Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-17 09:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran condemned Israel’s killing of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, a commander in Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, describing the attack as a “terrorist act”.
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[2026-05-17 09:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Tens of thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday in two separate protests - one against high levels of immigration and a perceived Islamic threat to British identity, and another in support of Palestinians.
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[2026-05-17 09:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The usually good-natured competition has faced a boycott by five countries over the Gaza conflict
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[2026-05-17 09:46 UTC+10:00] [Gaza] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The usually good-natured competition has faced a boycott by five countries over the Gaza conflict
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[2026-05-17 09:43 UTC+10:00] [Gaza] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: VIENNA — Bulgaria won the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, beating Israel to victory on a dramatic night in Vienna that was marred by several countries boycotting.
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[2026-05-17 09:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A land convoy set out from Libya to Gaza on Saturday as part of the simultaneous Gaza flotilla effort, according to the Global Sumud Flotilla, with thirty vehicles making the journey from Zalitan to Rafah.
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[2026-05-17 09:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Five Israelis, including one active duty IDF reservist, were arrested on Friday night after they allegedly damaged and vandalized Palestinians' vehicles in the West Bank, police announced on Saturday.
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[2026-05-17 09:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Sun 17 May 2026 at 9:29am
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[2026-05-17 09:20 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The UK finished last as the contest, held in Vienna, saw five countries boycott it over the participation of Israel
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[2026-05-17 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un hombre llena el tanque de combustible de su vehículo en una gasolinera de Morton Grove, Illinois, el jueves 14 de mayo de 2026. (AP Foto/Nam Y. Huh)
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[2026-05-17 09:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Hezbollah has increased its use of small first-person view (FPV) drones to attack Israel, including systems controlled by fibre-optic cables to evade sophisticated defences.
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[2026-05-17 08:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: HBO host Bill Maher blasted Democrats Friday, saying liberals have failed to condemn antisemitism, calling out a seething swath of hatred as Israel celebrated its 78th birthday.
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[2026-05-17 08:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Pentagon has canceled plans to deploy 4,000 troops to Poland amid growing tensions between President Donald Trump and US allies over policy toward Iran.
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[2026-05-17 08:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Pentagon has canceled plans to deploy 4,000 troops to Poland amid growing tensions between President Donald Trump and US allies over policy regarding Iran.
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[2026-05-17 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on Saturday for an unannounced visit, holding talks with his Iranian counterpart Eskandar Momeni.
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[2026-05-17 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-05-17 07:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli settler was filmed violently beating a dog owned by a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank village of Atara, with footage showing the attacker striking the animal repeatedly on the head inside the owner’s yard.
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[2026-05-17 07:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El USS Gerald R. Ford atraca en el Muelle 11 de la Estación Naval Norfolk en Norfolk, Virginia, el sábado 16 de mayo de 2026, tras un despliegue de 11 meses. (Kendall Warner/The Virginian-Pilot vía AP)
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[2026-05-17 07:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Accused terror commander Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi worked through a new Iranian-backed terrorist group that emerged “essentially overnight” after the outset US-Israel war and urged followers to kill President Trump.
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[2026-05-17 07:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said global tensions are reshaping international dynamics, declaring that the “world stands at the cusp of a new order”.
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[2026-05-17 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: When people tried to guess where Golda Katz would live in Israel, Jerusalem was not usually the answer. Tel Aviv was the city people kept mentioning. She understood why.
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[2026-05-17 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: On the last day of February, when the war with Iran started, my family and I were “stranded” in the French Alps. Our scheduled flight home the next morning was canceled, and within hours we were forced to pivot. I reworked our plans and found an Airbnb that was in close vicinity to a synagogue in Geneva so we could attend a megillah reading for Purim and celebrate, somehow.
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[2026-05-17 07:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the extension of the ceasefire in Lebanon following the latest round of US-mediated talks in Washington, DC.
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[2026-05-17 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman has been aligning herself with an online anti-Israel group that’s been accused of spreading antisemitism.
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[2026-05-17 06:35 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: LIVE, FREE and EXCLUSIVE
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[2026-05-17 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the Eurovision Song Contest took to the stage for the Saturday night final in Vienna, thousands protested outside against Israel’s inclusion, and five countries boycotted the event over the genocidal war on Gaza.
