Topic: Crime & Justice — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-27 02:52 UTC+10:00] [Wildfires] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Arantxa Alcázar stepped into her garden on Thursday when she heard police officers shouting at residents to evacuate their homes in Villa del Prado, a town west of Madrid. The blazes that had been raging in the distant mountains were now sweeping down their street.
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[2026-07-27 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-27 02:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-27 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Department of Elections workers sort mail-in ballots for the California primary election at City Hall on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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[2026-07-27 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Venezuela's foreign minister said on Friday the country has formally notified the United Nations (UN) of its "irrevocable" decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which had been conducting a multi-year investigation into members of its armed forces and otherofficials.
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[2026-07-27 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice on Sunday permitted the publication of the name of a Border Police officer, Hananel Sabag, who is charged with reckless homicide for fatally shooting his friend, IDF soldier Yosef Chaim Rabuch, outside his home in Kiryat Arba, in October 2025.
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[2026-07-27 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: local governance, justice, defense, infrastructure and agriculture generally received the strongest public assessments.
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[2026-07-27 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: IN the first half of 2026, the nation witnessed dramatic leadership shifts in the Senate, spiced up with the “numbers game,” boycotts, a shooting incident and the arrest of two senators in between.
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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Why the prosecution is failing in VP Sara’s impeachment trialTHE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
So far, the three prosecution witnesses, presented to prove Article IV of the impeachment complaint charging VP Sara for the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust — Senior Agent Mark Calilung, Regional Director Jeremy Lotoc and Director Melvin Matibag, all from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) — have not proved the case of the prosecution.
Calilung was presented to prove the authenticity of the video containing the online conference of VP Sara, where she uttered the remarks the prosecution regarded as grave threats and inciting to sedition, which formed the basis of the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust.
In the first place, the said conference is not in dispute nor were the utterances made there; hence, Calilung’s testimony on this matter is unnecessary and useless. His other testimony touched on the investigation he conducted at that conference. Instead of favoring the prosecution, he highlighted the fact the inquiry he made was superficial and merely for show. He limited his investigation to four participants, i.e. news reporters and a blogger. He disregarded getting information from the other reporters present to determine the environment under which VP Sara’s remarks were made.
Calilung did not coordinate with the Presidential Security Group as to whether the vice president’s statements constituted a threat to the life of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., nor did it coordinate with the Armed Forces of the Philippines to evaluate whether her remarks constituted a threat to national security.
Additionally, Calilung was called to the witness stand as an expert witness on cyber libel. It turned out he only trained for two weeks — hardly a training experience required of a witness before qualifying as an expert witness in a particular field. This witness could not also answer directly the questions of the defense counsel on cross-examination, dodging these — a trait that understandably and unsurprisingly characterized the manner of responses by the other two NBI witnesses.
One of them, Lotoc, was nowhere an improvement on Calilung as a witness. He effectively sunk further the prosecution’s case as he validated Calilung’s testimony that the NBI’s first and second investigations were not thorough and merely pro porma. Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that they did not investigate the threat against VP Sara’s life, apart from sending her an invitation to provide their agency information on the threat — which she declined — despite the continuing visible threat, in addition to the oppressive acts committed against her, her family, her staff and her allies, especially the withdrawal of her trusted security personnel, whose circumstances triggered her outburst, calling out the people for help on the imminence of her physical obliteration and seeking justice for her planned assassination, as well as unmasking her would-be perpetrators.
Lotoc, using his being a lawyer to full extent, hewed and dodged as he avoided answering directly the questions from the cross-examiner. He came out as an unreliable witness when he admitted that he was facing serious criminal charges of arbitrary detention and unlawful arrest at the Office of the Ombudsman, including crimes involving moral turpitude, such as theft, robbery and perjury.
Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that there were no reported seditious acts committed by various groups as a consequence of VP Sara’s allegedly seditious remarks and grave threats against President Marcos, nor was she present at anti-government rallies advocating to overthrow the government.
The third prosecution witness, Matibag, whose political somersaulting qualifies him as a political operator, thereby exposing his dubious political loyalty to a cause, is a patently biased witness. He admitted to writing three vicious, disparaging articles in the Daily Tribune against VP Sara. His wife is a member of the House of Representatives who voted to impeach the vice president. He cannot, therefore, say anything good against the respondent and would certainly testify against her, and in fact he did, with gusto.
Despite the relentless propagandizing of the prosecution team inside the impeachment court, inadvertently aided by the erroneous rulings of the presiding officer, as well as the constant black propaganda dished out in public by its allies in Congress, its case against VP Sara and obsession to remove her from office and disqualify her from running in the 2028 presidential elections has not gained a foothold, simply because there is no constitutional basis for the articles of impeachment.
Not even a foolish rant from a member of the impeachment court notorious for advocating the necessity of bending or breaking a law could help the prosecution’s losing cause. This law bender railed against his colleagues for standing up and defending themselves from malicious innuendo and evident intimidation coming from a prosecution witness and a government official who foisted the filing of cases against two senator-judges, necessarily impugning their integrity. He doesn’t even know the function of the impeachment court, which is to hear a case filed against an impeachable officer and to decide it in accordance with the law and evidence presented before it.
One begins to wonder what sins have the people committed to deserve a harebrained politician, and what graver sins they have committed, to deserve failed governance from those they have placed in power.
