Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-30 16:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Good morning Middle East Eye readers,
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[2026-04-30 16:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This photo provided by Zevik Glidai shows a fiber-optic drone surrounded by cables lying in the backyard of his home in Kiryat Shmona, Israel, after being brought over the border from Lebanon, Monday, April 13, 2026. (Zevik Glidai via AP)
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[2026-04-30 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Syria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fadi Saqr is accused of mass killings of civilians in Tadamon, Damascus, where people say he must face justice
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[2026-04-30 15:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-30 15:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-30 15:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-30 15:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Australia agreed Thursday to enhance cooperation to ensure stable supplies of diesel and other energy resources amid global supply disruptions caused by the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
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[2026-04-30 15:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The LIV Golf Invitational Series event started in June 2022
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[2026-04-30 15:32 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-04-30 15:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Earlier this month, the Bank of Israel slashed its growth forecast for this year, citing the hostilities in the Middle East.
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[2026-04-30 15:30 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-30 15:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Global Sumud Flotilla indicated in a post on X that hundreds of participants are stranded onboard "powerless, broken" vessels as a result of the Israeli navy's interception.
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[2026-04-30 15:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: In today’s episode of Trending Middle East, UN-backed forecasts warn that almost a quarter of Lebanon's population could face acute hunger, as the conflict continues despite ceasefire efforts.
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[2026-04-30 15:21 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The US president has been difficult to pin down when it comes to the country’s true goals for its intervention in the Middle East. An imminent threat to Israel, regime change, stopping Iran developing nuclear weapons, freedom for Iranians – all of these reasons have been floated without an apparent coherent strategy.
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[2026-04-30 15:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged US President Donald Trump to limit ongoing negotiations with Lebanon to a two- to three-week window ending in mid-May, during a call late Wednesday, Israel's Channel 12 (N12) reported.
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[2026-04-30 15:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The sun rises behind a tanker anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Asghar Besharati, File)
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[2026-04-30 15:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hussein Farran whose six members of his family were killed in a Israeli airstrike in Kfar Hatta village, visits their graves at a cemetery where civilians and Hezbollah fighters are temporary buried in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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[2026-04-30 15:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: LONDON — European stocks are expected to open in negative territory on Thursday as investors digest the latest reports on the Iran war and await more earnings and central bank decisions.
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[2026-04-30 15:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey speaks at Managing Global Imbalances: Policy Priorities forum during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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[2026-04-30 14:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: President Sheikh Mohamed has congratulated Ali Al Zaidi on his nomination as Iraq's next prime minister and underlined the UAE's commitment to bolstering bilateral ties.
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[2026-04-30 14:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: HONG KONG (AP) — El precio del crudo Brent se disparó por encima de los 125 dólares por barril a primera hora del jueves, luego de que el estancamiento de las conversaciones entre Estados Unidos e Irán incrementara las dudas de que se reabra el estrecho de Ormuz y la guerra llegue a su fin.
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[2026-04-30 14:51 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: A man has been arrested after a paramedic was stabbed in the neck and slashed in the face while getting a coffee this morning.The male paramedic was waiting for a coffee outside a cafe on Broadway in Reservoir around 11am when a man got out of a small, red car and attacked him from behind, police allege.The victim was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening stab wounds to his neck and face.READ MORE: Syria calls on Australia to find
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[2026-04-30 14:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: An Iranian football federation delegation, including a former member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, will not attend Thursday's Fifa Congress in Vancouver, citing their treatment by Canadian immigration.
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[2026-04-30 14:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli navy intercepted 50 vessels bound for Gaza carrying 400 activists, with troops informing participants of the Global Sumud Flotilla that they were under arrest, the Israeli Channel 12 reported.
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[2026-04-30 14:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A gas price is displayed as a customer holds a fuel pump nozzle before filling up her vehicle’s gas tank at a gas station, in Lincolnshire, Ill., Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file)
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[2026-04-30 14:32 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Wall Street Journal has reported that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is withdrawing from LIV Golf.
