Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-08 03:36 UTC+10:00] [Israel-Gaza war] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US is unlikely to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu to comply with truce terms. Europe must take action
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[2026-05-08 03:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The US Treasury has sanctioned Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister, Ali Maarij al-Bahadly, and leaders of pro-Iran militias, accusing them of helping Iran to sell oil in violation of US sanctions.
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[2026-05-08 03:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran has told other regional countries that it is ready to 'prove' that its nuclear program is peaceful in nature, and that it is willing to meet international standards in that regard, according to the Iranian presidency.
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[2026-05-08 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Moshe Feiglin, founder and chair of the Zehut (Identity) party, and former Otzma Yehudit chair Michael Ben-Ari agreed on Wednesday to run together in a joint list in the upcoming elections, marking the first political alliance to be established on the Right.
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[2026-05-08 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The man accused of lobbing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally last year in Boulder, Colorado, killing one person and injuring at least a dozen, pleaded guilty on Thursday to all charges he faced in state court.
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[2026-05-08 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Reports that Saudi Arabia has refused the US military access to its airspace could significantly complicate Washington’s plans should it decide to return to attacks against the Islamic regime, a Gulf expert told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
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[2026-05-08 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, says current discussions centre on securing a ceasefire, ending the war and restoring regional stability.
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[2026-05-08 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: About 90 million Iranian residents are still unable to use the internet due to a blackout imposed by the country's regime on February 28.
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[2026-05-08 03:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Attorney Ron Bamieh, left, listens to his client Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji in Ventura County Superior Court on Nov. 17, 2023, in Ventura, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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[2026-05-08 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has created a government agency to vet and tax vessels seeking passage through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, a shipping data company reported Thursday, as Tehran said it was reviewing the latest US proposals for ending the war.
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[2026-05-08 03:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: One of the two main parties in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced on Thursday that it was ending its weeks-long boycott of parliament.
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[2026-05-08 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s study of Iran, Ukraine wars could help hone its ability to wage information warfare against the US during a Taiwan Strait crisis
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[2026-05-08 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s study of Iran, Ukraine wars could help hone its ability to wage information warfare against the US during a Taiwan Strait crisis
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[2026-05-08 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military has launched an inquiry after a viral video showed one of its soldiers in southern Lebanon desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary.
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[2026-05-08 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Vice foreign and defense ministers from Japan and South Korea held their first two-plus-two meeting in Seoul on May 7. © Kyodo
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[2026-05-08 02:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The steep rise in jet fuel prices caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran is posing a bigger challenge to the global airline industry than the Covid-19 pandemic did, according to AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes.
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[2026-05-08 02:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The steep rise in jet fuel prices caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran is posing a bigger challenge to the global airline industry than the Covid-19 pandemic did, according to AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes.
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[2026-05-08 02:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States is trying to de-escalate Israel’s actions in Lebanon as it pushes for solidifying an ongoing ceasefire and moving to the next phase of negotiations between the two sides, according to a Lebanese official.
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[2026-05-08 02:23 UTC+10:00] [Saudi Arabia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Riyadh told White House it would deny access for operation to provide tankers military escort through strait of Hormuz
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[2026-05-08 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: At the height of its success in the first decade of the 2000s, the fast-food chain Burger King had over 50 branches in Israel. But before long, the picture changed. All the branches were consolidated into the Burger Ranch chain, which shared ownership, and the brand disappeared.
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[2026-05-08 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Senior Appointments Advisory Committee urged the High Court of Justice to reject petitions against the appointment of IDF Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman as the next Mossad chief, arguing that its decision to clear the appointment was properly reached and did not justify judicial intervention.
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[2026-05-08 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: British Ambassador to Israel Simon Walters on Thursday outlined in a press briefing the UK’s response to recent antisemitic threats and said there had been “much more than words, despite what some have alleged.”
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[2026-05-08 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) is considering downplaying the severity of offenses in the Qatargate affair, Haaretz reported Thursday morning, claiming that the current belief in the organization is that Yonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein did not endanger state security.
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[2026-05-08 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: While attention has focused on Iran and Lebanon, the situation in Gaza and the question of Hamas’s demilitarization have been pushed to the sidelines, even as the second phase of the Gaza peace plan has centered on disarmament, technocratic governance, and reconstruction.
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[2026-05-08 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has awarded the Order of Civil Merit to Francesca Albanese, recognising her advocacy during Israel’s war on Gaza.