Snippet: THE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
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[2026-07-27 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UK government told Karim Khan it would not support him as chief prosecutor and declined his request to meet ministers before International Criminal Court member states voted to remove him from his role, Middle East Eye can reveal.
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[2026-07-27 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-27 01:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Police officer Ali Darwich poses for a portrait near the scene where a car rammed into a crowd at the Pride March in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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[2026-07-27 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday welcomed the removal of International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, accusing him of political bias.
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[2026-07-27 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ex-China player makes police report after spread of audio recording in which he allegedly makes disparaging comments about world No 1
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[2026-07-27 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Zhang Yudong] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ex-China player makes police report after spread of audio recording in which he allegedly makes disparaging comments about world No 1
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[2026-07-27 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-27 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-27 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Member states of the International Criminal Court voted on Friday to remove chief prosecutor Karim Khan over misconduct claims, with 82 of the court's 125 members backing dismissal in a secret ballot at the United Nations in New York.
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[2026-07-26 23:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As part of a security clampdown across the West Bank over the weekend, Israeli forces arrested around 60 Palestinians
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[2026-07-26 23:53 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As part of a security clampdown across the West Bank over the weekend, Israeli forces arrested around 60 Palestinians
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[2026-07-26 23:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: An Israeli air strike has killed two Hamas security officials including Colonel Wael Musa al-Ladawi, a senior officer who was head of the group’s internal security service in central Gaza, according to the interior ministry.
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[2026-07-26 23:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The dinghy was approximately the size of a standard bus
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[2026-07-26 23:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Calamba City — Annabelle Arcilla Margaroli and her foreign business partner, Marinus Harinck, have won a seven-year legal battle after the Quezon City Regional Trial Court dismissed an interpleader case involving ₱470 million worth of imported blank license plates and radio frequency identification (RFID) systems intended for the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO).
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[2026-07-26 23:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice rejected on Sunday a petition seeking to recognize Alon Shamriz as a fallen IDF soldier, ruling that the law left it unable to grant the request despite what the judges described as his extraordinary courage in escaping Hamas captivity.
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[2026-07-26 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-26 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two separate antisemitic assaults have taken place in Manchester and London over the last few weeks, British police have confirmed.
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[2026-07-26 22:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The Israeli military has launched an aggressive crackdown in the occupied West Bank, storming several towns and villages and detaining hundreds of Palestinians, amid escalating attacks by Jewish settlers, in a furious reaction to a shootout in a village near Nablus in which four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed.
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[2026-07-26 22:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The International Criminal Court (ICC) had former president Rodrigo Duterte arrested and detained at The Hague, Netherlands for crimes against humanity because of complaints filed against him by the victims of his bloody war on drugs, Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Claire Castro said on Sunday.
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[2026-07-26 21:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Ukrainian capital Kyiv came under ballistic missile attack from Russian forces early on Sunday, while other regions suffered bombardments later during the day that killed two people.
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[2026-07-26 20:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran has formally accused the US of deliberately striking two of its search-and-rescue vessels in the Persian Gulf, calling the attack a war crime. The accusation comes as the US maintains a blockade of Iranian ports and continues to attack the Iranian Navy.
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[2026-07-26 20:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran has formally accused the US of deliberately striking two of its search-and-rescue vessels in the Persian Gulf, calling the attack a war crime. The accusation comes as the US maintains a blockade of Iranian ports and continues to attack the Iranian Navy.
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[2026-07-26 20:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: We reported earlier that two Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle near central Gaza's Deir al-Balah.
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[2026-07-26 20:17 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-07-26 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Two Palestinians have been killed and seven others wounded in an Israeli attack on a vehicle south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, Wafa news agency reports.
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[2026-07-26 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The sentencing of four men to up to 14 years in jail has highlighted a very different approach to justice compared with China
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[2026-07-26 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The sentencing of four men to up to 14 years in jail has highlighted a very different approach to justice compared with China
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[2026-07-26 19:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US has welcomed a decision by the new Venezuelan government to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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[2026-07-26 19:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UN's special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories on Saturday said the removal of International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan cannot be read in isolation from the campaign to overturn the arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-07-26 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A Toorak businessman accused of benefiting from the alleged deception of multiple landowners in Melbourne’s outer suburbs has been charged with selling hundreds of swords and other prohibited weapons, including one to a child.
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[2026-07-26 19:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara has asked the High Court of Justice to strike down a law suspending enforcement against ultra-Orthodox (haredi) yeshiva students who fail to report for military service, arguing that it leaves their duty to enlist intact while removing the consequences of refusing.
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[2026-07-26 18:48 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-07-26 18:42 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-07-26 18:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: One person died and 17 were injured, some critically, after a van drove into a crowd near a large public festival in central Berlin on Saturday evening, German police said.
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[2026-07-26 18:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: One person died and 17 were injured, some critically, after a van drove into a crowd near a large public festival in central Berlin on Saturday evening, German police said.
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[2026-07-26 18:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: One person died and at least 25 were injured, some critically, after a van drove into a crowd near a large public festival in central Berlin on Saturday evening, German police said.
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[2026-07-26 18:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Sun 26 Jul 2026 at 6:22pm
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[2026-07-26 18:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Two Palestinians have been killed and others wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza this morning, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources.
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[2026-07-26 16:55 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A high-profile figure in the AFL industry was interstate when he received a phone call from the AFL Integrity and Security Unit.
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