Topic: Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-26 17:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Kwok Yin-sang handed an eight-month sentence as judge rules his dealings with US-based activist Anna Kwok’s assets breached national security law
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[2026-02-26 16:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A Hong Kong appellate court has overturned a fraud conviction against pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai in a surprise ruling weeks after his jailing for 20 years on a separate national security charge.
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[2026-02-26 16:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-02-26 15:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- The Army on Thursday staged live-fire drills involving combat engineering vehicles equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and topped with remote control systems as it seeks to strengthen the military's capabilities to respond to future warfare.
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[2026-02-26 15:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (2nd LD) S. Korea, U.S. to stage annual military exercise next month, still in consultation over field training
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[2026-02-26 15:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military has seized municipal powers over Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque from Palestinians in a move widely seen as undermining Islamic administration of the site.
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[2026-02-26 13:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A former United States Air Force officer and “elite fighter pilot” has been arrested and accused of betraying his country for illegally providing training to Chinese military pilots.
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[2026-02-26 13:23 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Australia advises dependants of officials in Israel and Lebanon to leave amid vast US military buildup in the region
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[2026-02-26 13:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (2nd LD) S. Korea, U.S. to stage annual military exercise next month, still in consultation over field training
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[2026-02-26 13:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (2nd LD) S. Korea, U.S. to stage annual military exercise next month, still in consultation over field training
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[2026-02-26 13:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran and the United States are set to begin a third round of nuclear negotiations in Switzerland, with both sides maintaining their preference for a diplomatic solution, even as Washington imposed sweeping new sanctions and continued to build up its military presence in the Middle East.
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[2026-02-26 12:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (2nd LD) S. Korea, U.S. to stage annual military exercise next month, still in consultation over field training
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[2026-02-26 12:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with details from 5th para; CHANGES photos)By Chae Yun-hwan
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[2026-02-26 11:32 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-02-26 11:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with details throughout)By Chae Yun-hwan
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[2026-02-26 10:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead para; UPDATES throughout with details)By Chae Yun-hwan
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[2026-02-26 09:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has staged a military parade in Pyongyang to mark its key ruling party congress, state media reported Thursday.
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[2026-02-26 09:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Childbirths grow at fastest pace in 15 yrs; total fertility rate rebounds to 0.8 in 4 yrs
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[2026-02-26 08:49 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-02-26 08:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, center, greets the crowd during a military-backed tribes’ rally in the Nile River State of Sudan, on Saturday, July 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Hjaj,File)
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[2026-02-26 08:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The former directors of Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW) have been charged for allegedly using Pegasus spyware, the national prosecutor’s office has announced.
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[2026-02-26 08:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The former directors of Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW) have been charged for allegedly using Pegasus spyware, the national prosecutor’s office has announced.
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[2026-02-26 07:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — US Vice President JD Vance told Iran on Wednesday to take Washington's threats of military action "seriously," a day after President Donald Trump appeared to build the case for war in his State of the Union address.
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[2026-02-26 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US has deployed a squadron of advanced F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets to an Israeli Air Force base in the country’s south, multiple media outlets claimed on Tuesday, citing US officials and flight tracking data. The reported move comes as part of a major US military buildup in the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran.
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[2026-02-26 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces killed 34 militants in multiple raids across the country, the military said on Wednesday, as a separate ambush blamed on the Pakistani Taliban killed four police officers near the Afghan border.
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[2026-02-26 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has ordered military units and additional police to guard energy infrastructure sites in his country’s east, citing the threat of potential Ukrainian attacks.
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[2026-02-26 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A Gaza firm has been contracted to build an Emirati-funded compound for tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in a part of the territory under Israeli military control, two Israeli officials and two Palestinian businessmen told Reuters.
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[2026-02-26 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A behavioral AI simulation created by Israeli startup AskIt suggests that a decisive majority of senior commanders in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) would back a military leader, not a cleric, to replace Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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[2026-02-26 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Unusually detailed posts by commercial firm MizarVision about America’s deployments in the Middle East are grabbing attention
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[2026-02-26 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Heavy battlefield losses are likely to prevent Russia from launching a major new offensive in Ukraine in the coming months, Western officials and military analysts told Bloomberg as the war entered its fifth year.
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[2026-02-26 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
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[2026-02-26 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Guinea's military has confirmed the detention of 16 Sierra Leonean soldiers after accusing them of crossing the border and raising their flag on Guinean soil, while Freetown maintains its troops were on its own territory constructing a border post, the latest flare-up in a decades-old territorial dispute.
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[2026-02-25 23:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Moscow, Russia — What was meant to be a swift military operation to topple the Ukrainian government and take control of the country has now dragged on for four devastating years.
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[2026-02-25 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A military air strike by the Myanmar military in Rakhine state has killed at least 17 people and injured 14 others, local media reported, in the latest civil war carnage weeks after a military-backed governing party election win was dismissed as a “sham” by international observers.
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[2026-02-25 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LIMA — The only survivor of a military helicopter crash in southern Peru that killed 15 people was a small dog belonging to a colonel who was among the passengers, an air force source told AFP Tuesday.
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[2026-02-25 22:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS, UPDATES throughout with briefing details) By Kim Hyun-soo
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[2026-02-25 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Guinea’s junta leader Col. Mamady Doumbouya watches over an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-02-25 22:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran’s political and military structures are unique globally, with power concentrated in the supreme leader, who sits at the top of a multi-layered system of elected institutions, unelected bodies and parallel military forces.
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[2026-02-25 21:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Starmer is in zugzwang. Mandelson arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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[2026-02-25 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US military’s EC-130H Compass Call aircraft has entered the Middle East, aviation experts reported on Tuesday.
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[2026-02-25 20:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A story of a mole inside a state security team in China, Scare Out is slickly executed but narratively muddled, and far from Zhang’s best
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[2026-02-25 20:14 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-02-25 20:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [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 South Korea–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-02-25 19:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As I write these sentences, a massive military buildup - instigated by Israel and its American agents, and mobilised by US President Donald Trump - is encircling Iran for a decisive operation.
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[2026-02-25 19:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; UPDATES with more details throughout)By Kim Hyun-soo
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[2026-02-25 19:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Poland saw crowds gather in Warsaw’s Castle Square to mark four years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Protesters waved Ukrainian flags and held signs reading “Fight 4 Freedom” and “Putin always lies. Support Ukraine.” The rally framed the war as a struggle for sovereignty and basic rights. Speakers stressed that Crimea is Ukraine and rejected Russia’s annexation.
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[2026-02-25 18:24 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-02-25 18:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Col. Jang Do-young, left, public affairs director of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Army Col. Ryan Donald, public affairs director of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea, pose for a photo during a media briefing on the 2026 ROK-US Freedom Shield Military Exercise at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb.
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[2026-02-25 17:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: As the United States continues to threaten military action against Iran, Iranians are anxiously awaiting a new round of talks set to take place in Geneva this week.
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[2026-02-25 17:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A United States military plane hit a concrete barrier while attempting to take off from a road during contingency training in the Philippines, injuring all five American personnel aboard, Philippine officials said Wednesday.
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