Topic: Culture & Entertainment — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-09 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Friday confirmed that political strategist Franco Mabanta previously served as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s social media director in 2018 but his stint only lasted for six months because of his "style."
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[2026-05-09 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Acclaimed Russian film director Alexander Sokurov said Friday that he feels “sympathy” for exiled artists who signed an open letter opposing his scheduled appearance at the Venice Biennale, which was canceled this week.
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[2026-05-09 01:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image released by Polk & Co. shows Hiran Abeysekera in the role of Hamlet at the National Theatre in London on Sept. 25, 2025. (Sam Taylor/Polk & Co. via AP)
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[2026-05-09 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
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[2026-05-09 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: On the surface today's jobs report was very strong: headline payrolls came in nearly double the expected (115K vs 65K), with unemployment flat just so Trump's chief economist Kevin Hassett could push bullish taking points in today's TV circuit such as this one.
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[2026-05-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Music] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Katseye blends US sensibilities with the hard-hitting choreography, branding and relentless perfectionism of Korean pop music – and ‘Eyekons’ can’t get enough
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[2026-05-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Theatre] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The global hit playwright on the magic of Sydney, tackling knotty social issues on stage and failing to recognise Jude Law
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[2026-05-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: After her breakthrough role as the compassionate Mamma Rosa in the Warner Brothers/DC film Shazam!, Marta Milans is showing audiences a different side of herself in Peacock’s M.I.A. Milans plays Caroline, the daughter of cartel boss Issac Rojas (Edward James Olmos) and half-sister of the hot-tempered Mateo (Maurice Compte) and the methodical Samuel (Gerardo Celasco).
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[2026-05-09 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Three Iranian oil tankers have bypassed what US President Donald Trump has called a naval “wall of steel” in the Strait of Hormuz and reached Iranian ports through Pakistani waters over the past two days, Tehran’s IRNA state news agency reported on Friday, citing maritime tracking data.
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[2026-05-09 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Three Iranian oil tankers have bypassed what US President Donald Trump has called a naval “wall of steel” in the Strait of Hormuz and reached Iranian ports through Pakistani waters over the past two days, Tehran’s IRNA state news agency reported on Friday, citing maritime tracking data.
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[2026-05-09 00:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: International News Media Association’s awards event gave SCMP graphic on deadly Tai Po fire first place for best use of visual journalism
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[2026-05-09 00:41 UTC+10:00] [news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: International News Media Association’s awards event gave SCMP graphic on deadly Tai Po fire first place for best use of visual journalism
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[2026-05-09 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: For nearly two decades, the Jersey Shore cast has been delivering prime entertainment right to our living rooms every “Jerzday.” What was once a group of strangers entering a share house in Seaside, NJ, quickly became a family that has traveled the world together. Now, after 17 years and two shows, MTV is getting ready to close the curtains on Jersey Shore … but that doesn’t necessarily mean the cast is ready to say goodbye.
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[2026-05-09 00:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “Deadliest Catch” star Jake Anderson is getting divorced from his wife of 13 years, Jenna Anderson.
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[2026-05-09 00:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “Deadliest Catch” star Jake Anderson is getting divorced from his wife of 13 years, Jenna Anderson.
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[2026-05-09 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Racers, start your engines: the tournament of “All Stars” is back.
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[2026-05-09 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FS2 — AFL: Collingwood at Geelong
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[2026-05-09 00:04 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Star Wars actor later deleted post and apologized, saying president should live ‘long enough to be held accountable’
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[2026-05-09 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD, First Round
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[2026-05-09 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: For the most part, the octopus featured in Netflix’s Remarkably Bright Creatures movie—which began streaming today—is CGI.
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[2026-05-08 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: While Michael Milken’s conference took over the Beverly Hilton, Jeffrey Katzenberg hosted his own, far more private A-list conference for CEOs in Montecito.
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[2026-05-08 23:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Justin Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, claimed Blake Lively settled her lawsuit with her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director because she was “scared” to testify at trial.
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[2026-05-08 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Two weeks after Netflix released the new APEX movie, the Charlize Theron action flick is going viral on TikTok. And it’s all thanks to Taron Egerton’s psychotic little dance to the 2015 single “Go,” by the British electronica duo The Chemical Brothers.
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[2026-05-08 23:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In the nearly 50 years she’s been working as a musician, Amy Grant has repeatedly resisted the labels others have sought to put on her. It’s difficult to overstate the influence the crossover Christian-pop artist had over culture — evangelical and otherwise — in the late 1980s and early ’90s.
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[2026-05-08 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan has purchased a shipment of Russian crude oil, the company told Russian state media on Friday, becoming the second firm in Japan to buy oil from Russia since the conflict in the Middle East disrupted global energy supplies.
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[2026-05-08 23:16 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The South Korean government will distribute 2.25 million movie discount vouchers worth 6,000 won ($4.08) each starting May 13, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Friday, accelerating support for a film industry it describes as still in structural decline despite recent box office hits.
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[2026-05-08 23:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Hugh Jackman came to Blake Lively’s rescue during the Met Gala 2026.
