conflict
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President Trump on Monday sought to quell a growing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that threatens to derail U.S. peace talks with Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Oil prices were rising on Monday, but conflicting messages about whether Iran and the U.S. were still negotiating an end to the conflict brought them off their high intraday levels.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Another issue hampering the Ebola outbreak response is the ongoing conflict in DR Congo.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
That number has dropped only a bit since the early days of the conflict.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
Neither of these terminal narratives explains why conflict between the colonizers and the Indigenous peoples continued for three hundred years before the United States was formed.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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