Topic: Food & Agriculture — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-04 15:24 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Syd)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Sydneysiders looking for a cream puff fix may be left disappointed as one of Chinatown’s iconic venues fights for its future. Hay Street’s 47-year-old Emperor’s Garden Restaurant, whose takeaway window has long attracted queues of customers seeking piping hot treats, has been shuttered, with a sign appearing on the facade on Sunday stating it had been “legally re-entered and possession taken”.
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[2026-08-04 15:00 UTC+10:00] [Food] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Levantine summer magic in a herby and moreish Arabic frittata with a peachy fruit, red onion and rocket salad
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[2026-08-04 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Food & drink industry] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Farmers warn impact of high temperatures, drought and wildfires on range of foodstuffs means costs will increase
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[2026-08-04 13:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Grab drivers wait outside a restaurant in Bangkok to pick up customers’ food orders on May 13. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
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[2026-08-04 13:06 UTC+10:00] [Food / Recipes] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A simple Italian classic gets a golden twist. Garlic and chilli-spiked spaghetti meets crispy, juicy chicken for a weeknight dinner that feels a little bit special.
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[2026-08-04 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THAILAND successfully concluded its participation in the World Food Expo (Wofex) 2026, held from July 29 to Aug. 1, 2026, at the SMX Convention Center and World Trade Center Metro Manila.
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[2026-08-04 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: For more than 15 years, the television chef used his quirky sense of humour to bridge the cultural gap between Hong Kong immigrants and the wider Canadian population – then he disappeared. PostMag goes in search of the elusive king of the apron pun and discovers he was a hard man to please
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[2026-08-04 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: For more than 15 years, the television chef used his quirky sense of humour to bridge the cultural gap between Hong Kong immigrants and the wider Canadian population – then he disappeared. PostMag goes in search of the elusive king of the apron pun and discovers he was a hard man to please
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[2026-08-04 08:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Crop Harvesting
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[2026-08-04 07:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TWIN FALLS, Idaho — A driver charging his electric taxi and a former law enforcement officer who tried to intervene were among the seven people wounded in a mass shooting at an Idaho fast food restaurant that also left three people dead, according to friends and relatives of the two men.
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[2026-08-04 06:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: As food prices rise, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party plans to provide temporary relief with a consumption tax cut. © Kyodo
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[2026-08-04 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Michigan health officials have confirmed the first two deaths linked to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak, a parasitic infection spread through contaminated food or water that can cause severe diarrhoea.
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[2026-08-04 05:05 UTC+10:00] [Idaho] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Police credited Jordan Salinas with limiting number of victims in attack on restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho
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[2026-08-04 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-04 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Syd)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: I’m not going to lie: it’s exciting to hear of a new restaurant in Sydney that’s from an independent operator. No shade against the slew of hospitality groups dominating recent openings but these smaller venues just hit differently.
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[2026-08-04 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Mel)] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Eight weeks after the opening of Roma, Con Christopoulos’ all-day, sweepingly ambitious love letter to Italy’s capital city, I ran into one of regional Victoria’s most respected restaurateurs during a late lunch.
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[2026-08-04 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Mel)] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: She’s finally doing it. After tantalising diners with two years of seriously delicious pop-ups and events, chef and award-winning cookbook author Rosheen Kaul is taking the keys to a restaurant. Little Rose – which ran as a three-month residency off Fitzroy’s Brunswick Street between May 9 and August 2 – will open for good on August 20.
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[2026-08-04 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Tue 4 Aug 2026 at 4:45am
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[2026-08-04 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The suspect in a fatal shooting at a fast-food restaurant in Idaho died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Sunday, crediting an off-duty officer and a citizen with firing shots that diverted him. Investigators are confident that the gunman, identified as 24-year-old Chad Williams, acted alone during the shooting Saturday at an In-N-Out location in Twin Falls, Police Chief Matthew Hicks said at a news conference.
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[2026-08-04 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The first Cooking Peace summer camp program wrapped up at the Ben Shemen Youth Village in central Israel with some forty teens, split between Jews and Arabs, concluding the week-long culinary program at a graduation ceremony on Friday.
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[2026-08-04 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: By Marlene Wilden of UtilityDive
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[2026-08-04 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BAGUIO CITY — The city government, through the City Veterinary and Agriculture Office (CVAO), reiterated its strong condemnation of the illegal dog meat trade following the recent arrest of a man who was caught in the act of slaughtering three dogs in Barangay Kias.
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[2026-08-04 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: From his end, there’s hardly any conscious effort on the part of 64-year-old Cesar Montano to become an object of envy among men.
