Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-14 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-14 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Luxury conglomerate and industry bellwether LVMH reported quarterly sales that missed expectations on Monday as the sector begins to decipher the fallout from the war in the Middle East and its impact on stocks.
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[2026-04-14 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is losing the information war against Iran, as social media platforms allow the “raw, unfiltered truth” about the conflict to instantly reach millions, undermining Washington’s narrative, an Iranian-American Lego cartoonist has told RT.
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[2026-04-14 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is losing the information war against Iran, as social media platforms allow the “raw, unfiltered truth” about the conflict to instantly reach millions, undermining Washington’s narrative, an Iranian-American Lego cartoonist has told RT.
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[2026-04-14 01:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
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[2026-04-14 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A student drinks from a water fountain inside Cuyama Elementary School, Sept. 20, 2023, in New Cuyama, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)
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[2026-04-14 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: There's no doubt the US military has the capability to mount a blockade of vessels moving in and out of the Gulf. The question is: to what end?
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[2026-04-14 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Iran war wiped out 7.88 million barrels per day of Opec’s production in March, resulting in the biggest supply collapse for the producers’ group in recent decades, the Vienna-based organisation said in its latest monthly report.
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[2026-04-14 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: We've been tracking the global rewiring of energy flows from the start, including identifying who stands to emerge as the net beneficiary of the U.S.-Iran conflict and the resulting disruption across the Gulf theater. Early in the conflict, we cited energy research firm Criterion, which noted that Qatar had been dethroned as the "LNG king" as the U.S.
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[2026-04-14 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said US forces would destroy any Iranian "fast attack ships" that approach the American naval blockade of Iranian ports that came into effect on Monday.
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[2026-04-14 01:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Familiares rezan en la tumba de una persona enterrada junto a combatientes de Hezbollah muertos en ataques israelíes, en un cementerio de Choueifat, Líbano, el lunes 13 de abril de 2026. (Foto AP/Emilio Morenatti)
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[2026-04-14 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: It is entirely in keeping with the way he has managed this war that US President Donald Trump’s first reaction to the collapse of talks in Islamabad was to announce a measure that helps Iran more than it hurts it.
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[2026-04-14 01:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Amid the daily horror show in the Middle East is the realisation the so-called adults in the room are insane or powerless or just as bewildered as you are
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[2026-04-14 00:52 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the war in the Middle East on Tuesday, April 14.
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[2026-04-14 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The US began its naval blockade preventing ships from leaving or entering Iranian ports via the Strait of Hormuz Monday after President Trump vowed to end Tehran’s “extortion” of other nations transiting the critical oil chokepoint.
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[2026-04-14 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CAIRO — The US military vowed to blockade all Iranian ports starting Monday, part of efforts to force Tehran into agreeing to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz and accepting a peace deal. Iran responded with threats on all ports in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, taking aim at US-allied countries.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Tehran wants to ensure that no damage is inflicted on its terrorist proxy groups across the Middle East and that it always retains instruments of pressure and leverage against Israel. In the strategic logic of Islamist movements, terrorist organizations do not abandon each other in moments of danger. During this war, the regional configuration changed significantly.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: British public broadcaster BBC interviewed an individual who goes by the moniker "Mr Explosive," responsible for creating pro-Iran AI-generated propaganda videos using Lego figures in a podcast episode published on Saturday.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For more news, analysis, and the latest updates, head to jpost.com.
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[2026-04-14 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: When it comes to the week ahead, clearly the Iran conflict will be the main focus, but there are a few other things to look out on the calendar.
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[2026-04-14 00:32 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-14 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: US stocks fell Monday morning as oil surged past $100 a barrel after President Trump announced a new blockade of the Strait of Hormuz during the precarious ceasefire with Iran.
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[2026-04-14 00:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: MIAMI — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the price of oil and gasoline may remain high through November’s midterm elections, a rare acknowledgement of the potential political fallout from his decision to attack Iran six weeks ago.
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[2026-04-14 00:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday a ceasefire between the United States and Iran was "holding" and that efforts were underway to reach an agreement after weekend talks failed to do so.
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[2026-04-14 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pakistan presses diplomatic efforts as fragile ceasefire holds; questions remain over enforcement and impact on global energy flows through Hormuz
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[2026-04-14 00:17 UTC+10:00] [Iranian coastline] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pakistan presses diplomatic efforts as fragile ceasefire holds; questions remain over enforcement and impact on global energy flows through Hormuz
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[2026-04-14 00:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump’s threat to begin blockading the Strait of Hormuz soon after talks in Islamabad between Washington and Tehran ended without a deal is a substantial escalation in the war on Iran, analysts say.
