Topic: Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-18 15:50 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Male, Maldives: Three Finnish divers have arrived to draw up a fresh plan in the search for the bodies of four Italian divers believed to be deep inside an underwater cave. The initial search was suspended after a local military diver died during a perilous mission to try to reach them.
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[2026-05-18 15:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-05-18 15:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- The military on Monday resumed an excavation project to locate the remains of four members of a former secret military unit established to train commandos to infiltrate North Korea, the defense ministry said.
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[2026-05-18 15:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Staff reporter at The Korea Herald’s National Desk, based in Seoul. Covers South Korea’s national security and foreign policy, with a focus on the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly.Before entering journalism, served as an Air Force officer. Experience includes providing translation and interpretation, as well as strategic input for planning efforts, at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-05-18 15:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pro-democracy activist Lee Cheuk-yan, center, arrives at a court in Hong Kong, April 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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[2026-05-18 14:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli media reported that Israel’s military is preparing for the possibility of renewed conflict with Iran, with public broadcaster Kan citing an unnamed security official as saying Israel would join any new US strikes and target Iranian energy infrastructure.
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[2026-05-18 14:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Staff reporter at The Korea Herald’s National Desk, based in Seoul. Covers South Korea’s national security and foreign policy, with a focus on the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly.Before entering journalism, served as an Air Force officer. Experience includes providing translation and interpretation, as well as strategic input for planning efforts, at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-05-18 13:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei warned the United States to end its blockade of Iranian ports, saying Tehran’s military remained prepared for further confrontation.
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[2026-05-18 13:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel has approved plans to establish a new military complex on the site of the former UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in East Jerusalem, Defense Minister Israel Katz has announced.
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[2026-05-18 13:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel has approved plans to establish a new military complex on the site of the former UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in East Jerusalem, Defense Minister Israel Katz has announced.
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[2026-05-18 12:17 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Cuba has obtained more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the US base at Guantanamo Bay, US military vessels and possibly even Florida, Axios reported Sunday, citing classified intelligence.
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[2026-05-18 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Customs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LÜBECK, Germany — The police and customs officers had been waiting for hours. Parked outside the Radisson Blu Senator Hotel in the northern German city of Lübeck, they sat in silence, engines off, watching the entrance.
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[2026-05-18 11:54 UTC+10:00] [ASIA PACIFIC] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Seoul – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called on top military officials to bolster front-line units and turn the country's southern border into an "impregnable fortress," state media reported Monday.
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[2026-05-18 11:32 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: HAVANA – Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the U.S. on Sunday of fabricating a "fraudulent case" to justify economic sanctions and potential military intervention.
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[2026-05-18 10:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- The military has deployed 320 choppers and over 1,100 service members to combat wildfires in the springtime this year, the defense ministry said Monday.
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[2026-05-18 10:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones from Russia and Iran and discussed possible attacks on US assets in the region, Axios claimed on Sunday, citing classified intelligence reports.
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[2026-05-18 09:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A Spanish activist aboard one of dozens of vessels sailing toward the Gaza Strip said a ship believed to be military had approached the flotilla, attempting to break Israel’s blockade.
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[2026-05-18 08:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has enforced a new law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, after the commander of its Central Command Major General Avi Bluth signed the military order required to activate the measure on Sunday.
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[2026-05-18 07:46 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Boise, Idaho: All four crew members ejected safely after two Navy jets collided and crashed during an air show at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in western Idaho, officials said.
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[2026-05-18 07:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 2 jets with 4 crew collided ‘while performing an aerial demonstration’ during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show
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[2026-05-18 07:32 UTC+10:00] [Whidbey Island] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 2 jets with 4 crew collided ‘while performing an aerial demonstration’ during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show
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[2026-05-18 06:45 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Four crew members are safe after incident involving aircraft during weekend air show at military base in western Idaho
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[2026-05-18 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two United States F-18 military aircraft collided mid-air during an airshow in Idaho on Sunday, local media reported.
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[2026-05-18 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Cuba has more than 300 military drones and has discussed using them to attack the southernmost point of the US's continental territory, the US base in Guantanamo Bay, and American ships in the Caribbean, Axios reported on Sunday, citing US intelligence.
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[2026-05-18 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Emergency crews responded Sunday to an incident involving aircraft during a weekend air show at a military base in western Idaho, officials said.
