Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s tea exporters are facing fresh uncertainty as regional conflict disrupts shipping routes to the Middle East while Iran’s currency crisis and banking restrictions continue to complicate the country’s tea-for-oil barter trade with Tehran.
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[2026-03-05 06:29 UTC+10:00] [Gavin Newsom] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: California governor, promoting his memoir in LA, was asked if US should rethink military partnership with Israel
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[2026-03-05 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Despite reports of an erosion of trust between Washington and its Gulf partners as they come under a barrage of Iranian rockets, the White House said on Wednesday that those countries have praised the US president for starting the war and targeting "the rogue Iranian terrorist regime".
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[2026-03-05 06:20 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-05 06:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: US and Israeli forces took out the Iranian official behind a plot to assassinate President Trump in the final days of the 2024 election campaign, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed Wednesday.
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[2026-03-05 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The footage is spectacular.
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[2026-03-05 06:08 UTC+10:00] [PMQs] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street
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[2026-03-05 06:00 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump
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[2026-03-05 05:56 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Here’s what we know about the four US service members who have been identified
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[2026-03-05 05:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Children hold a sign protesting war against Iran during an antiwar demonstration at Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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[2026-03-05 05:41 UTC+10:00] [Keir Starmer] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The prime minister’s cautious stance about helping the US against the Tehran regime mirrors that of the electorate
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[2026-03-05 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US will begin using larger reserves of less-sophisticated weapons after assessing that Iranian air defences are degraded, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-05 05:38 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Welcome to our ongoing coverage of the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-05 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The day after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, and the subsequent Iranian counterattack against US bases in the Gulf, Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that the UK government would intervene in the conflict in two ways.
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: On Saturday morning, at least 165 people, most of them young girls and boys, were killed in a US-Israeli air strike on Iran's Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province.
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: On Saturday morning, at least 165 people, most of them young girls and boys, were killed in a US-Israeli air strike on Iran's Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province.
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia’s nuclear safety watchdog has put its emergency centre “on alert” as fighting escalates between Israel, the United States and Iran, with radiation experts monitoring for potential risks to Australians.
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[2026-03-05 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-05 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the US Senate were set to begin voting Wednesday on a bipartisan war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that any hostilities against it be authorized by Congress.
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[2026-03-05 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said he was surprised at markets’ response to the escalating Iran war, calling the dip in stocks “more benign” than he expected as the conflict entered its fifth day.
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[2026-03-05 04:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Plumes of smoke from an explosion rise on the skyline in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-03-05 04:21 UTC+10:00] [Middle East and north Africa] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Airlines are using long-readied contingency plans but bottlenecks have formed that no amount of planning can fix
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[2026-03-05 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli security forces believe that Iran’s ruling establishment, despite suffering heavy losses from US-Israeli bombardment, is not close to collapsing, Walla reports.
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[2026-03-05 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE- Iraqi’s head coach Graham Arnold sits on the bench at the start of the 2026 World Cup play off first leg soccer match between UAE and Iraq in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Walid Ibrahim, File)
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[2026-03-05 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli government approved an attack on Lebanon on Sunday night, hours before Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday, Israel's Channel 12 News has reported.
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[2026-03-05 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The powerful son of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who is now widely tipped to be his father’s successor, was apparently treated for “impotency” and had trouble finding a wife, according to diplomatic leaks.
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[2026-03-05 03:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O ataque aéreo à residência do aiatolá Ali Khamenei em Teerã – um dos primeiros da atual guerra dos EUA e Israel contra o Irã – resultou na morte do líder supremo de 86 anos, juntamente com grande parte da estrutura de comando iraniana.
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[2026-03-05 03:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's military has threatened to target Israeli embassies worldwide if Israel attacks the country's mission in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-05 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, lowa, was posthumously promoted from specialist after a strike at a command center in Kuwait killed him and five other U.S. service members. (AP video by Mark Vancleave)
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[2026-03-05 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un buque petrolero en el Complejo Sheskharis, en Novorossiysk, Rusia, el 11 de octubre del 2022. (Foto AP)
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[2026-03-05 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed Muslim MPs and community figures at a "Big Iftar" event in Westminster Hall, organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, on Tuesday night.
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[2026-03-05 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Eva Bartlett, a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years).
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[2026-03-05 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Eva Bartlett, an award-winning Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine, as well as Venezuela and the Donbass.
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[2026-03-05 03:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — A US submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday, touting the strike as evidence of America's global reach in its war on Iran.
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[2026-03-05 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces have claimed an attack on a major Iranian military compound in Tehran housing command centres of the Revolutionary Guards, the elite Quds Force and the Basij paramilitary force.
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[2026-03-05 03:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday disclosed repeated Turkish initiatives to prevent a war between the United States and Iran, saying Tehran had failed to understand the mood in Washington.
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[2026-03-05 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that Iran’s thwarted drone attack on Turkey would not trigger NATO’s Article 5.
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[2026-03-05 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The first commercial flight out of the Middle East to Australia since hostilities began landed in Sydney overnight.
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[2026-03-05 03:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatar's foreign minister "categorically rejected" statements by his Iranian counterpart that Iran's attacks had targeted only US assets in the country and not civilian infrastructure.
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[2026-03-05 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex in Novorossiysk, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-03-05 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has plummeted by 90 percent since Israel and the US launched their five-day onslaught on Iran, energy market intelligence firm Kpler reported.
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[2026-03-05 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El buque de guerra iraní IRIS Dena en la bahía de Bengala durante la Revisión Internacional de la Flota celebrada en Visakhapatnam, India, el 18 de febrero de 2026. (Foto AP)
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[2026-03-05 02:31 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts on Tuesday addressed the war in Iran, the closing of Papa Johns restaurants and the upcoming White House correspondents dinner
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[2026-03-05 02:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos Pete Hegseth escucha mientras habla el jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto general Dan Caine, en el Pentágono en Washington, el 2 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-03-05 02:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Turkish foreign ministry has summoned the Iranian ambassador to Ankara to express concerns over a ballistic missile fired from Iran into its airspace, a Turkish diplomatic source said.
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[2026-03-05 02:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still alive and well despite recent reports that he had been killed in an US-Israeli airstrike on Tehran, one of his close aides has told RT.
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[2026-03-05 02:10 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-03-05 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has strongly condemned the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, despite the threat by US President Donald Trump to cut off all trade with Madrid for refusing to allow Washington to use its bases.
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[2026-03-05 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has strongly condemned the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, despite the threat by US President Donald Trump to cut off all trade with Madrid for refusing to allow Washington to use its bases.
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[2026-03-05 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says an American submarine sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo in international waters.
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