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[2026-08-04 01:02 UTC+10:00] [Cheese] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: British cheesemakers have struggled to find a use for the 95,000 tonnes of salty whey they produce every year. But researchers may have come up with a solution
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[2026-08-04 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Restaurants] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The top level of a historic Melbourne hotel was transformed into the first-class dining room, with chandeliers and a string trio, and the ground floor was steerage
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[2026-08-04 00:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Farm workers harvest sugar cane on the property of Charles Senekal near the South African town of Mkuze, Kwazulu-Natal, Nov. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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[2026-08-04 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: For farmers such as North Wales-based George Tomlinson, the declaration of drought conditions last week was a confirmation of hard times.
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[2026-08-03 23:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ambulances and special services vehicles are parked near the site where an improvised explosive device detonated at a restaurant in central Moscow, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
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[2026-08-03 23:00 UTC+10:00] [ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Raids on Glass House Farms in California became a ‘litmus test’ for how much violence agents could inflict during Trump’s deportation campaign
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[2026-08-03 21:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Rep. Dan Newhouse speaks to the press about the Farm Workforce Modernization Act at Washington’s Fruit Place in Yakima, Wash., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. (Emree Weaver/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP, File)
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[2026-08-03 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: At 1:47 a.m. on July 17, 2026, suspects in the shooting of blogger Mina Alicia were seen ordering food. At 2:28 a.m., they were seen putting on new shirts. At 3:11 a.m. they headed for the victim’s residence, after which they were seen shooting the victim and her partner eight times.
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[2026-08-03 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image released by Voracious shows a recipe for no-cook tomato sauce from “Pasta Every Day” by Meryl Feinstein. (Nico Schinco/Voracious via AP)
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[2026-08-03 21:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: At least three people were killed and 21 injured after a bomb carried by a woman exploded outside an upscale restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, authorities said.
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[2026-08-03 21:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Manu Yaw Fofie, a cocoa farmer, walks through his farm in Kona, Ghana, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Tsraha Yaw, File)
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[2026-08-03 20:27 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Foreign ministry accuses Kyiv of carrying out attack reports say may have been aimed at air force chief
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[2026-08-03 19:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-03 16:59 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Movies] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: On a dead-end street lined with smash repairers in the Bushwick neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York, a 26-year-old filmmaker named Noah Blau trained his Sony camcorder on Aitana Doyle, an aspiring actress and restaurant server, as she anxiously practised for her driving test.
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[2026-08-03 15:45 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Alarm bells started ringing as soon as Gillian Hallac walked into her mother’s home on a Friday almost six months ago. Having not heard from her mother, Yvonne Whear, since the day before, Hallac went looking for her at the 73-year-old’s hobby farm on the outskirts of Dungay, a small town near the NSW-Queensland border.
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[2026-08-03 15:05 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Mel)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Like the original in Prahran, the signature drink at this coffee-dedicated shrine is the “tiger bomb”: a sweetened iced coffee topped with salty foam and orange zest. Founder Caleb Cha (a former World Latte Art champion) uses beans from his roastery Tone Coffee Roasters, including six filter roasts. Try an espresso alongside a milk coffee made with the same beans to contrast flavour notes – just like doing a wine-tasting.
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[2026-08-03 15:00 UTC+10:00] [Food] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Perfect for cooking in the heat, these light, fresh dishes that are bursting with flavour will have you falling hook, line and sinker
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[2026-08-03 13:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Watch: BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg is at the scene in Moscow, where the explosion happened
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[2026-08-03 08:27 UTC+10:00] [Idaho] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Twin Falls police chief believes Chad Williams, 24, was alone in Saturday attack that killed three people
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[2026-08-03 08:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TWIN FALLS, Idaho — The suspect in a fatal shooting at a fast-food restaurant in Idaho died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Sunday, crediting an off-duty officer and a citizen with firing shots that diverted him.
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[2026-08-03 04:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Nation-building is often associated with highways, bridges and airports. But the institutions that sustain economic growth are just as important. They attract investments, provide financial security, develop skilled workers, improve healthcare, expand housing and strengthen food security.
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[2026-08-03 03:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Cellphone footage captures people running away from an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, during a shooting. Authorities in southern Idaho say a shooting resulted in multiple people dead and others injured.
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[2026-08-03 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A bomb ripped through a central Moscow upscale restaurant mid-evening on Saturday in what authorities are calling a "brutal terrorist act" - which left three people dead and wounded at least 21.
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[2026-08-03 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: A study by Maria Galveia and Edison Macusi titled “Climate change resilience and food security of small-scale fishing communities in the South-eastern Mindanao, Philippines,” published in July 2026, documented how climate change variability has affected small-scale fishing communities in four Mindanao municipalities.
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[2026-08-03 01:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-03 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Queensland politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Experts say new power to bypass conservation and planning regulations are incredibly broad and could let the state effectively fast-track any project it wants
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[2026-08-02 23:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Sun 2 Aug 2026 at 11:09pm
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