Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-18 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A Palestinian was killed, and others were injured on Thursday in an Israeli strike east of the al-Maslakh area, south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wafa news reported.
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[2026-09-18 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-18 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The season-ending WTA Finals will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina for at least three years from 2027, as the Women's Tennis Association announced its plans for the future following the conclusion of its partnership with Saudi Arabia.
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[2026-09-18 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Robert Kraft, the US stadium owner who had pro-Palestinian rapper Macklemore removed as Ed Sheeran's opening act, says Sheeran asked him to match his own $2m (£1.5m) donation for "aid in the region".
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[2026-09-18 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Intensifying attacks between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis have reportedly killed at least five people in total, including three children.
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[2026-09-18 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Britain affirmed its full support for Lebanon on Thursday in a phone call between the Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, Stephen Doughty, and Lebanon’s Foreign Minister, Youssef Raji.
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[2026-09-18 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: As Israel enters election season, digital deception threatens not only the truth, but the ability of citizens to make a free and informed democratic choice.
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[2026-09-18 01:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Ever since the outbreak of war with Iran earlier this year, motorists have been warily eyeing prices at the pump. While unleaded gas prices have largely avoided historic highs, the same can't be said for diesel fuel, which hit an all-time high of $6.31 per gallon on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-18 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Belgium's Thierry Neuville won the inaugural Rally Saudi Arabia in 2025
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[2026-09-18 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ireland has become the second country, after the Netherlands, to announce a boycott of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest over Israel’s participation.
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[2026-09-18 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Dozens of far-right Israelis gathered outside NAZA filmmaker Rachel Szor's family home on Wednesday, demanding she be hanged over her documentary on war crimes Israel committed during its genocidal war on Gaza.
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[2026-09-18 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US helped evacuate 9,000 US citizens in the first months of the war with Iran. In addition, Iran carried out 600 attacks in Iraq, either directly from Iran or using proxies.
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[2026-09-18 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Palestinian population, already critical of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, may view renewed US sanctions against the PA and Palestinian Liberation Organization as another sign that the current leadership’s approach to Washington has “not produced sufficient political results,” Dr. Nabil Kukali, president and founder of the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO), told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
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[2026-09-18 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei condemned on Thursday any aggression against Islamic holy sites, particularly Mecca, but pointed out that "a mere claim" of intercepting a drone is not enough to accuse the Houthis of the act.
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[2026-09-18 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pakistan’s defence minister has said the time has come to implement the Mecca defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkey as Houthi attacks on the kingdom intensify.
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[2026-09-18 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Iran's "desire" to destroy Israel has not disappeared, though its capability to execute it has been "significantly diminished."
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[2026-09-18 01:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The Palestinian Authority on Thursday slammed a decision by the United States to refuse visas for its officials to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week, a move which includes president Mahmoud Abbas according to a source familiar with the case.
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[2026-09-18 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Kosovo, a small majority-Muslim country in the Balkans, has signed up to United States President Donald Trump’s controversial Board of Peace and the planned International Stabilization Force for Gaza, after Israel gave its approval.
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[2026-09-18 01:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A UN fact-finding mission has found reasonable grounds to believe the US committed war crimes by carrying out indiscriminate strikes on civilian targets in Iran, according to a new report.
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[2026-09-18 01:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: At least 156 people, including 120 children, were killed in February's strike on the primary school in Minab
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[2026-09-18 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Three members of the Syrian Internal Security Forces were killed in the Daraa countryside, around thirty kilometers from the Golan border.
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[2026-09-18 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: “When I was a child in Beersheba, between Beersheba and Tel Aviv it was like light-years,” the mayor told The Jerusalem Post. “They called us the city of camels, the end of the world, a desert city.”
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[2026-09-18 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran is one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world, facing overlapping restrictions imposed by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United Nations.
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[2026-09-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Without introspection and without self-critique, we, as individuals, as a society, and as a nation, cannot evaluate whether policies and priorities meet their goals, and we cannot know whether they are successful or not.
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[2026-09-18 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ansar Allah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi has said that Riyadh is "perpetrating a siege" against territory controlled by the Houthi group with US support, and that its "aggressive policies" are intended to destabilise Yemen.
