Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-25 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Iran and the United States have evoked historical and geographical references to the MENA region as the world awaits the announcement of a possible deal to end the conflict between the two countries.
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[2026-05-25 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: For years, Shahid Ali and his wife quietly saved money in a small tin box tucked away in their East London home.
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[2026-05-25 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran sought on Sunday to finalize an agreement to formally end the Middle East war after Donald Trump said a proposal that included opening the blockaded Strait of Hormuz was “largely negotiated.”
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[2026-05-25 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LOCAL stocks are expected to trade sideways this week as investors remain cautious amid inflation concerns, the prospects of a further policy tightening, continued weakening of the peso against the US dollar, and the ongoing war in the Middle East.
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[2026-05-25 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AMHERST, Massachusetts — Many commentators, including those on the right, have dubbed United States President Donald Trump’s “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran “Operation Epic Fail”: an extravagant waste of money, military hardware, and lives in the service of an ill-conceived war with ever-changing objectives. Meanwhile, most legal observers consider the operation an illegal act that violates the United Nations Charter’s prohibition on the use of military force except for self-defense or in armed interventions authorized by the UN Security Council.
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[2026-05-25 01:59 UTC+10:00] [US and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States was prepared to enter “into very serious talks” about Iran’s nuclear program if Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz, signaling that the Trump administration was prepared to accept an interim agreement that didn’t immediately take away Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons.
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[2026-05-25 01:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said Tehran has “solid legal and security reasons for its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz” in comments to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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[2026-05-25 01:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For more news, analysis, and the latest updates, head to jpost.com.
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[2026-05-25 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Kurds in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq are concerned that a possible deal between the US and Iran may not cover Iraq and will not stop Iran’s attacks on Kurdish groups.
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[2026-05-25 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump, who agreed that Iran's nuclear enrichment sites will be dismantled, he wrote in an X/Twitter post on Sunday.
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[2026-05-25 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A senior Israeli official says Benjamin Netanyahu has told US President Donald Trump that Israel will continue military operations across the region, including in Lebanon, regardless of ongoing negotiations with Iran.
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[2026-05-25 01:29 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: May 25, 2026 01:29 | News
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[2026-05-25 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: If one can judge the measure of a hospital by its leadership, Kaplan Medical Center stands apart. Both its CEO, Prof. Tarif Bader, and its Deputy Director, Dr. Alex Tiktinsky, have had extensive experience in the IDF, come from disparate geographical and cultural worlds – Bader is a Druze from Israel’s north, and Tiktinsky hails from Ukraine – and work harmoniously to lead the hospital, whose geographical area includes more than one million Israelis.
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[2026-05-25 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-25 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he and US President Donald Trump are aligned on forcing Iran to dismantle its nuclear capabilities as part of any deal.
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[2026-05-25 01:16 UTC+10:00] [Iowa] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As the summer season warms up, long-haul truck drivers lament their bills and vendors worry about raising prices
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[2026-05-25 01:04 UTC+10:00] [US and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: The United States and Iran have agreed in principle to a deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz with a commitment from Iran to dispose of its highly enriched uranium, a U.S. official told reporters on Sunday.
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[2026-05-25 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Rachel Arazig sat down and wrote a Facebook post after October 7. She wasn’t sure exactly what she was building.
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[2026-05-25 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An Iran-linked cyber espionage group targeted entities in the US, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates during a months-long campaign that coincided with the recent regional escalation, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said in a new report.
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[2026-05-25 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The baby boom being promoted by Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is likely part of a broader and potentially ineffective strategy to address the mounting economic and social pressures expected from the Islamic Republic’s rapidly aging population, experts told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
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[2026-05-25 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump claimed that American relations with Iran were improving as reports of a developing 60-day ceasefire emerged on Sunday.
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[2026-05-25 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Gadi Eisenkot is undoubtedly one of the most prominent figures in Israeli politics today and is widely perceived as a leading alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Right, arguably more so than any other figure in the opposition bloc.
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[2026-05-25 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: GAZA — A pre-dawn Israeli airstrike killed three members of a Palestinian family, including a one-year-old child, in central Gaza on Sunday, a hospital said.
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[2026-05-25 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump on Sunday said talks to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz are proceeding, but urged his negotiating team not to rush into a deal.
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[2026-05-25 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon's health ministry said Sunday that an Israeli strike the previous day in the country's south killed 11 people including six women and a child, despite a ceasefire announced by the US last month.
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[2026-05-25 00:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Iran's supreme leader, said on Sunday that managing the Strait of Hormuz was Tehran's "legal right" in order to ensure national security.
