Topic: Media — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-08 07:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Iranian state media, citing a military official, says Tehran has fired missiles at "enemy units" after a US attack on an Iranian tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-08 07:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Post’s parent company News Corp reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Thursday, driven by growth in its Dow Jones, digital real estate and book publishing divisions.
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[2026-05-08 07:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-05-08 07:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Federico Valverde (right) was hospitalised after a dressing room bust up with Aurélien Tchouaméni (left). (Getty Images: Europa Press/Oscar J. Barroso)
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[2026-05-08 07:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Dianne King is a digital video journalist, and Emmy and Peabody Award-winning editor.
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[2026-05-08 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by David Manney via PJ Media,
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[2026-05-08 06:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Democrats in the United States Senate have raised questions about the US military’s potential role in establishing vast “evacuation zones” in Lebanon, Gaza and Iran.
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[2026-05-08 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios - and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession: the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible. It took a while to notice because almost no one in mainstream media bothered to report it.
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[2026-05-08 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The explosions heard near Bandar Abbas and the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday night may have been caused by hostile action from the UAE, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated Tasnim media outlet reported.
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[2026-05-08 06:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Explosions have been reported in the southern Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and on Qeshm Island, according to Iranian state media.
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[2026-05-08 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Managing director Sue Bird speaks with the media after a training camp for the U.S women’s national basketball team, Dec. 12, 2025, in Durham, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File)
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[2026-05-08 05:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Giulia Gallo, Postdoctoral Scientist in the Viral Glycoproteins Group at The Pirbright Institute told The Associated Press that “the most important thing is not to create panic” as the transmission rate for the virus is very low. Three passengers have died and several others have been sickened by hantavirus on board the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius cruise ship, which is stuck off the coast of Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board and was waiting Wednesday to head to Spain’s
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[2026-05-08 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Trust is a strange thing. We spend years building it, only to realise how fragile it always was. There are some emotions the rational mind struggles to process. Betrayal is one of them. Because trust is rarely built overnight. It takes time. Conversations. Consistency. Presence. We spend years learning who to trust, slowly lowering our guard around people who begin to feel safe.
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[2026-05-08 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Iran is "currently reviewing" messages from the U.S. that it received via Pakistani mediators, but it has yet to reach a conclusion or deliver a reply, an Iranian official said Thursday, state media outlets reported.
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[2026-05-08 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and Cambridge University Press and Assessment partnered, making CSE Academy an authorised examination centre for Linguaskill by Cambridge recently on April 30, bringing the English proficiency test designed for academics and professionals to CSE’s 12 branches leveraging the exchanges’ presence in all provinces in the country.
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[2026-05-08 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-05-08 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-05-08 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-05-08 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Cartoon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-05-08 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel Police stopped the alleged wedding of a 14-year-old girl and a 41-year-old man from taking place in a home in Yavne'el, southwest of Tiberias, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
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[2026-05-08 04:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Kylie Kelce may soon become one of those Disney adults who visit the parks without her kids.
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[2026-05-08 03:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A ‘mysterious American’ tried to pay citizens US$200,000 each to sign a petition calling for Greenland to join the US, local media reported
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[2026-05-08 03:57 UTC+10:00] [Agence France-Presse] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A ‘mysterious American’ tried to pay citizens US$200,000 each to sign a petition calling for Greenland to join the US, local media reported
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[2026-05-08 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Colorado school district is being sued for suspending an Asian student who recorded her peers drunkenly using racial slurs in a disturbing video that went viral — but didn’t punish the black students who blasted it on social media because their actions should be viewed through a “culturally responsive lens.”
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[2026-05-08 03:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: UK media reported that a man wearing a balaclava had allegedly threatened Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor when he was out walking his dogs
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[2026-05-08 03:29 UTC+10:00] [Jeffrey Epstein] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: UK media reported that a man wearing a balaclava had allegedly threatened Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor when he was out walking his dogs
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[2026-05-08 03:10 UTC+10:00] [Elections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into alleged misappropriation of EU funds linked to media training sessions for National Rally leader Jordan Bardella, according to an official from the far-right party.
