Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-18 21:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is recovering at home in Iran after undergoing surgery following her release from jail on medical grounds.
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[2026-05-18 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded its forecast for the UK's growth this year, but warned the Iran war and "domestic uncertainty" could hit the economy.
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[2026-05-18 20:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Gas prices move up and down in response to disruptions in supply and spikes in demand. Many global events such as conflicts, sanctions or decisions by major oil producing countries can limit or create uncertainty about the supply of oil.
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[2026-05-18 20:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-18 20:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Being a woman in Iran means beginning an endless struggle from the very moment you are born,” Kosar Eftekhari told The Jerusalem Post late on Sunday night.
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[2026-05-18 20:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In Nairobi, demonstrators burn tyres on key roads, with both the Iran war and corruption cited for rising petrol and diesel costs
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[2026-05-18 20:28 UTC+10:00] [petrol] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In Nairobi, demonstrators burn tyres on key roads, with both the Iran war and corruption cited for rising petrol and diesel costs
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[2026-05-18 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Renewable energy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Energy security comes from using local, renewable resources to power, heat and cool communities, as Ukraine is doing
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[2026-05-18 19:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's Supreme National Security Council has announced the formation of a new authority to manage the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-18 19:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Tehran could respond militarily to US naval forces enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports, a senior Iranian official has said, warning that the Gulf of Oman could become a “graveyard” for American warships.
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[2026-05-18 19:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Tehran could respond militarily to US naval forces enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports, a senior Iranian official has said, warning that the Gulf of Oman could become a “graveyard” for American warships.
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[2026-05-18 19:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Shortly after the Iran war started, with gold unexpectedly tumbling, we showed that the reason behind gold's paradoxical move - after all, the precious metal has traditionally been a store of value in times of geopolitical stress - was the furious liquidation of gold by emerging markets, in this case Turkey, scrambling to obtain reserve dry powder so Ankara could cover soaring costs of energy imports.
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[2026-05-18 19:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Prominent hardliner Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s parliament, is a veteran of peace talks with the US
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[2026-05-18 19:35 UTC+10:00] [Ningxia University] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Prominent hardliner Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s parliament, is a veteran of peace talks with the US
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[2026-05-18 19:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi in a hospital in Tehran, Iran on May 10, 2026. (Narges Foundation Archive via AP)
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[2026-05-18 19:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PARIS, France — Iran put to death over 2,150 people last year, a "staggering" increase that pushed recorded worldwide executions to their highest level since 1981, Amnesty International said Monday.
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[2026-05-18 18:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel built two covert military outposts in Iraq’s western desert in advance of the US-Israel war on Iran, The New York Times has reported.
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[2026-05-18 18:55 UTC+10:00] [Oil] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump warning over peace talks drives up crude price as UK gilts hit by uncertainty over Starmer leadership
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[2026-05-18 18:53 UTC+10:00] [Cooperation] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday urged allies to sanction Iran as peace talks between the two countries continue to stall.
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[2026-05-18 18:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Brent rose 1.78 per cent to $111.20, while WTI gained 2.08% to $107.60, as risk assets weakened.
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[2026-05-18 18:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran has seized the assets of 129 people it has described as separatists and “enemy agents” working with the US and Israel against the country.
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[2026-05-18 18:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A temporary U.S. sanctions waiver allowing for the sale and delivery of Russian seaborne crude expired this weekend, marking the second time Washington has let the relief measure lapse without clarity on a renewal.
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[2026-05-18 18:12 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is pressing Brussels to loosen the EU’s fiscal rules to help governments absorb the economic shock unleashed by the Iran war and soaring energy prices.
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[2026-05-18 17:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has threatened Iran with a new attack if Tehran doesn’t agree to make swift concessions to Washington.
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[2026-05-18 17:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has threatened Iran with a new attack if Tehran doesn’t agree to make swift concessions to Washington.
