Topic: Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-21 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEATTLE — An Iranian citizen who was indicted more than a decade ago on charges that he shipped military sonar equipment from the US to Iran in violation of American trade sanctions has been extradited to Seattle, the Justice Department said Monday.
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[2026-04-21 13:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: When Varda Morell stands by her son’s grave in Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery this Remembrance Day, the official ceremony unfolding nearby will barely register. That was true in the two Remembrance Days since Maoz was killed in Gaza in February 2024. What she will see instead is a swath of fresh graves, the once-empty section where he is buried now completely full.
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[2026-04-21 12:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- The United States has partially limited South Korea's access to intelligence on North Korea-related technology collected via satellites, military officials said Tuesday, following a controversy over the unification minister's disclosure of information on the North's nuclear facility.
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[2026-04-21 10:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Commander of Iraqi militia group Saraya Awliya al-Dam, said fighters are at “full readiness to resume our military operations” and could escalate in the coming days.
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[2026-04-21 09:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- Hanwha Group has formed a strategic partnership with U.S.-based Magnet Defense to jointly develop medium unmanned surface vessels (MUSVs) for the U.S. military, the Korean conglomerate announced Tuesday.
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[2026-04-21 09:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This photo provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Iranian citizen Reza Dindar at King County International Airport, in Seattle, Thursday, April 16, 2026, after being extradited from Panama to face charges that he conspired to violate U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP)
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[2026-04-21 08:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Increased military use has put strain on the key NATO jet fuel pipeline, the Central Europe Pipeline System (CEPS), disrupting deliveries of commercial supplies, Bloomberg has reported.
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[2026-04-21 07:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Estonia has dismissed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s claims that Russia could be preparing to attack NATO’s Baltic members, saying its intelligence does not indicate any such plans, according to public broadcaster ERR. Moscow has long described claims of a “Russian threat” as “nonsense” used by the US-led military bloc’s European members to justify their military buildup.
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[2026-04-21 07:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Japan's Major General Toshikatsu Musha and Rear Admiral Izuru Ikeuchi brought the army and navy together for exercise Balikatan in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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[2026-04-21 07:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Aircraft at the Futenma base in Okinawa. (Photo by Akihiro Sano)
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[2026-04-21 07:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and its reporter, Sarah Fitzpatrick, following the publication of an article on Friday alleging the director had a drinking problem that could pose a threat to United States national security.
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[2026-04-21 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — U.S. authorities “got the wrong man” when they charged an alleged Islamic State militant in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, a defense attorney said Monday at the start of the man’s trial in Virginia.
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[2026-04-21 05:47 UTC+10:00] [Life] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Myfanwy didn't realise that the decision to have a second child would result in having four children. Source: Supplied
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[2026-04-21 05:38 UTC+10:00] [General Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: There are moments in international affairs when the conduct of smaller states acquires significance beyond their military and economic power. The efforts now under way to widen the present ceasefire understandings into a more lasting Middle East settlement deserve Sri Lanka’s strongest possible support. Pakistan’s role in helping to open channels between the United States and Iran has created an important diplomatic opportunity.
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[2026-04-21 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The most expensive home sale in recorded history didn’t happen in Manhattan or Beverly Hills. It happened in a 19th-century Georgian mansion tucked inside the grounds of a London military hospital — and the man who wrote the check is a billionaire most Americans have never heard of.
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[2026-04-21 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Two months after the Department of War declared Anthropic a "supply chain risk" and moved to several all ties with the AI wunderkind, the National Security Agency (NSA), which falls under DoW, is using it according to Axios.
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[2026-04-21 03:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday killed an armed terrorist in southern Lebanon and threatened troops in the area, the military said.
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[2026-04-21 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Palantir and its CEO Alex Karp called on the US to pursue AI-powered weapons, reinstate the military draft and shy away from “regressive” cultures in a buzzy 22-point manifesto.
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[2026-04-21 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump on Monday again threatened Iran with overwhelming military force, saying "lots of bombs [will] start going off" if no deal is reached before a shaky ceasefire with Tehran expires Tuesday evening.
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[2026-04-21 02:01 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Sgt Celestino Chavez Jr, accounted for in 2025, given full burial honors and posthumous medals in New Mexico
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[2026-04-21 01:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A minibus drives past an empty checkpoint where a mannequin dressed as a soldier stands in downtown Khartoum, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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[2026-04-21 01:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: “What side you standing on?” sang Julian Casablancas, frontman of The Strokes, against the backdrop of the moment that al-Israa University, the last standing university in Gaza, was destroyed by Israeli forces in 2024 after they had been using it as a military base.
