Topic: Food & Agriculture — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-17 19:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: London, United Kingdom – For several weeks, until her daughter is paid, Donna O’Hara is unable to buy food. On those days, she goes to a food bank instead, or borrows money to get by.
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[2026-08-17 19:30 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Bedminster: Two years after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump staged a New Jersey press conference flanked by grocery staples to spotlight inflation under Democrats, food prices are still rising despite his pledge to bring them down. The gap between promise and reality now looms as a vulnerability for Republicans ahead of November’s midterm elections.
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[2026-08-17 18:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Nima, a cryptocurrency trader, thought he had figured out how to survive Iran’s unpredictable economy. His foreign currency income shielded him from the unstable rial and runaway inflation, allowing him to save and make the occasional impulse buy.
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[2026-08-17 18:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Chikaranomoto Holdings' Ramen Mania outlets in Muslim-majority Indonesia offer dishes based on chicken or seafood broths in order to be halal-certified. (Photo by Chikaranomoto Holdings)
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[2026-08-17 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Switzerland holidays] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Jura and Three Lakes region is often overlooked by visitors, but on a lake-hopping adventure I discovered its gentle beauty as well as great food and wine
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[2026-08-17 15:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Over 5,000 people are living in temporary shelters after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck eastern Indonesia.
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[2026-08-17 15:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Katy said the lack of financial support means she has turned to food banks
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[2026-08-17 14:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Yonhap) -- CJ Group has set a goal of generating 12 trillion won (US$8.47 billion) in annual sales in North America by 2028 through synergies among its Korean food, entertainment and beauty businesses.
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[2026-08-17 13:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image released by Voracious shows a recipe for lobster rolls from the cookbook “Home” by Bryan Voltaggio. (Ed Anderson/Voracious via AP)
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[2026-08-17 11:48 UTC+10:00] [BUSINESS] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: YOKOHAMA – Tomohito Mitsumori, president of Japanese restaurant chain operator Ootoya Holdings, has said the company plans to accelerate the opening of its Ootoya Gohan Dokoro restaurants overseas.
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[2026-08-17 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A farmer covers her face to protect herself from heat while working at her paddy farm on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, in May 2024. © Reuters
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[2026-08-17 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-17 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Tips & advice] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: No, you’re not imagining it. There’s been lots of buzz around Greek yoghurt recently, probably spurred by the collision of two TikTok trends.
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[2026-08-17 04:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Food Delivery Services
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[2026-08-17 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the siege enters its second week, 15 Palestinians, including two children, remain besieged inside three homes in the Ras al-Ain area of Qusra, south of Nablus. Surrounded by armed Israeli settlers and military battalions and convoys, the families are cut off from food, water, and electricity. The United Nations reported that the residents are “trapped inside their homes in a state of terror, unable to attend to their basic needs and without access to water or electricity”.
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[2026-08-17 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-17 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Sunday said it is fast-tracking the construction of the Clark National Food Hub, with operations targeted to begin before the end of 2027.
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[2026-08-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MUMBAI — Maharashtra state's food safety chief has intensified a crackdown on the food and grocery industries, suspending the permits of 12 warehouses of Indian grocery giants Eternal, Swiggy, and Zepto after finding cockroach infestations and other unhygienic conditions.
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[2026-08-17 02:00 UTC+10:00] [Agriculture] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: ROME — In the barns where the milk for Italy’s most famous cheese is produced, the fans have barely stopped whirring for two months. As temperatures across northern Italy push close to 40 degrees Celsius, cows stand almost motionless, tongues lolling, while automated sprinklers soak their backs.
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[2026-08-16 21:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The makers of the biopic explain why they invented characters and made Bourdain’s on-screen experiences link to those of star Dominic Sessa
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[2026-08-16 21:15 UTC+10:00] [biopic] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The makers of the biopic explain why they invented characters and made Bourdain’s on-screen experiences link to those of star Dominic Sessa
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[2026-08-16 14:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Christophe Yu and Nora Lou craft innovative pop-up feasts that blend migration stories, local ingredients and bold flavours
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[2026-08-16 14:15 UTC+10:00] [chef] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Christophe Yu and Nora Lou craft innovative pop-up feasts that blend migration stories, local ingredients and bold flavours
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[2026-08-16 09:05 UTC+10:00] [LIFE] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Japanese summers are now so sweltering that the Meteorological Agency created a word to describe a whole new category of hot.
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[2026-08-16 08:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: JPMorgan is the latest institutional research desk to warn that the next global food crisis may already be taking shape, driven by what its analysts describe as the "Five Ws": War, Weather, Warehousing, Water, and Waste.
