Topic: Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-07 14:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s military on Saturday said it has begun a “broad-scale wave of strikes” targeting sites in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
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[2026-03-07 14:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military said a new wave of missiles had been launched from Iran, with air defence systems working to intercept the threat.
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[2026-03-07 13:05 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The White House downplays Moscow sharing information with Tehran on US targets in the Gulf, saying it is not affecting military operations
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[2026-03-07 12:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: WASHINGTON -- The United States expects it to take four to six weeks to meet "achievable objectives" of its military operation against Iran, the White House said Friday, underscoring that the US is "well on its way" toward the objectives.
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[2026-03-07 12:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The head of Papua New Guinea's military has raised concern about guns being sent from Australia. (ABC News: Marian Faa)
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[2026-03-07 09:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Qatar has partially reopened its airspace days after Iranian missile and drone strikes forced the country to ground all flights as a United States-Israeli military campaign against Iran continues into its seventh day.
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[2026-03-07 08:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.S. is imposing visa restrictions on “several senior Rwandan officials for fueling instability” in eastern Congo, the State Department said on Friday, intensifying pressure on the East African country after sanctions announced earlier this week.
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[2026-03-07 07:48 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-03-07 07:47 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-07 07:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BAGHDAD, Iraq — Rockets targeted on Friday evening the Baghdad airport complex that hosts a military base and a US diplomatic facility, Iraqi authorities said.
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[2026-03-07 07:26 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-07 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, “with his impeccable timing,” has transformed into “more of an anti-Israel zealot,” snarks Commentary’s Seth Mandel, “mocking Israel’s participation in the regime-change mission in Iran,” even as “Israel’s participation in the conflict saves American lives.”
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[2026-03-07 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The next few weeks could be a crucial period for Sri Lanka in light of the military situation that has emerged in the Middle East due to the on-going conflict, Defence Deputy Minister Major General (retd) Aruna Jayasekara told Parliament.
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[2026-03-07 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasuriya has instructed all police stations to monitor drone operations and related businesses to prevent the gathering of sensitive national security information and potential terrorist threats.
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[2026-03-07 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said he is not worried about rising petrol prices in the United States during the ongoing conflict involving Iran, saying the military campaign remains his main focus, according to Reuters.
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[2026-03-07 06:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Gleb Nikitin at the Kremlin, in , Russia, Friday, March 6, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-07 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military said its air force carried out another round of strikes on targets in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs.
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[2026-03-07 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Germany has withdrawn additional Bundeswehr troops from the Middle East as tensions escalate on the seventh day of the Israeli-US war on Iran, a military spokesperson said.
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[2026-03-07 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Netflix may have run out of generic movie titles, now that we’re forced to differentiate War Machine (2026) with War Machine (2017). The latter differentiated itself by being a satire led by Brad Pitt, but today, we have to deal with the former, which struggles to differentiate itself from dozens of similar military/sci-fi action movies.
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[2026-03-07 05:27 UTC+10:00] [flares] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Australia says the Chinese aircraft made an ‘unsafe’ manoeuvre, while China called the statement ‘distortions of facts’
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[2026-03-07 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Defence and National Security
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[2026-03-07 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Defence and National Security
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[2026-03-07 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah said it launched a drone attack on an Israeli military site in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
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[2026-03-07 04:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Trump White House released a chaotic video montage of US military strikes on Iran combined with iconic movie scenes Thursday night, drawing backlash from both sides of the aisle for making light of the Middle East war.
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[2026-03-07 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: President Donald Trump has criticised UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer after he refused to let the US launch strikes on Iran from British military bases.
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[2026-03-07 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel is exporting its “Gaza playbook” to Lebanon, a nonprofit group has warned, as the Israeli military continues to attack the country after ordering the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.
