Topic: Culture & Entertainment — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-09 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Pop and rock] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: (Rough Trade)Smoothing out the jump-cut chaos of his previous band, Cameron Picton brings entirely acoustic instrumentation to bear on these lovely, beguiling songs
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[2026-04-09 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 9 (Yonhap) -- Director Na Hong-jin's new film, "Hope," will compete for the top honor at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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[2026-04-09 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued a map outlining revised routes through the Strait of Hormuz to help vessels steer clear of naval mines, local media said.
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[2026-04-09 20:54 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea's leading defense systems manufacturer, said Thursday it has halted its review of acquiring the ammunition business of Poongsan Corp.
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[2026-04-09 20:27 UTC+10:00] [UK news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Wildlife film pioneer has died aged 74 ‘immersed in nature and surrounded by friends’, his representatives have said
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[2026-04-09 20:20 UTC+10:00] [Belle and Sebastian] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Royal Albert Hall, LondonOn a tour playing Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister in full on alternate nights, Stuart Murdoch and co wittily reanimate their world of aesthetes and misfits
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[2026-04-09 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Nasty campaign of personal vilification allegedly involves teammates; Quan admits she is ‘terrified’ of scales, mirrors, camera lenses
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[2026-04-09 20:00 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Nasty campaign of personal vilification allegedly involves teammates; Quan admits she is ‘terrified’ of scales, mirrors, camera lenses
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[2026-04-09 19:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU is relying on non-governmental organizations, bankrolled by billionaire financier George Soros, as well as controlled media to justify its push for more online surveillance and censorship, Telegram founder Pavel Durov has said.
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[2026-04-09 19:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU is relying on non-governmental organizations, bankrolled by billionaire financier George Soros, as well as controlled media to justify its push for more online surveillance and censorship, Telegram founder Pavel Durov has said.
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[2026-04-09 19:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: The track where a collision between two high-speed trains in Spain left 46 people dead in January broke the day before and went undetected, Spanish media reported investigators as saying on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-09 19:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: More than 3,000 people were killed throughout Iran during the war that began on 28 February, Iran's forensic chief told state media on Thursday, adding that 40 percent of the dead needed forensic work to be identified and returned to families.
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[2026-04-09 19:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “The Housemaid” author Freida McFadden is finally dropping the disguise — and the double life.
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[2026-04-09 19:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “The Housemaid” author Freida McFadden is finally dropping the disguise — and the double life.
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[2026-04-09 19:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ lawyers are poised to try to persuade federal appeals court judges that the hip-hop mogul was treated unfairly at the trial that sent him to prison on prostitution-related charges, and that the First Amendment should win his freedom.
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[2026-04-09 19:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 9 (Yonhap) -- Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea's leading defense systems manufacturer, said Thursday it has halted its review of acquiring the ammunition business of Poongsan Corp.
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[2026-04-09 19:05 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: GOYANG, Gyeonggi Province — Hours before BTS took the stage for its world tour “Arirang,” its first concert in four years, thousands of fans had already gathered outside Goyang Stadium, filling the rainy grounds with anticipation.
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[2026-04-09 19:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Axing of shows on May 2 and 3 due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’ follows cancellation of May 9 concert in Shanghai
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[2026-04-09 19:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Axing of shows on May 2 and 3 due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’ follows cancellation of May 9 concert in Shanghai
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[2026-04-09 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Beauty] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: After decades of focusing on faces, manufacturers, beauticians and surgeons are offering us younger-looking hands. Is this more about money or scientific progress?
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[2026-04-09 19:00 UTC+10:00] [CULTURE] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Movies are an unreliable yardstick for gauging the most pressing social issues of the day. But based on what’s been playing in Japanese theaters over the past year, you might conclude that Tokyo’s Kabukicho neighborhood is one of them.
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[2026-04-09 18:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Kyiv, Ukraine – Villagers whisper that Maryna, a refugee from Russia-annexed Crimea, kept a black hen’s egg under her armpit to hatch an evil critter that makes wishes come true.
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[2026-04-09 18:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Release includes motion dataset, foundation model, and streaming architecture designed to align speech, gesture, and expression in live conversation
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[2026-04-09 18:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BROMLEY, United Kingdom — With its grey front door and battered picket fence, No. 4 Plaistow Grove in the anonymous London suburb of Bromley is unremarkable in every way except for one.
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[2026-04-09 18:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The fourth edition of AFL's Gather Round gets underway with the Adelaide Crows hosting Carlton at a packed Adelaide Oval.
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[2026-04-09 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Rebecca Solnit] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In the midst of violent upheaval, the author and activist reminds us of the power and promise of transformation
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[2026-04-09 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Music] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The presenter wakes her family up by blasting out Cal Orff and gets the ick from Chris de Burgh, but which lyrically problematic rap banger is she a secret fan of?