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[2026-08-16 08:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Albert Lotemo hopes to further his agricultural studies. (ABC News: Alice Walker)
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[2026-08-16 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Scientists develop ’robust, easy, industry-ready’ approach to making large, energy efficient modules from the ultra-thin material
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[2026-08-16 08:00 UTC+10:00] [silicon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Scientists develop ’robust, easy, industry-ready’ approach to making large, energy efficient modules from the ultra-thin material
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[2026-08-16 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian food and drink] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Despite messy T-shirts and the occasional mouthful of styrofoam, open-air pastry displays are on the rise in Australia. Why? ‘Aesthetics’
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[2026-08-16 05:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Travel / Inspiration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A farm-to-table restaurant, serving organic food in a pavilion in the middle of a serene rice field, is a rather rare bird indeed nowadays in nature-challenged Bali.
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[2026-08-16 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CORDOVA, Cebu — The national government has released P410 million to Cebu province and Cebu City to support priority programs, infrastructure and food assistance.
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[2026-08-15 20:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Farm Fresh def. Nxled, 3-0
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[2026-08-15 16:08 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Racing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Warwick Farm trainer Joe Pride will send two contenders to Wyong on Sunday and is hopeful of picking up a key lead-up race to an upcoming feature at the track.
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[2026-08-15 12:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The cover of the Dust Off and Dish Up cookbook, released for the 70th anniversary of School of the Air. (Supplied: Ainsley Fuster)
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[2026-08-15 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Hetty Lui McKinnon is a food writer and cookbook author with a passion for vegetables. She's the author of six vegetarian cookbooks, and won the James Beard Award for Vegetable-Focused cooking in 2024.
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[2026-08-15 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Try the Empress Wu cocktail at boba hotspot Mother Pearl, then get nostalgic at Cordis, Hong Kong’s latest exhibition, before heading to Nadaman’s new ramen nook and partying the night away at the Soho Beach Club pop-up in Repulse Bay
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[2026-08-15 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Try the Empress Wu cocktail at boba hotspot Mother Pearl, then get nostalgic at Cordis, Hong Kong’s latest exhibition, before heading to Nadaman’s new ramen nook and partying the night away at the Soho Beach Club pop-up in Repulse Bay
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[2026-08-15 09:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: It all started with complaints from residents in Springfield, OH that a surge of Haitian migrants was causing chaos and an odd disappearance of local wildlife and pets. City officials and local companies where shipping the migrants in by the thousands and giving them jobs. NGOs arranged for extensive handouts including housing, food and cash.
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[2026-08-15 09:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-15 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Derek Simon gives his daughter, Libby Simon, last minute advice before she shows her feeder calf at the Hartford Fair, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, in Croton, Ohio. (Jessica Phelps/Reporting Project via AP)
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[2026-08-15 05:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-15 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Syd)] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Ah, Sydney’s boulevard of broken dreams. Parramatta Road is not the easiest place to start a business, but despite six hurtling lanes of traffic and the serious lack of parking, some places have made it work. Others are pulling queues out the door.
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[2026-08-15 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Mel)] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: “It’s paaacked,” pings a text from my mate, who’s uncharacteristically early for our Sunday sundowners at Northcote’s new Community Wine House. On an unseasonably balmy winter arvo, of course everyone else has had the same idea. And I mean everyone.
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[2026-08-15 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Syd)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: When Harvey’s Hot Sandwiches opens at Pitt Street Mall in November, it will feature the sort of luxe interior associated more with licensed restaurants than sandwich shops. With a $3.5 million design-and-build price tag, the fit-out is a far cry from the local deli installing a few bains-marie and a meat slicer to service sandwich-hungry lunch crowds.
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[2026-08-15 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-15 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Europe’s searing heatwaves are not only punishing people’s bodies, but are also having a severe impact on livelihoods, from farm yields to tourism, industrial output and mental health.
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[2026-08-15 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Activists accumulate food and water supplies in front of Israeli army soldiers who are blocking the road leading to the houses of three Palestinian families that have been besieged by Israeli settlers for six days, in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, south of Nablus, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026.
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[2026-08-14 23:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Senior FAO official for Africa Meshack Malo described artificial intelligence as a powerful tool for farmers, stressing the need for Africa datasets, language models, research capacity and agritech firms, to enable the continent to be not only the consumer but the driver of the technology.
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[2026-08-14 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two teens indicted for setting fire to a Japanika in Givatayim - Hanan Yaakov, 18, and Osher Bayach, 18, both from Rehovot - were revealed to have used ChatGPT to ask what the punishment for arson was before setting out to light the restaurant on fire.
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