Topic: Elections — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-28 14:58 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday, decrying a campaign of "collective punishment" against Palestinians.
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[2026-04-28 14:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: It's the business end of the Champions League, where heroes are made and Ballon d'Or winners forged. But which players will prove most pivotal to their team's success?
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[2026-04-28 14:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US lacks a coherent negotiation strategy and is being “humiliated” by Iran, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday.
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[2026-04-28 14:24 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The cash flow crunch caused by the High Court’s decision to turf out campaign finance laws show there’s more than seven million reasons for the Allan government and Liberal-led Opposition to restore public funding for political parties and candidates in Victoria.
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[2026-04-28 14:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The Bank of Japan's decision comes amid growing pressure on the economy from rising consumer prices. (File photo by Miki Kamiyama)
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[2026-04-28 14:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech in north-west England, Britain, Monday, April 27, 2026. (Temilade Adelaja/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-04-28 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: It is always a sign of political trouble in the UK when its prime minister gathers top figures at the Chequers Court, a house west of London that the head of government uses as a weekend retreat.
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[2026-04-28 13:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A man who murdered a British tourist in a regional Australian town has been declared mentally unfit for trial.
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[2026-04-28 13:42 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Seoul High Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced former People Power Party floor leader Kweon Seong-dong to two years in prison for receiving illicit political funds from a senior Unification Church official ahead of the 2022 presidential election.
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[2026-04-28 13:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Hollywood star Rebel Wilson says claims she bullied women on her film are "absolute nonsense" as she gave evidence for the first time in a high-profile defamation case against her in Sydney.
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[2026-04-28 13:31 UTC+10:00] [Debt] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Gordon Repinski und das POLITICO-Team nehmen Euch mit durch die Hauptstadt - kurz, präzise, hintergründig. Montags bis freitags ab 5 Uhr.
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[2026-04-28 13:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Executions rose sharply in North Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a Seoul-based NGO.
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[2026-04-28 13:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Gunmen have killed at least 29 people in an attack on a village in Nigeria's north-eastern Adamawa state, local officials say.
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[2026-04-28 13:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel is heading to elections, and the question that should organize every vote and every coalition negotiation is this: Will the next government include parties whose voters carry the burden of defending the country, or will it again include parties whose constituents do not?
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[2026-04-28 12:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The “billionaire tax” has qualified for the ballot, according to the union organizers who launched it. It may lose in November. It may be thrown out by the courts.
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[2026-04-28 12:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: There has been a sizeable rise in the number of victims of domestic abuse who took their own lives in England and Wales, official figures show.
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[2026-04-28 12:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Activists from the Forum for the Protection of Voting Rights press up against a police barricade during a protest in Kolkata on March 28 against the Election Commission of India's ongoing Special Intensive Revision that has struck millions of voters off West Bengal's electoral rolls. © AP
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[2026-04-28 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Diplomacy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Depending on who you ask, she’s either just another MAGA troll meddling in European democracy, or the best hope of saving it.
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[2026-04-28 12:00 UTC+10:00] [British politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — The British public want politicians to steer clear of religion just as key Westminster figures amp up debates on Christianity’s role in the country, new polling shows.
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[2026-04-28 11:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) is set to conduct a communication campaign aimed at enhancing the capacity of public information officers and media practitioners in reporting science-based information on geologic hazards.
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[2026-04-28 11:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A superyacht linked to one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's key allies has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, despite the ongoing blockade of the critical shipping channel.
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[2026-04-28 11:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: UK officials have pushed to bar journalists from a meeting between King Charles III and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, out of concern over potentially embarrassing incidents, The Guardian reported on Tuesday, citing people involved in planning the monarch’s trip to Washington.
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[2026-04-28 10:34 UTC+10:00] [AUKUS] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
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[2026-04-28 10:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: For many in the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night, the scene was painfully familiar. Shots fired, confusion and panic, and a sense that the normal order of things had been violently interrupted.
