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    <title>rbtfl — Disputes &amp; Conflicts</title>
    <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/track/disputes-conflicts</link>
    <description>Active wars, standoffs and disputes — tracked by where each is heading.</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>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Brent peaked near $118 before a US-Iran framework began unwinding the premium [disrupted]</description>
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      <title>US issues 60-day Iran oil sanctions waiver</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/iran-oil-sanctions-relief</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/iran-oil-sanctions-relief</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>General License X resumes Iranian crude exports with banking, insurance and shipping cover after the Hormuz reopening [active]</description>
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      <title>Harfuch says the CJNG is fracturing into regional factions after El Mencho's death</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/cjng-desintegracion-mencho</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Mexico's security chief reports the Jalisco cartel splintering 'like Sinaloa did', with a stepson among the contenders facing extradition [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Petro's 'Total Peace' ends as 'Total War', armed groups stronger at his exit</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/colombia-total-peace-collapse-catatumbo</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/colombia-total-peace-collapse-catatumbo</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>ELN talks frozen since the Catatumbo massacre; violence less deadly but more pervasive, monitors find, as the transition looms [worsening]</description>
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      <title>India and China deepen the LAC thaw while New Delhi protests Chinese roads in Shaksgam</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-china-border-thaw-shaksgam</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-china-border-thaw-shaksgam</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Doval and Wang Yi note 'gradual normalisation' and an 'early harvest' sectoral track even as the MEA calls CPEC infrastructure in the China-held Shaksgam Valley 'illegal and invalid' [easing]</description>
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      <title>Trump signs the US–Iran deal at Macron's Versailles dinner</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/macron-versailles-iran-deal-signing</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/macron-versailles-iran-deal-signing</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A state dinner on the G7 margins becomes the unexpected venue for an initial war-ending agreement [easing]</description>
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      <title>Marcos balances ASEAN chair against China's Scarborough 'nature reserve'</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/marcos-scarborough-nature-reserve</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/marcos-scarborough-nature-reserve</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Manila condemns Beijing's 3,500-hectare reserve as a sovereignty grab, mandates Philippine names for sea features — while chairing ASEAN and courting a code of conduct [contested-result]</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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      <title>Pezeshkian sells the ceasefire at home while hardliners and parliament fight the terms</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pezeshkian-domestic-position</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pezeshkian-domestic-position</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Iran's president defends US talks and warns of economic ruin, but a new supreme leader and an IRGC-shaped parliament constrain what he can concede [contested-result]</description>
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      <title>Modi's bid to isolate Pakistan backfires as Islamabad courts Washington and Beijing</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-pakistan-isolation-backfire</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-pakistan-isolation-backfire</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A decade after Modi vowed to quarantine Pakistan, Islamabad signs minerals and crypto deals with Trump's circle and an 'all-weather' upgrade with Xi — and India is left protesting from the sidelines [active]</description>
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      <title>Israel-Hezbollah truce renewed, but disarmament is rejected and strikes go on</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/lebanon-hezbollah-disarmament-standoff</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/lebanon-hezbollah-disarmament-standoff</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Qassem calls the disarmament drive a 'roadmap to annihilate' as Israel vows an open-ended stay in south Lebanon and keeps striking past the ceasefire deadline [active]</description>
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      <title>Xi in Pyongyang: first visit in seven years re-anchors the China–North Korea axis</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/xi-pyongyang-state-visit</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/xi-pyongyang-state-visit</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Beijing pulls Kim back into orbit after Russia's courtship — 'good neighbour, good friend, good comrade', and silence on the bomb [active]</description>
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      <title>MBZ pivots from war footing to Arab coordination as Hormuz reopens</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mbz-iran-ceasefire-hormuz</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/mbz-iran-ceasefire-hormuz</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Gulf's most hawkish leader flies to Cairo to welcome the US-Iran deal and the strait's reopening — after demanding hard terms on Iran's missiles and nuclear program [active]</description>
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      <title>Putin says the fuel crisis won't change the war — Ukraine's strikes say otherwise</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/putin-crimea-fuel-crisis</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/putin-crimea-fuel-crisis</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Drone strikes on refineries trigger the worst fuel shortage on the Black Sea peninsula since 2014; the Kremlin and independent press describe it in opposite terms [active]</description>
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      <title>Putin's summer offensive stalls as Ukrainian deep strikes bite the home front</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/putin-ukraine-deep-strikes-summer</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/putin-ukraine-deep-strikes-summer</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Russia's spring-summer push around Pokrovsk grinds; Putin admits the drone war is hurting the economy and vows to bolster air defences [active]</description>
