Topic: Labour & Workers — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-27 21:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Philippines is increasing imports of poultry meat from the European Union. According to data from the European Commission (DG AGRI), EU shipments reached approximately 67.3 thousand tonnes in 2025, compared with around 41.3 thousand tonnes in 2024, up nearly 63 percent. This trend reflects the rapid growth of the Philippines’ poultry import market in Southeast Asia, especially in modern retail and the HoReCa sector.
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[2026-02-27 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Liverpool] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Wage bill increased by £42m to £428m, accounts show
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[2026-02-27 20:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: This month’s additions to the Abu Dhabi modern heritage register are a treat, adding a collection of familiar landmarks - such as the majestic mosaic-tiled rotunda of the former Terminal 1 building at Abu Dhabi International Airport - as well as a few sites that are, perhaps, less widely known, but equally worthy to the list.
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[2026-02-27 20:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A candidate for the United Kingdom’s left-wing Green Party has comfortably won a closely-watched election for a vacant parliamentary seat, delivering an embarrassing defeat for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in one of its former strongholds.
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[2026-02-27 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Electronics appliance maker Dyson has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against it by 24 migrant workers, who alleged they were subjected to forced and abusive treatment in a Malaysian factory making the firm's parts.
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[2026-02-27 20:20 UTC+10:00] [Byelections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Greens first, Reform second, Labour trailing – and the Tories losing their deposit. This felt like a rejection of the status quo
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[2026-02-27 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Argentina] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Javier Milei’s boosters say law will revive employment, but critics decry cuts to severance and longer working hours
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[2026-02-27 19:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The exact location of Reform UK’s Gorton and Denton campaign headquarters has become one of northern England's most curious secrets.
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[2026-02-27 19:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Government data showed Friday that 59 percent of civil servants who left their posts in 2024 did so before their retirement age, indicating the long-held perception of a government job as one of the country’s most stable professions has changed.
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[2026-02-27 18:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: As any habitual social media user, King's College London professor Alan Read did not pay much heed to the occasional deepfakes that would flash up on his feed. Sometimes he would report them, other times he would simply scroll past.
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[2026-02-27 18:46 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Queensland opposition has aired reservations about supporting proposed hate speech laws and accused the Crisafulli government of playing politics in the aftermath of a national tragedy.
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[2026-02-27 18:42 UTC+10:00] [BUSINESS] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Mizuho Financial Group is planning to replace about 5,000 administrative jobs in Japan with artificial intelligence over the next 10 years, as the country’s third-largest lender tries to boost productivity.
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[2026-02-27 17:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton by-election in a major humiliation for Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, which came in third behind Reform UK.
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[2026-02-27 17:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton by-election, with Hannah Spencer taking the seat from Labour in the Green's first ever Westminster by-election victory.
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[2026-02-27 17:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Never before have the Green Party won a Westminster by-election.
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[2026-02-27 16:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: File- This photo taken Nov. 19, 2015, shows Square CEO Jack Dorsey being interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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[2026-02-27 16:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: UK Green Party win Greater Manchester, pushing Starmer’s Labour Party to third place
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[2026-02-27 16:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, walk out of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, to travel to the U.S. Capitol where he will deliver the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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[2026-02-27 16:14 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-02-27 16:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Farouk Abkar, a 60-year-old former charity kitchen worker who spent a year distributing grain and organizing lines at a charity kitchen in Zam Zam refugee camp in Sudan, peers from his home window in 6 October city, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Khaled el Fiqi)
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[2026-02-27 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Germany] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exhibits pay homage to Ukrainians’ resilience and bring home the reality that war is going on in Europe
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[2026-02-27 15:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The WNBA logo is seen near a hoop before an WNBA basketball game at Mohegan Sun Arena, May 14, 2019, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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[2026-02-27 15:32 UTC+10:00] [Byelections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024
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[2026-02-27 14:40 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine the divisive political debate over the future of the 34 Australian women and children languishing in a Syrian detention camp. They also discuss why capital gains tax is becoming a real pressure point for Labor, Anthony Albanese’s careful words for One Nation voters and why there’s a proliferation of polls
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[2026-02-27 14:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Kerry Adrianto Riza, son of ‘gasoline godfather’ Riza Chalid, was given 15 years’ jail and ordered to pay US$173 million in restitution
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[2026-02-27 13:41 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Turnout in Gorton and Denton byelection over 47%, with 36,903 verified votes cast as Greens, Reform and Labour contest the seat
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[2026-02-27 12:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. State Department said Thursday that it would pay up to $10 million for information leading to the arrests or convictions of two brothers identified as leaders of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel in the state of Baja California, which includes Tijuana.
