Topic: Energy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-04 08:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: OPEC+ agreed on Sunday a modest oil output hike for June, an increase that will remain largely on paper as long as the Iran war continues to disrupt Gulf oil supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-04 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Hormuz shock calls for a reset of Korea's energy strategy
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[2026-05-04 07:40 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — A private think tank on Sunday urged the government to accelerate energy projects under Japan-led Asia Zero Emission Community (Azec) instead of considering arrangements with other parties that may expose the Philippines to “geopolitical pressure.”
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[2026-05-04 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The ASX is priced for a marginal fall this morning, with the NAB due to post first-half results, weighed down by a $700 million impairment charge, and investors weighing up the likelihood of another RBA rate rise.
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[2026-05-04 06:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Every spring, Jeju Island radiates poignant beauty. It beckons visitors with a riot of pink cherry blossoms and yellow canola flowers. On this island of vibrant subtropical scenery, known for its stone, wind and women, memories of brutal civilian massacres remain unhealed beneath the gloss of a bustling tourist destination.
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[2026-05-04 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Power the Future, a pro-energy advocacy group, is asking Congress to take a closer look at opposition to data centers springing up across the country.
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[2026-05-04 05:19 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The US stock market set more records after Apple, Estee Lauder and others joined the list of companies delivering fatter profits for the start of the year than analysts expected. Easing oil prices also helped steady the stock markets around the world that were still open on the May Day holiday.
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[2026-05-04 05:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine on Sunday launched a wave of strikes against Russian oil targets, hitting a key loading port on the Baltic Sea and two tankers that Ukraine alleges were illegally used to transport Russian crude.
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[2026-05-04 05:05 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia’s increased reliance on Asian fuel is putting the nation at risk of importing sanctioned Russian “blood oil” via third countries, experts and pro-Ukraine groups say, as the US-Israeli war on Iran threatens global energy supplies.
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[2026-05-04 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Severe storms are reloading across the central US this week, ushering in an active start to May.
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[2026-05-04 04:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: VIENNA, Austria — Saudi Arabia, Russia and five other OPEC+ countries increased their oil production quota on Sunday in an expected move aimed at demonstrating continuity at the cartel after the shock withdrawal of the United Arab Emirates.
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[2026-05-04 04:01 UTC+10:00] [Mobility] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: FIFA got what it wanted from dictators and oil sheikhs. Elected politicians in the Garden State are proving harder to please.
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[2026-05-04 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Shocking surveillance footage captures the moment a woman opens fire at a West Virginia gas station, narrowly missing a worker.
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[2026-05-04 03:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An international maritime monitoring site has reported significant disruption to Iranian oil shipments in April, with multiple tankers intercepted or turned back at sea.
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[2026-05-04 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California is now going to face its first real test of the energy crisis stemming from America’s conflict with Iran and exacerbated by the state’s green-energy policies.
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[2026-05-04 02:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Cargo ships are seen at sea near the Strait of Hormuz, as viewed from a rocky shoreline near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Friday, May 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
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[2026-05-04 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-04 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com,
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[2026-05-04 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian economy] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A good national prosperity strategy won’t just replace one industry with another; it will restore confidence across middle Australia along the way
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[2026-05-04 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Interest rates] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: While interest rate rises can’t affect the surging price of oil caused by Middle East turmoil, they are still the Reserve Bank’s best – and only – tool to fight inflation
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[2026-05-04 00:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: SoftBank and South Korean-startup Cosmos Lab plan to make the batteries on the former site of Sharp's LCD plant near Osaka. (Source photos by Nikkei)
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[2026-05-04 00:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Kuwait's oil production is expected to reach 2.628m barrels per day in June, the state news agency quoted the country's oil minister as saying on Sunday.
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[2026-05-04 00:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Saudi Arabia, Russia and five other OPEC+ countries increased their oil production quota on Sunday in an expected move aimed at demonstrating continuity at the cartel after the shock withdrawal of the United Arab Emirates.
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[2026-05-03 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing has wheeled out its ‘Blocking Rules’ for the first time, ordering non-compliance with the American action
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[2026-05-03 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing has wheeled out its ‘Blocking Rules’ for the first time, ordering non-compliance with the American action
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[2026-05-03 22:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: OPEC+ has agreed to a modest, largely symbolic oil output increase for June as the United States-Israel war on Iran disrupts Gulf supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-03 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Billions in extra revenue generated by high-priced commodities like oil and gas because of the war against Iran will be saved rather than spent as the Albanese government seeks to quell inflationary pressures that are poised to force another interest rate rise from the Reserve Bank.
