Topic: Energy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-18 10:58 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ukrainian energy companies Naftogaz and DTEK report string of attacks; pictures show success of strike on Russian rocket fuel maker. What we know on day 1,637
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[2026-08-18 10:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — United Marine Training Center (UMTC) held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday, August 17, to launch construction of its state-of-the-art Green Energy Center, a facility designed to prepare Filipino seafarers for the maritime industry's transition to alternative fuels and zero-emission vessels.
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[2026-08-18 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Vista Energy SAB's American depositary receipts are up 5% Monday on news that Peter Thiel's hedge fund disclosed a $76 million stake in Argentina's largest oil exporter.
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[2026-08-18 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the inauguration ceremony for the new president of the state-run oil company Petrobras, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)
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[2026-08-18 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Amid AI’s impact, slower population growth, regional integration and newly built homes, investment bank says property prices likely to remain flat
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[2026-08-18 09:00 UTC+10:00] [Greater Bay Area] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Amid AI’s impact, slower population growth, regional integration and newly built homes, investment bank says property prices likely to remain flat
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[2026-08-18 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: As an exhausting primary season begins to wind down, voters in Florida, the last remaining big state yet to hold its primaries, head to the polls Tuesday with several races on the Jewish community’s radar.
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[2026-08-18 07:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-18 07:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MONTREAL — Canadian officials announced plans Monday to massively enhance wind and hydropower generation in the eastern part of the country, in a project Ottawa called "the largest clean energy investment in North American history."
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[2026-08-18 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Rashid Hudain Syed via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-08-18 06:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. stocks slipped further from their record heights after rising oil prices cranked up the pressure on inflation and financial markets.
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[2026-08-18 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-18 05:22 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: US stocks are edging further from their record heights on Monday, ahead of a week where profit reports from the nation’s biggest retailers could give a hint about how shoppers are dealing with high inflation and a slowing job market.
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[2026-08-18 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Syd)] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Walking down Victoria Avenue in Chatswood is nothing short of torturous when you’re hungry. In the space of five minutes, you’re hit with the sweet smell of frying garlic and sauteed onions; the warmth of toasted cumin; the white-hot tang of Sichuan pepper; the intensity of fresh chilli; the sweet musk of roast duck, and that tantalising cold batter-hits-hot-oil smell of fried chicken.
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[2026-08-18 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Oman increased its efforts to mitigate the potential environmental impacts from a ship's oil spill, which covers an area of over 2,000 square kilometres, according to a statement released by the country’s Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology on Monday.
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[2026-08-18 03:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A fire broke out on Monday evening local time in the town of Beit Anan, northwest of Jerusalem, after Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters during a military raid, Wafa news reported, citing local sources.
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[2026-08-18 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: OVER the weekend, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that the country’s waste-to-energy (WTE) program should be up and running within 18 months in order to deal with the growing “sea of trash” drowning the Philippines. This was apparently after a visit by the chief executive to one of the city’s giant open sewers, which was spectacularly choked with floating garbage after heavy monsoon rains and flooding last week.
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[2026-08-18 01:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen into single figures, with only three vessels transiting on Sunday, down from five on Saturday and 12 on Friday, the latest Kpler data shows.
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[2026-08-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Global shipping disruptions, along with oil and gas projects, have added to the strategic value of the Northern Sea Route
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[2026-08-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Northern Sea Route] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Global shipping disruptions, along with oil and gas projects, have added to the strategic value of the Northern Sea Route
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[2026-08-18 00:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: An artist impression of the ancient galactic collision, which some researchers have called the Low-Energy-Kraken-Heracles merger. (Supplied: Duncan Forbes/Swinburne University)
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[2026-08-18 00:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: While global equity indices are at or close to all-time highs, DB's Peter Sidorov writes that we’re seeing more challenging August crosswinds playing out in bond markets. Expectations for an imminent Fed rate hike have been pulled back, but this has been accompanied by a significant US curve steepening, with the backdrop of higher oil prices, elevated fiscal deficits, and demand for capital from the AI investment boom putting upward pressure on yields.
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[2026-08-17 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Abu Dhabi clean energy company Masdar and ScottishPower have completed a major construction stage at a £4 billion ($5.42 billion) offshore wind farm project off the English coast, which is set to be one of the largest in the world.
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[2026-08-17 23:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Crude oil prices edged higher Monday as Iran ruled out talks to extend the memorandum of understanding with U.S.