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[2026-02-27 12:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: There were rumors ahead of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday that some Democrats would be bringing illegal immigrants as their guests as some sort of silent protest against Trump’s immigration policies.
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[2026-02-27 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-02-27 11:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: President Lee Jae Myung will pay state visits to Singapore and the Philippines next week for summit talks aimed at expanding cooperation with the Southeast Asian nations, Cheong Wa Dae said Friday.
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[2026-02-27 11:45 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Rugby Union] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: We’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later.
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[2026-02-27 11:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS more details from para 3; RECASTS headline)By Kim Eun-jung
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[2026-02-27 11:18 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: There was no issue with the sex life in Claire Atkins’ long marriage until a few years after she went into early menopause, aged 46.
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[2026-02-27 11:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung will pay state visits to Singapore and the Philippines next week for summit talks aimed at expanding cooperation with the Southeast Asian nations, Cheong Wa Dae said Friday.
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[2026-02-27 11:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says his technology firm Block is laying off almost half its workforce because artificial intelligence (AI) "fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company."
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[2026-02-27 11:01 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Jack Dorsey’s payments giant Block will slash more than 4000 jobs – nearly half its global workforce – in what the company described as a deliberate pivot to becoming an “intelligence-native” business, sending shares surging more than 22 per cent in after-hours trading.
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[2026-02-27 10:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-02-27 09:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump applauds with Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., as he delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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[2026-02-27 09:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A soldier stands guard by a charred vehicle after it was set on fire, in Cointzio, Michoacán state, Mexico, Feb. 22, 2026, following the death of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera, known as “El Mencho.” (AP Photo/Armando Solis, File)
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[2026-02-27 09:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Chairs stand at a post office in the aftermath of the Santiam Fire, in Gates, Ore., Sept 9, 2020. (Mark Ylen/Albany Democrat-Herald via AP, File)
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[2026-02-27 08:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A construction union pickets the office of the development consultant Rhoades Planning Group in downtown Berkeley, Calif., on Jan. 20, 2026. (Nico Savidge/Berkeleyside via AP)
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[2026-02-27 08:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A drag queen throws out beads for the crowd during the Pride Parade in downtown Houston, on June 24, 2023. (Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
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[2026-02-27 07:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Harry Westlake is a student at Exeter College and is planning to attend the city's university to do a degree in sports coaching, alongside his rugby
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[2026-02-27 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Representatives approve the EU–Mercosur agreement through electronic voting at Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
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[2026-02-27 07:19 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Michelle Rowland’s office says rising antisemitism needs ‘coordinated and sustained response’. Follow updates live
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[2026-02-27 07:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has hailed the first 13 months of his second term as nothing short of “transformative” during his State of the Union address, a message of victory the White House says he will continue to take on the road as he seeks to build support for his Republican Party before the midterm elections in November.
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[2026-02-27 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men’s hockey team visited President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and later received about a two-minute bipartisan standing ovation during his State of the Union address that night.
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[2026-02-27 06:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: SLT-MOBITEL has partnered with MegaPay (Pay&Go), further enhancing its nationwide value proposition to empower Sri Lankans to connect to the digital world through the eSIM onboarding service.
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[2026-02-27 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: India’s growth as the third largest economy in the world has been possible not just because of the country’s leadership, but also due to the hard work of its people, and this would enable the collective growth of the Asian continent, Senthil Thondaiman, leader of Ceylon Workers’ Congress, has said.
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[2026-02-27 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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