It spilled over into Solomon Islands and caused a rift between the two countries.

It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift.

Rift and Mastery

There is a clear rift between Putin and Medvedev. Medvedev is far from being Putin s puppet.

Likewise, the rift between the eurozone s 17 members and the other ten EU countries is widening.

The Massachusetts electoral debacle only highlighted the growing rift between the president s agenda and popular sensibilities.

The sectarian rift between the Islamic Sunni and Shia sects is haunting Egyptian blogger D B Shobrawy's dreams.

It could create a rift between Europe and the US, which hopes to avoid isolation in the vote.

This move has caused a huge discontent and rift between the official opposition and the independent Youth movement.

At first sight, this might seem like another dispute between economists and non economists, but the rift runs within, rather than between, disciplinary boundaries.

The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley.

This rift in our great justice.

These statistics emphasize national government corruption, foreign economic interference in the country, and the rift between the rich and poor.

And the Rift Valley is a depression.

We went down into the Rift Valley.

In the Rift Valley, it's 9,000 feet.

Due to the rift between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, Gazans were prevented from going on the Hajj pilgrimage this year.

It is a rift valley lake lying in the Lake Mweru Luapula graben, which is a branch of the East African Rift.

The economic and political rift between rich and poor nations is steadily becoming a deeper divide as mistrust continues to characterize relations between the developed and the developing countries.

PCMCIA and JEIDA worked to solve this rift between the two competing standards, and merged into JEIDA 4.1 or PCMCIA 2.0 in 1991.

This eventually created a significant rift between the lower social classes and the nobility in the Lithuanian and Ruthenian areas of the Commonwealth.

Between the sixth and seventh rounds, the international community made several efforts to coordinate its actions and to mend the rift within SLM.

So, for years Agnes walked through the Rift valley.

For eight years, she walked through the Rift Valley.

They're like the Mercedes Benz of the Rift Valley.

So, for years Agnes walked through the Rift valley.

The rift between the Gulf monarchies is becoming ever clearer, with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates quick to finance the post coup government.

The discussion continues on Kuwaiti blog Five One Eight about the Bu Qutada wa Bu Nabeel series which created a rift between Kuwait and Morocco.

In the former case, the transatlantic rift will deepen dramatically.

So I do not believe that a lasting rift looms.

I met Agnes three years ago in the Rift Valley.

They could use the time, with international help, to build up effective state institutions, address economic development, and heal the rift between West Bank and Gaza.

In both episodes, a missing handshake symbolized the countries persistent rift.

The Bush administration made numerous foreign policy blunders with far reaching consequences. But Bush neither invented American unilateralism nor triggered the transatlantic rift between the United States and Europe.

Indeed, the seizure of Shalit deepened the rift between Hamas and Fatah, which believes that the abduction was staged in order to sabotage discussions about a national unity government.

Now we're going to go to the East African and the Rift Valley.

But, as the rift between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad has grown, support for the president has declined significantly, with even state run media referring to Ahmadinejad s loyalists as a deviation circle.

These are camels moving across the Rift Valley in Africa, photographed by Chris Johns.

And the top of this mountain range is splitting apart, creating a rift valley.

Another such election in the near future, including the one set for January, is unlikely to occur, mainly owing to the continuing rift between the PLO and Hamas, which controls Gaza.

Add (cultures only) after Rabies virus , Rift Valley fever virus and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus .

The western shore of the lake in DR Congo exhibits the steep escarpment typical of a rift valley lake, rising to the Kundelungu Mountains beyond, but the rift valley escarpment is less pronounced on the eastern shore.

The rift reflects not only ideological differences, but also disagreement about the objective of regime change.

Mount Kenya is a stratovolcano created approximately 3 million years after the opening of the East African rift.

In light of these developments, does it still make sense to speak of the West ? I believe it does, more than ever, because the rift between Europe and America leaves both sides substantially weaker in global terms.