Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Over 30 Israeli companies are set to take part in France’s largest defense exhibition, Eurosatory, in June, despite Israel halting defense procurement with France and past bans on the Jewish state participating in weapons exhibitions in the European nation.
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An IDF major was indicted in military court on Wednesday for allegedly using his position near the Gaza border to smuggle a truckload of unauthorized goods into the enclave, bypass military checks, and bring an Israeli citizen into Gaza to complete the transfer.
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A resident doctor in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) appeared at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London on Friday, facing accusations of recruiting for Hamas and publishing a variety of inflammatory and antisemitic posts.
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Despite clearly intentionally leaked reports about top American military officials briefing US President Donald Trump on new escalatory and potentially imminent military options versus Iran, all signs from Israeli and American sources to The Jerusalem Post are that the near future will see more of the current game of chicken.
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The cost of the Iran war to the US may be close to $40-50 billion when including the costs of rebuilding US military installations and replacing destroyed assets, CNN reported on Thursday.
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday condemned Israel's seizure of aid ships bound for Gaza, and demanded the immediate release of all Italian citizens who have been “unlawfully detained”.
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[2026-05-01 00:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-05-01 00:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: France was the top arms exporter to Israel in 2024, even as Israel said it would no longer be procuring weapons from the country.
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[2026-05-01 00:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un caddie analiza el 18vo hoyo durante la primera ronda del torneo de LIV Golf, el jueves 16 de abril de 2026, en las afueras de la Ciudad de México. (AP Foto/Fernando Llano)
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[2026-05-01 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: With Brent surging to a new post war high overnight, rising as high as $125 on fear of an imminent resumption of hostilities in Iran, which dragged yields higher, and also pushed the USDJPY above 160 for the first time since late March, overnight Japan made clear - again - it wouldn't take it any more, with the usual round of jawboning.
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[2026-04-30 23:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Air travel in the Gulf is ramping as a ceasefire between the US and Iran continues to bring relief to the region.
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[2026-04-30 23:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has declined to condemn the smashing of a statue of Jesus by a soldier in southern Lebanon earlier this month, according to Army Radio.
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[2026-04-30 23:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The economy also recovered from last autumn’s 43-day federal shutdown
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[2026-04-30 23:50 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The economy also recovered from last autumn’s 43-day federal shutdown
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[2026-04-30 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Speaking at a televised Cabinet meeting on March 26, the US secretary of defense boasted of US military successes against Iran in the ongoing war. “Never in recorded history has a nation’s military been so quickly and so effectively neutralised,” he said, seated next to US President Donald Trump.
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[2026-04-30 23:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hussein Farran, que perdió a seis familiares por un bombardeo israelí en la aldea Kfar Hatta, en el cementerio en Sidon, Líbano, el 14 de abril del 2026. (AP foto/Mohammed Zaatari)
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[2026-04-30 23:34 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Mojtaba Khamenei says Tehran will eliminate ‘enemy’s abuses of the waterway’ and guard its nuclear and missile programmes
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[2026-04-30 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SENATOR Win Gatchalian is urging the Social Security System (SSS) to implement a moratorium on loan payments, similar to a move by the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), to help the middle class cope with the ripple effects of high fuel prices driven by the Middle East conflict.
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[2026-04-30 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UK's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Jonathan Hall, has called for a "moratorium" on pro-Palestine marches because of recent antisemitic attacks in London.
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[2026-04-30 23:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israel has charged a military officer for smuggling goods and an Israeli citizen into Gaza. His arrest came as part of continuing investigations into a suspected widespread operation that brought items into the besieged strip throughout the course of the Gaza war, fuelling a boom in the black market.
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[2026-04-30 23:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The writing has been on the wall for weeks. Despite LIV Golf officials putting on a brave face, insisting it was “business as usual”, the moment reports surfaced saying that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) would pull its funding at the end of the 2026 season, the league’s very existence has been under threat.
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[2026-04-30 23:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Mourners carried the body of a teenager killed by Israel’s military through the hills of the West Bank ’s largest city on Thursday, the latest victim in a surge of violence this month.
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[2026-04-30 23:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer continues to face intense pressure and the potential collapse of his spell in Downing Street, as the Peter Mandelson appointment saga rumbles on.
