Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-04 07:23 UTC+10:00] [Iranian Foreign Ministry] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president also says negotiations with Tehran are ‘going on right now’ despite Tehran’s insistence no direct talks were under way
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[2026-08-04 07:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Monday scolded Chevron and Exxon for soaring profits in the second quarter, as oil prices have surged due to the Iran war.
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[2026-08-04 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatar, Egypt and Turkey released a statement on Monday criticising Israel for the intensification of its strikes on Gaza, calling them "a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law".
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[2026-08-04 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Arab League secretary general has strongly condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza and accused them of attempting to sabotage the ceasefire agreement in a statement on Monday.
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[2026-08-04 06:50 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-08-04 06:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Palestinos sentados en una larga mesa entre los escombros de edificios destruidos mientras rompen el ayuno del Ramadán, el jueves 19 de febrero de 2026, en Jan Yunis, Franja de Gaza. (AP Foto/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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[2026-08-04 06:23 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-08-04 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli strike on a civilian car southwest of Gaza City killed two Palestinians and injured several others on Monday night.
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[2026-08-04 05:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli settlers carried out attacks on Palestinians in an area south of Nablus on Monday night, setting fire to agricultural land in the town of Beita and attacking Palestinian vehicles with stones near the village of Burin.
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[2026-08-04 05:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Monday that talks with Iran are in progress, stressing that the two sides are discussing the reopening of the crucial Strait of Hormuz "literally" by the following day, although Tehran earlier denied any plans for negotiations with Washington.
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[2026-08-04 05:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh said on Monday that Iran has an economic resilience plan for at least the next two years, according to Fars news.
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[2026-08-04 05:36 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US president expects negotiations to begin in next day or two but Iran says it is not reviving talks with Washington
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[2026-08-04 05:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Trump administration seems to be struggling to figure out how to get out of its self-made Iran quagmire.
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[2026-08-04 05:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Trump administration seems to be struggling to figure out how to get out of its self-made Iran quagmire.
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[2026-08-04 05:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UAE secretly pushed for the sale of Israeli drones by Elbit Systems following an attack on Abu Dhabi by Yemen’s Houthis in 2022, according to leaked emails reported by Haaretz and Drop Site News.
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[2026-08-04 05:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-04 05:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Palestinians try to extinguish a burning car after an Israeli military strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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[2026-08-04 05:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Three of the four major Arab parties - Hadash, Ta'al and Balad - are expected to officially revive the Joint List this week without Ra'am, while also unveiling their new Knesset slate, Hadash-Ta'al's recently appointed chairman Yousef Jabareen told The Jerusalem Post in a Monday interview.
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[2026-08-04 05:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UAE secretly pushed for the sale of Israeli drones by Elbit Systems following an attack on Abu Dhabi by Yemen’s Houthis in 2022, according to leaked emails reported by Haaretz and Drop Site News.
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[2026-08-04 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: During a press conference outside the Oval Office on Monday, Trump told reporters that he is not going to let Iran impose fees on the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-04 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem published a report in late June 2026 titled Unshielded Childhood, which cataloged and analyzed the deaths of 54 Palestinian minors killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank during 2025. The report immediately circulated widely through global media outlets, framing the fatalities as an unprovoked pattern of systemic state violence.
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[2026-08-04 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Tel Aviv Vice Mayor Guy Avner challenged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to a boxing match, citing the American mayor’s anti-Israel statements and accusing him of fomenting hatred towards the Jewish people.
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[2026-08-04 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump said Monday that ExxonMobil and Chevron made too much money as crude oil prices rose due to the Iran war.
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[2026-08-04 04:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Trump has said that talks with Iran are ongoing and said that it was Tehran’s “last chance” to make a deal, despite Iran earlier contradicting that discussions are taking place.
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[2026-08-04 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Aerial photo shows Shiite pilgrims gathering between the illuminated holy shrine of Imam Hussein and the holy shrine of Imam Abbas, ahead for Arbaeen, the annual Shiite commemoration marking 40 days after Ashura, in Karbala, Iraq, late Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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[2026-08-04 04:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump’s "Board of Peace" said on Monday that an essential prerequisite of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza is Hamas’s “complete” disarmament, after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-08-04 03:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Palestinian Minister for Foreign Affairs Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said on Monday that the violence of Israeli settlers and the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, which has accelerated in recent years, are not separate phenomena but “two complementary pillars of Israel’s illegal colonial project” to seize Palestinian land.
