Topic: Elections — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-09 23:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump revealed Monday that he will confer with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about when to end the military campaign against Iran, suggesting the decision would be “mutual” between the US and its Middle Eastern ally.
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[2026-03-09 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Karter Hardeman, 7, left, and Janayla Ralsey, 8, center, read with volunteer Joshua Banks, right, during an after-school literacy program through the Pure Hope Project in Atlanta on Thursday, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File) null
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[2026-03-09 22:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: American flags are on display outside the Office of the 14th Congressional District of Georgia in the Rayburn House Office Building, Thursday, March 5, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The office most recently was occupied for former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who resigned in January. (AP Photo/Robert Yoon)
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[2026-03-09 21:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Manhattan wannabe congressman Jack Schlossberg is ramping up his reliance on his slain grandfather and former President John F. Kennedy to raise more campaign cash.
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[2026-03-09 20:47 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The main opposition People Power Party remained open to accepting incumbent Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon's candidate registration to run again for the mayoral post, even after the deadline passed Sunday.
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[2026-03-09 20:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Cem Özdemir (Alliance 90/The Greens), top candidate in the Baden-Württemberg state elections, makes a gesture at his party’s election party and stretches up the little finger of his right hand, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Bernd Weißbrod/dpa via AP)
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[2026-03-09 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Former triple j broadcaster Tracee Hutchison will pitch herself as a community-backed independent candidate in the upcoming state byelection in Nepean, seeking to capitalise on voter frustration with the major parties.
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[2026-03-09 19:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Istanbul Mayor and Republican People’s Party, or CHP, candidate Ekrem Imamoglu addresses supporters outside the City Hall in Istanbul, Turkey, early Monday, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
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[2026-03-09 16:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Ed Smelt (second from left) has won the Nightcliff by-election. (ABC News: Jack Hislop)
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[2026-03-09 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have threatened to assassinate anyone replacing the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader.
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[2026-03-09 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The surge in oil prices will not stop the US from waging its war on Iran, President Donald Trump has said, after Brent shot past $100 per barrel on Sunday, marking the biggest daily gain since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
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[2026-03-09 14:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Residents look on and take pictures as flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility struck as attacks hit the city during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Alireza Sotakbar/ISNA via AP)
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[2026-03-09 14:59 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The German Greens on Sunday beat Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU in a state poll, exit polls showed, marking a blow for the chancellor ahead of elections this year as polls show the far right surging.
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[2026-03-09 13:36 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Chong Won-o, who is competing for the Democratic Party of Korea candidacy in the June mayoral election in Seoul, vowed to adopt artificial intelligence in his governance as he launched his Seoul mayor bid.
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[2026-03-09 13:08 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: SELMA, Alabama (AP) -- Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act.
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[2026-03-09 13:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Gov. Kathy Hochul plainly means to make it through November’s election without facing the crisis in the state prison system, but she’s taking a serious risk just to avoid a tricky political task.
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[2026-03-09 12:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Explosions were heard early Monday in the Qatari capital Doha as Gulf countries reported new missile and drone attacks linked to Iran’s retaliatory campaign in the region, AFP reported.
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[2026-03-09 12:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US will control almost a third of the world’s oil and reap record profits if it succeeds in toppling the Iranian government, hawkish Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News on Sunday.
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[2026-03-09 12:01 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The risk of dams spilling over and becoming an election issue for Labor was flagged by an independent water authority before the government moved to scrap a desalination order in 2022.
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[2026-03-09 11:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Voters aren’t too keen on California’s top Democrats.
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[2026-03-09 11:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Norwegian police are investigating an explosion outside the US Embassy in Oslo as a possible act of terrorism. The incident occurred amid heightened security for American diplomatic missions following the US-Israel air war with Iran.
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[2026-03-09 10:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “A who’s who list of right-of-center” groups last week asked Speaker Mike Johnson to set a House vote on the More Homes on the Market Act “which would boost the exemption from capital gains tax for people selling their primary residence” — “an idea for making housing affordable that 64 congressional Democrats have also endorsed,” explain The Washington Times’ editors.
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[2026-03-09 10:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump salutes as an Army carry team moves the flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, who was killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait after the U.S. and Israel launched its military campaign against Iran, during a casualty return Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del.