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[2026-05-08 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Constantin von Hoffmeister, a political and cultural commentator from Germany, author of the book The Fate of White America and director of Multipolar Press
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[2026-05-08 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Constantin von Hoffmeister, a political and cultural commentator from Germany, author of the book The Fate of White America and director of Multipolar Press
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[2026-05-08 02:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is challenging the UK media regulator Ofcom in the High Court over fees and potential fines introduced under the Online Safety Act.
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[2026-05-08 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: British Ambassador to Israel Simon Walters on Thursday outlined in a press briefing the UK’s response to recent antisemitic threats and said there had been “much more than words, despite what some have alleged.”
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[2026-05-08 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THERE are newspaper owners who merely keep a publication alive as a business enterprise. Then there are a very few who transform a newspaper into a national institution that shapes the intellectual and political life of a country. Dante A. Ang belonged to the latter category.
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[2026-05-08 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT — A dozen U.S. Democratic Senators have called for the U.S. Central Command to answer questions about American coordination with Israel in declaring broad “ evacuation zones ” in Lebanon and Iran, alleging that the practice may violate international law.
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[2026-05-08 01:31 UTC+10:00] [Marco Rubio] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Comments with optimistic tone went viral on social media, with some calling it an unofficial start of his 2028 campaign
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[2026-05-08 01:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFOMS) and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Thursday, signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the strengthened protection of media workers in the country.
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[2026-05-08 00:53 UTC+10:00] [CNN] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The brash mogul once known as ‘the mouth from the south’ took on established broadcasters and changed TV for ever
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[2026-05-08 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Ted Turner made sure CNN would never go quietly.
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[2026-05-08 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — \White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has given birth to a baby girl, she announced Thursday.
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[2026-05-08 00:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio jokes with Pope Leo XIV as they exchange gifts at the Vatican on Thursday. (Vatican Media via Reuters)
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[2026-05-08 00:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UAE will form a committee to document Iran's attacks to support legal action, state media said on Thursday, after earlier calling for reparations.
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[2026-05-08 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Jannik Sinner, of Italy, listens to a reporters’ question during a press conference at the Italian Open at the Foro Italico in Rome, Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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[2026-05-07 23:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Liam Gallagher, left, and Noel Gallagher of Oasis appear during their reunion tour in Toronto on Aug. 24, 2025. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
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[2026-05-07 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: After failing to achieve a breakthrough in their border dispute, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, left, and his Thai counterpart, Anutin Charnvirakul, right, held a press conference on Thursday evening alongside their host, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., on the sidelines of an ASEAN summit in Cebu, the Philippines. © Reuters
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[2026-05-07 23:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE- In this March 21, 2016, file photo members of the media and invited guests take a look at the new iPhone SE during an event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)
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[2026-05-07 23:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Senators sought a review of the implementation of the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund (CFITF) law or "coco levy fund" amid reports that coconut farmers have yet to benefit from the law.
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[2026-05-07 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Over twenty years ago, Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg published a biography of Ted Turner called Citizen Turner: The Wild Ride of an American Tycoon. It wasn’t the first time that the Southern-born media mogul got compared to the fictional newsprint colossus co-created and incarnated by Orson Welles. Welles and Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz based their 1941 film character on real-life magnate William Randolph Hearst, who was arguably a more venal character than his fictionalized analog or his
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[2026-05-07 22:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Over the past year, Shay Gal has emerged as an Israeli writer consistently portraying Turkey as Israel’s next target across a range of publications, from Israel Hayom and The Times of Israel to Greek media outlets.
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[2026-05-07 22:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor has filed lawsuits against some of the world’s largest video game companies for refusing to store the personal data of Russian gamers on servers inside the country, the Kommersant business newspaper reported Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 21:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: “[Starmer] never once condemned Israeli war crimes.” Peter Oborne spent decades at the heart of the British establishment. The award-winning journalist and author of ‘Complicit’ sits down with Mohamed Hashem on Real Talk to break down how the Iraq war set the template for Gaza, and why there is a direct path between the two.
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[2026-05-07 20:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said he met recently with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, state media reported on Thursday, offering a first public account of him meeting Khamenei after the latter suffered severe wounds at the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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