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[2026-04-14 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Global markets have been rattled after Donald Trump announced a US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions following failed peace talks with Iran.
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[2026-04-14 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A US naval blockade of all ships entering and leaving Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz has begun.
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[2026-04-14 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The ceasefire involving Iran has prompted a familiar wave of quick conclusions. As tensions eased, some observers framed the episode in binary terms – either as a test the region passed or as a warning sign of deeper fragility. Yet such interpretations miss the more important question: not whether disruption occurred, but how states functioned under pressure.
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[2026-04-13 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan – More than 12 hours of face-to-face negotiations between the United States and Iran ended without agreement in Islamabad on Sunday, leaving a fragile two-week ceasefire as the only barrier between diplomacy and a return to war.
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[2026-04-13 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Iran's military has warned that no ports in the Persian Gulf or Gulf of Oman will be safe if its own ports are threatened. According to Iranian state media, the army said, ‘security in the Persian Gulf and the sea of Oman is either for everyone or for no one’.
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[2026-04-13 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has portrayed itself as one of the fiercest opponents of Israel. The regime invests billions in allies, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and justifies this with rhetoric about the destruction of the Jewish state. Anyone who looks only at this official line quickly gets the impression that hostility toward Israel is deeply rooted in Iranian society.
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[2026-04-13 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The White House warned its staff against using their insider knowledge to place well-timed bets on sites such as Polymarket in a March 24 staff-wide email, the Wall Street Journal reported last week.
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[2026-04-13 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine had assisted in downing drones in the Middle East during the Iran War in an X/Twitter post on Friday.
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[2026-04-13 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The United States' NATO allies said on Monday they would not get involved in US President Donald Trump's plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, further ratcheting up tensions within the increasingly fragile alliance.
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[2026-04-13 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Goldman Sachs reported its highest quarterly profit in five years, as the bank's equities traders beat their own previous all-time quarterly high revenue by more than $1 billion thanks to a surge in market volatility due to the war in Iran; however this stellar performance in equities was offset by an unexpected drop in FICC revenues.
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[2026-04-13 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.S. on Monday has begun blocking ships from entering or exiting the Strait of Hormuz, attempting to ratchet up pressure on Iran to reopen the key oil route after peace negotiations collapsed.
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[2026-04-13 23:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit China this week to boost cooperation between the two countries and discuss the wars in Ukraine and Iran, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Monday.
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[2026-04-13 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: US-born Pope Leo XIV pushed back Monday on President Donald Trump’s broadside against him over the US-Israel war in Iran, telling reporters that the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he doesn’t fear the Trump administration.
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[2026-04-13 22:48 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-13 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: There is a profound irony at the core of the escalation strategy pursued by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The architects of terror in Tehran have somehow failed to recognize it or have simply chosen to ignore reality entirely. In a relentless drive to establish absolute dominance over the Middle East, the Iranian regime has achieved in 18 months what decades of American diplomatic maneuvering and successive Israeli peace initiatives could never accomplish.
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[2026-04-13 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The claim now echoing around television studios – that the war against Iran has gone off the rails – does not withstand scrutiny. The clear objective of this war from the outset has been to remove three threats: Iran’s nuclear program, its ballistic missile arsenal, and its network of proxy armies across the Middle East.
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[2026-04-13 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A Paris court on Monday found cement maker Holcim's Lafarge unit guilty of charges that its Syrian subsidiary financed terrorism and breached European sanctions to keep a plant operating in northern Syria during the country's civil war.
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[2026-04-13 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-04-13 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran's military says the planned US blockade on Gulf ports will be an "illegal" act tantamount to "piracy" as Trump is also weighing limited strikes on Iran.
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[2026-04-13 22:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Stock futures are lower, but off their worst levels of the session, as Brent crude surged 7% to over $102 after Trump ordered a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to take place at 10am ET. The moves look relatively contained given the breakdown of US-Iran talks, with strategists saying this is a moment to buy the dip.
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[2026-04-13 22:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts say the Pakistani air force’s presence ‘will complicate Iran’s targeting calculus’ and force it to reconsider its attack strategy
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[2026-04-13 22:22 UTC+10:00] [Eastern Province] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts say the Pakistani air force’s presence ‘will complicate Iran’s targeting calculus’ and force it to reconsider its attack strategy
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[2026-04-13 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Over a third of Holocaust survivors in Israel are living in poverty and are facing intensified economic and security fears amid the US-Israeli war on Iran, a new study has found.
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