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[2026-04-30 14:19 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Middle East war has triggered the biggest global energy supply shock on record and will drive a sharp rise in commodity prices, pushing inflation higher and slowing economic growth worldwide, the World Bank has warned.
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[2026-04-30 14:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanese Civil Defense teams have resumed their search at dawn on Thursday for those missing in Jouaiyya, southern Lebanon, after an Israeli air strike on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-30 14:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: JAL and ANA aircraft park at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2023. Jet fuel prices are rising faster than expected for Japan's big airlines. (Photo by Takaki Kashiwabara)
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[2026-04-30 14:08 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Countries respond to massive economic pain with accelerating demand for Chinese PV products but will they maintain the pace?
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[2026-04-30 14:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Oil prices soared more than 6 percent on worries about prolonged supply disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and fears of a lengthy US siege of Iranian ports, settling at their highest levels in weeks.
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[2026-04-30 14:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Oil prices jumped on Thursday in Asia after a report that the US military is set to brief President Donald Trump on new plans for potential action in the Iran war.
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[2026-04-30 14:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army shot dead a Palestinian teenager on Wednesday during an incursion in Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-04-30 14:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appears before a House Committee on Armed Services business meeting on the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2027 on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr.)
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[2026-04-30 13:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Oil rose to its highest price in four years, on Thursday, topping $120 a barrel as the US increased pressure on Iran.
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[2026-04-30 13:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, will be heading home following a record-setting deployment of more than 300 days that included participating in the war against Iran and capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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[2026-04-30 13:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Tugboats push a crude oil tanker into position at a pier handling oil imports in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (Chinatopix Via AP) CHINA OUT
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[2026-04-30 13:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund plans to stop financial support for LIV Golf after this season, according to reports.
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[2026-04-30 13:33 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: At least four Australians attempting to break Israel’s 19-year land and sea blockade and deliver aid to Gaza have been intercepted by Israel in international waters, west of the Greek island of Crete.
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[2026-04-30 13:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-04-30 13:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Multiple LIV Golf players have had their reps reach out to the PGA Tour about a possible return after news broke Wednesday that the rebel golf league would be losing its financial backing from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
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[2026-04-30 13:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said he could withdraw some American troops stationed in Germany amid a public spat with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the war in Iran.
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[2026-04-30 13:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The US military is reportedly considering sending its long-range hypersonic missile to the Middle East — to possibly take out ballistic-missile launchers embedded in Iran.
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[2026-04-30 13:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Six months after first sitting down with Dr. David Hasan for a meal, Rabbi Daniel Greyber returned to the table on Tuesday, this time bringing congregants from his synagogue to support Hasan’s work helping children in Gaza.
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[2026-04-30 13:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- The United States has become the largest exporter of naphtha to South Korea following the outbreak of the Iran conflict, the industry ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-04-30 13:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Cristiano Ronaldo snapped back at Al Ahli Saudi’s fans having scored a goal which pushed Al Nassr nearer to the Saudi Pro League title.
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[2026-04-30 13:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: President Isaac Herzog has spent recent weeks quietly encouraging the parties involved in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to consider a plea bargain. The Right has called it surrender. The Left has called it a sellout. Both are wrong, and Herzog is doing exactly what a president is supposed to do.
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[2026-04-30 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: In Gaza, hunger is no longer simply about the absence of food, it is about the collapse of an entire means of survival.
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[2026-04-30 12:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: When Isack Hadjar began racing in the Middle East as a Formula Two driver, the response was immediate. Even before reaching Formula One, he was aware of the sport’s growing presence in the region and the support that came with it.
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[2026-04-30 12:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: When Isack Hadjar began racing in the Middle East as a Formula Two driver, the response was immediate. Even before reaching Formula One, he was aware of the sport’s growing presence in the region and the support that came with it.
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