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[2026-08-04 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An elderly Palestinian was injured after being attacked by Israeli settlers, who pepper-sprayed him while he was on his land in the Abu Njeim area, southeast of Bethlehem, according to Wafa news, citing local sources.
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[2026-08-04 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Six religious Jews have been arrested after attacking the historic St. James Armenian Monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City, according to Israeli police.
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[2026-08-04 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has described Iran’s leadership as “unbelievably duplicitous”, saying Tehran asked for talks to end the war and then announced that no discussions were being held.
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[2026-08-04 03:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanese authorities arrested the former Palestinian ambassador to Beirut on Monday, ahead of his extradition to Palestine to face corruption charges, a Lebanese judicial official told AFP.
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[2026-08-04 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army has said that it killed Mahmoud Fatair, whom it said was the commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, in a strike on central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah area over the weekend.
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[2026-08-04 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Hopes for a renewed push for peace in Gaza hung in the balance on Monday as US President Donald Trump's envoy visited Israel following one of the deadliest days in the Palestinian territory since a ceasefire halted two years of all-out war last October.
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[2026-08-04 03:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: When Palestinian rapper Shabjdeed released "SLV" on Saturday, a blistering diss track aimed at fellow artist Saint Levant, listeners initially treated it as the start of another celebrity feud.
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[2026-08-04 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Palestinian Christian leaders called out American Christian Zionists for ignoring the experiences of Palestinian Christians in Israel, claiming their interpretation of "biblical prophecy" doesn't align with reality in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
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[2026-08-04 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Twenty anti-Israel pro-terror organizations in the US have raised more than $250 million in cumulative funding over five years, the Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry revealed in a new report.
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[2026-08-04 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is protected under freedom of expression, a German court has ruled, according to the legal journal Beck-aktuell.
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[2026-08-04 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mohammad Karami, ground forces commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said on Monday that fighters are standing ready in northwestern Iran to respond to any threats from “extra-regional enemies or terrorist groups”.
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[2026-08-04 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Trump pauses ‘massive attack’ on Iran, says new talks to begin
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[2026-08-04 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The first Cooking Peace summer camp program wrapped up at the Ben Shemen Youth Village in central Israel with some forty teens, split between Jews and Arabs, concluding the week-long culinary program at a graduation ceremony on Friday.
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[2026-08-04 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has called on the federal government to immediately designate Kataib Hezbollah as a terrorist entity on Sunday, urging authorities in an open letter to Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree to “immediately recommend that the government of Canada list Kataib Hezbollah as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code.”
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[2026-08-04 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: During a ceremony, Uganda's military has unveiled a statue of the Israeli Prime Minister's older brother. Yonatan Netanyahu was killed during a hostage rescue operation in the East African country in 1976.
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[2026-08-04 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Nechirvan Barzani, president of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, has held talks with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in the first visit by a Kurdish leader to Syria since the fall of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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[2026-08-04 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has reportedly held phone conversations on Monday with his counterparts in Oman and Pakistan, to discuss the latest regional developments after Trump called off US strikes against the country.
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[2026-08-04 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump accused Iran of being “duplicitous” in their conduct with the US by agreeing to talks privately and then publicly saying they are only having discussions with Oman and not the US.
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[2026-08-04 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-04 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Suhaib Zahda, a prominent Palestinian activist from Hebron, was arrested and interrogated by Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces after seeking permission to hold a protest over rising fuel prices, salary cuts, and corruption.
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[2026-08-04 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump criticized Iran’s leadership for being “unbelievably duplicitous” and accused them of being dishonest regarding the status of US-Iran negotiations in a post on Truth Social on Monday.
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[2026-08-04 01:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The threat to ships carrying oil in the Middle East is at its worst since the Iran war started, experts have said, after a spate of attacks on another key route in the region.
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[2026-08-04 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ahead of Pride Amsterdam (July 25-August 8), mysterious flyers were distributed featuring names and locations of Jewish IDF soldiers visiting the city.
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