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[2026-08-17 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow is eyeing a direct rail link to India, reflecting a scramble by major powers to build trade corridors beyond Hormuz, analysts say
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[2026-08-17 22:11 UTC+10:00] [Afghanistan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow is eyeing a direct rail link to India, reflecting a scramble by major powers to build trade corridors beyond Hormuz, analysts say
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[2026-08-17 22:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Gulf states are covertly shipping oil through the Strait of Hormuz on tankers with their transponders switched off despite severe disruptions to normal traffic and intermittent attacks, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the shipments.
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[2026-08-17 22:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Gulf states are covertly shipping oil through the Strait of Hormuz on tankers with their transponders switched off despite severe disruptions to normal traffic and intermittent attacks, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the shipments.
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[2026-08-17 21:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is Washington’s “number one Goal”, appearing to contradict Vice President JD Vance, who last week said keeping oil and gasoline prices low for Americans was the administration’s top priority.
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[2026-08-17 21:16 UTC+10:00] [Oil] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Robert Smith, Olly Alexander and Paris Paloma also among signatories to letter saying exploitation of Rosebank and Jackdaw fields defies climate reality
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[2026-08-17 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People observe a daily nationwide minute of silence in memory of soldiers killed in the war with Russia, in Kyiv, Monday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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[2026-08-17 21:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Oil producer Vista Energy jumped in premarket on Monday after it was revealed that billionaire Peter Thiel's hedge fund had acquired a stake in the Argentine company.
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[2026-08-17 18:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Myanmar junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing left for Russia on Monday for his first official visit to the country since he assumed the presidency in April, according to state media.
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[2026-08-17 17:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Workers assemble a wind turbine generator in Inner Mongolia, China, on June 13. China's industrial production growth slowed to 4.5% in July from 5.3% in June. © Reuters
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[2026-08-17 16:54 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won and TerraPower Chair Bill Gates have met twice over the past year, signaling that their companies’ relationship is expanding beyond investment into a strategic partnership aimed at meeting soaring electricity demand in the AI era.
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[2026-08-17 16:32 UTC+10:00] [Israel-Gaza war] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Jared Kushner set to meet Netanyahu following talks with Hamas
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[2026-08-17 16:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-08-17 15:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Solar-powered fertiliser system tops awards as city’s delegation wins 22 gold, 13 silver
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[2026-08-17 15:49 UTC+10:00] [World Intellectual Property Organization] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Solar-powered fertiliser system tops awards as city’s delegation wins 22 gold, 13 silver
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[2026-08-17 15:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: At least six people have died, and several have been injured, in a “stampede-like” incident caused by a falling electricity pole at the Ashok Dham temple in Lakhisarai, in India’s eastern state of Bihar, according to officials.
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[2026-08-17 15:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A general view shows the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
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[2026-08-17 14:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: At least six people died, and several were injured in an incident police suspect was triggered by a falling electricity pole that alarmed a crowd of worshippers at a temple in India's eastern state of Bihar, officials said on Monday.
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[2026-08-17 14:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A student from a floating village steers a school boat on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia, Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
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[2026-08-17 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: It is said the first casualty of war is the truth; the final victim is often the environment. At the end of the First Gulf War, Saddam Hussein caused the second-largest oil spill in history by dumping about four million barrels of Kuwaiti crude into the sea. Now holed ships and exploded tanks again threaten the Gulf’s people and ecosystems.
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[2026-08-17 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: In a little more than a week, five vessels of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company have been attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. This brings to nearly two dozen the number of such ships that have been in the firing line of Iranian forces since February 28. One crew member has been killed and more than 20 injured in the past few months.
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[2026-08-17 12:52 UTC+10:00] [National disability insurance scheme] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Greens senator makes an impassioned plea for the government and Coalition not to go ahead with the legislation and says the cuts are 'unnecessary'. Jordon Steele-John accuses the government of preferring to back the gas exporters instead of the disability community
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[2026-08-17 12:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Tourists pose at Wat Pho, a popular sightseeing spot in Bangkok. The number of visitors to Thailand fell in the first seven months of 2026, weighing on the country's economy.
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[2026-08-17 12:39 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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[2026-08-17 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Electricity] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — A Russian state-controlled corporation building a nuclear power plant in Hungary is facing allegations of safety, security and engineering failures at another project in Egypt that uses the same technology, according to internal documents obtained by POLITICO.
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[2026-08-17 11:30 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: An inner west property owner says an error by his local council has left him facing financial ruin after he purchased a historic Newtown electricity substation that was incorrectly listed in official planning documents as free from heritage constraints.
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