Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-07 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: President Sheikh Mohamed met Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama on the sidelines of the Make it in the Emirates summit in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-07 01:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: En la imagen, proporcionada por la Fundación Narges Mohammadi, aparece Narges Mohammadi posando para un retrato en Teherán, Irán, el 9 de febrero de 2025. (Nooshin Jafari/Fundación Narges Mohammadi vía AP)
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[2026-05-07 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: With the smoke and blockades disguising what’s actually happening in the Strait of Hormuz, Rick Sanchez decided to shed some light on the situation. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday paused Project Freedom – the military operation launched a day earlier to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz – citing the “tremendous military success” of the campaign.However, Rick’s assessment is that Tehran still holds the strategic edge.
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[2026-05-07 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: With the smoke and blockades disguising what’s actually happening in the Strait of Hormuz, Rick Sanchez decided to shed some light on the situation. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday paused Project Freedom – the military operation launched a day earlier to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz – citing the “tremendous military success” of the campaign.However, Rick’s assessment is that Tehran still holds the strategic edge.
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[2026-05-07 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is currently in Beijing meeting with his Chinese counterpart, FM Wang Yi, and the timing of the visit sends a resounding message to Washington and the West. The highly anticipated Trump-Xi meeting is still scheduled for next week, expected for May 14-15, though there has been ample speculation the ongoing events of the unpredictable Iran war and Hormuz Strait crisis could derail the trip at the last minute.
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[2026-05-07 01:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: France on Wednesday moved its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea in a bid to show the US and Iran it was willing to help solve the Hormuz crisis.
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[2026-05-07 01:15 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late night hosts focused on Trump’s Iran war, the latest Maga AI meme and Cinco de Mayo celebrations
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[2026-05-07 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Lights glow in Rutgers University’s Old Queens building, April 4, 2013, in New Brunswick, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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[2026-05-07 01:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The global aviation shock triggered by the US-Israeli attack on Iran and resulting fuel shortages is a harbinger of even “more severe shocks” that will rock other sectors of the global economy, Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev has warned.
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[2026-05-07 01:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli army chief of staff Eyal Zamir visited southern Lebanon and said Israeli forces were continuing operations against Hezbollah.
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[2026-05-07 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Every child deserves an equal start in life. Yet a recent article in The Jerusalem Post and a new report by the Taub Center highlight a troubling trend: children in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox and Arab communities are often diagnosed with autism later than the national average.
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[2026-05-07 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Yisrael Beitenu leader MK Avidgor Liberman launched a new campaign on Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming elections, calling for a decisive military outcome on all fronts and vowed that he would not sit in a government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “even if the world turns upside down.”
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[2026-05-07 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The State Attorney’s Office filed on Wednesday two indictments against four daycare workers in Tel Aviv and Bat Yam for allegedly assaulting toddlers under their care, prosecutors said.
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[2026-05-07 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Canadian Jewish groups called for the federal government to ban Palestine Action on Tuesday, warning that the anti-Israel vandalism group provided a target map and operations manual to commit terrorism in the country.
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[2026-05-07 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) presents itself as an innocuous Muslim civil rights group. But CAIR finds itself under increasing scrutiny for its past alleged connections to radical Islam, and for its ongoing rhetorical support for Hamas.
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[2026-05-07 00:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A coalition of campaign groups has made a formal complaint against the head of London’s Metropolitan Police for suggesting that protest organisers repeatedly intended to include synagogues on their planned demonstration routes in London.
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[2026-05-07 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This photo provided by the Narges Mohammadi Foundation shows Narges Mohammadi posing for a portrait in Tehran, Iran on Feb. 9, 2025. (Nooshin Jafari/Narges Mohammadi Foundation via AP)
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[2026-05-07 00:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Oil prices are lower overnight (but dramatically off their lows) amid on-again, off-again optimism of an imminent US-Iran peace deal.
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[2026-05-07 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Wednesday saw yet another early morning Axios 'scoop' that within hours of being issued proved premature and too out front, given talk of Iran and the US being 'close' to a deal was quickly denied by Tehran and even President Trump quickly acknowledged it's "too soon" to plan peace talks with Iran.
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[2026-05-07 00:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Satellite imagery appears to show that the damage inflicted by Iran on US assets in the Middle East has been severely downplayed in previous reporting.
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[2026-05-07 00:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The deranged White House Correspondents Dinner shooting suspect, Cole Allen, may have been triggered by the Iran war when he stormed the event and allegedly tried to assassinate President Trump and other top administration officials, according to a new Department of Homeland Security intelligence report.
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[2026-05-07 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: About 100 pro-Palestinian protesters have gathered outside a New York synagogue for the second time in six months to demonstrate against an Israeli real estate event featuring properties for sale in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-05-07 00:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United Nations has called for the immediate release of two Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla activists abducted by Israeli authorities last week, calling for an investigation into the “disturbing accounts of severe mistreatment”.
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[2026-05-07 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 30, 2026, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced sharp partisan attacks from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and other Democrats, underscored a troubling reality: the politicization of national security.
