Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-21 03:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: It is not often that an academic trip carries the weight of a diplomatic experiment. But in Damascus, conversations about poetry, antiquities, museums, and student exchanges became a way to test whether intellectual collaboration can move forward even where history, politics, and mistrust still cast a long shadow.
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[2026-04-21 03:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump stated in a Truth Social post on Monday that Israel did not influence his decision to go to war with Iran.
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[2026-04-21 03:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran's Parliament Speaker, Mohammed-Bagher Ghalibaf, denounced political figures in Tehran who oppose holding ceasefire talks with the US, London-based anti-regime outlet Iran International reported on Monday.
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[2026-04-21 03:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel’s National Remembrance Day ceremony honoring fallen IDF soldiers and victims of terror began on Monday evening following a siren that sounded across the country indicating a moment of silence.
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[2026-04-21 03:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States will host a second round of talks between Lebanon and Israel on Thursday, the US Department of State has confirmed, as the two countries push on with direct negotiations amid regional tensions.
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[2026-04-21 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump on Monday again threatened Iran with overwhelming military force, saying "lots of bombs [will] start going off" if no deal is reached before a shaky ceasefire with Tehran expires Tuesday evening.
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[2026-04-21 02:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israeli prosecutors have charged a suspected smuggler accused of arranging black market deliveries worth millions of dollars into wartime Gaza.
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[2026-04-21 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Iranian authorities have been slowly expanding a list of individuals and entities deemed eligible to have limited internet access. However, the action serves only to illustrate that most of the population of more than 90 million people remains disconnected during the war with the United States and Israel.
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[2026-04-21 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Commercial ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz briefly jumped over the weekend before slowing to a trickle again after several attacks on vessels.
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[2026-04-21 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hungary's incoming prime minister Peter Magyar said on Monday that he was going to halt his country's departure from the International Criminal Court (ICC) and that he was sure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was aware of Hungary's legal obligations under the ICC treaty.
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[2026-04-21 02:02 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Oil and gas prices have jumped again as shipping through the strait of Hormuz came to a virtual standstill after Iran closed the waterway over the US blockade and Donald Trump announced an Iranian cargo ship had been seized trying to get past. Tehran has accused Washington of violating the fragile ceasefire agreement.
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[2026-04-21 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-21 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: With the sounding of a siren at 8pm on Monday, Israel begins the commemoration of Memorial Day, remembering soldiers killed since the establishment of the first Jewish settlements in Palestine in 1860, through Israel’s many wars with its neighbours and attacks on Palestinians, up to those who died enacting its genocide in Gaza.
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[2026-04-21 01:56 UTC+10:00] [Foreign policy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has accused his Polish counterpart Radosław Sikorski of making “irresponsible statements” in a dispute over the destruction of a Christian symbol in Lebanon by a member of the Israel Defense Forces.
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[2026-04-21 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian has said in a post on X that "deep historical mistrust" persists in Iran towards the US, as a new round of talks is reported to shortly get under way.
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[2026-04-21 01:51 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: double quotation markMany members across the House will find these facts to be incredible.
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[2026-04-21 01:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia has repeatedly offered to remove Iran’s highly enriched uranium (HEU) since the United States and Israel first launched hostilities with the Islamic Republic last summer.
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[2026-04-21 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The direct Israeli-Lebanese talks held in Washington on April 14, brokered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, revealed the central difficulty of these negotiations: not a gap in objectives, but a language gap.
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[2026-04-21 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: As it enters its 79th year, the State of Israel stands at a crossroads. It can drift toward becoming a Jewish-religious nationalist state, with Third World levels of public services and GDP, or it can return to the Zionist path and serve as a model for combining liberal values with ancient tradition.
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[2026-04-21 01:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet is reporting from Tehran on condition that none of her material is used on the BBC's Persian Service. These restrictions apply to all international media organisations operating in Iran.
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[2026-04-21 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Trump told The Post he “won’t be rushed” to end the Iran war on its 52nd day — and lashed out at Democrats and Republicans trying to force him to end the conflict.
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[2026-04-21 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Donald Trump has denied being dragged into war with Iran by Israel, as the United States president faces increasing criticism over the conflict, including from segments of his own base.