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[2026-05-25 00:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that negotiations with Iran are “proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner”.
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[2026-05-25 00:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-25 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US military has lost up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones since the start of the conflict with Iran, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Washington’s entire pre-war fleet and is valued at close to $1 billion, Bloomberg has reported. The bulk of them were destroyed or seriously damaged by Iranian fire, according to the outlet.
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[2026-05-25 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US military has lost up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones since the start of the conflict with Iran, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Washington’s entire pre-war fleet and is valued at close to $1 billion, Bloomberg has reported. The bulk of them were destroyed or seriously damaged by Iranian fire, according to the outlet.
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[2026-05-25 00:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered advertising executive Yuval Horowitz, one of the creators of the IDF’s October 7 atrocities film, the role of managing Likud’s election campaign.
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[2026-05-25 00:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: More than a decade after tens of thousands of foreign Islamic State (ISIS) supporters arrived in Syria, some of the last foreigners appear to be leaving, including a group of Australian supporters that has been in the spotlight for months.
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[2026-05-25 00:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Slovenia has voted in a strongly pro-Israel prime minister, marking a striking political shift after Slovenia's recent hostility towards the Jewish State.
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[2026-05-25 00:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For months, US President Donald Trump has framed himself as the world leader who was willing to confront the Islamic Republic more aggressively than any Western leader before him.
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[2026-05-25 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Bahrain has sentenced nine people to life in prison for carrying out what authorities describe as “hostile and terrorist acts” in cooperation with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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[2026-05-25 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US and Iran are poised to sign a deal which will prolong the ceasefire another 60 days, during which the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened and restrictions on oil trade against Tehran lifted, Axios has reported, citing American officials. In the meantime, the sides will try to reach a final deal to end the conflict, it added.
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[2026-05-25 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US and Iran are poised to sign a deal which will prolong the ceasefire another 60 days, during which the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened and restrictions on oil trade against Tehran lifted, Axios has reported, citing American officials. In the meantime, the sides will try to reach a final deal to end the conflict, it added.
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[2026-05-25 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: France has banned Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entering its territory, citing his “unspeakable” behaviour of taunting Gaza flotilla activists who were arrested by Israeli police forces.
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[2026-05-25 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Hanan al-Hams was among the 3,000 Palestinians from Gaza scheduled to travel for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in 2024. But her lifelong dream to perform Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, was shattered by Israel’s war on Gaza, launched on October 7, 2024.
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[2026-05-24 23:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Top U.S. and Iranian officials signaled they are inching closer to an initial peace deal to wind down the U.S.-Iran conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though major details remain murky, especially around the future of Iran's nuclear program.
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[2026-05-24 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: World Central Kitchen (WCK) has cut its hot meal distribution in Gaza by half, citing soaring food and fuel costs linked to the wider fallout from the US-Israeli war on Iran in February.
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[2026-05-24 23:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mazen al-Jerjawi would normally spend this time of year preparing for Eid al-Adha, selling the hundreds of sheep and goats he raised on his land as families across Gaza searched for animals to sacrifice during the holiday.
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[2026-05-24 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: An Israeli air strike on an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed three people on Sunday, including a six-month-old child, health officials said.
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[2026-05-24 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Can Iran turn the Gulf into a long attrition arena without itself becoming the most attrited party?
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[2026-05-24 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Democrats] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The document is full of disclaimers and does not address fundamental issues, including Gaza and the Biden-to-Harris transition
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[2026-05-24 22:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Syria's parliament is set to meet for the first time since the fall of Bashar Al Assad as president, after elections were held on Sunday in areas regained from Kurdish-led fighters.
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[2026-05-24 22:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A Bahraini court sentenced nine defendants to life in prison and two others to three years in jail for collaborating with Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps to carry out what it described as "hostile and terrorist acts" against Bahrain, the state news agency reported on Sunday.
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[2026-05-24 22:48 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A Melbourne woman has touched down in Australia, alleging she and fellow detainees were mistreated by Israeli authorities after their Gaza-bound flotilla was intercepted.
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[2026-05-24 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice will convene at 4 p.m. Sunday for a follow-up hearing on Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s handling of the Judicial Selection Committee, as dozens of judicial posts remain empty and the election clock threatens to freeze the process altogether.
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[2026-05-24 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice is set to convene on Tuesday for a follow-up hearing on petitions against the government’s decision to close Army Radio, as Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara argued that the move cannot be viewed as a narrow decision about one military station, but as part of a wider government effort affecting Israel’s free press.
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