Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-06-06 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Chemical makers in Japan have been finding alternative sources for the plastic raw material as conflict drags on in Iran. (Photo by Tomoki Mera)
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[2026-06-06 07:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: This past Sunday, New York’s Fifth Avenue was engulfed in a sea of blue and white, surrounded by one of the largest displays of police security in recent memory. For over six decades, consistently since its inception as a modest youth salute in 1964, the annual Israel Day Parade has served as a day of celebration, joy, and public display of Jewish pride and Zionist solidarity in the heart of the Diaspora.
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[2026-06-06 07:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For decades, the alliance between the State of Israel and American Jewry has been one of the pillars of Israel’s diplomatic, security, and strategic strength.
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[2026-06-06 07:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Three Palestinians were injured during IDF operations in the area of Hebron in the West Bank earlier on Friday after soldiers mistook a vehicle as having accelerated toward them.
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[2026-06-06 07:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iran’s players work out during a training session, in Antalya, southern Turkey, Tuesday, June 2, 2026, ahead of the World Cup soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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[2026-06-06 07:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has sought to reassure farmers hard-hit by tariffs and the economic fallout of the US-Israeli war with Iran during a visit to Wisconsin.
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[2026-06-06 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran's World Cup football team players have been granted visas to enter the US, just 10 days before their first match in Los Angeles amid a conflict between the two countries.
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[2026-06-06 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A seven-month-old Palestinian baby has been killed after Israeli forces opened fire on his family’s car near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-06-06 06:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Janez Jansa began his fourth term as Slovenia’s prime minister by ordering the Palestinian flag removed from the main government building in Ljubljana, where it had flown for two years.
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[2026-06-06 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hamas says a delegation has arrived in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials and mediators on implementing the first phase of the US-brokered Gaza “ceasefire” agreement.
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[2026-06-06 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The American job market continues to show surprising strength — good news for President Donald Trump who has taken a beating in the polls over the surging gasoline prices that followed U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.
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[2026-06-06 06:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Negative views of both Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have soared since last year across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, according to a new poll from Pew Research Center.
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[2026-06-06 05:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump faces the risk that Iran will close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait if the conflict in the Middle East escalates, a scenario that would slash oil supplies to an already deeply disrupted market.
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[2026-06-06 05:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: French anti-terrorism prosecutors say they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected “torture” and “war crimes” over Israel’s alleged mistreatment of French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month.
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[2026-06-06 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Gal Gadot fans will be happy to hear that her latest movie, In the Hand of Dante, will begin streaming on Netflix on June 24.
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[2026-06-06 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: To bring up an age-old quandary, what is jazz? If you’re looking for clues in the lineup of this year’s Jerusalem Jazz Festival (June 9-11), you may come away more baffled than enlightened.
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[2026-06-06 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-06 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A man was attacked on Friday by a group of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters while passing their demonstration in front of a Jerusalem police station, according to Ynet.
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[2026-06-06 05:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli sources have blamed officials inside the White House for leaking details of an Israeli plan involving Iran to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Jerusalem Post reported.
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[2026-06-06 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: LONDRES (AP) — Dos hombres rumanos fueron condenados en un tribunal de Londres el viernes por el apuñalamiento de un periodista de una cadena de televisión en persa en un ataque que, según los fiscales, se llevó a cabo por encargo de autoridades en Teherán.
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[2026-06-06 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: There are two main ways to understand the October 7, 2023, attacks.
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[2026-06-06 04:21 UTC+10:00] [Crime] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Pouria Zeraati of Iran International TV was stabbed three times outside his London home in attempt to ‘silence’ him
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[2026-06-06 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A military jeep drives over a roadside bomb. The explosion takes arms and legs and scars hearts and minds. It’s not a jeep that gets blown apart but lives. The shock wave ripples through families. It deprives children of their parents and robs parents of a piece of their future.
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[2026-06-06 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An organization that works with ultra-Orthodox soldiers called on the prime minister to end the recent wave of arrests of young haredi yeshiva students, warning that arrests threaten any solution to the draft issue.
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[2026-06-06 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Negotiations between the United States and Iran "are at a deadlock," Mohsen Rezaei, Iran's military advisor to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, told CNN in an interview on Friday.
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[2026-06-06 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-06-06 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Previous slideNext slide A Palestinian church scout prepares for the Catholic Marian Festival in the Christian village of Taybeh, in the occupied West Bank. AFPInfo Cuban teenagers play football inside a dilapidated sports hall in Havana. AFPInfo An injured Palestinian man waits in an ambulance outside Nasser Hospital after an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
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[2026-06-06 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: For years, Rizwan worked non-stop to make a success of his business selling South Asian and Middle Eastern products in the Swedish city of Malmo.
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[2026-06-06 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: By sunset, the old stone streets of Batroun are lively again.
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[2026-06-06 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The last time the US staged a football World Cup, it went off-script from the start.
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[2026-06-06 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Get news alerts fromYou can manage notifications at any time by clicking the notifications icon.SubscribeMaybe later
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[2026-06-06 03:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: GENEVA, Switzerland — The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest was watched by 131 million viewers, organizers said Friday, down 35 million on the year before after five countries boycotted over Israel's participation.
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[2026-06-06 03:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-06-06 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: On the coastal road in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, seven university students – four in medicine, two in dentistry, one in software engineering – are behind the counter of an ice cream parlour.
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[2026-06-06 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Lebanon's leaders criticised Hezbollah and Iran after the group rejected a ceasefire agreement reached between Lebanon and Israel, which failed to guarantee an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory.
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[2026-06-06 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-06-06 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ireland has barred Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, from visiting the country, citing their conduct towards pro-Palestinian activists and support for policies that would displace Palestinians from their homeland.
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[2026-06-06 01:56 UTC+10:00] [Lebanon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Thousands flee including from village hosting at least 2,500 displaced people, one day after Hezbollah rejects ceasefire
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[2026-06-06 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Israel’s air force struck different parts of southern Lebanon on Friday as the military issued evacuation warnings for nine villages, including one that has been spared much of the destruction and was sheltering thousands of people displaced by the three-month war.
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[2026-06-06 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Snack maker Calbee has switched some packaging to black and white over difficulties in procuring naphtha-derived inks. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura)
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[2026-06-06 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-06 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – In the popular Bastan market in the west of the Iranian capital, where the inviting smell of fresh bread and fruit mingle with the sight of colourful fabrics and clothing, the scene no longer holds its usual joy.
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[2026-06-06 01:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-06 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel deployed special forces to Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Somaliland during its war with Iran, according to a CNN report published on Friday.
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[2026-06-06 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Israel-Gaza war] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: I have spent the past five years collecting evidence of grave violations of international law in Gaza and the West Bank. All states, including Australia, must respond to these atrocities
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[2026-06-06 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah has continued to carry out operations against the Israeli military in Southern Lebanon, according to Al Mayadeen news.
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[2026-06-06 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Spanish U.N peacekeepers patrol at an entrance of Dibbine village, southeast Lebanon, Friday, June 5, 2026, a day after Israeli forces withdrew following intense clashes with Hezbollah fighters. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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[2026-06-06 00:45 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A growing divide between fans and team, coupled with economic hardship and war, has dampened the mood
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[2026-06-06 00:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Husam Badran of the Hamas political bureau told Al Jazeera that the group will not lay down its arms until comprehensive decisions are made alongside other Palestinian factions.
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[2026-06-06 00:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US-Iran Talks at Risk as Lebanon Tensions Escalate
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