Topic: Energy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-20 13:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Local Government
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[2026-08-20 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Vehicles are parked for export at a Yokohama port, near Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2025. (Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP, File)
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[2026-08-20 12:32 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A Chinese businessman who disguised $20,000 cash in a gift box of breakfast tea in a bid to speed up his solar company’s applications before Australia’s Clean Energy Council was heard saying he knew it was “against the law”.
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[2026-08-20 12:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: HONOLULU, Hawaii — A beloved former kindergarten teacher who taught generations of residents in a small town on Hawaii's Big Island was among the two who died as Hurricane Lala's wind and rain lashed the islands over the weekend.
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[2026-08-20 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-20 07:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US military is conducting a stealth operation to transport oil through the Strait of Hormuz, sources with knowledge of the situation told Axios on Wednesday.
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[2026-08-20 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The last five Filipino seamen from Liberia-flagged oil/product tanker M/V Europe I arrived on Monday in the Philippines.
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[2026-08-20 06:59 UTC+10:00] [Documentary films] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ten months into a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel and Hamas seem like they are no closer to a real end to the war. Israel reportedly says they will carry on with their military operation until Hamas fully disarms. Hamas has said they will not begin disarming until Israel begins withdrawing.
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[2026-08-20 06:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-20 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Supertanker owners are getting paid $510,000 per day to bring crude oil from the Gulf to Asia, in a sign of high demand for vessels to transit the waterway as fighting rages in the region and alternative routes take supply from the market.
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[2026-08-20 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The drive to recruit apprentice electricians to help build data centres threatens to slow residential construction in Victoria, the group representing electrical contractors has warned.
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[2026-08-20 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Peter Garrett still believes in the power of good protest music, as he explains in the first episode of this season of Take 5 with Zan Rowe. (ABC)
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[2026-08-20 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: While today's market moves (post-Bessent's OpTwist bailout) are changing things rapidly, since the last FOMC meeting, on July 19th, where Warsh held rates (hawkishly) unchanged (in the biggest surprise to market expectations in decades) amid multiple dissents, gold, bitcoin, and oil have outperformed, the dollar and bonds have lagged, with stocks solidly green in the middle...
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[2026-08-20 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-08-20 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Abu Dhabi’s power demand is expected to double by 2050, driven by rapid expansion of the economy, population growth and digital infrastructure, according to a senior official.
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[2026-08-20 00:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US is studying how it could help Lebanon address its decades-old electricity crisis, two people with direct knowledge of the talks have told The National.
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[2026-08-20 00:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Oil prices are chopping sideways (to modestly higher) for the second day in a row as traders weighed the 'dark fleet' transits with renewed tensions in the Middle East further clouding the outlook for flows through the vital Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-20 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Already Russia has been subject to many months of a ramped-up long-range drone campaign out of Ukraine, chiefly targeting oil refineries as well as industrial sites - and most recently expanding to online retail companies and attacks on private sector businesses.
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[2026-08-20 00:14 UTC+10:00] [Nord Stream 1 pipeline] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Berlin to seek suspect’s extradition for 2022 explosions that damaged gas pipelines to Russia
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[2026-08-20 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Turkey's state oil company and private firms will start seismic surveys and exploration in Syria, Turkish energy minister Alparslan Bayraktar said, as Damascus seeks to attract foreign capital to its battered energy sector.
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[2026-08-19 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BERLIN — A Ukrainian man wanted in Germany in connection with the 2022 undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines was arrested on a European warrant in Croatia on Wednesday, Germany’s federal prosecutor said.
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[2026-08-19 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are flat but off their lows as Tech gets a boost from a huge Hynix buyback, which erased ~8% decline to trade up as much as 2% and reversed a 5.8% drop in the Nikkei; the ADRs are +5.6% pre-mkt boosting both Memory and Korea ETFs. As of 8:15am ET, S&P futures are fractionally in the green, with Nasdaq futures down 0.1% even as momentum looks to retrace some of yesterday’s losses.
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[2026-08-19 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-19 22:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Going up against elite fields in the two remaining tournaments of the annual PGA Tour playoffs, South Korean veteran Kim Si-woo knows his time is running out to pick up a win in 2026.
