Topic: Business & Economy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-09 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: TikTok will get 150 megawatts of capacity from a new data center site in Finland, according to an economic analysis, amid a wave of digital infrastructure deals in the country led by AI hyperscalers and neoclouds.
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[2026-09-09 01:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: MP is the Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central Abtisam Mohamed argues in an opinion piece for Middle East Eye that, while British trade ban is not enough to end an illegal Israeli occupation on its own, it is a necessary first step to put economic pressure on Israel and encourage other countries to follow suit.
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[2026-09-09 01:38 UTC+10:00] [Americas] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — The European Union should try to stay consistent with authorities elsewhere as it decides whether to order a breakup of Google’s advertising business, the bloc’s competition chief told POLITICO.
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[2026-09-09 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Shortly before taking office, Andy Burnham, the new prime minister, apologised for our party’s initial response to Israel's war on Gaza, saying we got it wrong.
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[2026-09-09 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Food in Japan is expected to cost more this fall. (Photo by Nikkei)
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[2026-09-09 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-09 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Bahrain International Airshow will not be held this year, with the next staging of the biennial event pushed back to 2028 as the Iran war continues to rage.
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[2026-09-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Tobacco industry] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Rates of smoking in Australia are the lowest they’ve ever been, but at the same time, the illicit trade has never been bigger. It’s estimated 80% of the tobacco trade is now illicit and the same taxes that helped curb smoking are now fuelling organised crime.
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[2026-09-09 00:59 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Amid unpopular Iran war and persistent inflation, governor says state has had its name since before US existed
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[2026-09-09 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-09 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-09 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A woman makes a phone call while sitting with her child outside the Embassy of the Republic of Burundi, in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
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[2026-09-09 00:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese tech company, faces a criminal racketeering trial in New York over charges that it stole technology, plotted to steal U.S. trade secrets and committed wire and bank fraud, among other crimes.
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[2026-09-09 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Tuesday said that it was closing Britain's consulate in occupied East Jerusalem accredited to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank after London announced it was imposing sanctions on goods from Israeli settlements.
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[2026-09-09 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's foreign minister has accused the UK of "inteference" in his country's sovereignty over its imposition of a ban on trade with illegal settlements.
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[2026-09-09 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned 27 Iranian airlines and a handful of other entities as part of its ongoing effort to isolate Iran's economy.
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[2026-09-09 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Canada's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods took effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday - raising duties of 15%, 25%, and 50% on hundreds of American products after last month's collapse of bilateral talks. Ottawa says the package matches the United States "dollar for dollar, rate for rate." Finance Canada values the covered U.S.
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[2026-09-09 00:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: PARIS, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and France have signed multiple pacts to enhance cooperation in defense, the economy and others, including an agreement on South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co.'s investment in a French artificial intelligence (AI) firm, the South Korean presidential office said Tuesday.
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[2026-09-09 00:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran has threatened to wage an “economic war” against the US as tension between the two countries escalates, but experts say Tehran has few conventional economic weapons capable of directly hurting the world’s largest economy.
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[2026-09-09 00:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.K. government is pushing ahead with planned sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite U.S. officials and lawmakers warning of economic consequences for doing so.
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[2026-09-09 00:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Britain's Foreign Secretary Ed Milliband announced the country's strongest package of sanctions against Israel’s illegal settlements on Tuesday, targeting the trade, finance and services that sustain their expansion across the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-09-09 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-09 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: For several years, Gulf states have been widening the circle of their international partnerships. The logic was straightforward: keep the US as the principal security partner, while building deeper economic ties with China, India, Europe and the rest of Asia.
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[2026-09-08 23:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that aims to pressure Israel over its occupation of Palestinian land, has criticised the new restrictions introduced by the UK on settlement trade as "performative".
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[2026-09-08 23:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Oxfam has welcomed the UK's announced ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, but has called on the government to go further.
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[2026-09-08 23:34 UTC+10:00] [Venice film festival] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children
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[2026-09-08 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: American patients would ultimately bear the cost of President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs on generic drugs, the CEO of Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz told CNBC, warning that manufacturers could be forced to raise prices or stop supplying some medicines.
