Topic: Europe — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-21 23:22 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-21 23:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Scientists will conduct an autopsy on "Timmy", the humpback whale whose ordeal to return to the open seas captured Germany's hearts and sparked a media frenzy, Denmark's environmental protection agency said on Thursday.
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[2026-05-21 23:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Iranian flag flies in front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Berlin, June 22, 2025. (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP, File)
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[2026-05-21 23:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this image made from video provided by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Thursday, May 21, 2026, A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is seen during drills of Russia’s nuclear forces in Belarus. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
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[2026-05-21 22:56 UTC+10:00] [acidente aéreo] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O tribunal de apelação de Paris condenou nesta quinta-feira (21/05) as companhias Airbus, fabricante do avião, e Air France, operadora do voo, por seu envolvimento no acidente de 1º de junho de 2009 do voo Rio de Janeiro-Paris, que deixou 228 mortos.
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[2026-05-21 22:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions in parliament in London, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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[2026-05-21 22:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia on Wednesday voted with other major energy exporters and greenhouse gas emitters against a UN General Assembly resolution that requires governments to take stronger action on climate change.
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[2026-05-21 22:53 UTC+10:00] [Communications] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — The EU’s economy chief criticized the U.K.’s decision to loosen planned sanctions on Russian-origin jet fuel and diesel without giving prior notice to fellow G7 allies.
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[2026-05-21 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The $5 billion free trade deal between Gulf states and the UK is expected to have significant benefits for both partners, while signalling the region's growing role in reshaping global trade, analysts have said.
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[2026-05-21 22:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Rami Malek poses for portrait photographs for the film ‘The Man I Love’ at the 79th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
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[2026-05-21 22:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Ukrainian military units have introduced tournaments and point based systems designed to improve speed, precision and coordination among drone pilots. While details about a reported “Wild Drones” competition remain unclear, the wider practice is well established across Ukraine’s defence sector. Operators train by flying low and fast through obstacle courses that simulate battlefield conditions such as trenches, ruined buildings and wooded terrain.
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[2026-05-21 22:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Palantir is among the most controversial technology companies of the modern era. Its clients include US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the US Army, police, intelligence, and security agencies in multiple European countries. The company also supplies technology to the Israeli military amid its genocide in Gaza.
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[2026-05-21 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: On the surface, Chinese leader Xi Jinping's back-to-back summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin looked pretty similar, with formal handshakes in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an enthusiastic greeting from flower-waving children, and marching columns of soldiers branching gleaming bayonets. But the visits also revealed how different China's relationship is with the two countries.
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[2026-05-21 22:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Europe's leading travel operator Tui has ended its sponsorship of three versions Married at First Sight Australia on Channel Four - the UK, Australia and US versions.
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[2026-05-21 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: SIA can capture more Asia-Europe traffic due to its strong oil hedging strategy and balance sheet, and the Iran war’s impact, analysts say
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[2026-05-21 22:33 UTC+10:00] [All Nippon Airways] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: SIA can capture more Asia-Europe traffic due to its strong oil hedging strategy and balance sheet, and the Iran war’s impact, analysts say
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[2026-05-21 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people.
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[2026-05-21 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s desire for systemic stability guides its relations with Moscow and Washington, making it central to global mediation
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[2026-05-21 22:30 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s desire for systemic stability guides its relations with Moscow and Washington, making it central to global mediation
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[2026-05-21 22:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Flight AF447 vanished from radar screens on June 1, 2009, with people from 33 nationalities on board
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[2026-05-21 22:21 UTC+10:00] [Air France] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Flight AF447 vanished from radar screens on June 1, 2009, with people from 33 nationalities on board
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[2026-05-21 22:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Europe is facing an “energy crisis tsunami” following a series of political earthquakes, Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev has warned. The forecast comes as energy shocks caused by the US‑Israeli war on Iran continue to destabilize supplies across the region.
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[2026-05-21 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: West Ham’s Tomas Soucek, left, and Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly fight for the ball during the Premier League soccer match between West Ham and Arsenal in London, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ian Walton)
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[2026-05-21 22:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Olympic rings are illuminated during the Olympic opening ceremony at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
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[2026-05-21 22:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Each year on Nakba Day, a British Palestinian couple I know go to the march to commemorate the mass displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel in 1948.