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[2026-04-09 17:58 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Almost four years after Racing NSW was awarded tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to upgrade a series of regional racetracks with little oversight, many of the projects have been “significantly delayed” or have yet to begin, prompting calls for the powerful thoroughbred regulator to open its books for inspection by government auditors.
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[2026-04-09 17:54 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: British art auction house Christie, Manson & Woods, known as Christie's, faces a 280 million won ($189,000) penalty surcharge for leaking the personal information of 620 Korean clients after its system was hacked through a voice phishing scheme, the Personal Information Protection Commission said Thursday.
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[2026-04-09 17:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The project, located beside the Grüne Aue allotment gardens in Schöneweide, transforms a former grey noise barrier into a colourful public gallery featuring work by more than 20 artists. For Berlin, a city long shaped by graffiti culture, the site matters because it gives contemporary mural art a permanent, legal and highly visible place outside the better‑known East Side Gallery.
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[2026-04-09 17:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The carefully collapsed term “Islamofascism” is having its moment. Its use across the western mainstream media and blogosphere - including UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Europe - increased in frequency by 33 percent in 2025 over the previous year, according to my own tracking.
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[2026-04-09 17:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Weekly program runs through May with 5,000 books, performances and family activities
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[2026-04-09 17:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “The Madison” star Kurt Russell is opening up about how he resonated with Taylor Sheridan’s scripts for the show on a personal level as he drew parallels to his real-life love with Goldie Hawn.
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[2026-04-09 17:01 UTC+10:00] [Television] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: He plays a pastor on the run from a gang in this dysfunctional family sitcom. The cast is ace, with Taylor Ortega as the hilarious sister – and it has a blindsiding twist
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[2026-04-09 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Photography] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A new book collects the acclaimed photojournalist’s images of everything from conflict zones to Donald Trump’s inner circle. He describes how his pursuit of truth even led to an unsettling encounter with the disgraced financier
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[2026-04-09 16:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Chris Cuomo and Bill O’Reilly got swept up in a finger-pointing shouting match as the on-air talk between the two veteran journalists derailed into a vicious argument over Iran’s nuclear capacity.
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[2026-04-09 16:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Katseye's Manon will not join the group’s performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, Friday, Hybe America confirmed to The Korea Herald.
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[2026-04-09 16:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL — South Korean K-pop megastars BTS will kick off their world tour on Thursday, riding the momentum of a chart-topping comeback album and a landmark performance in the heart of Seoul.
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[2026-04-09 16:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 9 (Yonhap) -- K-pop supergroup NCT will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year with a series of albums, tours and pop-up events under a new project, its agency SM Entertainment said Thursday.
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[2026-04-09 16:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From an unsold ‘ghostly’ flat, to a residential lift with just 1 stop and sushi restaurant with rotating rodent, bizarre stories abound in China
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[2026-04-09 16:04 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From an unsold ‘ghostly’ flat, to a residential lift with just 1 stop and sushi restaurant with rotating rodent, bizarre stories abound in China
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[2026-04-09 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Fiction in translation] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: This unconventional exploration of Albert Speer’s duplicity during his Nazi years and into his rehabilitation is a masterful forewarning of the post-truth era
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[2026-04-09 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Books] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenA piece of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on a beach at Tresco, Scilly IslandsSpace Journal is a visual celebration of our perception of the cosmos, and our efforts to reach it, from the 17th century to the present day. BBC presenter Dallas Campbell weaves together archive memorabilia, revolutionary experiments and spectacular scenes to map both real and potential encounters in our celestial backyard.
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[2026-04-09 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Books] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
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[2026-04-09 15:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Chinese-born designer, who had Virgil Abloh as a mentor, just celebrated her brand’s 10th year at Shanghai Fashion Week
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[2026-04-09 15:54 UTC+10:00] [Apple] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Chinese-born designer, who had Virgil Abloh as a mentor, just celebrated her brand’s 10th year at Shanghai Fashion Week
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[2026-04-09 15:47 UTC+10:00] [Australian media] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In court documents, shock jock also says the purported conduct was not persistent, lasting for 20 minutes on a single day
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[2026-04-09 15:28 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: 9 Korean performing arts works officially invited to Avignon Festival
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[2026-04-09 15:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Just a few months ago, I found myself attending an extraordinary evening beneath the stars of Al Faya in Sharjah, celebrating the palaeolandscape’s inclusion on the Unesco World Heritage List. In its silence and open sky, that moment felt to me like a living extension of what is articulated in the narrative-journey Let Them Know She is Here: Searching for the Queen of Mleiha by Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi.
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[2026-04-09 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump issued a sharp attack early Thursday on major American media outlets, accusing them of sharing false information about ongoing negotiations with Iran.
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