Topic: Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-24 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The British Army covertly took over a disused part of the London Underground in central London to plan a NATO military response to possible future Russian attacks.
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[2026-05-24 22:07 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Russia’s military pummeled Kyiv overnight with large-scale drone and missile attack that killed at least two people and injured scores of others, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
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[2026-05-24 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: An integrated digital platform that tracks every step of the process is solving an age-old problem for Chinese forces
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[2026-05-24 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Computer Software Copyright Registration Certificate] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: An integrated digital platform that tracks every step of the process is solving an age-old problem for Chinese forces
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[2026-05-24 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The US State Department has officially cleared a $108.1 million hardware and sustainment package to keep Ukraine's frontline air defenses online, after there's not been much in the way of big dollar headlines concerning Washington's longtime military support to Kiev of late.
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[2026-05-24 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin will issue another apology this week, the group said Sunday, amid growing backlash over a promotional event by Starbucks Korea that evoked painful memories of a brutal military crackdown on the 1980 Gwangju pro-democracy movement.
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[2026-05-24 19:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: At least 20 people have been killed and 70 others injured in an explosion targeting a train transporting military personnel in Pakistan.
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[2026-05-24 17:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — At least 367 incoming cadets, composed of 290 males and 77 females, of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) took their oath, as they were received by their upper classmen, marking the start of their transformation from civilians into members of the Cadet Corps of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
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[2026-05-24 16:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Over seventy days into the war against Iran, the Islamic Republic is neither defeated, decapitated, nor negotiating from weakness. The most consequential decisions about the next phase of this conflict are being made not in Tehran’s civil government but inside a military institution that neither the United States nor Israel had fully understood.
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[2026-05-24 15:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Relations between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump are no longer as strong as they once were, according to the military and security affairs editor of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
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[2026-05-24 13:00 UTC+10:00] [National Security] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A task force is implementing domestic technology in the mainland Chinese public sector, while Hong Kong has no official related policy
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[2026-05-24 12:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — A "mass ballistic missile attack" pounded Kyiv early Sunday, military authorities said, with AFP journalists hearing heavy explosions, after Russia threatened retaliation for Ukrainian strikes in the east.
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[2026-05-24 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Dhaka could be boosting its air power with the reported acquisition of a JF-17 flight simulator
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[2026-05-24 08:00 UTC+10:00] [Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Dhaka could be boosting its air power with the reported acquisition of a JF-17 flight simulator
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[2026-05-24 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: I am not a scholar of antisemitism, but I am a journalist who spent over a decade working for Qatari media empire, including being a freelance producer for a number of documentaries for Al Jazeera (AJ) – the most-watched outlet globally. Recent data showed that from the outbreak of the US-Israel war against the Iranian regime to the pause in the military operation, AJ had more than 8.5 billion views across it various platforms.
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[2026-05-24 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army reported on Saturday that a soldier was killed near the border with Lebanon, bringing the number of Israeli troops killed since the conflict began to 22.
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[2026-05-24 03:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CARACAS, Venezuela — The US military conducted a rapid response exercise involving Marines and military aircraft in Venezuela’s capital Saturday, over four months after the ouster of then-President Nicolás Maduro.
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[2026-05-24 02:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. Embassy holds emergency and air evacuation drill in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Pedro Mattey)
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[2026-05-24 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-24 01:34 UTC+10:00] [Aid and development] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: France on Saturday banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entering French territory following his treatment of activists detained while attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.
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[2026-05-24 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Syria continues its efforts to strengthen its ties with various international organizations. In the last week, the country has taken part in a military exercise in Turkey and has been invited to the G7 meeting in Paris. In addition, Syria has pursued new initiatives on international human rights issues and works with the World Health Organization.
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[2026-05-24 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir held highly productive talks with Iran’s president and other senior officials during a visit to Tehran on ending the Iran war, the military said on Saturday.
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[2026-05-24 00:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Masoud Pezeshkian, right, speaks with Pakistan’s Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
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[2026-05-24 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: CBS is reporting that the Trump administration, specifically the Pentagon - as well as intelligence community officials - are currently preparing for a new potential round of military strikes against Iran within the next three days.
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[2026-05-23 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: France banned National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entering the country, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced on Saturday, following the controversy sparked by Ben-Gvir's treatment of the Global Sumud Flotilla participants detained on Tuesday.
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[2026-05-23 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: France has banned Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from its territory after footage of him taunting abducted flotilla activists earlier in the week triggered international condemnation.
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[2026-05-23 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Photos of a giant hull released by state-owned shipbuilder trigger speculation that the vessel will be used to supply carrier groups
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[2026-05-23 23:00 UTC+10:00] [supply ship] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Photos of a giant hull released by state-owned shipbuilder trigger speculation that the vessel will be used to supply carrier groups
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[2026-05-23 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Ukrainian forces have borrowed a page from China's hypersonic glide-weapon testing and applied it to the Eastern European theater, using one-way attack drones against Russia.
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[2026-05-23 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-23 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: France’s foreign minister has said that Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has been banned from entering the country.
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[2026-05-23 21:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF killed several terrorists in the northern and southern Gaza Strip in two separate incidents on Friday, the military announced on Saturday.
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[2026-05-23 20:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The death toll from a Ukrainian drone strike on a college dormitory building in Starobilsk, a city in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Luhansk region, has risen to six, while 15 people remain missing, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday. According to the local health minister, 40 people were injured in the attack.
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[2026-05-23 18:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In the sky over western Ukraine, a bullet-shaped P1-SUN interceptor drone dived towards its target as dozens of soldiers looked on.
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[2026-05-23 18:03 UTC+10:00] [Human Interest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-05-23 17:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel imported military-related goods from six European countries despite arms restrictions.
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[2026-05-23 16:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-23 16:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Air raid sirens were activated in northern Israel on Friday after the Israeli military reported the infiltration of a “hostile aircraft” into the area.
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[2026-05-23 12:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Our warning at the start of the year, well before the U.S.-Iran conflict erupted, rested on one very simple theme that much of Wall Street missed, perhaps because analysts were still wearing their 'green' glasses and focusing on the wrong crises or actually non-existent crises.
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[2026-05-23 11:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said Israel’s military campaign in Gaza goes beyond occupation and is aimed at ending the Palestinian presence in the territory.
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[2026-05-23 11:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, Tayab Ali, has publicly challenged UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper over what he described as a contradiction between Britain’s stated concern for Gaza and its continued military cooperation with Israel.
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[2026-05-23 11:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States is weighing new military strikes on Iran, US media outlets reported on Friday.
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[2026-05-23 08:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Via The Libertarian Institute
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[2026-05-23 08:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: First lady Melania Trump speaks during an event for military mothers in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-05-23 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 22 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday took note of "some progress" in peace negotiations with Iran, but said the two sides are "not there yet," as Pakistan's top military officer was in Tehran in a mediation effort to help end the Middle East war.
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[2026-05-23 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-23 04:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel approved the establishment of a special military tribunal to try Palestinians accused of participating in the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel earlier this month, and will give the body the power to impose the death penalty.
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[2026-05-23 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pakistan’s military says army chief Asim Munir has arrived in Tehran as Islamabad continues efforts to mediate between the US and Iran.
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[2026-05-23 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Did the Pentagon just back down amid pressure from China? It appears so. As we reported Thursday, China has been actively holding up a proposed visit by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's under-secretary of defense for policy. The move is a transparent effort to pressure President Trump over a looming $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan.
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[2026-05-23 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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