* Richard Luscombe in Miami
    * The Guardian,
    * Monday August 18 2008

Tourists were ordered to evacuate the Florida Keys yesterday in
preparation for a tropical storm that has claimed at least four lives in
the Caribbean.

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    * Jonathan Watts in Beijing
    * guardian.co.uk,
    * Monday August 18 2008 10:05 BST

Four American Christians are staging a sit-in at a Chinese airport,
which they refuse to leave until the authorities return 315 Bibles they
were trying to bring into the country.

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18 Aug 2008 09:16:00 GMT
Source: Merlin - UK

Afghanistan is experiencing its most severe drought in eight years, with
farming communities in the northern provinces being the hardest hit. In
these areas where crops and livestock are dependent on rainfall rather
than irrigation, an Afghan minister reported that 1.5 million people are
in need of urgent humanitarian relief.

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Aug 18, 2008, 10:16 GMT

Tel Aviv - Israeli experts and officials voiced mixed reactions Monday
to the launch of Iran's first domestically produced carrier rocket.

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