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[2026-08-19 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iraq’s speaker of parliament has called for special status for the country’s oil exports passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-19 21:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Fuel purchase restrictions are beginning to make a comeback in some regions as persistent shortages continue to dog the domestic market following months of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries, in what Russian media is calling the “second wave” of the summer fuel crisis.
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[2026-08-19 21:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This photo provided by Toyota shows the 2023 Prius, whose redesign that year brought headturning looks and improved performance to accompany its longstanding fuel efficiency. (Courtesy of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. via AP)
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[2026-08-19 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Brent at $90.94 looks almost civilized. Jeff Currie thinks that is exactly the problem: everyone is staring at crude while the real energy shock is already showing up in the fuels people actually buy.
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[2026-08-19 20:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Amid surging demand for power and the need to support industrialisation, Kenya has tripled its long-term target for expanding its renewable energy capacity.
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[2026-08-19 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-19 20:07 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: PM promises to mount ‘Covid-style campaign’ to get homeless people off streets in winter
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[2026-08-19 19:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Saudi Arabia spent weeks finding ways around the Strait of Hormuz. Now it is starting to send tankers straight back through it.
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[2026-08-19 19:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Yonhap) -- Going up against elite fields in the two remaining tournaments of the annual PGA Tour playoffs, South Korean veteran Kim Si-woo knows his time is running out to pick up a win in 2026.
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[2026-08-19 18:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran channelled $7.5bn in foreign currency earnings from oil sales to its central bank during the first four months of the year, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.
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[2026-08-19 18:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: An association of cargo ship owners is concerned about the safety of seafarers in the Strait of Hormuz. (Reuters)
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[2026-08-19 18:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Shares of Spain's Deoleo jumped over 17% on Wednesday morning amid an intensifying takeover battle for the world's largest olive oil bottler and marketer.The stock move comes amid reports that Spanish agri-food cooperative group Dcoop has offered 470 million euros ($545 million) for Deoleo, taking the lead in a takeover battle that includes Italian, French and Australian firms.
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[2026-08-19 18:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Yonhap) -- POSCO Group, South Korea's leading steelmaker, said Wednesday it will collaborate with Chinese cathode-materials producer Ningbo Ronbay New Energy on lithium supply and spent-battery recycling.
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[2026-08-19 17:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by David Whitehouse, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK, via City AM,
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[2026-08-19 17:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul shares dipped nearly 6 percent Wednesday, led by steep losses in chipmakers, as rising oil prices and global bond yields dampened investor sentiment. The Korean won rose against the US dollar.
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[2026-08-19 16:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Yonhap) -- Seoul shares dipped nearly 6 percent Wednesday, led by steep losses in chipmakers, as rising oil prices and global bond yields dampened investor sentiment. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar.
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[2026-08-19 16:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s embassy demands stronger protections for personnel following camp raid and social media live stream at Kherlen Tohoi oil block
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[2026-08-19 16:35 UTC+10:00] [B. Dashpurev] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s embassy demands stronger protections for personnel following camp raid and social media live stream at Kherlen Tohoi oil block
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[2026-08-19 16:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE -A man connects electric cables on a pole above the Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Henry Naminde, File)
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[2026-08-19 16:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Crude oil and natural gas supplies have been disrupted worldwide by the United States-Israel war on Iran, but one energy sector appears to be cashing in – coal.
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[2026-08-19 16:08 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: 35-GWh facility to supply storage systems, Toyota EVs, as North American orders surge
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[2026-08-19 16:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Higher energy bills drove UK inflation up to 2.9% in the 12 months to July, the latest figures show.
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[2026-08-19 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With its need for Russian gas limiting fresh sanctions, analysts say Tokyo has few economic weapons left to respond
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[2026-08-19 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Northern Territories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With its need for Russian gas limiting fresh sanctions, analysts say Tokyo has few economic weapons left to respond
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[2026-08-19 13:47 UTC+10:00] [Trump tariffs] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US president delays 50% tariffs by three days, and says contentious oil project ‘may be awoken from the grave’
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[2026-08-19 13:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Workers from solar company Solva Energy install solar panels on the roof of a house in Antipolo, the Philippines, on July 06. © Getty Images
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