Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-30 10:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti, has criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following his announcement that Israel intends to take control of more than 70 percent of Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
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[2026-05-30 10:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Progressive US lawmaker Ilhan Omar has criticised Congress for failing to challenge executive war powers and bring an end to the ongoing conflict with Iran.
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[2026-05-30 10:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: LIVE, FREE and EXCLUSIVE starting June 12 2026
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[2026-05-30 09:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency has warned that a military blockade on Iranian ports remains in force, restricting all inbound and outbound maritime traffic.
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[2026-05-30 09:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for 22 military operations carried out on Friday against Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-30 09:19 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington/Dubai: US President Donald Trump said he would soon decide on a proposed deal to extend the ceasefire with Iran, though the two countries still appeared to differ on significant issues that have been central to the conflict.
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[2026-05-30 08:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: ‘I am prepared to lose everything for my convictions,” said acclaimed Italian author Erri De Luca at an event at the International Writers Festival in Mishkenot Sha’ananim in Jerusalem, speaking about his support for Israel and his connection to the Hebrew language.
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[2026-05-30 08:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: If you were curious about the series Etty, by Israeli television creator Hagai Levi, but did not manage to see it at the movies, now it is running on Hot VOD, Hot Drama, and Next TV, and will be available on Yes Binge starting May 31.
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[2026-05-30 08:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel Police’s Traffic Division issued over 4,000 tickets on Thursday as part of an enforcement campaign aiming to crack down on traffic offenses across Israel.
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[2026-05-30 08:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates conducted dozens of airstrikes against Iran over the course of the war, ending the day after the US -Iran cease-fire was announced in early April, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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[2026-05-30 08:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES throughout)By Song Sang-ho
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[2026-05-30 08:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Sat 30 May 2026 at 8:17am
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[2026-05-30 08:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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[2026-05-30 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Central Asian members in particular see bloc’s main value as preserving their sovereignty rather than enabling collective military action
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[2026-05-30 08:00 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Central Asian members in particular see bloc’s main value as preserving their sovereignty rather than enabling collective military action
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[2026-05-30 07:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli air strikes across southern Lebanon have killed at least 11 people, including a paramedic, and wounded eight others, according to reports from Al Jazeera Arabic.
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[2026-05-30 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates carried out dozens of air strikes against Iran during the Israeli-US war, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, revealing a far deeper and earlier role in the conflict than previously acknowledged.
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[2026-05-30 06:58 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-05-30 06:56 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-05-30 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-30 06:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES throughout)By Song Sang-ho
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[2026-05-30 06:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has lashed out against United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres for its inclusion as a perpetrator in this year's Conflict-Related Sexual Violence report, which was released to the public on Friday.
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[2026-05-30 05:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said he was lifting a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, even as Iran denied his claim that negotiations were taking place on the fate of its nuclear programme, a resolution to which Trump conditioned lifting the naval siege.
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[2026-05-30 05:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A resident rows a small boat through floodwaters outside a submerged home along the banks of the Euphrates River near Deir ez-Zor, Syria, Friday, May 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
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[2026-05-30 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Rockets fired by the Hezbollah terrorist organization hit a southern Lebanese Church on the night between Thursday and Friday, the IDF announced on Friday evening.
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[2026-05-30 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-30 05:46 UTC+10:00] [Sex Crimes] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: The United Nations on Friday added Israeli and Russian security forces for the first time to an annual report documenting sexual violence in conflicts, including allegations of rape and sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees and Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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[2026-05-30 05:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-05-30 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-30 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: American Innovation Forum, hosted by Jerusalem Young Professionals (JYP) Forum, America Hub Israel (US Embassy Jerusalem), Made in Jerusalem, and Startup Grind, brought together entrepreneurs, executives, and young professionals on May 20 to discuss Jerusalem’s growing role in Israel’s hi-tech ecosystem.
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[2026-05-30 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the winners of the 2026 Security Prize, among them being a system that was key during Operation Roaring Lion against Iran, a classified Mossad asset, a breakthrough in the Ofek satellite array, a new development by Unit 81, and electronic warfare systems that became key to Israel's air superiority.
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[2026-05-30 05:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An $870m debt-relief deal suggests that Iran International, an Iranian opposition outlet, has ties to Saudi Arabian investors, according to a Financial Times report on Thursday.
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[2026-05-30 05:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United Nations has confirmed it placed Israel on a blacklist of countries suspected of committing sexual violence against civilians, and pushed back on accusations made by Israel regarding its inclusion.
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[2026-05-30 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: October 7 was not merely a security breach; it was a fundamental turning point that shattered a global delusion. To understand why Israel was so catastrophically blindsided, we must examine the fact that for decades, the West and Israel operated under the comfortable delusion that money, prosperity, and the responsibilities of governance could “tame” an ideological movement.
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[2026-05-30 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Suddenly, US President Donald Trump is talking up the Abraham Accords treaties between Israel and Arab and Islamic countries.
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[2026-05-30 05:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: For decades, Pakistani passports have carried a simple but striking inscription: “Valid for all countries of the world except Israel."
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[2026-05-30 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Patriarch Mar Polis III Nona - born Amel Shamoon Nona - previously served as the Archbishop of Mosul and the Archbishop of Sydney before becoming the patriarch for the Chaldean Catholic Church. The Chaldean Catholic Church is one of the nearly two dozen Eastern Rite churches that are in full communion with Rome.
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[2026-05-30 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in warzones for the first time.
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[2026-05-30 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran has pushed back against comments by US President Donald Trump, saying negotiations between Tehran and Washington remain underway and have yet to produce a final agreement.
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[2026-05-30 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel is making "every possible mistake" in Lebanon, Tel Aviv Vice-Rector Professor Eyal Zisser told Ron Kofman and Aryeh Eldad on 103fm radio on Friday during an interview on the subject of the IDF's campaign against Hezbollah.
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[2026-05-30 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The war with Iran that began on February 28 will be remembered as the moment the US-Israel alliance reached its highest point – and its most politically dangerous one.
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[2026-05-30 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon’s official National News Agency says an Israeli air strike on the area of al-Hartiya, on the outskirts of the southern town of Adloun, has killed eight Syrian nationals.
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[2026-05-30 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US envoy to the UN on Friday sharply criticised the world body's decision to add the Israeli military and security forces to a blacklist of parties suspected of committing conflict-related sexual violence.
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[2026-05-30 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A building destroyed in a previous Israeli airstrike is seen in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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[2026-05-30 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: What began as an attempt to free up space in Lebanon's severely overcrowded prisons has spiralled into the country's latest round of sectarian squabbling.
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[2026-05-30 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-05-30 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The flat white arriving at a cafe table in Dubai this summer may look exactly the same as it always has.
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[2026-05-30 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: In Lebanon, as in many countries of the Middle East, food is far more than a meal. Cuisine is often synonymous with culture and identity, and the number of restaurants elsewhere serving food from the region shows how far it has travelled into the wider world.
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[2026-05-30 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran says no agreement has been finalised with the United States, pushing back against reports of a breakthrough in ongoing talks.
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[2026-05-30 03:37 UTC+10:00] [United Nations] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Organisation cites abuse by security forces, including rape of male detainees
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