Topic: Europe — Neutral reports only
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[2026-06-12 23:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BRUSSELS — NATO’s top military officer is weighing alternative plans to defend Europe should it come under attack from Russia, after the United States announced that it is cutting the number of aircraft and warships that it would provide in a security crisis.
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[2026-06-12 23:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: ROME, June 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Italy signed four agreements Friday to enhance bilateral cooperation and exchanges, including in advanced science and technology, and explore joint projects in Africa, the presidential office said.
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[2026-06-12 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Former Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is under investigation for alleged tax fraud and smuggling after jewellery was discovered during a search of his office, a court said Friday.
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[2026-06-12 23:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Southwark Council has confirmed that it has taken possession of a council property linked to Sierra Leone's First Lady, Fatima Bio, following a year-long investigation.
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[2026-06-12 23:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The mayor of London has condemned this weekend’s “Great Israeli Real Estate Event”, part of a roadshow promoting the sale of land and property in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-06-12 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Americas] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: DUBLIN — Two contrasting ways of dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump are set to politely collide this weekend, when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his first official visit to Ireland.
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[2026-06-12 22:55 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron wants the G7 summit to converge on the need to tackle a flood of subsidized Chinese exports that is disrupting global markets, but even before leaders meet, it’s clear that credible action is one deliverable he won’t be able to land.
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[2026-06-12 22:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has joined the art world in paying tribute to David Hockney, one of the UK's most important and influential artists, who has died at the age of 88.
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[2026-06-12 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has said he opposes an upcoming real estate event promoting companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements, and has discussed it with the Metropolitan Police, the Foreign Office and the Home Office.
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[2026-06-12 22:33 UTC+10:00] [Agriculture] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government sharply criticized a Cypriot proposal to trim the EU’s long-term budget on Friday, describing the plan as “unaffordable” and “unbalanced.”
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[2026-06-12 22:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa has lifted an embargo on arms sales to Israel after allegedly enlisting the help of an Israeli private intelligence firm to oust his left-wing, pro-Palestine predecessor.
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[2026-06-12 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CAPAS, Tarlac — Mirroring her 400m redemption, Paris Olympian Lauren Hoffman reclaimed the women's 100m national title after clocking 13.55 seconds at the ICTSI Philippine Athletics Championships Friday at the New Clark City Stadium here.
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[2026-06-12 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has said he opposes an upcoming real estate event promoting companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements, and has discussed it with the Metropolitan Police, the Foreign Office and the Home Office.
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[2026-06-12 22:14 UTC+10:00] [Demonstrations, Protests and Riots] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Paul Sharkey lived through decades of sectarian violence between Protestant and Roman Catholic communities known as “the Troubles,” but thought that bloody phase of Northern Ireland’s history was over.
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[2026-06-12 22:10 UTC+10:00] [UK news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenJakarta, IndonesiaStudents clash with police during a protest against a fuel price risePhotograph: Mast Irham/EPAShareView image in fullscreenLondon, UKPeople protest outside Woolwich crown court before a hearing where Palestine Action activists are due to be sentenced over a break-in at the UK base of an Israeli-based defence firm, Elbit SystemsPhotograph: Yui Mok/PAShareView image in fullscreenGaza StripChildren play in the wreckage of a car in the Bureij refugee campPhotograph: AFP/GettyShareView image in fullscreenNakuru, KenyaRed Cross officials help a
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[2026-06-12 22:02 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: President Lee Jae Myung plans to attend a business roundtable in Rome on Friday to explore ways to enhance economic cooperation between South Korea and Italy, with Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong also scheduled to participate.
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[2026-06-12 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Russia is also included on the UN’s blacklist – and it faces enormous pressure from sanctions. The same consequences must apply to Israel
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[2026-06-12 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Citizens' rights] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: The Council of Europe is urging Belgium to address overcrowding in its prison system, according to a statement published on Friday.
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[2026-06-12 21:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: ROME, June 12 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung plans to attend a business roundtable in Rome on Friday to explore ways to enhance economic cooperation between South Korea and Italy, with Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong also scheduled to participate.
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[2026-06-12 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Friday congratulated President Vladimir Putin on Russia Day amid escalating tensions between the two countries.
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[2026-06-12 21:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: New Zealand’s Kane Williamson leaves the pitch after losing his wicket during the first day of the test match between England and New Zealand at Lord’s cricket ground in London, Thursday, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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[2026-06-12 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli of Italy leaves after a press conference ahead of the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix at the Barcelona Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, June 11, 2026. (AP Photo/ Fatima Shbair)
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[2026-06-12 21:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russian authorities have filed administrative cases against several media outlets and editors under laws regulating mass media content, according to court records reviewed by exiled news outlet Mediazona.