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[2026-05-18 04:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: ABUJA — At least 17 police officers were killed in Nigeria’s northeast Yobe state after suspected Islamist militants attacked a specialised military school that also trains police officers, the national police spokesman said late on Saturday.
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[2026-05-18 04:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israeli forces had targeted and killed the head of Hamas’s “military wing” Izz al-Din al-Haddad, calling him the “chief murderer” and a key figure behind the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
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[2026-05-18 02:26 UTC+10:00] [Cuba] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Buoyed by his removal of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, the US president is intensifying an economic stranglehold and military menace
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[2026-05-18 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel’s military manpower crisis is expected to deepen unless legislation extending mandatory service advances separately from the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft bill, as the IDF faces a widening gap between wartime operational needs and the number of soldiers available to meet them.
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[2026-05-18 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: On Feb. 3, we first asked whether a Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 was quietly taking shape on the collapsed, communist-run Caribbean island of Cuba.
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[2026-05-18 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Since October 7, 2023, Israel has absorbed wave after wave of missiles and rockets from Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and others. Yet in Washington, critics of the US-Israel relationship insist the response to attacks against an American ally is to cut military aid to the Jewish state.
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[2026-05-17 23:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The killing of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the recently appointed head of Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has dealt a symbolic blow to the Palestinian group in Gaza, but the impact on its military operations is far from certain.
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[2026-05-17 23:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military has said that four of its soldiers were wounded when an explosive device detonated in southern Lebanon overnight.
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[2026-05-17 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Studying in Israel comes with its own challenges, especially for olim and lone soldiers balancing academics, military service, and life in a new country.
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[2026-05-17 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel built two secret bases in Iraq's desert during the ongoing war with Iran, The New York Times reported on Sunday morning, citing unnamed Iraqi officials.
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[2026-05-17 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tokyo says it’s building a coastal defence system but Beijing sees an offensive purpose in the deployment
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[2026-05-17 22:17 UTC+10:00] [Yonaguni] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tokyo says it’s building a coastal defence system but Beijing sees an offensive purpose in the deployment
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[2026-05-17 21:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Even if Israel occupies southern Lebanon through military force, it will not be able to destroy all of Hezbollah’s explosive drones or rockets, Israeli public broadcaster Kan News reported on Sunday morning, citing a security source.
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[2026-05-17 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Several months after a US-mediated ceasefire entered into effect, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Izz ad-Din al-Haddad made a series of critical mistakes that enabled Israel to track and ultimately kill him, security sources told Walla on Saturday.
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[2026-05-17 19:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Yisrael Beiteinu chairman and MK Avigdor Liberman accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of endangering Israel’s national security in exchange for what he described as a personal political arrangement with US President Donald Trump, during an interview with 103FM on Sunday morning.
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[2026-05-17 19:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued secret arrest warrants against several Israeli officials, Haaretz reported on Sunday, citing a diplomatic source.
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[2026-05-17 16:50 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-05-17 16:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Sun 17 May 2026 at 4:35pm
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[2026-05-17 16:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military said a “suspicious aerial target” was identified after sirens sounded in the Misgav Am area of northern Israel.
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[2026-05-17 15:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah said its fighters detonated explosive devices targeting Israeli military bulldozers advancing between the southern Lebanese towns of Rashaf and Hadatha.
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[2026-05-17 15:35 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Staff reporter at The Korea Herald’s National Desk, based in Seoul. Covers South Korea’s national security and foreign policy, with a focus on the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly.Before entering journalism, served as an Air Force officer. Experience includes providing translation and interpretation, as well as strategic input for planning efforts, at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-05-17 15:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Gwangju Democratization Movement began on May 18, 1980. Tens of thousands of students and other citizens staged demonstrations in Gwangju, protesting against then military junta leader Chun Doo-hwan, who took power in a military coup a year earlier. The uprising is one of the most significant pro-democracy movements in the South Korean history.
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[2026-05-17 14:02 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-17 13:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Staff reporter at The Korea Herald’s National Desk, based in Seoul. Covers South Korea’s national security and foreign policy, with a focus on the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly.Before entering journalism, served as an Air Force officer. Experience includes providing translation and interpretation, as well as strategic input for planning efforts, at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-05-17 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump returned from the spectacle of a Chinese state visit to a less than welcoming U.S. economy — with the military band and garden tour in Beijing giving way to pressure over how to fix America's escalating inflation rate.
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