conflict
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Vietnam held funeral rites for more than 700 of its war dead on Wednesday, unearthed in a major push to identify those missing from decades of conflict with France and the United States.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Despite concerns around the conflict, oil futures fell on a possible technical correction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
On Friday, Kabila accused President Félix Tshisekedi's government of disregarding proposals he had put forward last year, including some aimed at ending the conflict in eastern DR Congo.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
A male student who appears to be the other person involved in the conflict is rapidly approaching when Xavier vaults over the railing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The superpower conflict seemed to take a sudden, more ominous turn: a kind of calculated standoff, in which "winning" now depended on guessing correctly at the enemy's strength and intentions.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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In the 20th century, national self-assertion generated two conflicts that devastated Europe and left few parts of the globe untouched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The conflicts are raw and unresolved, and Churchill forces theatergoers to make up their own minds about the characters’ furious dialect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Read the risk disclosures, projected returns, debt terms, assumptions, fees and conflicts of interest carefully — and pay attention to how long your $350,000 is locked up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
In a world ravaged by conflicts and crises, 287 individuals and organisations have been nominated for the ultimate diplomatic and humanitarian accolade this year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The flight instinct conflicts with their mother’s training—they must stay by the den, where she can find them.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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As she unpacks her bags, she is clearly conflicted.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
San Francisco Bay Area residents, living in the beating heart of the artificial intelligence boom, are just as conflicted about the technology as the rest of the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Despite his success selling Tibetan culture to outsiders, he remains conflicted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The author himself was conflicted about her, writing Cathy as a dangerous beauty incapable of empathy in his book, yet expressing how dear she was to him in letters to his editor, Pascal Covici.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Each story generated more publicity, and Regina, while conflicted about her son’s prospects, tried to help Bobby by capitalizing on the attention.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The family received conflicting information from hospital staff, Alejandra said, with one doctor telling them that Magaña’s injuries were consistent with a fall, while another said he had likely been asphyxiated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said he had requested the pause until the facts of Monday's incident in Lens had been "clarified", with conflicting accounts offered by protesters and officials.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The geopolitics of the Horn of Africa are fiendishly complex, with shifting alliances and the involvement of many outside actors with conflicting interests.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Reconstructing the bat family tree was particularly difficult because different parts of bat genomes can preserve conflicting signals about their evolutionary history.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
What is crucial here is that the two conflicting results did not properly have equal status.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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