Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-31 18:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Six people were lightly wounded in Petah Tikva in Israel after Iran fired ballistic missiles, Haaretz reported, citing the Magen David Adom emergency medical service.
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[2026-03-31 18:00 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Tel Aviv/Washington: Iran attacked and set ablaze a fully loaded crude oil tanker off Dubai on Tuesday, as US President Donald Trump warned America would obliterate Iran’s energy plants and oil wells if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-03-31 17:59 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-31 17:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran said its air defence units shot down a United States MQ-9 drone near Isfahan, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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[2026-03-31 17:50 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul stocks fell over 4 percent Tuesday, weighed by heavy foreign selling, as US President Donald Trump renewed threats against Iran, with no end in sight to the monthlong Middle East war. The Korean won weakened sharply against the US dollar.
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[2026-03-31 17:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: An apparent Iranian attack on a fully loaded Kuwaiti crude oil tanker at Dubai Port sparked a fire that was later extinguished, authorities said.
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[2026-03-31 17:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An air strike killed 11 people and injured 15 others in the city of Mahallat in the Markazi province last night, Al Jazeera reported, citing Iran’s Isna news agency.
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[2026-03-31 17:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Korean Air says it is moving into emergency management mode to buffer the impact of surging jet fuel costs as the global economy is rocked by the ongoing US-Israel war with Iran.
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[2026-03-31 17:36 UTC+10:00] [South Korea] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Japan is enlisting French support amid a global energy shock and a diplomatic rupture with Beijing
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[2026-03-31 17:16 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain are pushing hard for Trump to order a ground invasion of Tehran, according to a diplomat
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[2026-03-31 17:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian media reported that initial investigations indicated strikes in central Iran had hit some "military sites", without specifying the locations.
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[2026-03-31 17:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Retratos de los fallecidos líderes de Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, a la derecha, y su primo, Hashem Safieddine, se ven cerca de la humareda provocada por un ataque aéreo israelí en Dahiyeh, un suburbio al sur de Beirut, en Líbano, el lunes 30 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Hassan Ammar)
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[2026-03-31 16:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un cartel indica que “el combustible diésel se ha agotado” en una gasolinera en Prajuab Kirikhan, Tailandia, el miércoles 18 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Grant Peck, Archivo)
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[2026-03-31 16:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Portraits of Hezbollah’s late leaders Hassan Nasrallah, right, and his cousin, Hashem Safieddine, are seen, as smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, March 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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[2026-03-31 16:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: BEIJING — The Iran war is squeezing a global commodities market already pressured by China's export controls and stockpiling efforts.
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[2026-03-31 16:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: As global oil markets tremble amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East, Brazil is finding protection in a decades-old buffer against shocks that is both cheap and environmentally friendly. While gas prices soar globally, tens of millions of Brazilian drivers have a choice at the pump: fill up with 100% sugarcane-based ethanol or a gasoline blend that contains 30% of biofuel.
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[2026-03-31 16:16 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-31 16:13 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Savings from a 26 cent a litre cut to fuel excise tax could be wiped out within weeks with the global oil price expected to continue its climb, increasing motorists’ bills for diesel and petrol into the foreseeable future and regardless of when the Iran war ends.
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[2026-03-31 16:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: South Korea on Tuesday proposed a supplementary budget worth 26.2 trillion won (about $17.1 billion) to ease the burden of rising energy prices on households and industries as the Middle east conflict has created a supply crunch.
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[2026-03-31 16:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN — Iran fired missiles across the Middle East on Tuesday as its capital was hit by fresh explosions, after US President Donald Trump threatened the country's key oil export hub, power stations and desalination plants.
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[2026-03-31 16:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: LONDON — European stocks are expected to open in mixed territory on Tuesday as uncertainty lingers over the likelihood of a peace deal to bring an end to the Iran war.
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[2026-03-31 15:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US struck a school and sports hall in Iran’s southern city of Lamerd with a ballistic missile previously untested in combat, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Sunday, citing its own analysis of footage and weapons experts.
