Pro-Israel lobby says White House demands over settlements should be
viewed as anti-semitic and a danger to security

* Chris McGreal in Washington
* guardian.co.uk, Sunday 23 August 2009 14.19 BST

Protesters wave Palestinian flags during a protest against the
controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank.

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TAIPEI, Aug 21 (AFP) Aug 21, 2009

At Least 500  people were missing nearly two weeks after Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan, unleashing floods and mudslides that left more than 150 confirmed dead, emergency officials said Friday.

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By Patrick Worsnip
Reuters
Friday, August 21, 2009; 5:53 PM

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - More than 100,000 people in Yemen, many of
them children, have fled their homes during a recent surge in fighting
between the government and Shi'ite Muslim rebels, a U.N. agency said on
Friday.

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'Going to require even more of the alliance's attention in the coming years'

United Press International
Published: Aug. 18, 2009 at 12:39 PM

OTTAWA, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- It has all the trappings of the Cold War except
a vituperative war of words, or dark hints of Armageddon. Canada's show
of military might north of its icy shores is a flag-waving exercise to
assert not only Canadian sovereignty but also NATO's rights over the
arctic territory. The audience? Russian military in their full
paraphernalia of hardware, also engaged in more or less similar pursuits.

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