Because it will have a huge knock-on effect for all those people who are on the border line, who are just getting by, if the Fed raises that rate they're going to be in trouble.
India says they came from Pakistan, crossing the temporary border known as the line of control.
It mostly hugs the pre-1967 border (the Green Line), but bites off the areas with the biggest settlements too, taking about 10% of the Palestinians' West Bank territory.
Instead, the main diplomatic legacy of the Himalayas faceoff will be permanent damage to the Sino-Indian border accords of 2005, in which both states agreed to "strictly respect and observe" the de facto border known as the Line of Actual Control.
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The confrontation had been building for a week when Northern crab-fishing boats began to move south of the informal maritime border called the Northern Limit Line.
The disputed border, known as the Northern Limit Line, has been the site of several deadly naval clashes between the Koreas.
Yevgeny Nazdratenko, governor of Primorsky Krai, now speaks publicly of the need to bring the Russian border guards into line.
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Though India formally claims all of Kashmir, including the areas now controlled by Pakistan and China, it would probably settle for the status quo, turning the present line of control into the international border.
That suggests people believe the crisis will be defused, as happened after previous flare-ups on the UN-mandated Northern Limit Line, the disputed maritime border.
The border between Israel and a new Palestine would follow the pre-1967 line, with adjustments to accommodate some of the bigger border-hugging Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and land-swaps to compensate the Palestinians for those adjustments.
Unfortunately for the smugglers, their old-time slingshot-and-cable infrastructure might end up getting them catapulted over the moat and into the dungeon because border officials spotted the contraband sliding down a zip line from Hong Kong to Zhenzhen.
The trip is expected to take 12 to 15 days and has suffered multiple false starts as the Thompsons try to line up the logistics of visas, border crossings and travel time timetables in a part of the world where buses and ferries don't tend to conform to strict schedules.
Both countries still have troops massed along their international border and on the Line of Control in divided Kashmir.
But the two nations dispute the exact location of the sea border, and North Korea does not observe the line.
The crash happened just before 5 p.m. on an above-ground track on the Red Line in the District of Columbia near the border with Takoma Park, Maryland.
Your suggestion that Pakistan should be forced to renounce cross-border terrorism across the line of control is indeed unfortunate as Pakistan's efforts to combat terrorism have been universally acclaimed by important world leaders and the international media.
And so it may have been with the decision to cross the line of control, the de facto border, in Kashmir.
Additional steps can be taken to reinforce the North-South maritime border west of the peninsula, the Northern Limit Line that was the site of both armed clashes in 2010, and the general state of readiness for a range of provocations.
When Croatia joins the EU a new line, that of the Union's external border, will change the Balkan map.
Parts of the fence veer off the Green Line, drawing in some Jewish settlements close to the border.
Congolese army soldiers pointed out the flashes of gunfire coming from the Rwandan border, marked by a line of trees.
Black believes that Nordstrom will likely add Rack stores north of the border in addition to the full line stores its announced.
India disagrees, preferring a straight line from the land border.
Privately, senior officials in both countries suggest that the United States has begun to favour India's position on Kashmir, even seriously considering a possible division of the state or converting the ceasefire line into an international border.
He commanded a division along the Vietnam border which was responsible for numerous atrocities on both sides of the line.
Christmas Island, around 220 miles south of Java and around 1, 600 miles from the Australian mainland, is a front line for Australia's border protection and a black spot for the often rickety boats that smugglers use to transport people seeking asylum.
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Scottish politicians accused the Tories of ignoring their constituents, unmollified by vague promises that the line would eventually be extended north of the border.
Maryland's northern border is the famous Mason-Dixon line, traditionally the demarcation between North and South.
The Afghan government has yet to convince Pakistan that a return to peace and stability in the border regions will not spark renewed irredentism among local Pashtuns over the disputed Durand Line.
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India says the new measures have been put in place partly because China has "superb" communications on its side of the border, especially after a new train line to Lhasa was built in 2006.
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