Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-21 14:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company has confirmed Fount Trust as its ultimate above Royal Group Holding LLC are an earlier restructure, as one of the Middle East’s largest investment companies sets out its long-term ownership order.
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[2026-09-21 14:24 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The United States warned that fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis could "escalate rapidly" after a missile attack targeted Riyadh for the first time since the Yemen conflict resumed.
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[2026-09-21 14:21 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In interviews and speeches, US President Donald Trump has maintained that midterm politics don’t affect his decisions on Iran, that the war has been worth the cost, and that he would do it all over again, despite Republicans bracing for defeat in November.
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[2026-09-21 14:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Francesca Albanese spoke to UNAPOLOGETIC on the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, UK sanctions on West Bank settlements, the changing discourse on Israel, and building allyship and solidarity to beat Apartheid in Israel.
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[2026-09-21 14:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump threatened to destroy Iran's economy or eliminate its leadership if Tehran doesn't strike a deal, raising the stakes as Iranian officials head to New York for this week's gathering of world leaders at the UN.
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[2026-09-21 12:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks were trading higher late Monday morning as gains in major chipmakers lifted the broader market, offsetting concerns over Middle East tensions and elevated oil prices.
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[2026-09-21 12:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Oil fell Monday, as traders keep watch for a recovery in shipments from Saudi Arabia even after attacks by Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia with missiles and drones on Saturday.
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[2026-09-21 12:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Yemen’s Houthi rebels have vowed not to target countries other than Saudi Arabia after their forces captured strategic positions around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, an important shipping chokepoint at the entrance to the Red Sea.
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[2026-09-21 12:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Yemen’s Houthi rebels have vowed not to target countries other than Saudi Arabia after their forces captured strategic positions around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, an important shipping chokepoint at the entrance to the Red Sea.
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[2026-09-21 11:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Gulf officials in New York this week will include Iraq and Jordan, amid intensifying high-stakes US-Arab diplomacy.
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[2026-09-21 11:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Gulf officials in New York this week will include Iraq and Jordan, amid intensifying high-stakes US-Arab diplomacy.
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[2026-09-21 11:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Gaza’s Government Media Office has announced the launching an "urgent emergency plan", where 255 buildings damaged by Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave will be demolished.
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[2026-09-21 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Powerful explosions at a weapons depot in northern Syria have injured at least four people, according to state media, with officials urging the public to stay away from the site.
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[2026-09-21 10:59 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: South Korea is the latest large source of jet fuel shipments to Europe, exporting 129,000 barrels per day, the highest since October 2022
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[2026-09-21 10:33 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul stocks opened higher Monday, led by gains in tech heavyweights, though elevated oil prices and lingering tensions in the Middle East kept investors cautious.
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[2026-09-21 10:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Civil defence in Aleppo indicated that explosions in the southern countryside of the province have left several injured, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.
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[2026-09-21 10:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks opened higher Monday, led by gains in tech heavyweights, though elevated oil prices and lingering tensions in the Middle East kept investors cautious.
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[2026-09-21 10:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-09-21 09:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Syria's state television Al-Ikhbariya reported powerful explosions early on Monday in Aleppo.
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[2026-09-21 08:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: About a week after the widespread international backlash for dropping his pro-Palestinian support act, Ed Sheeran made his first public comments on stage, apologising to fans and saying that what Israel is doing in Gaza is "unjustifiable".
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[2026-09-21 08:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces opened fire on civilians in several areas of Gaza, wounding a woman and two children. A Palestinian woman was seriously injured by gunfire in Jabalia camp, while a girl was shot in the thigh at the Halawa camp and a boy was wounded by an Israeli drone at Bureij, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, citing local sources.
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[2026-09-21 08:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: France will summon Iran’s ambassador and take “appropriate measures” after Iranian authorities closed a French-language centre linked to its embassy in Tehran, according to the French Foreign Ministry.