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[2026-05-17 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/DUBAI - US President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed Tehran must reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though China gave no indication it would weigh in.
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[2026-05-17 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Spanish actor Javier Bardem said his outspoken criticism of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza has not harmed his career, telling AFP he is “getting more work than ever”.
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[2026-05-17 06:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo’s wait for a first major trophy in Saudi Arabia continued when Al-Nassr lost to Japan’s Gamba Osaka 1-0 in the Asian Champions League Two final on Saturday.
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[2026-05-17 06:01 UTC+10:00] [Protest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: March took place at same time as far-right ‘unite the kingdom’ demonstration led by Tommy Robinson
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[2026-05-17 05:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Cristiano Ronaldo has seen another chance of a trophy in Saudi Arabia vanish after Al Nassr were stunned by Gamba Osaka in the final of the AFC Champions League Two.
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[2026-05-17 05:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli air strikes on Gaza City and northern areas of the Gaza Strip have killed at least 11 Palestinians and injured more than 60 others over the past 24 hours.
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[2026-05-17 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Fifa Secretary-General Mattias Grafstrom said he remains confident Iran will compete at this year’s World Cup following what he described as a constructive meeting with Iran FA president Mehdi Taj.
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[2026-05-17 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel appointed Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) CEO Boaz Levy as chairman of the company’s board of directors, marking the first time a serving chief executive of an Israeli government-owned company has also been named chairman of the same company.
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[2026-05-17 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Despite boos and boycotts, Noam Bettan was ready to take the stage in the 70th Eurovision Song Contest final in Vienna on Saturday night to sing, “Michelle.”
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[2026-05-17 04:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s military said a soldier was killed during combat operations in southern Lebanon on Saturday, raising its total losses to 21 personnel since its war on Lebanon began in early March.
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[2026-05-17 04:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Capt. Maoz Israel Recanati, 24, from Itamar, was killed during combat in southern Lebanon, the IDF announced on Saturday.
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[2026-05-17 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump gave Tehran another reason to worry Saturday, posting a video clip on his Truth Social showing him ordering a military attack on an Iranian aircraft.
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[2026-05-17 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks killed 18 people and wounded 124 others over the past 24 hours, as bombardment continues across the country.
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[2026-05-17 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned Saturday that the United States would face mounting economic fallout from its "war of choice" against Iran, as both sides appear settled into a long game of waiting to inflict the most severe economic and political damage on the other.
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[2026-05-17 04:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli settlers attacked shops in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem on Saturday evening, targeting commercial properties in a busy area.
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[2026-05-17 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: NORFOLK, Va. — The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, returned home to Virginia on Saturday after an 11-month deployment, the longest since the Vietnam War, that saw it support the US war with Iran and the capture of Nicolás Maduro when he was Venezuela’s president.
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[2026-05-17 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has cast his ballot in internal Fatah leadership elections held at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah.
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[2026-05-17 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People hold posters of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, on Oct. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)
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[2026-05-17 03:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A post shared by Middle East Eye (@middleeasteye)
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[2026-05-17 03:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: With an antisemitic flag hoist above an NYU celebration and pro-Hamas mobs besieging synagogues and marching through Jewish neighborhoods screaming “Zionism will fail!” and beating up Jews who cross their paths, what are New Yorkers of good will to do?
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[2026-05-17 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Over the weekend, the IDF struck nearly 100 Hezbollah terror targets and killed Hezbollah terrorists as Israeli troops continue to operate in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-17 03:36 UTC+10:00] [Conflict] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Thousands of people took to the streets in Vienna on Saturday to protest Israel’s participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, as the grand finale is set to kick off in the Austrian capital in the next few hours.
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[2026-05-17 03:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: VIENNA — The final of the Eurovision Song Contest arrives Saturday, with tight security and rainy weather failing to dent the enthusiasm of fans, or the opposition of critics who think Israel shouldn’t be invited to the party.
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[2026-05-17 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli warplanes struck a vehicle near al-Wahda Tower, west of Gaza City, on Saturday evening, killing two people and wounding three others, Wafa reported.
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