Topic: Human Rights — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-13 19:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Ghana said on Tuesday that it has initiated the process to evacuate about 300 of its citizens from South Africa following a wave of protests against foreigners.
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[2026-05-13 19:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Critics argue the Korean war memorial should not be in a space in Seoul long associated with pro-democracy protests and its imperial past
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[2026-05-13 19:12 UTC+10:00] [Oh Se-hoon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Critics argue the Korean war memorial should not be in a space in Seoul long associated with pro-democracy protests and its imperial past
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[2026-05-13 15:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: People walk on Mount Kailash in Tibet, China, May 2017. (Photo by Christoph Mohr/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
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[2026-05-13 12:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Tens of thousands of Argentines flooded the streets of major cities nationwide on Tuesday to protest funding cuts by libertarian President Javier Milei to the public university system that represents a near-universal point of pride in this crisis-prone country.
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[2026-05-13 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Competition] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Boycotts, protests and fears about vote-rigging are threatening to overshadow this week’s Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.
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[2026-05-13 08:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The alleged leader of a secret Chinese government “police station” housed in a nondescript Manhattan building was urged to help track a prominent pro-Democracy dissident, a jury heard this week.
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[2026-05-13 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Education is the backbone of Sri Lanka’s development. Denying access to tens of thousands of qualified students risks wasting talent, fueling inequality, and undermining national progress. The gap is not simply about seats in lecture halls—it is about the future of a generation. Academics, as custodians of knowledge, cannot remain passive observers.
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[2026-05-13 04:05 UTC+10:00] [Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: ATHENS — Greece is protesting over an unexploded Ukrainian naval drone found in its waters, fearing the war could be spilling over to the Mediterranean as Kyiv's forces hunt the opaquely-owned "shadow fleet" carrying Russian oil.
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[2026-05-12 23:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing reaffirms support for Hong Kong judiciary as foreign ministry calls former media tycoon ‘principal mastermind’ of 2019 anti-government protests
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[2026-05-12 23:06 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing reaffirms support for Hong Kong judiciary as foreign ministry calls former media tycoon ‘principal mastermind’ of 2019 anti-government protests
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[2026-05-12 22:00 UTC+10:00] [US voting rights] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Since the Citizens United decision of 2010, the justices have dismantled Americans’ voices. The only solution is at the ballot box
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[2026-05-12 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The signatures of two dead Brooklyn voters appeared on a Democratic candidate’s nominating petitions — and now she’s at risk of being kicked off the primary ballot, The Post has learned.
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[2026-05-12 19:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Virginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country — by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances.
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[2026-05-12 19:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Raising taxes on assets, incomes of high earners will add to state revenues and incentivise protecting property rights, economist says
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[2026-05-12 19:30 UTC+10:00] [high-income groups] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Raising taxes on assets, incomes of high earners will add to state revenues and incentivise protecting property rights, economist says
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[2026-05-12 17:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Monday marked the first day of an indefinite walkout among teachers in the eastern Spanish region, and there's more protests to come this week. Here's what parents in Valencia, Alicante and Castellón need to know about the teachers' strikes.
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[2026-05-12 12:25 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said Monday he will speak to Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about future US arms sales to Taiwan as he predicted Beijing will not seize the self-governing democracy.
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[2026-05-12 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Democracy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BERLIN — As Friedrich Merz’s popularity plunges to new lows — compounding his already-weak coalition’s troubles little more than a year into office — the chancellor is traveling the country to persuade Germans that things remain on the right track.
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[2026-05-12 09:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Pedro Almodovar makes beautiful films — and he also makes asinine, out of touch statements.
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[2026-05-12 09:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Democrats are all about defending democracy. Until they lose. Then they want to change the rules.
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[2026-05-12 05:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, in his return to the White House, has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan, an approach that's raising questions ahead of this week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping about whether the US leader could be open to dialing back support for the island democracy that Beijing views as its breakaway province.
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[2026-05-12 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Supporters of the Islamic regime and anti-regime demonstrators clashed in several cities on Sunday during global protests against Tehran’s escalating crackdown of mass arrests, executions, and internet blackouts, according to activists and international media reports.
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[2026-05-12 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, right, greets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, at the Meeting in Defence of Democracy summit, in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
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[2026-05-11 23:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: For the last few years, residents of the Balearic Islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera have been fighting against overtourism and there have been several mass protests. Now, however, a radical new plan has been put forward.
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[2026-05-11 23:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A leading German media executive declared Monday that he was “a goy” (non-Jew) and “a Zionist,” telling the World Jewish Congress in Geneva that the free world must confront antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and online radicalization before they undermine Western democracy itself.