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[2026-04-30 23:11 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: First quarter output, driven by AI investment and government spending, rose as oil shock fuels inflation fears
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[2026-04-30 23:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Thursday that his country's control over the Strait of Hormuz would ensure a future without US presence in the area.
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[2026-04-30 23:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: They aren’t giving up yet.
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[2026-04-30 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Erri De Luca, one of Europe’s most acclaimed writers, will be among the international guests at the International Writers Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim in Jerusalem, which will take place from May 25-28.
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[2026-04-30 22:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has clashed with American lawmakers over the cost of war on Iran in his first appearance on Capitol Hill since the conflict – now into its third month – broke out.
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[2026-04-30 22:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Risks to the eurozone growth and inflation outlook have "intensified" due to the war in the Middle East and its impact on global energy supplies, the European Central Bank warned on Thursday.
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[2026-04-30 22:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A joint letter by the executives of the world’s top media organisations has called on Israel to allow foreign journalists to enter and report from Gaza independently.
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[2026-04-30 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The new alliance between former prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid will not dissolve Yesh Atid, and it has received a positive response from both party members and the public, Yesh Atid MKs Merav Ben Ari and Vladimir Beliak told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, speaking on strategy behind the move.
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[2026-04-30 22:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Zoe Lloyd, a 21-year-old student at Northern Arizona University, works from her laptop at Sosta in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Monday, April 20 2026. (AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey)
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[2026-04-30 22:41 UTC+10:00] [Global Affairs] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-04-30 22:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will dispatch a special envoy to Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain to strengthen cooperation with the Middle Eastern nations amid supply disruptions caused by the ongoing war in the region, the foreign ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-04-30 22:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon have killed at least nine people, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA), despite a three-week extension to the United States-mediated “ceasefire” announced last week.
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[2026-04-30 22:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Not giving up nuclear program: Iran will "guard" its "advanced technologies" like it does its own borders, Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written speech read aloud by state TV. It will “secure the Persian Gulf region and dismantle the hostile enemy’s exploitation of this waterway."
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[2026-04-30 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Gas prices are displayed at a gasoline station, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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[2026-04-30 22:38 UTC+10:00] [Europe’s economic recovery] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank on Thursday decided to keep its key interest rate at 2 percent, opting for patience as it gauges the economic fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-30 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Luciano V. replaces the fuel nozzel after filling the tank of their 1999 Mazda Miata at an Astro gas station on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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[2026-04-30 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Consumers faced escalating prices in March as the Iran war sent oil soaring and created a new level of challenges for the Federal Reserve.
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[2026-04-30 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia is set to withdraw its multibillion dollar investment in the LIV Golf tour at the end of this season, according to British media reports.
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[2026-04-30 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged, as expected, with officials signaling they need more time to assess the extent of the Iran war’s jolt to the economy. The deposit rate was left at 2%, where it’s been since June 2025 and in line with the predictions of all analysts in a Bloomberg survey.
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[2026-04-30 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The European Central Bank kept interest rates on hold at its April meeting, despite a surge in inflation in the euro zone since the war in Iran began.
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[2026-04-30 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Locked in a standoff with Iran that will break only when economic pain is no longer tolerable, President Donald Trump may have to maintain his naval blockade against Iran for weeks — forcing serious economic consequences on the world.
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[2026-04-30 22:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A nun was assaulted in occupied East Jerusalem earlier this week amid growing concern over Israeli attacks against Christians.
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[2026-04-30 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron late on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-30 22:09 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Iran’s new supreme leader gave a rare statement on Thursday, vowing not to give up the country’s nuclear or missile technologies and signaling Tehran would keep control of the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-04-30 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: “Settler violence, while involving only 100-400 rioters, is both morally inexcusable and harms the State of Israel,” Channel 12’s Amit Segal wrote in his newsletter recently. His father, also a prominent commentator, Hagai Segal, concurred in his weekend column in Makor Rishon: “Hundreds of young Jewish individuals, unrestrained by law or morality, are rampaging daily in Judea, Binyamin and Samaria.”
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[2026-04-30 21:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The owner of the Telegraph and Politico has said the outlets' journalists must back Israel or resign, prompting accusations that the newsroom’s independence is under threat.
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[2026-04-30 21:49 UTC+10:00] [Gaza] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With Brics members Iran and the UAE as belligerents, the bloc has failed to reach a common position on the Middle East conflict
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