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[2026-05-07 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel Police arrested a couple in their 30s in Kiryat Gat under suspicion of being involved in human trafficking, including keeping a foreign worker under "slavery conditions," the police announced on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-07 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran has continued its attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, despite a recent visit by Iraq’s new prime minister to the capital of the Kurdistan Region. Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi held meetings with the Kurdistan Region’s officials on May 2.
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[2026-05-06 23:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has intensified its attacks across Lebanon, especially targeting areas located south of the country, according to reports made by the National News Agency (NNA).
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[2026-05-06 23:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two IDF soldiers were wounded on Wednesday when Hezbollah terrorists launched explosive drones and rockets towards troops operating in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-06 23:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Old City, Jerusalem – The Armenian community living inside the largely closed monastic compound of the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City is largely comprised of the descendants of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, a senior cleric of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem told The Jerusalem Post.
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[2026-05-06 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday, as efforts to broker a peace deal between Tehran and Washington pick up pace amid the United States president’s announcement of a pause on attempts to forcibly open the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-06 23:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 6 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ratcheted up pressure on Iran to reach a peace agreement with the United States, warning of bombing at a "much higher level and intensity" if Tehran refuses to strike a deal.
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[2026-05-06 23:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum Wednesday for Iran to accept a deal to end the war or face renewed, more intense US bombing, in the latest of a series of abrupt policy shifts.
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[2026-05-06 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: WTI futures plunged more than 11% to the $90-a-barrel level after Axios reported earlier this morning that the U.S. is nearing a preliminary agreement with Iran to end the war. The sharp decline suggests traders are beginning to price in a potential geopolitical de-escalation and the potential reopening of the Hormuz chokepoint.
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[2026-05-06 23:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: ASMO, a joint venture between Aramco and DHL, has commenced construction of its first purpose-built logistics hub at King Salman Energy Park (SPARK), marking a significant milestone in the development of long-term logistics infrastructure supporting Saudi Arabia’s energy and industrial sectors.
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[2026-05-06 23:34 UTC+10:00] [Bryson DeChambeau] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Circuit’s future is uncertain after Saudi withdrawal
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[2026-05-06 23:28 UTC+10:00] [Airlines] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Lufthansa is preparing to introduce refueling stopovers if destination airports run short of jet fuel due to the war in the Middle East, the airline group's CEO said on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-06 23:15 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Islamabad/Washington/Tel Aviv: The United States and Iran are closing in on an agreement on a one-page memorandum to end the war in the Gulf, a source from mediator Pakistan and another source briefed on the mediation said.
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[2026-05-06 23:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Zuhur Tarwa stood in shock as Israeli army markers appeared across her vineyard, declaring it confiscated.
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[2026-05-06 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El papa León XIV saluda a la multitud antes de oficiar misa en Beirut, Líbano, el 2 de diciembre del 2025. (AP foto/Bilal Hussein)
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[2026-05-06 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hadley Kerr, left, and Morgan Anthony hold pieces of tank-grown kelp Friday, March 13, 2026, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass. (Ana Georgescu/MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing via AP)
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[2026-05-06 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The leader of a pro-Iran militia in Iraq has rejected American demands to disband, a day after the US placed a $10 million bounty on his head.
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[2026-05-06 22:58 UTC+10:00] [Pope Leo XIV] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Pontiff responds after US president accuses him of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with stance on Iran war
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[2026-05-06 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In the 1940s, when the Communists overran China, Americans wondered: “Who lost China?” Humbler diplomats replied: “China wasn’t ‘ours’ to ‘lose’?” Similarly, as Israelis and American Jews ask “who lost the Democratic Party,” let’s admit: it wasn’t “ours” to “lose.”
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[2026-05-06 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two young men were killed early Wednesday morning in the town of Kalansuwa, raising the total number of murder victims in the Arab sector this year to over 100.
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[2026-05-06 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Syria’s Ministry of Interior said on May 5 that they had dismantled a Hezbollah-linked cell. Syria posted images of the raids, showing how important Damascus takes this development. Syrian statement media noted that “Syria’s Interior Ministry announced Tuesday it had foiled a large-scale terrorist plot and dismantled a cell linked to Hezbollah militia that was planning to destabilize the country.”
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[2026-05-06 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Beginning on Thursday, the time required to reach a shelter from the onset of a siren will be extended for several communities in northern Israel, the IDF announced.
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[2026-05-06 22:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz will be ensured as the United States threats end and with new procedures in place, the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said, after the US said it was pausing operations to help stranded ships pass through the waterway.
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[2026-05-06 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Last week, the White House’s official rapid response account on X posted a graphic from a pro-Israel think tank, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), alongside text falsely claiming that Tehran’s uranium enrichment accelerated due to the loosening of sanctions under former United States President Joe Biden.
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[2026-05-06 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A fire broke out on Tuesday in a multi-storey commercial building in Andisheh, located in Iran’s Tehran province, killing at least eight people and injuring 41 others.
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[2026-05-06 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Oil prices slumped more than 10 per cent on Wednesday after reports that the US and Iran are nearing a deal to end the war that has strangled a fifth of global oil and gas supplies.
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