rift
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Appeared in the May 8, 2026, print edition as 'Trump and Brazil’s Lula Seek Reset, Easing Diplomatic Rift'.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Mwangi was arrested on March 13 in the Rift Valley in possession of 1,000 live ants of an unspecified species and 113 Messor cephalotes ants hidden in syringes.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
Lindsey noted that New Mexico sits on a very different fault system known as the Rio Grande Rift, which is pulling apart inside of sliding sideways.
From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025
Fourteen schoolchildren were among the dozens of Kenyans killed when two mudslides struck the Great Rift Valley area, according to the country's education ministry.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025
When I rode along the Kinshasa Highway as a boy, it was a dusty, unpaved thread that wandered through the Rift Valley toward Lake Victoria, carrying not much traffic.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Geological Features
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