Topic: Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-06 23:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF killed two senior members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force (IRGC-QF) in separate strikes over the past day, the military confirmed on Monday.
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[2026-04-06 23:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday said it can confirm recent impacts of military strikes close to Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, but said that the plant itself was not damaged.
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[2026-04-06 22:39 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-06 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli military spokesperson Nadav Shoshani has claimed that the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard undercover unit in the Quds Force, Asghar Barkeri, has been assassinated by Israel.
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[2026-04-06 22:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: British police on Sunday arrested seven people at a protest near a military base in eastern England that the US military is believed to be using to attack Iran.
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[2026-04-06 22:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump on Sunday warned Tehran to "Open the Strait" and make a deal by the end of Tuesday, or the U.S. military would "blow everything up" and "take over the oil." Meanwhile, Iran rejected Trump's ultimatum to reopen the Hormuz chokepoint, saying it would only reopen the critical waterway once damage from the war is compensated.
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[2026-04-06 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon began his annual shareholder letter on Monday by tying the bank's legacy to the nation's history: "In 2026, America is celebrating its 250th anniversary. This year, we are also celebrating the 227th anniversary of JPMorgan Chase, which was founded in April 1799."
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[2026-04-06 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Nigerian troops have rescued 31 worshippers abducted during Easter services in Kaduna state, the military said, following an attack that left several people dead.
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[2026-04-06 20:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israel has launched a series of deadly air strikes across Lebanon, as its military chief vowed to the intensify campaign against Hezbollah.
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[2026-04-06 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Former PLA personnel say Iranian success in shooting down military aircraft boosts morale and shows it remains a threat to US and Israel
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[2026-04-06 20:13 UTC+10:00] [Gulf] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Former PLA personnel say Iranian success in shooting down military aircraft boosts morale and shows it remains a threat to US and Israel
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[2026-04-06 20:10 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-06 19:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Explosives found at the weekend near the Serbian extension of the TurkStream pipeline, which delivers Russian gas to Hungary, were US-made, the head of Belgrade’s Military Security Agency (VBA), Duro Jovanic, has said.
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[2026-04-06 19:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Explosives found at the weekend near the Serbian extension of the TurkStream pipeline, which delivers Russian gas to Hungary, were US-made, the head of Belgrade’s Military Security Agency (VBA), Duro Jovanic, has said.
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[2026-04-06 19:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 26 people have been killed in three separate Easter attacks in northern Nigeria, according to the Nigerian military and local officials.
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[2026-04-06 19:17 UTC+10:00] [Elections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Serbia’s top military brass said Ukraine was not behind an incident involving explosives near a gas pipeline with Hungary, in a rebuke to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who heavily implied Kyiv was involved.
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[2026-04-06 18:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US forces on Kuwait's Bubiyan island were targeted by Iran, the spokesperson of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a video statement shared by state media on Monday.
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[2026-04-06 16:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran executed a man named Ali Fahim convicted over an attempt to storm a military facility and access an armoury during unrest in January, state media said on Monday, after the Supreme Court upheld his sentence.
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[2026-04-06 15:46 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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[2026-04-06 14:46 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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[2026-04-06 14:41 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A South Korean court has rejected a lawsuit filed by a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses seeking to ease the residential requirement for alternative military service and permit commuting.
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[2026-04-06 14:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli rescue services said they were responding to impacts in central Israel following Iran’s latest ballistic missile attack, with the military assessing that at least one missile carried a cluster munition warhead, Times of Israel reported.
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[2026-04-06 14:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-06 13:56 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Ukraine and Syria pledged greater security cooperation in talks Sunday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as Kyiv seeks to promote its military expertise across the region following the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-06 13:55 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: LAGOS, Nigeria (AFP) -- The Nigerian military said Sunday it had rescued 31 worshippers seized from Easter celebrations in northwestern Kaduna state, though at least five others were killed, as the country's security comes increasingly under international scrutiny.
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[2026-04-06 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: German has given English many useful words. Some are valuable in the current crisis: schadenfreude, joy in the misfortunes of others, or Energiewende, the transition to low-carbon energy. We could add another, schwerpunkt, the decisive point of a military campaign. In the war the US is waging against Iran now, this centre of gravity is the Strait of Hormuz – but does Washington know it?
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[2026-04-06 11:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: President Lee Jae Myung on Monday expressed regret over drone flights by individuals into North Korea, saying that such behavior has caused unnecessary military tension with Pyongyang.
