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    <description>World news, decoded — ~20 stories ranked by impact, with original regional takes.</description>
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      <title>US splits on space-traffic rules: FAA pulls back, FCC's 5-year deorbit mandate holds</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/space-traffic-management-fcc-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/space-traffic-management-fcc-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Commerce expands space situational awareness as active-debris-removal market and ADR insurance emerge [contested-result]</description>
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      <title>Vance says Iran agreed to IAEA inspectors; Tehran says it didn't</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/iran-nuclear-iaea-dispute-june2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/iran-nuclear-iaea-dispute-june2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Switzerland talks produced a 'roadmap', and opposite public accounts of what Iran committed to on nuclear access [active]</description>
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      <title>The largest oil supply disruption on record</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/hormuz-oil-supply-shock</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/hormuz-oil-supply-shock</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Brent peaked near $118 in March; post-ceasefire normalisation has it at $75.57 by June 24, but a 500-vessel queue and the Qatar LNG explosion keep markets unsettled [de-escalating]</description>
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      <title>ESA: LEO collision risk up ~20% in 2026 as tracked objects pass 28,000</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/orbital-congestion-leo-collision-risk-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/orbital-congestion-leo-collision-risk-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Rising avoidance manoeuvres, a $25.8–42.3B decade cost, and a 95% disposal-compliance bar to avert cascade [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Space Force passes $40B as Congress boosts missile-warning and data-transport layers</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/space-force-missile-warning-budget-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/space-force-missile-warning-budget-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>FY26 adds $1.2B for R&amp;D; reconciliation pours $7.2B into space sensors and $5.6B into interceptors [active]</description>
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      <title>Spain's dry interior pushes back: Meta's Talavera campus, Amazon's Aragón</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/spain-datacenter-water-fights-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/spain-datacenter-water-fights-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Meta's Talavera site would draw ~504m litres/yr mostly from the Tagus; Amazon seeks a 48% water rise in Aragón; Lleida banned data centers as drought collides with the AI build [contested-result]</description>
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      <title>China's Tianwen-3 advances as NASA's Mars Sample Return is cancelled</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/tianwen3-mars-sample-return-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/tianwen3-mars-sample-return-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>With US funding cut in January, China could be first to return Martian samples, by 2031 [transition]</description>
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      <title>Amazon's Project Rainier scales toward 5GW Anthropic compute on Trainium</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/amazon-project-rainier-anthropic-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/amazon-project-rainier-anthropic-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Indiana's $11bn AWS megacampus runs ~500,000 Trainium2 chips for Anthropic; the partners now target up to 5GW, with Amazon guiding to ~$200bn capex in 2026 [active]</description>
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      <title>Counterspace arms race accelerates as China and Russia stay out of the ASAT moratorium</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/counterspace-asat-arms-race-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/counterspace-asat-arms-race-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>35+ states pledge no destructive ASAT tests; US fields satellite jammers; Russia's nuclear-ASAT concern persists [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Stargate's Abilene flagship goes live as Crusoe stacks $15bn to finish it</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/stargate-abilene-financing-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/stargate-abilene-financing-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The 1.2GW Texas campus runs on Oracle Cloud with first GB200 racks delivered; Crusoe's $1.38bn Series E funds the expansion as SoftBank completes its $41bn into OpenAI [active]</description>
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      <title>Stargate expands to Michigan: a $7bn, 1GW 'Barn' campus near Saline</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/stargate-michigan-7bn-barn</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/stargate-michigan-7bn-barn</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Related Digital breaks ground on three buildings on 250 acres; one of five new US sites pushing Stargate to ~7GW planned and &gt;$400bn over three years [active]</description>
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      <title>Nvidia restarts China sales: H200 cleared with a 25% US cut, flow still thin</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nvidia-h200-china-restart-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nvidia-h200-china-restart-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Jensen Huang says orders are in and manufacturing is 'restarting'; BIS revised the license policy, but as of mid-2026 only a small number of H200s have actually shipped [easing]</description>
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      <title>Middle Corridor volumes dip as the Trans-Caspian route hits its capacity ceiling</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/middle-corridor-volume-crisis-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/middle-corridor-volume-crisis-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Trans-Caspian cargo fell to 4.12m tons in 2025 even as Kazakhstan wins a $846m World Bank guarantee to break bottlenecks [contested-result]</description>
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      <title>Nvidia Q1 FY27 revenue jumps 85% to ~$82bn as data center nears double</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nvidia-q1-fy27-record-data-center</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nvidia-q1-fy27-record-data-center</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Data-center revenue ~$72.8bn; Vera Rubin ramps to full production by fall; guidance assumes zero China data-center compute, and the stock still slid [active]</description>
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      <title>G7's BRI counter goes quiet: PGII absent from Trump's 2026 budget even as Lobito advances</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pgii-trump-budget-omission-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pgii-trump-budget-omission-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment loses its line item while the administration reframes its surviving projects as anti-China minerals plays [transition]</description>
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      <title>WTI settles into a $68–85 band that brushes the Permian's rising breakeven</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wti-shale-breakeven-squeeze-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/wti-shale-breakeven-squeeze-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Dallas Fed E&amp;P bosses see WTI ~$74 at year-end against new-well breakevens near $67, a thin margin that tightens as core inventory depletes and service costs climb [contested-result]</description>
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      <title>AI's $800bn 'circular financing' loop draws bubble and debt warnings</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ai-circular-financing-debt-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ai-circular-financing-debt-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Nvidia invests in OpenAI; OpenAI commits to Oracle clouds; Oracle buys Nvidia chips, a self-referential money wheel as Oracle/Microsoft CDS spreads roughly double [contested-result]</description>
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      <title>PEACE subsea cable severed in the Red Sea; repair to take months amid ship crunch</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/peace-cable-red-sea-cut-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/peace-cable-red-sea-cut-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A break ~1,450km from Zafarana, Egypt, hits Asia-Europe-Africa traffic; a global cable-ship shortage stretches the fix and re-routes capacity [disrupted]</description>
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      <title>Europe loses ~400,000 b/d of refining as closures stack up</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-refinery-capacity-cull-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/europe-refinery-capacity-cull-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>After Grangemouth, Shell's Wesseling and BP's Gelsenkirchen cut ~3% of European capacity, tightening product markets just as global cracks run hot [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Netanyahu pinned between the Iran ceasefire and his far-right partners</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/netanyahu-coalition-exposure</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/netanyahu-coalition-exposure</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An October election looming, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich demand Hezbollah's destruction while opposition brands the US-Iran deal Netanyahu's failure [contested-result]</description>
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