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[2026-05-18 17:39 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US president says there ‘won’t be anything left’ of country if it doesn’t come to an agreement
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[2026-05-18 17:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel launches strikes across southern Lebanon despite extending ‘ceasefire’
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[2026-05-18 17:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US Central Command (CENTCOM) played a role in regional air defense that helped intercept “more than 6,000 one-way attack drones and over 1,500 ballistic missiles aimed at US forces, Israel, and Arab partners,” during the recent Iran conflict.
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[2026-05-18 16:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Prime Minister’s Office’s unusual decision to confirm that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had visited the United Arab Emirates during the war with Iran was driven by concern that former prime minister Naftali Bennett was also expected to travel to Abu Dhabi, N12 reported on Sunday.
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[2026-05-18 16:21 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-18 15:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Una persona camina frente a una pantalla electrónica que muestra el índice Nikkei de Japón en una firma de valores, el lunes 18 de mayo de 2026, en Tokio. (AP Foto/Eugene Hoshiko)
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[2026-05-18 15:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Former US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene warned that any decision to deploy American troops to Iran would trigger what she described as a “political revolution” in the United States.
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[2026-05-18 15:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: In today’s episode of Trending Middle East, world leaders condemn a drone attack near the UAE’s Barakah nuclear power plant after authorities intercept two drones and report a fire outside the site’s inner perimeter.
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[2026-05-18 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 reported that dozens of US cargo aircraft carrying ammunition from bases in Germany landed in Tel Aviv over the past 24 hours.
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[2026-05-18 15:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: CNN reported that Iran is seeking to expand its regional influence by focusing on submarine internet cables that carry communications and financial data between Europe, Asia and Gulf countries following tensions in the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-18 15:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: LONDON — European stocks are expected to start the new trading week in negative territory as investors react to the latest developments in the U.S.-Iran war.
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[2026-05-18 14:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli media reported that Israel’s military is preparing for the possibility of renewed conflict with Iran, with public broadcaster Kan citing an unnamed security official as saying Israel would join any new US strikes and target Iranian energy infrastructure.
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[2026-05-18 14:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei index at a securities firm Monday, May 18, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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[2026-05-18 14:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: There are wars that dominate the global imagination - and others that quietly fall out of it. Sudan has become the latter.
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[2026-05-18 13:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei warned the United States to end its blockade of Iranian ports, saying Tehran’s military remained prepared for further confrontation.
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[2026-05-18 13:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Experts say the plans reflect awareness of drone and other types of hi-tech warfare amid the Russia-Ukraine and Iran conflicts
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[2026-05-18 13:37 UTC+10:00] [Korea Institute for National Unification] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Experts say the plans reflect awareness of drone and other types of hi-tech warfare amid the Russia-Ukraine and Iran conflicts
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[2026-05-18 12:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Latest updatesIran war latest: UAE 'has right to respond' after drone strike on Barakah nuclear plant
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[2026-05-18 12:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Former US defence secretary and CIA director Robert Gates recalled a 2009 conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which Netanyahu argued that Iran would quickly collapse if attacked militarily.
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[2026-05-18 12:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: China's economy stumbled in April with consumption, industrial output and investment growth missing expectations as the fallout from the Iran war dampened momentum in the world's second-largest economy.
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[2026-05-18 12:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s factory output and retail sales both slowed more than expected in April, while fixed-asset investment fell
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[2026-05-18 12:06 UTC+10:00] [Goldman Sachs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s factory output and retail sales both slowed more than expected in April, while fixed-asset investment fell
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[2026-05-18 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Customs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LÜBECK, Germany — The police and customs officers had been waiting for hours. Parked outside the Radisson Blu Senator Hotel in the northern German city of Lübeck, they sat in silence, engines off, watching the entrance.
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[2026-05-18 11:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Russian envoy Mikhail Ulyanov suggested that Iran consider appointing a special envoy to Russia similar to the arrangement Tehran recently established with China.
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[2026-05-18 11:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: French opposition leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon condemned what he described as “European complicity” in the US and Israeli strikes on Iran that triggered a wider regional conflict.
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