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[2026-09-08 23:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: While investments in AI and future tech remain a top priority for most nations, concentration of funding in the sector is creating challenges for poorly resourced countries.
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[2026-09-08 23:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Foreign Minister Ed Miliband says Britain refuses to be ‘bystanders to further suffering and to the destruction of the two-state solution’
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[2026-09-08 23:21 UTC+10:00] [France] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Foreign Minister Ed Miliband says Britain refuses to be ‘bystanders to further suffering and to the destruction of the two-state solution’
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[2026-09-08 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Elon Musk says Tesla’s new Cybercab motor has no rare earths, but analysts saw the move as only a slight step towards reducing industry reliance – or China’s leverage
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[2026-09-08 23:14 UTC+10:00] [Tesla] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Elon Musk says Tesla’s new Cybercab motor has no rare earths, but analysts saw the move as only a slight step towards reducing industry reliance – or China’s leverage
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[2026-09-08 23:12 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US president says criticising his soaring investment portfolio is ‘very unfair’. Tell that to the millions of Americans struggling with the cost of living
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[2026-09-08 23:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Qualcomm shares jumped 6% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services, a major win as the chipmaker tries to take on Nvidia in the artificial intelligence market.
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[2026-09-08 23:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Geopolitical risks in the Gulf pushed Brent crude futures toward $100 a barrel overnight as Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels launched new attacks on Saudi cities and economic infrastructure.
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[2026-09-08 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on Tuesday announced import ban on goods from 'illegal' settlements in the the West Bank, as well as sanctions against specific individuals and businesses that provide services such as construction, instruction, financing or real estate for settlement expansion.
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[2026-09-08 22:49 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — France and Canada will join the U.K. in imposing new trade sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements Tuesday in a major diplomatic coup for Britain as it resets its relationship with Israel.
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[2026-09-08 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Twelve countries are set to slap sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, citing increasing attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian villages in the occupied territory.
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[2026-09-08 22:43 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In strongest condemnation ever by UK government, Ed Miliband announces sweeping sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements
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[2026-09-08 22:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US futures fell as Brent crude approached $100 a barrel, chasing Shanghai crude which is now trading above $102, reinforcing expectations that central banks will have to raise interest rates to contain inflation while a key CPI print looms on Friday. As of 8:15am, S&P 500 futures were 0.3% lower while Nasdaq futures were fractionally negative after reversing an earlier rise.
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[2026-09-08 22:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Copper futures in London reached a record high on Tuesday as expectations of US tariffs drew record volumes from the seaborne market into US warehouses, tightening availability elsewhere despite subdued demand. As we highlighted on Monday, deteriorating conditions across global mining operations are adding to supply woes.
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[2026-09-08 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (2nd LD) S. Korea's nominal GDP grows at fastest pace in 47 years in Q2; $40,000 per capita GNI on track
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[2026-09-08 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with more info in paras 3-5; ADDS photos)By Park Boram
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[2026-09-08 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Jamaica is taking its long-running campaign for reparations for slavery into the legal arena, petitioning King Charles III to consider questions over Britain’s responsibility for the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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[2026-09-08 22:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Financial Times
Snippet: Chicken has become the world’s favourite protein. Now the drive to keep costs low is transforming farming and trade — with growing consequences for animal welfare and human health.
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[2026-09-08 22:05 UTC+10:00] [Illegal wildlife trade] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Man, who had arrived in Turin from Miami via Istanbul, under investigation for smuggling and faces fine or prison
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[2026-09-08 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Britain on Tuesday published legislation to introduce tougher sanctions on Iran, expanding trade restrictions and powers to target ships as part of what it described as a wider effort to curb Tehran's nuclear program and other hostile activities.
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[2026-09-08 22:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Cross-border wealth in Hong Kong reached US$2.95 trillion in 2025, compared with Switzerland’s US$2.94 trillion, according to BCG
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[2026-09-08 22:02 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Cross-border wealth in Hong Kong reached US$2.95 trillion in 2025, compared with Switzerland’s US$2.94 trillion, according to BCG
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[2026-09-08 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Inventories of the metal are diverging across major exchanges as AI infrastructure build-up spurs demand and potential trade restrictions keep prices elevated
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