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[2026-04-21 01:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Israeli military have stopped people from returning to more than a dozen villages across southern Lebanon, expanding a no-go zone even as a fragile ceasefire remains in place.
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[2026-04-21 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The billions of euros slated by the EU for the build up of weapons factories and procurement of military hardware are a “magnet for the criminals,” according to a senior anti-fraud official.
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[2026-04-21 00:42 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Magazine has stood behind the story, which was written by veteran national security reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick
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[2026-04-21 00:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Estonia’s top diplomat on Monday dismissed claims by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russia may be preparing to invade the Baltic states, stating there is currently no evidence of a military buildup near NATO borders.
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[2026-04-21 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., warned Sunday that “something sinister could be happening” after 11 scientists mainly tied to the U.S. nuclear and space research programs reportedly died or went missing under mysterious circumstances, raising urgent national security concerns.
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[2026-04-21 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: By Monday morning US Central Command had released fuller video showing the dramatic night vision footage of Sunday's capture of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship, after it refused to follow US orders to withdraw from its planned passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-04-21 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Three civil society groups filed a lawsuit before the African Union's human rights court on Monday, alleging that Mali's military and the Russian private military company Wagner committed "serious human rights violations" against civilians.
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[2026-04-21 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF's Military Prosecution on Monday filed an indictment against a lieutenant who attempted to smuggle goods from Israel into the Gaza Strip.
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[2026-04-20 23:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Israeli military has published a map outlining what it described as a “forward defense line” in southern Lebanon, despite calls for a full withdrawal following the announcement of a ceasefire.
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[2026-04-20 23:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rumen Radev has criticised military support for Ukraine’s war effort and the European Union’s heavy reliance on renewable energy
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[2026-04-20 23:25 UTC+10:00] [European Union] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rumen Radev has criticised military support for Ukraine’s war effort and the European Union’s heavy reliance on renewable energy
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[2026-04-20 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are lower, but well off session lows,after a weekend of chaos in the Strait of Hormuz cast doubt over US-Iran peace talks ahead of Tuesday’s ceasefire expiration. On Saturday, Iran said the Strait will be closed until the US blockade is lifted, with ships reporting attacks. The US then fired and seized an Iranian-flagged ship on Sunday.
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[2026-04-20 22:03 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-20 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Philippine and US forces will carry out maritime strike drills on a remote Philippine island near Taiwan during annual exercises that started on Monday, which Manila's military chief said would test their readiness under "real‑world conditions."
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[2026-04-20 21:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: HOPKINTON, Mass. (AP) — A group of Massachusetts National Guard members early Monday crossed the Boston Marathon start line, launching the 130th edition of the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual marathon.
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[2026-04-20 20:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The military said a local New People’s Army leader was among the dead, with both sides engaged in six firefights in Toboso
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[2026-04-20 20:56 UTC+10:00] [Manila] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The military said a local New People’s Army leader was among the dead, with both sides engaged in six firefights in Toboso
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[2026-04-20 20:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States military seized an Iranian container ship near the Gulf in the early hours of Monday, sending tensions spiralling hours before Washington is due to send negotiators to Pakistan for talks aimed at ending their war.
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[2026-04-20 19:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: London, United Kingdom – Twelve British universities paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to “spy” on student protesters and academics, including those who have expressed solidarity with Palestine, it can be revealed.
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[2026-04-20 19:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on the Iran war
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[2026-04-20 18:51 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-04-20 18:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Overnight, the IDF struck a loaded, ready-to-fire Hezbollah launcher in Qalawiyah, north of the IDF’s established Forward Defense Line in southern Lebanon, the military announced on Monday.
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[2026-04-20 18:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-04-20 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Donald Trump’s popularity in Australia has plunged to its lowest level of his second term as US president due to the war in Iran, as most Australians remain unconvinced the nation’s military should play a role in helping to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
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[2026-04-20 17:56 UTC+10:00] [Airlines] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday said he will “promptly” convene the country’s National Security Council to address the possibility of jet fuel shortages linked to the ongoing war in Iran.
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[2026-04-20 17:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A Hong Kong exhibition dedicated to the late artist Dinh Q Le highlights his commentary on US military force and the human cost of conflict
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[2026-04-20 17:15 UTC+10:00] [exhibition] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A Hong Kong exhibition dedicated to the late artist Dinh Q Le highlights his commentary on US military force and the human cost of conflict
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[2026-04-20 16:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military said it attack a ready-to-fire launcher in the Kfarkela area in southern Lebanon overnight, despite the ongoing ceasefire in Lebanon.
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