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[2026-05-11 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A worker clear rubble with an excavator as a police officer and local residents gather at the site of overnight suicide bombing at a security post in Fatah Khel, in Bannu, a district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Aamad Khattak)
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[2026-05-11 20:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Wanda Mosley, left, protests in a House committee meeting during a special session of the state legislature to redraw U.S. Congressional voting maps Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
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[2026-05-11 19:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shake hands before their meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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[2026-05-11 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Activists protested across the globe to denounce Iran's ongoing internet blackout, which has lasted at least 70 days as of Sunday.
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[2026-05-11 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Hungary’s recent election was a sharp rebuke of former Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party after 16 years of democratic erosion under his rule. Voters overwhelmingly rejected Orban’s signature brand of “illiberal democracy,” embraced by aspiring autocrats around the world, in what amounted to a resounding reminder that change is still possible even when opposition appears hopeless.
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[2026-05-11 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / The economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A key indicator of household wealth has stagnated over the past five years as the gap between Australia’s richest households and everyone else widens.
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[2026-05-11 04:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel Police officers from the Jerusalem District and Border Police officers worked on Sunday in the Bar-Ilan Street area of Jerusalem to restore public order amid haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protests in the city.
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[2026-05-11 03:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Jewish American Heritage Month should be a celebration of the contributions Jews have made to American life. From medicine, law, business, and philanthropy, to Hollywood, the civil rights and labor movements, and even America’s Christmas playlist, Jews have helped shape this country in outsized ways.
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[2026-05-10 23:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A new coalition of major Togolese opposition parties and civil society groups held their first meeting Saturday, to relaunch protests against constitutional changes they say allow Faure Gnassingbe to consolidate power.
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[2026-05-10 20:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Iranian regime has enlisted the aid of foreign militias to man checkpoints across Tehran in order to support its security forces in order to keep civilian protests down, the Telegraph reported on Friday, citing videos circulating on social media.
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[2026-05-10 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With Beijing’s ‘AI-plus’ plan looking to grow the nation’s digital economy, experts warn that hubs could further outpace rural regions, fuelling inequality
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[2026-05-10 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Lynn Song] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With Beijing’s ‘AI-plus’ plan looking to grow the nation’s digital economy, experts warn that hubs could further outpace rural regions, fuelling inequality
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[2026-05-10 06:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used a commencement address to bizarrely compare Lincoln’s fight to save the Union to the left’s never-ending quest to rescue “democracy” from President Trump.
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[2026-05-10 02:00 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Showdown between Musk and Altman has rendered the world’s most wealthy comical under egalitarian eye of court
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[2026-05-09 21:00 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Organizers, including Selma foot soliders, say ruling is latest chapter in long battle over Black disenfranchisement in US
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[2026-05-09 15:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: EDS NOTE: NUDITY - A performer rings a bell with her body at the Austrian pavilion called ‘Seaworld Venice’ by artist Ei Arakawa-Nash, at the Venice 2026 Biennale Art, in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
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[2026-05-09 12:03 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: President Lee Jae Myung said Saturday he survived a 2024 knife attack thanks to people's support and will devote himself wholly to the country, a day after the state civil rights commission overturned an earlier decision with regard to his airlift to Seoul from Busan at the time of the attack.
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[2026-05-09 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 9 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung said Saturday he survived a 2024 knife attack thanks to people's support and will devote himself wholly to the country, a day after the state civil rights commission overturned an earlier decision with regard to his airlift to Seoul from Busan at the time of the attack.
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[2026-05-09 07:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:State and Territory Government
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[2026-05-09 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Local] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The rescheduled 19th Sujata Jayawardena Memorial Oration to be delivered by the 52nd Chief Justice of India, Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, on the topic ‘In a True Democracy, is Parliament Supreme?’, will take place at the BMICH today (9).
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[2026-05-09 03:25 UTC+10:00] [Criminal Justice] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: Federal and local lawmakers in Puerto Rico, as well as civil rights and advocacy organizations, have called for investigations after ProPublica reported how a federal probe into a drugs-for-votes scheme in Puerto Rico prisons got quashed after the 2024 elections.
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[2026-05-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Inequality] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The top 1% have it hard, too
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[2026-05-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Inequality] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In Wagga Wagga – where a baby died this month after the mother gave birth in a tent – homelessness is rising, services are slammed and those without a home feel stuck
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[2026-05-08 21:00 UTC+10:00] [US voting rights] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and other southern states stun residents with all-out charge to redraw congressional maps to favor white voters after supreme court ruling
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