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[2026-04-28 10:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:State and Territory Elections
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[2026-04-28 09:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Rongmala became an "accidental" landlord when her disabilities meant she could no longer live alone.
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[2026-04-28 09:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: King Charles and Queen Camilla have arrived in the US at the start of a four-day state visit - the first since Queen Elizabeth II's visit in 2007.
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[2026-04-28 09:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Selected by a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters. Players were awarded five points for a first-place vote, three points for a second-place vote and one point for a third-place vote:
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[2026-04-28 09:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A man has pleaded guilty to a charge of murder more than 20 years after the fatal ambush shooting of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay.
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[2026-04-28 09:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Man Utd survive Brentford fightback to earn crucial win
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[2026-04-28 09:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A 21-year-old man is going on trial in Austria charged with planning and preparing a terrorist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in August 2024.
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[2026-04-28 09:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Warning: this piece contains descriptions of alleged child abuse.
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[2026-04-28 09:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Sarah, not her real name, had £20,000 stolen in an investment fraud so sophisticated it was 17 months before she discovered it was a scam.
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[2026-04-28 09:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: In mid-2025, frustration boiled over for Cedrik Sixtus.
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[2026-04-28 08:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Ronnie O'Sullivan led 8-3 and 9-4 but lost 13-12 in an epic last-16 tie against John Higgins
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[2026-04-28 08:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has rebuked his Ukrainian counterpart on social media, saying Kiev has not provided evidence that Israel was buying “stolen” grain from Russia.
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[2026-04-28 08:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Demonstrators participate in a Make Polluters Pay campaign along the Caribbean Sea demanding oil companies pay for the energy transition during a nearby conference aimed at transitioning away from fossil fuels Monday, April 27, 2026, in Santa Marta, Colombia. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
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[2026-04-28 08:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A California man has been charged with attempting to assassinate US President Donald Trump in an incident that has sparked a White House security review.
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[2026-04-28 07:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Mum-of-two Charlotte Seddon says she and her husband might have had more children if it wasn't for the high cost of childcare in Wales.
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[2026-04-28 07:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Manchester United hold their nerve as first-half goals from Casemiro and Benjamin Sesko were enough for them to win an entertaining encounter with Brentford.
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[2026-04-28 07:10 UTC+10:00] [Cooperation] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: STRASBOURG — Europe’s Socialists have spent years scolding the center-right for cutting deals with the far right. Now they are facing the same charge.
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[2026-04-28 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Local Government
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[2026-04-28 06:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ukraine may have to accept territorial losses in a future peace deal with Russia to keep its EU membership hopes alive, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday.
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[2026-04-28 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A report outlining recommendations to enable over 1.5 million Sri Lankans residing overseas to participate in domestic elections has been formally handed over to Public Administration, Provincial Councils, and Local Government Minister A.H.M.H. Abayarathna. The report was compiled by a Special Committee appointed to develop the legal and practical framework required to facilitate overseas voting.
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[2026-04-28 05:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — A prominent Havana Syndrome victim is battling the State Department over accusations he has faced a “campaign of discrimination and retaliation” for his efforts to blow the whistle on the mysterious ailment.
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[2026-04-28 05:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Voting booths are set up at a polling place in Newtown, Pa., Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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[2026-04-28 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Dozens of private jets carrying wealth amassed during outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's 16 years in power have been leaving Vienna, while other individuals have begun investing their assets abroad, sources told the British outlet the Guardian on Sunday.
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[2026-04-28 05:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The Iraqi President Nizar Amedi has named Ali al-Zaidi as prime minister-designate, and tasked him with forming a government, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Iraq has reported.
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[2026-04-28 05:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Relatives of victims pay respects at the site of an attack on the Pan-American Highway in Cajibio, Colombia, Sunday, April 26, 2026, where at least a dozen people were killed in an attack authorities blamed on dissident groups of the former FARC rebels. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)
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[2026-04-28 05:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: At least four people were killed and dozens injured when two trains collided outside the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Monday.
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