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      <title>Putin rebuffs Zelensky's summit call: 'no point', and Europe is not a mediator</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/putin-zelensky-talks-rebuff</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/putin-zelensky-talks-rebuff</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Moscow leans wholly on the Trump–Anchorage framework, demands Ukraine stop its advance, and tells Kyiv to sign before any meeting [stalemate]</description>
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      <title>Sheinbaum's security cabinet reports homicides down 46% — as disappearances climb</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sheinbaum-homicidios-46-junio-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/sheinbaum-homicidios-46-junio-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Daily killings at a 12-year low under Harfuch's strategy, but the rising missing-persons count undercuts the headline [easing]</description>
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      <title>Report: UAE secretly struck Iran's Lavan refinery during the war</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/uae-secret-strikes-iran</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/uae-secret-strikes-iran</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The WSJ says Mirage 2000 jets hit a Gulf island refinery, making the UAE the only third country to attack Iran — after Tehran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Emirati targets [active]</description>
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      <title>Dual chokepoint closure drives container freight sharply higher</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/hormuz-cape-diversion-freight</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/hormuz-cape-diversion-freight</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>With Hormuz restricted and the Red Sea still avoided, carriers reroute via the Cape, lifting spot rates 29-129% on key lanes [disrupted]</description>
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      <title>Erdoğan plays 'active neutrality' broker in the Iran war</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/erdogan-iran-war-mediation</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/erdogan-iran-war-mediation</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Ankara condemns the strikes as illegal, mourns Khamenei, and offers Trump support to implement a ceasefire — with two-thirds of Turks wanting Turkey to stay out [active]</description>
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      <title>Doval hosts the BRICS security chiefs as India chairs the bloc in 2026</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-brics-chair-nsa-meeting-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/india-brics-chair-nsa-meeting-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The 16th NSAs' meeting in Delhi exposes the bloc's fault lines — China draws lessons from the Iran war while Tehran demands a stand on 'state terrorism' — ahead of a September Modi summit [active]</description>
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      <title>Sharif signs the 'Islamabad MoU' as guarantor of the US-Iran ceasefire</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pakistan-islamabad-mou-mediation</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pakistan-islamabad-mou-mediation</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Pakistan recasts itself from war-adjacent bystander to lead mediator; Pezeshkian's thank-you visit and Nobel chatter follow a 14-point deal reopening Hormuz and extending the truce [easing]</description>
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      <title>An 'exhausted' IDF holds Lebanon and Syria as Israel counts the damage</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/idf-postwar-strain</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/idf-postwar-strain</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The chief of staff raises '10 red flags' over reservist strain while Israel tallies $1.1bn+ in missile damage and 45,000 home-front claims [easing]</description>
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      <title>Manipur's elected government returns, but the killing and abductions go on</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/manipur-violence-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/manipur-violence-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>President's Rule was lifted in February for a BJP chief minister; by June a Kuki-Naga rupture, mass hostage-taking and fresh shootings show the conflict is mutating, not ending [worsening]</description>
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      <title>46 Oyo schoolchildren held five weeks as Tinubu's security emergency strains</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nigeria-oyo-abduction-insecurity</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/nigeria-oyo-abduction-insecurity</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Gunmen seized pupils aged 2 to 16 and seven teachers in May; one teacher murdered, the rest still captive in June, amid a wider wave of mass abductions and Middle-Belt killings [worsening]</description>
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      <title>Sharif puts 'the ball in the Taliban's court' as the Afghan border war reignites</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pakistan-afghanistan-airstrikes-2026</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/pakistan-afghanistan-airstrikes-2026</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>June airstrikes on Khost, Kunar and Paktika break a brief calm; Islamabad claims 26 militants dead, Kabul and the UN count 13 civilians including 11 children [escalating]</description>
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      <title>US and Iran sign 14-point memorandum to end the war</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/iran-us-ceasefire-mou</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/iran-us-ceasefire-mou</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Ceasefire extended 60 days for talks on nuclear program, sanctions and reconstruction; a Lebanon dispute threatens to unravel it [de-escalating]</description>
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      <title>UK boards a sanctioned tanker and designates 27 more shadow-fleet vessels</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/uk-russia-shadow-fleet</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/uk-russia-shadow-fleet</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Royal Marines seize the 'Smyrtos' in the Channel days before a sanctions package hitting ships, insurers and procurement networks [escalating]</description>
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      <title>Ukraine pivots from arms importer to exporter with Gulf defence deals</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ukraine-gulf-arms-export</link>
      <guid>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/ukraine-gulf-arms-export</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Kyiv signs 10-year air-defence and drone partnerships with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar and plans 10 European export offices [active]</description>
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