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[2026-06-12 21:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A suspicious device has been found outside a mosque and an imam’s house has been firebombed in Bolton, northern England, in a suspected targeted set of attacks.
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[2026-06-12 21:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV meets migrants at the ‘Las Raices’ center, in San Cristobal de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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[2026-06-12 21:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV renewed his support for migrants on Friday in the Canary Islands, saying "all of us are migrants" and urged newcomers to do their part to integrate, on the final day of a weeklong visit to Spain focused on migration issues.
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[2026-06-12 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: I was in Paris in June 2023 when I heard news of a four-week-old startup called Mistral raising a funding round of over $100 million. No product. No marketing. And not much info about who they were. Over the coming months we learned more about Arthur Mensch, the CEO of Mistral, his team and ambition.
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[2026-06-12 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A lawmaker from Russia’s systemic opposition has broken ranks and issued a scathing criticism of the Kremlin’s mismanagement of its war in Ukraine, saying the war risks plunging the country into social upheaval.
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[2026-06-12 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A lawmaker from Russia’s systemic opposition has broken ranks and issued a scathing criticism of the Kremlin’s mismanagement of its war in Ukraine, saying the war risks plunging the country into social upheaval.
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[2026-06-12 20:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Residents of EU countries will ultimately suffer from the bloc’s decision to cut economic relations with Russia, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Slovakia, Judita Lassakova, has said.
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[2026-06-12 20:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Residents of EU countries will ultimately suffer from the bloc’s decision to cut economic relations with Russia, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Slovakia, Judita Lassakova, has said.
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[2026-06-12 20:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: France was hosting more than 100 Palestinian and Israeli peace activists on Friday in a bid to keep the two-state solution alive, despite an Israeli push to annex the West Bank.
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[2026-06-12 20:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The UK government has signalled it could limit or refuse compensation to the Chinese owner of British Steel as the company seeks reparation costs following a decision to nationalise the steelworks.
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[2026-06-12 20:52 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea and Britain signed a revised nuclear cooperation protocol Friday and discussed ways to deepen their global strategic partnership, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
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[2026-06-12 20:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Alpine driver Pierre Gasly, of France, arrives at the Formula One auto racing Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal on Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
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[2026-06-12 20:44 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Al Carns also indicated that he has leadership ambitions in the resignation letter than he released last night.
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[2026-06-12 20:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Britain signed a revised nuclear cooperation protocol Friday and discussed ways to deepen their global strategic partnership, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
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[2026-06-12 20:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli cyber firm BlackCore, recently accused of interfering in France’s local elections, is also suspected of meddling in elections in New York City and Scotland, according to the French disinformation watchdog Viginum, the news agency Reuters has reported.
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[2026-06-12 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: A total of 154 airlines are banned in the European Union due to safety concerns, after the 2026 update of the ‘EU air safety list’ announced by the European Commission this week.
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[2026-06-12 20:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups will meet in France on Friday to urge the international community not to abandon a two-state solution, as Paris seeks to keep the issue alive amid the Middle East war.
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[2026-06-12 20:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The humpback whale lays in a washed-out tub off the island of Poel, Germany, April 22, 2026. (Philip Dulian/dpa via AP, File)
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[2026-06-12 20:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth 550 billion rubles ($7.59 billion) linked to jailed billionaire Vadim Moshkovich and transferred them to state ownership, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, in what appears to be the largest asset seizure of Russia's recent wave of nationalizations.
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[2026-06-12 20:08 UTC+10:00] [Defense budgets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — The U.K. defense plans were supposed to lay the groundwork for a rearmament drive to deter Russia and reinforce Britain's role in NATO. Instead, it's turned into a political and defense-policy crisis.
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[2026-06-12 20:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: On 1 September 2025, a little-noticed administrative decision by the financial regulator of one of Europe's smallest countries set off a legal storm that is still building.
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[2026-06-12 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: It comes as Beijing reportedly cancelled two meetings with the EU this month, and as the bloc prepares for key talks on China policy
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[2026-06-12 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: It comes as Beijing reportedly cancelled two meetings with the EU this month, and as the bloc prepares for key talks on China policy
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[2026-06-12 19:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain's favourite artist - and a man of trenchant views, expressed in the broadest of Yorkshire vowels.
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[2026-06-12 19:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Artist David Hockney after unveiling the bottle design for the 2014 vintage wine of Château Mouton Rothschild in London, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
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[2026-06-12 19:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia has postponed its flagship International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS) air show until 2027, removing the event from the government's list of exhibitions scheduled for next year, according to an official decree published Thursday.
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[2026-06-12 19:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The most significant incident occurred in the Boryspil district, east of Kyiv, where a drone strike sparked a major fire at an infrastructure facility. Firefighters battled flames covering around 2,000 square metres as thick smoke rose above the site. Images released by emergency services showed crews deploying large quantities of firefighting foam to contain the blaze.
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