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[2026-09-18 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Oil prices in China have surged to record highs amid mounting disruptions to exports from the Middle East, as Beijing faces an increasingly difficult balancing act between securing its own energy supplies and preventing global oil prices from climbing even higher.
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[2026-09-18 00:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pakistan has said it is ready to implement its defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, amid recent Houthi attacks.
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[2026-09-18 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Houthis pose a threat to the region, and they have demonstrated their capabilities through their recent offensive along the Red Sea. A new report by Conflict Armament Research examines the sources of their weapons and highlights their continued close ties to Iran.
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[2026-09-18 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Houthi advances in Yemen have taken Saudi Arabia and the Middle East by surprise. Riyadh had been working on cementing a new defensive alliance with Turkey and Pakistan on the eve of the Houthi attacks. Now, some commentators seem to think the Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey pact may already be in jeopardy.
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[2026-09-18 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: One person was killed and two others injured by debris from a drone launched by Yemen's Houthis that fell on Taif governorate, Saudi Arabia, after it had been intercepted and destroyed, Saudi Civil Defence said.
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[2026-09-18 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran’s missiles and drones have downed dozens of US aircraft, damaged or destroyed hundreds of the United States’ buildings at its bases in the Middle East, and drained its inventories of military equipment worth billions of dollars, the Pentagon conceded earlier this week.
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[2026-09-18 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Eva Bartlett, an American/Canadian journalist who has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, Venezuela and the Donbass, recipient of the 2017 International Journalism Award for International Reporting, granted by the Mexican Journalists’ Press Club and first recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.
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[2026-09-18 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Eva Bartlett, an American/Canadian journalist who has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, Venezuela and the Donbass, recipient of the 2017 International Journalism Award for International Reporting, granted by the Mexican Journalists’ Press Club and first recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.
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[2026-09-18 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: By now, it should be obvious that US policy towards Iran has hit a wall.
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[2026-09-17 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A 21-year-old Palestinian prisoner has died in Israeli custody, with his family saying they were given no explanation beyond being told that he had died in prison.
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[2026-09-17 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Settlers from the occupied West Bank recently established an encampment in Majd al-Krum, a Palestinian-majority town in the Galilee.
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[2026-09-17 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: BBC Verify has confirmed the footage was filmed in western Yemen.
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[2026-09-17 23:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Israeli settlers celebrate the inauguration of a newly built synagogue at the occupied West Bank outpost of Homesh, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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[2026-09-17 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Will Robert Kraft and Macklemore meet next?
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[2026-09-17 23:36 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: It is the second year this administration has barred the Palestinian delegation from US travel ahead of the forum
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[2026-09-17 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced Prof. Aryeh Levin, a former senior doctor at Wolfson Medical Center, to six years in prison on Thursday for raping the mother of a patient and committing sexual offenses against two patients.
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[2026-09-17 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: One person was killed, and two were injured by falling shrapnel during a drone interception in Saudi Arabia’s Taif Province on Thursday, according to Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense Directorate.
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[2026-09-17 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) will hunt down every Hamas member involved in the October 7, 2023 slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, no matter where they are hiding across the globe, Shin Bet Director David Zini said on Thursday.
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[2026-09-17 23:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: CAIRO (AP) — The Saudi civil defense said Thursday that debris from an intercepted Houthi drone has killed one person and injured two others.
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[2026-09-17 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York for a second year in a row.
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[2026-09-17 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York for a second year in a row.
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[2026-09-17 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israel has nearly tripled the size of its plan to build thousands of houses in an area that has become one of the most contentious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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[2026-09-17 22:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Saudi Arabia has turned to regional and global players for help defending its airspace against attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels after its main security provider, the US, declined to step in, The Associated Press has reported, citing regional officials. Riyadh is running low on missile interceptors, according to the outlet.
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[2026-09-17 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The 87 “architects” of the Islamic Republic’s brutal crackdown on the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests must face international justice to deter the regime from carrying out similar acts of violent suppression in the future, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death and the day the NGO released a more than 1,000-page report documenting how Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity.
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[2026-09-17 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An Israeli man was charged on Thursday with preparing a terrorist attack on a data center in Ra’anana, after allegedly using his volunteer work with the fire service to visit the site and explore ways to deliver an explosive.
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