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[2026-03-31 15:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A currency trader talks on the phone near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top center, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, top center left, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
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[2026-03-31 15:44 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: As Australia braces for fuel shortages and the world confronts the economic fallout from the US-Israeli war on Iran that could trigger a global recession, one country is reaping the spoils: Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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[2026-03-31 15:42 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-31 15:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested American troops could seize Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub, even as he added in comments published Monday that a deal with Tehran to end the war “could be made fairly quickly.”
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[2026-03-31 15:33 UTC+10:00] [Nato] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘An alliance has to be mutually beneficial. It cannot be a one-way street. Let’s hope we can fix it,’ America’s top diplomat says
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[2026-03-31 15:33 UTC+10:00] [South Korea] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The won is at a 17-year low, parliament is in damage control mode and shop shelves are being stripped clean of plastic bags
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[2026-03-31 15:00 UTC+10:00] [Viktor Orbán] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In Hungary, the Iran war is exposing tensions. Voters may decide on 12 April that the prime minister’s geopolitical contortions are a liability
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[2026-03-31 14:55 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Kuwait says fire broke out after Iranian attack on giant tanker and warns of possible oil spill in surrounding waters
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[2026-03-31 14:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TOKYO — Asian stocks fell sharply in early trade Tuesday and oil prices rose as the Middle East crisis further escalated with US President Donald Trump threatening to destroy Iran's main export terminal.
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[2026-03-31 14:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As thousands of US soldiers and marines arrive in the Middle East, Iran is accusing Washington of privately plotting a ground assault while publicly touting ceasefire talks. Donald Trump threatened to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s energy infrastructure, said his ‘preference would be to take the oil’ in Iran and that US forces could seize the regime’s export hub on Kharg Island, while also claiming he was in talks with a new ‘reasonable regime’.
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[2026-03-31 14:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Pentagon is set to hold a press briefing on the war in Iran on Tuesday morning, its first such briefing in nearly two weeks, CNN reported.
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[2026-03-31 14:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Power outages in parts of Tehran were caused by shrapnel damage to electrical infrastructure, Iran’s Fars news agency reported.
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[2026-03-31 14:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump shared video footage Monday of a massive explosion in Iran from an airstrike on Isfahan – where the majority of Tehran’s 60% enriched uranium is located.
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[2026-03-31 14:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: HONG KONG (AP) — China’s factory activity expanded in March, ending two months of contraction, the government said Tuesday, but analysts say prolonged impacts of the Iran war could weigh on growth.
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[2026-03-31 14:10 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Will Australians spend over $100,000 on a Chinese car?
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[2026-03-31 13:55 UTC+10:00] [Houthis] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Any campaign by the Houthis against ships in the waterway and near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait would further roil global energy markets
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[2026-03-31 13:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DETROIT, Michigan — An armed man who crashed his pickup truck into a major Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was inspired by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and had sought to inflict as much damage as he could on Jewish people, the FBI said Monday.
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[2026-03-31 13:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against Iran, arguing that Tehran hasn't been weakened enough by the monthlong U.S.-led bombing campaign, according to US, Gulf and Israeli officials.
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[2026-03-31 13:17 UTC+10:00] [US & Canada] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-03-31 13:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A sign announcing ‘Diesel fuel has run out’ is displayed on a gas staton, in Prajuab Kirikhan, Thailand, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Grant Peck, file)
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[2026-03-31 13:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United States carried out a large-scale airstrike on a major ammunition depot in Iran’s Isfahan, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a US official.
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[2026-03-31 12:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump posted a video showing a series of large explosions on his Truth Social platform, as reports emerged of new attacks on Iran.
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[2026-03-31 12:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Oil prices reversed course to drop in early Asia trading as traders assess President Donald Trump's statements on ending the war in Iran.
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[2026-03-31 12:50 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-03-31 12:43 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, potentially including desalination plants that supply drinking water, if a deal to end the war is not reached “shortly.”
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[2026-03-31 12:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A broker for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sought to make a large investment in major defense companies in the lead up to the Iran war, according to the Financial Times. The Pentagon has denied the report.
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[2026-03-31 12:17 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-03-31 12:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Taken from CNBC’s Daily Open, our international markets newsletter — Subscribe today
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