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[2026-05-03 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s,” wrote English poet William Blake. Though not enslaved, the UAE was at least constrained by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), which it left as of Friday. The energy world does indeed need a new system.
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[2026-05-03 22:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Saudi Arabia, Russia and five other OPEC+ countries increased their oil production quota on Sunday in an expected move aimed at demonstrating continuity at the cartel after the shock withdrawal of the United Arab Emirates.
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[2026-05-03 22:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Russian drone and missile strikes in Ukraine have killed 10 people and injured at least 76 over the past day, reports say.
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[2026-05-03 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: They warn that country’s fragmented farms are less resilient to natural disasters than bigger, more mechanised operations
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[2026-05-03 22:00 UTC+10:00] [food security] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: They warn that country’s fragmented farms are less resilient to natural disasters than bigger, more mechanised operations
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[2026-05-03 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Ukraine has been demonstrating deeper targeting reach inside Russia, as several key oil sites have come under direct drone attack this week, resulting in significant destruction.
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[2026-05-03 21:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Tamir Cohen’s experience of finding a place to stay at night while hiking the Israel National Trail four years ago, a trail which crosses the country from Kibbutz Dan in the north to Eilat in the south and is 1,100 km. long, gave him the idea for “Angels of the Shelter.”
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[2026-05-03 21:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Port of Corpus Christi has never been busier as tankers from around the world flock to the U.S. Gulf Coast to load up on crude oil during the Iran war.
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[2026-05-03 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Satellite image of waters off Kharg Island, Iran, taken on April 18 by ESA’s Sentinel‑2 satellite (Image via Copernicus Browser, processed by Nikkei)
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[2026-05-03 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: OPEC+ has agreed an increase in oil output of 188,000 barrels per day, the cartel said on Sunday, as it pushes on with production in the first meeting since the loss of its key member, the United Arab Emirates.
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[2026-05-03 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Seven key Opec+ producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, agreed on Sunday to adjust oil output and reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining market stability following a virtual meeting to assess global conditions.
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[2026-05-03 20:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway once carrying roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, remains effectively closed after the United States and Iran imposed competing blockades.
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[2026-05-03 20:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — House Majority Leader and Ilocos Norte 1st District Rep. Ferdinand Alexander Marcos on Sunday urged his fellow lawmakers of the House of Representatives to fast-track the approval of the proposed Kalinga Act, which he said would protect the poor and the middle class during an oil crisis.
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[2026-05-03 20:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Abu Dhabi's state energy company Adnoc said it will award Dh200 billion ($55 billion) in project contracts over the next three years, accelerating a construction push that doubles as a strategic bet on the UAE's industrial economy.
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[2026-05-03 20:17 UTC+10:00] [Energy industry] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Unintended consequence of US president’s actions will be boon for China, the leading renewables manufacturer
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[2026-05-03 19:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Kuwait exported zero barrels of crude oil last month, according to data from a shipping monitor, marking the first such halt since the 1991 Gulf War.
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[2026-05-03 19:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Kuwait exported zero barrels of crude oil last month, according to data from a shipping monitor, marking the first such halt since the 1991 Gulf War.
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[2026-05-03 19:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The development in Ningxia is intended to balance AI-driven demand for computing capacity with the drive to cut carbon emissions
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[2026-05-03 19:29 UTC+10:00] [wind power] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The development in Ningxia is intended to balance AI-driven demand for computing capacity with the drive to cut carbon emissions
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[2026-05-03 19:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Sunday launched a wave of strikes against Russia’s oil export infrastructure, hitting a key loading port on the Baltic Sea and two tankers that Ukraine alleges were illegally used to transport Russian crude.
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[2026-05-03 18:52 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-03 18:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rather than encourage energy consumption amid the effects of the Iran war, the city should also speed up the move to greener public transport
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[2026-05-03 18:30 UTC+10:00] [public transport] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rather than encourage energy consumption amid the effects of the Iran war, the city should also speed up the move to greener public transport
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