On Wednesday, 616 people reached the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan - the highest number yet recorded - escaping hunger and conflict across the border in South Kordofan, a bitterly contested region of Sudan better known as the Nuba Mountains.

BBC: Fleeing from Sudan's Nuba Mountains

They also ignore the fact that 50, 000 miles of pipeline already crisscrosses the U.S., about half of which is in that contested Ogallala region, using technology that has proven to be safe.

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We observe the peaceful negotiation that occurs with regard to the contested areas in the region.

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Kirkuk is the most bitterly contested of Iraq's disputed territories, claimed by both the Kurdish region and Baghdad.

BBC: Suicide attack in Iraq kills 10 outside political office

That leaves the battle for Florida heavily contested in a handful of counties in the middle of the state: a region often referred to as the I-4 corridor after Interstate-4, which runs from the Tampa Bay region in the west through Orlando in the inland centre to Daytona Beach on the east coast.

ECONOMIST: The swing states: Florida