Topic: Commodities — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-26 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LA Salle Green Hills standouts Behrouz Mohammad Mojdeh and Kristian Yugo Cabana hauled gold medals to earn Most Valuable Player honors in their respective divisions at the National Interschool Short Course Swimming Championship held at the Rizal Memorial Swimming Pool in Manila.
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[2026-08-26 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: 1933 — Helen Hull Jacobs captures the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association singles title when Helen Wills Moody defaults in the third set because of back and hip pain.
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[2026-08-25 23:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: 21-year-old man was driving private car towards Sha Tin around 3am on Tuesday when he crashed into an oncoming vehicle
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[2026-08-25 23:21 UTC+10:00] [gold] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: 21-year-old man was driving private car towards Sha Tin around 3am on Tuesday when he crashed into an oncoming vehicle
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[2026-08-25 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Global stocks rose as chipmakers rebounded, with falling bond yields adding support to risek sentiment after Brent crude slid below $90 a barrel, down more than 3% after a New York times reports that "evacuated foreign service officers could begin heading back to their posts as early as this week...
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[2026-08-25 21:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The debasement trade is gaining new traction on Wall Street as concern over the size and cost of the budget deficit mounts.
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[2026-08-25 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Why has a country that shines in the Olympics struggled so badly on the football pitch and basketball court? Two experts think they know
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[2026-08-25 20:00 UTC+10:00] [AFC Asian Cup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Why has a country that shines in the Olympics struggled so badly on the football pitch and basketball court? Two experts think they know
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[2026-08-25 19:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled a new wave of sanctions on Iran, branded “Operation Economic Outcast”, designating close to 60 entities, individuals and vessels and widening secondary sanctions to cover shipping, gold, aviation, technology and digital assets.
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[2026-08-25 18:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Only two commodity tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the lowest daily number recorded since early May, according to shipping data.
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[2026-08-25 18:52 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Faker returns for his 3rd Asian Games as Korea targets 5 esports golds
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[2026-08-25 18:18 UTC+10:00] [Gold] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Bitcoin rises above $80,000 for the first time since May amid uncertainty over US fiscal plans
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[2026-08-25 17:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Danantara Sumberdaya Indonesia CEO Luke Mahony, left, signs a memorandum of understanding with local industry associations in Jakarta on Aug. 24 related to its role as an intermediary in the export of key commodities. (Photo by Rezha Hadyan)
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[2026-08-25 16:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: JINCHEON, South Korea, Aug. 25 (Yonhap) -- After grabbing three gold medals and one silver medal in his Asian Games debut three years ago in China, South Korean swimmer Kim Woo-min said Tuesday he is hungry for more this fall.
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[2026-08-25 15:41 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Horizon Gold has unveiled a trifecta of reverse circulation drilling results across its Gum Creek project in Western Australia’s Murchison region, 100km southeast of Meekatharra, extending mineralisation a whopping 800m south of the existing resource at its Howards prospect. At the same time, the drill bit has been delivering broad and high-grade hits at the company’s Heron South and Melbourne Bitter targets.
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[2026-08-25 15:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Money has flowed into precious metals such as gold, as well as bitcoin, which some investors view as an alternative store of value, as the dollar has weakened. (Photo by Takanobu Aimatsu)
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[2026-08-25 13:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Experts are calling for better safety measures at gyms. (Unsplash: Danielle Cerullo)
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[2026-08-25 13:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Only one commodity vessel reportedly transited the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, preliminary Kpler shipping data showed on Tuesday.
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[2026-08-25 12:54 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Victorian gold explorer Aureka Limited has hit a stunning high-grade gold intercept at its St Arnaud project, returning a 4.4-metre section grading a solid 8.9 grams per tonne(g/t) gold and 57.8g/t silver from 102.8m downhole. The hit included a spectacular 0.3-metre core running at 65.3g/t gold, with a duplicate assay returning an even better 95.6g/t, confirming the presence of bonanza grades.
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[2026-08-25 12:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: By anchoring yuan trades to gold through Hong Kong and new global vaults, Beijing will add convertibility to its currency, report says
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[2026-08-25 12:30 UTC+10:00] [Charles Chang] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: By anchoring yuan trades to gold through Hong Kong and new global vaults, Beijing will add convertibility to its currency, report says
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[2026-08-25 12:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Gold prices on Tuesday rose to their highest in more than three months, supported by a weaker U.S. dollar and as the U.S. Treasury's bond buyback plans keep the lid on yields.
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[2026-08-25 11:05 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Bulls N’ Bears Big Hits looks at notable drill hits recently reported to the ASX last week, led by Sun Silver, Manhattan Gold Corporation and QMines Ltd. So let’s dive in.
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[2026-08-25 07:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The U.S. Forest Service in July began a 30-day public comment period on its plan to review a rare-earth element mining project in northeast Wyoming — the only opportunity for the public to weigh in on the federal process that is being fast-tracked by the Trump administration.
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[2026-08-25 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump walks past Secretary of State Marco Rubio as he arrives for a roundtable on the American mining industry, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-08-25 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Annoying neighbours are the least of people's worries on Oak Street. (Supplied: Universal)
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[2026-08-25 03:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (Yonhap) -- The United States will target digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping for anti-Iran secondary sanctions, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday, declaring an economic onslaught "to sever every economic lifeline" that maintains the regime in Tehran.