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[2026-05-08 23:06 UTC+10:00] [Charli xcx] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: (Atlantic)The lyrics may argue the dancefloor is dead, but this funny, wilfully plasticky new single isn’t the total about-turn from Brat that fans expected
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[2026-05-08 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Leaders of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines approved the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Vision 2035 during a summit in Cebu on May 8, 2026, establishing a new 10-year direction for cooperation focused on underserved and remote areas. In a press briefing at Asean's International Media Center, Mindanao Development Authority Chairman Leo Tereso Magno described the summit as a 'very defining moment' for the subregional partnership.
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[2026-05-08 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Previous slideNext slide Dancers perform during the opening of the Rose Festival in Kelaat M'Gouna, Morocco. EPAInfo Preparations get under way for the Buddha's birthday at Jogyesa Temple in Seoul. EPAInfo A woman sleeps as election staff count votes during the Havering local council election in Romford, England. Getty ImagesInfo Rayo Vallecano fans with banners and flares in the stands during the Uefa Conference League semi final between RC Strasbourg and Rayo Vallecano, in Strasbourg, France.
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[2026-05-08 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: YANGON, Myanmar — A huge 11,000-carat ruby has been discovered in Myanmar, state media reported on Friday, one of the largest ever found in the Southeast Asian country renowned for its precious gemstones.
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[2026-05-08 22:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) — Bournemouth has dropped Álex Jiménez from its squad for the Premier League game against Fulham on Saturday while the club investigates social-media posts involving the Spanish right back.
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[2026-05-08 22:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims to have captured an oil tanker, Ocean Koi, in a “special operation” in the Gulf of Oman, saying the vessel was attempting to “disrupt oil exports and the interests of the Iranian nation”, according to state media.
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[2026-05-08 22:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Husky-voiced Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler was in an induced coma on Friday in a hospital in Portugal after emergency surgery, a spokesman said.
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[2026-05-08 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Jaime Pressly followed in Shannon Elizabeth’s footsteps and launched an OnlyFans account.
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[2026-05-08 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Amadeus is returning to screens the same way that so many well-regarded movies from the 1980s do: as a television miniseries. The material is fair game for re-adaptation, given that the Oscar-winning 1984 film is itself based, like the miniseries, on a 1979 play; all three stories fictionalize a supposed (and largely one-sided) rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.
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[2026-05-08 22:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce enjoyed a cozy date night in London on Thursday, as they were photographed exiting Harold Pinter Theatre with British cinematographer and long-time collaborator of the singer, Rina Yang.
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[2026-05-08 22:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
Snippet: No live streaming currently available
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[2026-05-08 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Television] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Adolescence writer Jack Thorne’s romantic new drama Falling is quite the gear shift. Its stars open up about what it’s like to research a love so controversial that the church couldn’t allow it
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[2026-05-08 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Design] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Whitaker Malem worked with pop art sculptor Allen Jones, visual artist Nadia Lee Cohen and a car bodyshop in Kent
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[2026-05-08 21:57 UTC+10:00] [Uncategorized] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A colourful fusion of Sinhala and Tamil New Year traditions and contemporary pop culture came alive at Geek Avurudu 2026, held recently at Trace Expert City in Colombo. Organised by a leading Sri Lankan digital entertainment and esports community platform, the event attracted large crowds and offered a fresh take on traditional Avurudu celebrations through the lens of geek culture.
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[2026-05-08 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Vietnam's ruling Communist Party plans to revamp its propaganda efforts by drafting in social media influencers and artificial intelligence experts while adopting new formats such as podcasts and targeted content, internal documents seen by Reuters show.
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[2026-05-08 21:47 UTC+10:00] [Hollywood] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O festival de cinema mais importante do mundo começa em 12 de maio com uma programação repleta de novos filmes de alguns dos cineastas mais celebrados do circuito internacional de cinema, como Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi, Paweł Pawlikowski, Cristian Mungiu, mas sem um único título de um grande estúdio de Hollywood.
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[2026-05-08 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As I write, local election results across England have seen massive gains for Reform, the right-wing anti-immigration party, while Keir Starmer's Labour suffered huge losses. The Liberal Democrats and the Greens were making significant gains.
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[2026-05-08 21:29 UTC+10:00] [Paul Simon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: M&S Bank Arena, LiverpoolWhat Simon has lost in vocal power he has added in intimacy and authority – and this hushed performance makes for an arena concert like no other
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[2026-05-08 21:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The White House has called Star Wars actor Mark Hamill "one sick individual" after he posted an AI-generated image of US President Donald Trump in a shallow grave, alongside the caption "if only".
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[2026-05-08 21:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
Snippet: No live streaming currently available
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[2026-05-08 20:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran has seized the oil tanker Ocean Koi over an alleged attempt to disrupt Iran's oil exports, Iranian state media said on Friday.
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[2026-05-08 20:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Acclaimed new horror movie Hokum, starring Adam Scott, filmed its opening and closing scenes in Abu Dhabi’s Al Ain desert, as the emirate continues to attract global productions.
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[2026-05-08 20:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
Snippet: No live streaming currently available
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