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[2026-03-07 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Rebaz Sherifi, military commander at the Kurdistan Freedom Party PAK, speaks during an interview in Irbil, Iraq, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Rashid Yahya)
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[2026-03-07 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran could sustain its response to the US and Israel for weeks if it reduces the scale of its missile barrages, according to Arman Mahmoudian, a research fellow at the University of South Florida’s Global and National Security Institute.
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[2026-03-07 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE unfolding conflict in the Gulf between Iran and the United States-Israel axis has exposed a strategic reality that many governments hosting American military assets and bases have long tried to downplay: when a major power wages war, the territories from which it projects force become part of the battlefield.
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[2026-03-07 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AS Pope Leo XIV guides his flock to relive the grace-filled season of Lent, his first as the leader of the 1.3-billion-strong Catholic Church, “a world that is ablaze” that rues in his Ash Wednesday message, is increasingly ripping apart the prospects for world peace. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now in its fourth year and is hardly showing any sign of resolution.
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[2026-03-07 02:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's military said a projectile fired at its territory on Friday wounded eight soldiers near the Lebanese border.
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[2026-03-07 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A posse of US stealth bombers is expected to reach UK military bases soon as President Trump warned Iran that “the big one” could be imminent.
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[2026-03-07 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to help it strike American military forces in the Middle East, the Washington Post reported Friday, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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[2026-03-07 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Canada signed a strategic agreement Friday aimed at strengthening cooperation in defense, economic and energy security as military strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel fueled concern about international oil supplies.
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[2026-03-07 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian foreign policy] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US-Israel war on Iran shows once again how deadly it is to be America’s enemy – but also how very hard it is to be its friend
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[2026-03-07 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Several thousand high school students have taken to the streets of Berlin to protest a recently adopted law that envisages the reinstatement of compulsory military service in the event that not enough people volunteer.
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[2026-03-07 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Several-thousand high school students have taken to the streets of Berlin to protest a recently adopted law that could lead to the reinstatement of compulsory military service.
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[2026-03-07 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A regime change in Cuba is “just a question of time,” US President Donald Trump has said, renewing threats against the island’s government and suggesting Washington could turn its focus on Havana once the Iran military campaign ends.
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[2026-03-07 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: This week, several countries in Europe announced that they are sending military assistance to the Middle East and the Mediterranean amid the ongoing US-Israel-Iran war, which has seen a strike on a British military base on Cyprus.
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[2026-03-07 00:05 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US military officials briefed on investigation make disclosure, while Pentagon has confirmed only that inquiry is under way
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[2026-03-06 23:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli Army Radio reported that the son of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich alongside several other soldiers were wounded during military activity on the boundary with Lebanon.
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[2026-03-06 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.
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[2026-03-06 22:20 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Reform Front suggests attacks on non-military US assets are diminishing global support for Iran as victim of aggression
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[2026-03-06 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: This week, America put its military arsenal on full display — sinking Iranian warships, neutralizing thousands of missiles and drones, and executing strikes on a scale few thought possible. It was a reminder that our technological superiority is still unmatched.
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[2026-03-06 21:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US investigators probing an attack on a school in Iran that killed 165 people believe it is most likely that the United States military was responsible for the strike.
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[2026-03-06 20:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists killed 15 soldiers in an attack on an army base in northern Benin, the west African country's military said Thursday.
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[2026-03-06 20:52 UTC+10:00] [National People's Congress] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Combat readiness and loyalty to Xi Jinping also highlighted in Central Military Commission vice-chairman’s remarks at ‘two sessions’
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[2026-03-06 20:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: As Niger’s military rulers continue to assert sovereignty over its natural resources, it has cancelled concessions for three gold mining and processing companies.
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[2026-03-06 20:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said “threats to his life” made by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky will not deter him from breaking Kiev’s “oil blockade” of his country.
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[2026-03-06 18:49 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: An Australian naval helicopter was forced to take evasive action after a close encounter with a Chinese military aircraft over the Yellow Sea, prompting the federal government to raise concerns with Beijing over what it described as a dangerous midair manoeuvre.
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