Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-18 04:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iranians are celebrating news that Tehran’s de facto leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-18 04:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A senior Trump administration official in the directorate of national intelligence has resigned over the war on Iran, saying that the US president was tricked into the conflict by an Israeli and pro-war “echo chamber”.
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[2026-03-18 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, at the Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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[2026-03-18 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Joe Kent, head of the US National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned in protest over Washington’s war with Iran, saying that Israel has dragged the US into another “never‑ending” conflict that does not serve American interests.
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[2026-03-18 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Joe Kent, head of the US National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned in protest over Washington’s war with Iran, saying that Israel has dragged the US into another “never‑ending” conflict that does not serve American interests.
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[2026-03-18 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Joseph Kent appears before a Senate Committee on Intelligence hearing for his pending confirmation to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on Capitol Hill, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)
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[2026-03-18 03:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that US forces "no longer need" military help in the Iran war, after his calls for assistance from allies to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic were largely rebuffed.
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[2026-03-18 03:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has lashed out at Israel after it claimed to have killed Iran’s powerful national security chief Ali Larijani, denouncing its targeting of Tehran’s leaders as “illegal”.
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[2026-03-18 03:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Even the dead aren’t immune to the oil shortage sparked by the Iran war.
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[2026-03-18 03:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought support Tuesday from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, at a time when the Iran war has revived Russia’s ailing economy through increased oil revenue, robbed US-brokered talks to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine of momentum — and could soon limit Kyiv’s access to vital Western air defense systems that are needed in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-18 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente Donald Trump habla durante una reunión con el primer ministro irlandés Micheál Martin en el Despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca, el 17 de marzo de 2026, en Washington. (Foto AP/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-03-18 03:30 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: March 18, 2026 03:30 | News
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[2026-03-18 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump points to a bust of Winston Churchill as he speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office of the White House, on St. Patrick’s Day, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-03-18 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) encouraged the private sector to adopt flexible work arrangements to conserve energy and reduce fuel consumption in the face of rising oil prices due to the war in Iran.
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[2026-03-18 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The war in Iran, and especially the quick decapitation of the country’s leadership structure, has been a swift, remarkable display of American power and Israeli determination. But there is one other fact it has proven: an alliance with Moscow counts for little when a regime faces its greatest threat.
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[2026-03-18 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE war on Iran was launched because of one man’s folly, but it is ordinary Americans — not Donald Trump — who is stuck with the bill of around $2 billion a day. That did not come from me, but from the commentaries of American pundits and thought leaders who have been denouncing the recklessness of the decision-making process that led to the war.
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[2026-03-18 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MOJTABA Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, has given three conditions for Tehran’s war with the United States and Israel to end: first, the dismantlement of all US military bases in the Gulf; second, the assurance that there will be no more US aggression against Iran; and third, a payment of $500 billion by the US to Iran as war reparations.
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[2026-03-18 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TOKYO — Since returning to office last year, United States President Donald Trump has ordered military strikes from the Caribbean and eastern Pacific to Africa and the Middle East, targeting alleged drug-smuggling boats and suspected terrorist groups. He has attacked Venezuela and kidnapped its leader Nicolás Maduro. And he has joined Israel in a large-scale assault on Iran that amounts to a major escalation from last year’s strikes, which supposedly “obliterated” the country’s nuclear facilities.
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[2026-03-18 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A UN fact-finding group has begun investigating an air strike that hit Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the southern city of Minab on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-18 02:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: More than two weeks since Israel and the US attacked Iran, inflicting "death and destruction from the sky all day long" as US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said, it seems that the decision to go to war was founded on two major miscalculations.
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[2026-03-18 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's largest weapons company is reporting a surge in demand amid US-Israeli attacks on Iran, following record revenues as a result of its 2 year genocide in Gaza.
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[2026-03-18 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: GENEVA, March 17 — Tens of millions more people will face acute hunger if the Iran war continues through to June, according to analysis from the World Food Programme released on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-18 02:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Britain believed Iran did not pose a nuclear threat and saw no evidence of an imminent Iranian attack on Europe when the US-Israeli attack on Iran began, it has emerged.