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[2026-05-21 21:58 UTC+10:00] [Ebola Virus] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: An Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal on Wednesday after it was denied permission to land in the United States because a passenger was from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an Ebola outbreak is underway.
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[2026-05-21 21:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Alaves fans celebrate after the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Alaves and Barcelona in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)
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[2026-05-21 21:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, center, attends the cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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[2026-05-21 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Emails released earlier this year suggest that Mountbatten-Windsor, while serving as trade envoy, forwarded reports to Jeffrey Epstein
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[2026-05-21 21:35 UTC+10:00] [British royal family] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Emails released earlier this year suggest that Mountbatten-Windsor, while serving as trade envoy, forwarded reports to Jeffrey Epstein
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[2026-05-21 21:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including gonorrhoea and syphilis have hit record levels in Europe, according to new data.
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[2026-05-21 21:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: AC Milan’s Luka Modric is injured during the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Juventus, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, April 26, 2026. (Spada/LaPresse via AP)
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[2026-05-21 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Migration added 171,000 people to the UK's population last year, almost half the number seen in 2024, according to new Home Office data.
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[2026-05-21 21:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer greets fans prior the Champions League semifinal second leg soccer match between Bayern Munich and Paris Saint Germain in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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[2026-05-21 21:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday presented what he called Spain's biggest-ever campaign against forest fires after deadly blazes devoured a record amount of land last year.
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[2026-05-21 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Russia has express outrage and condemnation of what it has on Wednesday denounced as a "borderline crazy threat" from NATO member Lithuania.
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[2026-05-21 21:17 UTC+10:00] [Law enforcement] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Russia will provide Cuba with “active support” as the U.S. increases pressure on Havana, Kremlin foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
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[2026-05-21 21:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The event took place on the forecourt of the Institut du monde arabe in the French capital’s 5th arrondissement under the artistic direction of Franco Lebanese musician Ibrahim Maalouf. Lebanese singer Hiba Tawaji and around 20 artists joined the programme, performing jazz, Arabic music, pop and chanson before an audience made up largely of members of the Lebanese diaspora.
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[2026-05-21 21:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia vowed Thursday to continue providing “active support” to Cuba and expressed “total solidarity” with the island nation after the U.S. indicted its former president on murder charges and deployed a naval carrier strike group to the Caribbean amid reports President Donald Trump is weighing military action against the government in Havana.
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[2026-05-21 21:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia vowed Thursday to continue providing “active support” to Cuba and expressed “total solidarity” with the island nation after the U.S. indicted its former president on murder charges and deployed a naval carrier strike group to the Caribbean amid reports President Donald Trump is weighing military action against the government in Havana.
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[2026-05-21 21:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A Sweden-based campaigner has described how he survived an attempt to kill him by a teenage would-be assassin police believe was acting on the orders of Iran.
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[2026-05-21 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Kyiv, Ukraine – In November 2023, representatives of two Chinese companies signed a deal to supply stone-crushing machinery for construction projects.
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[2026-05-21 20:43 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: The Czech Republic's top general said Ukraine should join NATO in the future as the next "logical step."
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[2026-05-21 20:40 UTC+10:00] [Communications] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Europe has strong space assets but it is underfunded, too slow and too fragmented in comparison to the U.S., European Space Agency boss Josef Aschbacher warned on Thursday.
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[2026-05-21 20:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the Iran crisis can only be resolved through diplomatic channels that take Iranian interests into account.
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[2026-05-21 20:32 UTC+10:00] [Department] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — The U.K. government has published a cache of documents relating to the appointment of the former Prince Andrew as its trade envoy.
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[2026-05-21 20:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news,
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[2026-05-21 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Egisto Ott had been a director in his nation’s secret service and was accused of passing on classified information between 2017 and 2021
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[2026-05-21 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Egisto Ott had been a director in his nation’s secret service and was accused of passing on classified information between 2017 and 2021
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[2026-05-21 20:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Thu 21 May 2026 at 8:25pm
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