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[2026-04-06 11:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Monday expressed regret over drone flights by individuals into North Korea, saying that such behavior has caused unnecessary military tension with Pyongyang.
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[2026-04-06 11:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean military on Monday kicked off its monthslong annual defense drills in coordination with government, police and firefighting agencies in a bid to enhance an integrated defense posture across regions.
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[2026-04-06 10:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LAGOS, Nigeria — The Nigerian military said Sunday it had rescued 31 worshippers seized from Easter celebrations in northwestern Kaduna state, though at least five others were killed, as the country's security comes increasingly under international scrutiny.
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[2026-04-06 09:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hamas's military spokesman Abu Obaida has delivered a statement backing Iran's strikes on Israel, mourning the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and accusing ceasefire mediators of applying pressure on Palestinian resistance while turning a blind eye to Israeli violations.
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[2026-04-06 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The leaders of Ukraine and Syria have pledged greater security cooperation, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Kyiv offers its military expertise to governments across the Middle East region amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-06 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The US military has rescued a missing crew member in a dramatic night-time mission after his fighter jet was shot down in a remote part of Iran.
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[2026-04-06 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Sunday lauded himself and the US military while announcing that the second crew member from a US fighter jet downed in Iran had been found “safe and sound.”
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[2026-04-06 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: When the first reports came on Friday of the downing of an American F-15 fighter jet over Iran with two pilots – the US military tasked the impossible mission of retrieving a pilot and navigator from behind enemy lines with the US Air Force Pararescue, commonly known as the “PJs.”
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[2026-04-06 05:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Donald Trump spent Easter Sunday making a series of explosive admissions about the Iran war - revealing that the United States covertly armed protesters inside the country weeks before launching military strikes, even as American negotiators were sitting across the table from senior Iranian officials in Europe.
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[2026-04-06 03:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Syria on Sunday for talks with his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa, as Kyiv seeks to promote its military expertise across the region following the outbreak of the Iran war.
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[2026-04-06 03:44 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Incidents imply that Iranian air defenses may not be as degraded as Trump administration claims
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[2026-04-06 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The February-March 2026 war against Iran can be understood not merely as a military confrontation, but as a coordinated assault on sovereignty itself. The conflict was not only about missiles, nuclear infrastructure, or regional deterrence, but about whether a state could remain a political subject after simultaneous degradation across its political, military, informational, economic, cultural, cognitive, and technological foundations.
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[2026-04-06 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon and F-35 fighter jets, supported by military helicopters, shot down several Iranian drones targeting Middle Eastern countries, the United Kingdom's Defense Ministry said in a post to X/Twitter on Sunday.
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[2026-04-06 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Israeli Air Force successfully killed Mohammad Reza Ashrafi Kahi, a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Oil Headquarters, on Friday, the military announced on Sunday.
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[2026-04-06 02:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The New York Times confirmed that U.S. Special Forces operators were behind the recovery of the second crew member from the downed F-15E fighter jet, locating and extracting the weapons systems officer in a daring overnight mission deep inside Iranian territory.
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[2026-04-06 00:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this image provided by Sepahnews, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s official website, wreckage is shown at what Iran’s state TV claimed was the site of a downed American transport plane and two helicopters involved in a rescue operation, in Isfahan province, Iran, April, 2026. (Sepahnews via AP)
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[2026-04-06 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The overnight rescue of an American F‑15 weapons officer deep inside Iranian territory drew on a rarely visible combination of US military search‑and‑rescue capabilities and intelligence assets. Although officials have not disclosed every detail, the picture that is beginning to emerge shows how intensive training and technology allowed such a complex operation to succeed.
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[2026-04-06 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated US President Donald Trump and the American military on the Sunday rescue of an F-15 fighter jet pilot who was stranded in Iran after his aircraft was downed.
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[2026-04-06 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Revamped orbital technology can potentially send steerable microwave beams to Earth, capable of jamming or securing military communications
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[2026-04-06 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Revamped orbital technology can potentially send steerable microwave beams to Earth, capable of jamming or securing military communications
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[2026-04-05 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The electromagnetic weapon is designed for stealth operations, according to state broadcaster CCTV
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[2026-04-05 22:00 UTC+10:00] [electromagnetic coils] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The electromagnetic weapon is designed for stealth operations, according to state broadcaster CCTV
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[2026-04-05 21:45 UTC+10:00] [Germany] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ministry clarifies clause affecting those up to age 45 that is part of legislation that came into effect in January
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