It does not take a creative imagination to envision a scenario where we need to the children off [school property] and we need to get them off quickly, Johnson said. Continued...

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WYCKOFF Property owners along Route 208 with damaged and dilapidated fencing near the highway are going to be notified they are expected to fix or replace those barricades, according to Mayor Douglas Christie.

Some of the dilapidated and damaged fencing may be on a homeowners property or in the state highways right of way, Police Chief Benjamin Fox said. Regardless, homeowners are responsible for maintenance of fences, he said.

Christie said the broken fencing is presenting a bad impression of Wyckoff to travelers who use the busy 208 corridor. At the April 1 Township Committee meeting, he described the area as a "total ruin" in need of immediate attention. He attributed the damaged fencing to snow plowing and long-term wear and tear.

Fox noted that his department received eight phone calls from residents along Route 208 during a mid-February snowstorm stating that the New Jersey Department of Transportation plow operators had damaged or knocked down fencing. Prior to that storm, Fox noted, a lot of fencing along Wyckoff s section of the state highway already was in disrepair.

Fox said that he has reached out to the eight residents who called and provided them with an NJDOT claim form to file for damages, along with a phone number.

"Clearly there needs to be a cleanup and repair along that stretch," Fox said.

At the committees March 21 meeting, Committeeman Kevin Rooney said that Fox raised the issue of fence damaged by state snow plow operators.

In an interview April 2, Rooney said that the committee instructed local Code Enforcement Officer Fred Depken to "take note of where fences have been damaged" and send an "abatement notice" to homeowners. Rooney said that approximately 24 properties are involved. He said homeowners would be told to "repair it, replace it, or remove it."

He said homeowners filing for damages with the DOT and those making their own repairs would be given "a reasonable" time to complete work.

"We have received more and more inquiries from residents about this. It is an eyesore and people are just becoming more aware. Now is the time to take care of it," said Rooney.

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THE war of words between Federal Member for Maranoa Bruce Scott and state Agriculture Minister John McVeigh over pest animal funding continues, following Mr McVeigh's announcement at Longreach last week that none of the $5.6 million allocated for pest control in Queensland's drought declared areas could be spent on fencing.

Mr Scott has strongly advocated for the state to spend its federal allocation on hard infrastructure, saying that conventional methods of control were failing.

On at least two occasions last week Mr McVeigh stated that the guidelines of the federal-state pest management funding agreement precluded the state putting its allocation towards check fences.

"We have had distracting commentary in recent weeks," Mr McVeigh told a gathering of proponents for the 1300km check fence proposal.

"Just to clarify, the project guidelines say, thou shalt not spend money on fences."

The following morning a similar comment was front and centre at the meeting called by Mr McVeigh and attended principally by mayors and wild dog advisory group chairmen to discuss how the federal funding would be allocated.

"There is no money for fencing," he told the meeting.

"I imagine the federal government thinking is that in times of drought we need to hit dogs hard while they're vulnerable."

In the wake of these comments Mr Scott said he had received advice from his federal colleague Barnaby Joyce's department that there was nothing in the agreement that prevented money being spent on fencing.

"I was told that it was a matter for the Queensland government whether they wanted to apply a portion of the $5.6m to fences.

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