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[2026-05-08 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Federal investigators are probing at least four suspiciously timed oil trades worth more than $2.6 billion that were placed just minutes before major announcements about the Iran war sent crude prices tumbling, according to a report.
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[2026-05-08 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-08 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel cannot afford to lose its best minds – not morally, not strategically, and certainly not economically.
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[2026-05-08 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – A meeting between two of Iran’s leaders may seem routine, but President Masoud Pezeshkian’s announcement that he had a positive discussion with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, is an attempt to push back against efforts from the United States to portray the Islamic Republic’s leadership as divided.
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[2026-05-08 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US on Thursday announced sanctions on Iraq's deputy oil minister as well as the leaders of two Iran-backed militias.
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[2026-05-08 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Over the weekend, we reported that in what some called a "watershed moment", Beijing ordered Chinese companies not to comply with US sanctions on five domestic refiners linked to the Iranian oil trade, deploying for the first time a blocking measure introduced in 2021 that was aimed at protecting its firms from foreign laws it deemed unjustified.
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[2026-05-08 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT — A dozen U.S. Democratic Senators have called for the U.S. Central Command to answer questions about American coordination with Israel in declaring broad “ evacuation zones ” in Lebanon and Iran, alleging that the practice may violate international law.
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[2026-05-08 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A video installation that gives voice to the women who watched the Gaza border on October 7 – and were not heard – is on view at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art through the end of May.
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[2026-05-08 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The West has helped Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas keep the Palestinian people “hostage,” Fatah political leader and president of the Jerusalem Development Fund Samer Sinijlawi told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
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[2026-05-08 01:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mourners carry the body of Azzam al-Hayya, son of Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, mourn over his body after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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[2026-05-08 01:09 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts discussed the situation in Iran and the Trump administration’s efforts to avoid using the word ‘war’
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[2026-05-08 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Oil prices fell and global stock markets traded mixed Thursday awaiting an update on a US plan to end the Middle East war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-08 00:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Petroleros anclados en el estrecho de Ormuz, frente a Bandar Abbas, Irán, el sábado 2 de mayo de 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA vía AP)
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[2026-05-08 00:38 UTC+10:00] [Irã] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: "Estamos acompanhando a situação dos direitos humanos no Irã com grande preocupação", disse o ativista norueguês-iraniano Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, diretor da organização de direitos humanos Iran Human Rights, à DW.
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[2026-05-08 00:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Shell on Thursday reported surging profits in the first quarter, as the Iran war led to a rise in oil prices, while the most significant impacts for the British energy company have been in Qatar.
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[2026-05-08 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran's President, Masoud Pezeshkian, announced on Thursday that he had met with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not made any public appearances since his appointment.
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[2026-05-08 00:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UAE will form a committee to document Iran's attacks to support legal action, state media said on Thursday, after earlier calling for reparations.
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[2026-05-08 00:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MELBOURNE, Australia — Three women who were among 13 Australians returning home from Syria were arrested at airports on Thursday on allegations of slavery and terrorism inside the Islamic State group's former so-called caliphate, police said.
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[2026-05-08 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas have stalled, and Gaza risks sliding back into war.
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[2026-05-08 00:18 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Yona Simcha Schreiber from settlement in West Bank faces charge of assault motivated by hostility towards religious group
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[2026-05-08 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates has been able to sneak some of its oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz directly under Iran’s nose, according to experts and shipping data.
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[2026-05-08 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: While conventional wisdom, especially after Trump's counter-blockade of Iran's blockade, that the Strait of Hormuz is completely blocked, the reality is that the UAE is now running loaded crude tankers through the Iranian-controlled Strait of Hormuz with transponders switched off - just like sanctioned Iranian ghost fleets in the pre-war period - just to pry loose a fraction of the oil bottled up in the Gulf.
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[2026-05-08 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A new wave of global shocks mainly caused by the war in the Middle East is pushing up the cost of living once again and bringing about a revised economic outlook, the IMF's outlook report for sub-Saharan Africa titled 'Hard-Won Gains Under Pressure' shows.
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[2026-05-08 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An Israeli reservist in his 30s who spent months serving in Gaza won the NIS 15 million first prize in the national lottery and said he plans to use part of the money to establish a nonprofit.
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[2026-05-08 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Yashar! party leader Gadi Eisenkot and Yisrael Beytenu chairperson MK Avigdor Liberman announced on Thursday they agreed to deepen coordination between their parties ahead of the upcoming elections, amid mounting reports that the two are considering a merger.
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