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[2026-08-25 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold,
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[2026-08-25 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Facebook X More Pinterest Linked in Tumblr Reddit Facebook Messenger Copy URL URL is copied. OK
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[2026-08-25 02:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Gold is up 15% this month, rallying alongside higher interest rates and quietly on pace for its best month since 2008. The biggest trade in the entire options market today says that run is coming to an end.Twenty minutes after the market opened Monday, someone sold almost 116,000 420-strike calls in the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) expiring Sep.
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[2026-08-25 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Shop now
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[2026-08-25 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: National Master Keith Adriane Ilar of the Philippines delivered a remarkable performance on the international stage, bringing home five medals — one gold and four silvers — at the 26th Asean Age Group Chess Championships held at the Our Tampines Hub in Singapore from Aug. 7 to 17, 2026.
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[2026-08-24 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Art thieves in Europe are committing more violent robberies focusing on gold and jewels, and specialist gangs have been replaced by ad-hoc opportunists recruited through social media, Europol said on Monday.
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[2026-08-24 23:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: This article was first published by VPost.
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[2026-08-24 22:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are lower with Tech underperforming as the market focuses on NVDA / MRVL earnings this week; while the AI theme is pressured globally and memory stocks slump driven by a slide in the Kospi. Futures got a boost just after 7am when CNBC reported that the Treasury could use the General Account ($935BN as of today) to fund bond buybacks.
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[2026-08-24 22:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Having seen yields rebound from their initial decline following the upping of Treasury (long-end) buybacks to 'at least $4BN' per operation (and increased its total planned operations), Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent jawboned late last week about his 'bigger toolkit' and 'asymmetric information' in an attempt to further strengthen the 'Treasury Put'.
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[2026-08-24 18:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Vietnamese traditionally limit their personal assets to savings, gold and property. But as their wealth grows, they are expected to gain an appetite for stocks and bonds. (Source photos by Akira Kodaka and Kyomi Katsuno)
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[2026-08-24 17:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Mining and Metals Industry
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[2026-08-24 17:00 UTC+10:00] [England cricket team] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: For all the upheaval and neurosis, it may yet be that the darkest hour came just before dawn for this England team
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[2026-08-24 16:55 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Orbit Resources has fired up the drill rig for a new campaign at its 1.7-million-ounce gold equivalent, gold-silver-base metals, Lewis Ponds project in New South Wales. The company is targeting resource expansion after a fresh batch of assays confirmed a significant mineralised zone sitting outside the current deposit.
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[2026-08-24 16:06 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Accelerate Resources has hit paydirt in maiden reverse circulation (RC) drilling at its Spencers gold discovery near Kalgoorlie, WA, returning a stunning 11-metre intercept grading 4.65 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from just 25 metres. The impressive hit included a one-metre section at a bonanza-grade 46.93g/t gold.
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[2026-08-24 15:17 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: King River Resources has substantially widened the exploration lens at its historically high-grade Mindoolah gold project in Western Australia, kicking off a multi-pronged geophysics and geochemistry campaign designed to light up new drill targets well beyond the old mine workings.
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[2026-08-24 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: 1936 -- The daily Dong-A Ilbo publishes a picture of Korean Olympic marathon gold medal winner Sohn Kee-chung with the Japanese flag on his chest erased. Sohn participated in the Berlin Olympics representing Japan, as Korea was a colony of the archipelago nation at the time. The Japanese regime shut the newspaper down but later allowed it to publish again after it fired the journalist responsible and ran an apology.
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[2026-08-24 14:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Mining and Metals Industry
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[2026-08-24 14:26 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Gold producer Kaiser Reef has completed a high-resolution airborne magnetic survey over its Maldon gold project in Victoria, a move designed to zero in on the next batch of drill targets in one of Australia’s most historically rich goldfields.
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[2026-08-24 14:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Fewer than 20 commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz at the weekend, shipping data showed on Monday, as Iranian and US blockades restrict traffic through the chokepoint for energy shipments.
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[2026-08-24 13:10 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Forrestania Resources has delivered a belter of a resource upgrade at its British Hill project in Western Australia, lifting the global inventory to a hefty 175,690 ounces of gold, largely supported by recent drilling at site, which has delivered deep, high-grade gold hits, including a 29-metre intersection grading an impressive 3.91 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 220m downhole.
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[2026-08-24 12:51 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Olympio Metals has completed due diligence, including a technical review of Jacknife, and is proceeding with its acquisition of an 80 per cent interest in the high-grade Idaho silver project from private US explorer Scout Discoveries Corp. The deal adds a second US silver play to its portfolio and puts the drill bit within striking distance of a historic silver system with plenty of unfinished business.
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[2026-08-24 11:34 UTC+10:00] [Deep-sea mining] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US agency releases plan to lease millions of hectares of seabed off the coast of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam
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[2026-08-24 11:21 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Welcome to the Western Watercooler, where we digest the talking points from the weekend’s games – and the highlights, frustrations and silver linings WA footy fans can cling to as the season progresses.
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