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[2026-03-09 09:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Tina Trahan’s husband had one question when she spent $3.2 million on the “Brady Bunch” house: “Have you lost your mind?”After a two-year campaign she spearheaded, the modest Studio City home used for the exterior shots of the beloved 1970s sitcom has officially been granted Historic-Cultural Monument status by the Los Angeles City Council.But it was an expensive journey to get the house ready for the limelight.
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[2026-03-09 09:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Gavin Newsom is spending $19 million of California taxpayer money to make himself look good before a presidential campaign.
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[2026-03-09 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The failed attempts by Congressional Democrats on Wednesday night to stop, through a War Powers Resolution vote, the President’s aerial strikes on Iran is a metaphor for everything that’s wrong with the party.
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[2026-03-09 08:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: As California faces a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to spend millions in taxpayer money on an ad campaign to try to rebrand the state as a “great place to live, work invest and visit.”
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[2026-03-09 08:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been named as his successor as Iran’s supreme leader.
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[2026-03-09 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: It is important that women not only enter politics but also remain actively engaged and participate in democratic discussions to become meaningful partners in the decision-making process, the Executive Director of the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) Manas Makeen said.
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[2026-03-09 06:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A top GOP senator Sunday urged Republican leaders to get the party’s “free-range chickens” to push through a proof-of-citizenship voting bill — which President Trump vowed to thwart because it is too “watered-down.”
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[2026-03-09 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Members of Parliament rise for a moment of silence in the House of Commons, on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, Feb. 24, 2026. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, file)
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[2026-03-09 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iraq’s Kurds are against joining the US attacks on Iran, and have voiced concerns about being left facing Iranian retaliation with no ground or air defense support, Axios reported on Saturday.
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[2026-03-09 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Bratislava is ready to block a planned EU loan for Ukraine if Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is voted out of office in the upcoming election, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said. It would be a justified means of compelling Kiev to resume Russian oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline, he said in a statement on Facebook on Sunday.
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[2026-03-09 03:29 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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[2026-03-09 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A majority of Americans oppose President Trump’s migrant raids — as well as the early US strikes against Iran — while supporting the White House on issues such as sanctuary cities, according to a new poll.
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[2026-03-09 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Several members of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for selecting the country’s next supreme leader, have said they have reached a decision but did not disclose the chosen candidate.
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[2026-03-09 02:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iranian media have shared a Lego-style video touting Tehran’s purported retaliation against the US and Israel, depicting the American and Israeli leadership in a panic.
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[2026-03-09 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.
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[2026-03-09 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungarian authorities swooped in on two Ukrainian armored trucks near Budapest on Thursday, seizing tens of millions of dollars in cash and nine kilograms of gold, sparking one of the most explosive diplomatic confrontations between the two countries in recent months. The arrest also coincided with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky issuing a direct military threat to Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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[2026-03-09 00:47 UTC+10:00] [Nepal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Shah’s Rastriya Swatantra party secures thumping victory in first poll since gen Z protests that toppled government
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[2026-03-09 00:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: KATHMANDU, Nepal — A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since Gen Z protests ousted the old leadership that has ruled the Himalayan nation for decades.
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[2026-03-08 22:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: International Women’s Day 2026 takes on a poignant tone as the global scientific community observes the first year following the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE. The world-renowned primatologist and UN Messenger of Peace died peacefully at the age of 91 on October 1, 2025, while on a speaking tour in California.
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[2026-03-08 22:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate former Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at a primary election night watch party Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Ramey)
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[2026-03-08 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Nepali Congress] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Balendra Shah emerged as a leading figure in the 2025 uprising that ousted former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli
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[2026-03-08 21:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: South Africa embarked on a mass vaccination of cattle on Friday to stem an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that threatens meat, dairy and livestock supplies and exports.
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[2026-03-08 21:30 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 South Korea–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-03-08 21:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Bahrain says the latest Iranian attacks on the country have damaged a water desalination plant and injured three people as Tehran continues its air campaign against its Gulf neighbours.
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[2026-03-08 20:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: One candidate on the ballot this year doesn’t need a briefing book to study Tehran terror: he was held captive by the Islamic Republic for 444 days.
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[2026-03-08 18:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Fishing and Aquaculture Industry
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[2026-03-08 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Reparations and reparative justice] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At festival in Kenya, artists and writers discuss role arts can play in continent’s growing push for redress over colonial crimes
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