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[2026-09-21 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump in a Sunday morning Fox News interview repeated some of his talking points about a big decision he is preparing to make regarding what comes next in the Iran war
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[2026-09-21 07:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Houthis have declared what they call an "equation of blockade for blockade and escalation for escalation", vowing that Riyadh will face consequences for restrictions imposed on Yemen.
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[2026-09-21 07:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Financial Times
Snippet: PublishedSeptember 20 2026
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[2026-09-21 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran's central military command has announced it believes the United States has made the decision to resume military attacsk on the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-09-21 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: France will summon Iran's ambassador and take appropriate measures in response after Iranian authorities sealed a French language centre affiliated with its embassy in Tehran, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.
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[2026-09-21 06:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatar is working to restart negotiations between the United States and Iran, its foreign ministry said on Sunday, as the prime minister warned that regional security cannot rest on repeated confrontation.
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[2026-09-21 06:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Often called a state within a state, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a deeply conservative organisation that has underpinned Iran’s establishment for decades and directed much of its response to attacks by the US and Israel this year.
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[2026-09-21 06:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Qatar shifts investment focus to $38bn domestic infrastructure plan
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[2026-09-21 05:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi headed to New York on Sunday to take part in the UN General Assembly, as Tehran and Washington traded threats.
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[2026-09-21 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A group of Israeli settlers torched a Palestinian vehicle, attacked residents and tried to seize a child north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
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[2026-09-21 05:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Houthis said Sunday that Saudi Arabia launched 28 strikes in several areas of Yemen in the past 24 hours, as the group and Yemeni government clash in the revived civil war.
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[2026-09-21 05:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-21 05:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: About a week after the widespread international backlash for dropping his pro-Palestinian support act, Ed Sheeran made his first public comments on stage, apologising to fans and saying that what Israel is doing in Gaza is "unjustifiable".
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[2026-09-21 04:56 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Tensions grow as Trump tells Fox News he is considering ‘wiping Iran out’ after attacks on Riyadh by Houthi rebels
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[2026-09-21 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
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[2026-09-21 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
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[2026-09-21 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Supporters of Yemen’s Houthi rebels shout slogans during a rally in support of the group and to protest Saudi Arabia’s accusation that the Houthis targeted Islam’s holiest site, Mecca, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
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[2026-09-21 02:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-21 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A large Israeli force raided Biddu, the hometown of the Palestinian accused of carrying out the shooting at the illegal Neveh Tzuf settlement north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to an Al Jazeera report.
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[2026-09-21 01:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Violence flared in the occupied West Bank on Sunday after a suspected Palestinian gunman shot dead an Israeli man, police said, while Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian motorist who the military said had attempted to run them over.
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[2026-09-21 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump called on Tehran "to behave" in an interview with Fox News on the state of the war on Iran.
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[2026-09-21 01:12 UTC+10:00] [Ed Sheeran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Some fans were hesitant to turn the page after Sheeran’s tour resumed after the removal of Macklemore, who spoke out in support of Palestine
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[2026-09-21 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: ITIM has demanded that the Chief Rabbinate guarantee women equal conditions in its upcoming certification exams, warning that it may return to court after the Rabbinate again announced that the tests would be divided between two Jerusalem venues.
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[2026-09-21 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Journalist Prof. Gideon Kutz, 78, died in Paris on Sunday.
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[2026-09-21 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A 44-year-old Israeli, Gail Hillel, a member of Kibbutz Yizrael, was tragically killed in Slovenia on Saturday while trying to rescue his 7-year-old son, who had fallen into a ravine during a family trip.
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[2026-09-21 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's military issued a threat on Sunday that middle eastern nations would be "considered complicit" if the United States resumes major strikes on the country from American bases.
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[2026-09-21 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF is preparing a mass-arrest operation in the West Bank Palestinian village of Biddu, the hometown of the Neveh Tzuf terrorist captured by the military earlier on Sunday, Army Radio reported.
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[2026-09-21 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Jerusalem Post will temporarily pause news coverage on Sunday to observe the 25-hour period of Yom Kippur, with regular coverage resuming immediately following the conclusion of the fast.
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