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[2026-03-18 02:06 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: He had IRGC’s trust while having his differences with hardliners and had huge sway with likes of China and Russia
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[2026-03-18 02:05 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Joe Kent resigned as national counter-terrorism center director, saying Iran posed no imminent threat to the US
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[2026-03-18 01:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Gas prices are surging across the US as the war with Iran continues to rattle global energy markets — with crude oil spiking 4% and American diesel topping $5 a gallon Tuesday, inflicting pain at the pump.
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[2026-03-18 01:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ianians have a very long historical memory.
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[2026-03-18 01:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A map showing travel advisory risk levels in the Middle East is shown behind Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand as she speaks at a news conference at the Emergency Watch and Response Centre at Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
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[2026-03-18 01:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Satellite images are beginning to be released giving a glimpse into the toll of the Iran war, with ships ablaze in an Iranian port and destroyed buildings at an American base.
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[2026-03-18 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranians have a very long historical memory.
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[2026-03-18 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranians have a very long historical memory.
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[2026-03-18 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump en la Oficina Oval en la Casa Blanca en Washington el 16 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-03-18 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s army has said its air defences are working to intercept incoming missiles fired from Iran.
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[2026-03-18 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, which advises both US President Donald Trump and the director of national intelligence on “terror” threats, has resigned over the war with Iran.
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[2026-03-18 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Falling debris from missile interceptions killed one person on Tuesday in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi and injured two medical staff in Kuwait, authorities said, as Iran pressed its attacks against Gulf countries.
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[2026-03-18 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: European markets are facing a crisis and must get their act together to fix it, the head of the world's biggest individual investor has said.
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[2026-03-18 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent on Tuesday announced he will resign in response to the Trump administration's war against Iran.
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[2026-03-18 01:06 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-03-18 01:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Israel says it has killed two of Iran’s most senior figures in overnight strikes, marking a major escalation in the conflict.Defense Minister Israel Katz claims top security official Ali Larijani and Basij militia chief Gholam Reza Soleimani were both “eliminated.” But so far, Iranian state media has not confirmed the deaths.
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[2026-03-18 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ariana Afshar, one of many Iranian American content creators struggling to amplify the voices of Iranians amidst an internet blackout in Iran amidst the ongoing war, poses for a photo Monday, March 9, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle)
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[2026-03-18 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Israel has claimed to have killed Iran’s security chief responsible for suppressing protests in its latest airstrikes, as the regime launched a fresh crackdown on dissent in the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-03-18 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump en la Oficina Oval en la Casa Blanca en Washington el 16 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-03-18 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Joe Kent, Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, speaks during a congressional debate at KATU studios Oct. 7, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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[2026-03-18 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A general view of a pumping station at the end of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the east German refinery PCK in Schwedt, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner, File)
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[2026-03-18 00:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Images circulating online reveal shattered buildings, charred facades, and debris strewn across residential streets in Tehran. Residents and emergency crews are clearing rubble since the attacks. In southern Tehran, locals use basic tools to dig out damaged homes while firefighters tackle lingering blazes; videos from passing cars capture the aftermath near Niavaran, where a police facility was clearly struck.
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[2026-03-18 00:33 UTC+10:00] [Thailand] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Many crematorium furnaces use diesel, now in short supply due to disruptions from conflicts in the Middle East
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[2026-03-18 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The number of people who experience acute hunger could leap to 364 million globally if the war on Iran continues until June, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-18 00:29 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenNahariya, Israel The aftermath of a Hezbollah rocket strikePhotograph: Miro Maman/ReutersShareView image in fullscreenNetanya, Israel A barrage of Iranian missiles flies over the coastal townPhotograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenBeirut, Lebanon Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the city’s southern suburbsPhotograph: Ibrahim Amro/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenTehran, Iran A huge billboard newly erected on the corner of the city’s Vali Asr SquarePhotograph: Kaveh Kazemi/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenManila, Philippines Workers change the
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[2026-03-18 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
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[2026-03-18 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
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