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[2026-04-21 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US Vice President JD Vance's delegation is en route to Pakistan and expected to land soon, US President Donald Trump told the New York Post on Monday.
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[2026-04-21 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Moscow authorities detained and interrogated approximately 40 Israelis landing at the Russian capital's Domodedovo Airport over involvement in the Iran war, Russian opposition outlet Mediazona reported on Monday.
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[2026-04-21 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The mother of the fallen Givati soldier, St.-Sgt. Oriya Ayimalk Goshen revealed that her son was killed during a January 2024 operation tied to an attempted rescue of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas during the Yad LaBanim Remembrance Day ceremony on Monday.
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[2026-04-21 01:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: “What side you standing on?” sang Julian Casablancas, frontman of The Strokes, against the backdrop of the moment that al-Israa University, the last standing university in Gaza, was destroyed by Israeli forces in 2024 after they had been using it as a military base.
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[2026-04-21 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Trump told The Post that he has two questions for Pope Leo XIV about his opposition to the Iran war — after the pontiff continued to voice opposition.
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[2026-04-21 01:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Israeli military have stopped people from returning to more than a dozen villages across southern Lebanon, expanding a no-go zone even as a fragile ceasefire remains in place.
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[2026-04-21 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A Palestinian academic and activist who was one of the first women plane hijackers was killed in an Israeli air strike last week on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, according to Lebanon's state news agency.
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[2026-04-21 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Trump says 'highly unlikely' will extend ceasefire if deal not signed in Pakistan.
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[2026-04-21 00:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah has called for Lebanese President Aoun to withdraw from direct talks with Israel, adding that the group wants "the ceasefire to continue".
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[2026-04-21 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has re-established a settlement in the Palestinian village of Sanur, 20 years after it was dismantled as part of Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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[2026-04-21 00:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel has destroyed any chance of success in US-Iran talks by pushing Washington to kill Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to former senior foreign policy adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marine Corps veteran James Webb.
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[2026-04-21 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian power plants and bridges is “perfectly acceptable,” Washington’s envoy to the UN Mike Waltz has said, dismissing accusations of potential war crimes.
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[2026-04-21 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: There has been widespread condemnation after an image of an Israeli soldier apparently hitting a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon went viral.
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[2026-04-21 00:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar spoke over the phone amid the fresh round of talks between Washington and Tehran, Iranian media is reporting.
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[2026-04-21 00:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said that a deal with Iran will be signed "today" in Pakistan, adding that Vice President JD Vance and the US negotiating team are en route to Islamabad and due to arrive within hours.
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[2026-04-21 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: US stocks fell and oil prices surged Monday morning as tensions over the Iran war heated up again, after President Trump announced the US Navy had seized an Iranian cargo vessel and Tehran sent mixed signals on resuming talks.
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[2026-04-21 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A viral image of an Israeli soldier cooking inside the kitchen of a home in southern Lebanon has sparked strong criticism online.
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[2026-04-21 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A viral image of an Israeli soldier cooking inside the kitchen of a home in southern Lebanon has sparked strong criticism online.
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[2026-04-21 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As the war in Iran enters its 8th week, Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid says that recent developments can be framed in two ways: either five steps forward towards peace and three back (seems more apt than three and two), or as evidence that the two sides remain far enough apart that a lasting deal will be extremely hard to achieve and markets have become far too optimistic.
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[2026-04-21 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF's Military Prosecution on Monday filed an indictment against a lieutenant who attempted to smuggle goods from Israel into the Gaza Strip.
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[2026-04-21 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Seven IDF officers have been indicted on counts of bribery, theft by a public servant, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and tax offenses, among other crimes, the State Attorney's Office announced on Monday.
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[2026-04-21 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A Friday talk by two Palestinian terrorists released in ransoms for the October 7 Massacre hostages at the San Lorenzo headquarters of Argentina's State Workers Association (ATE) was canceled following police action and legal action against the event.
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[2026-04-21 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates said on Monday it had dismantled a terrorist cell linked to Iran and arrested its members over a plot to undermine stability, state news agency WAM reported.
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[2026-04-21 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Climate crisis] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Climate leaders say Democrats need to extol clean energy as a way to cut costs for Americans as war roils oil markets
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[2026-04-20 23:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Israeli military has published a map outlining what it described as a “forward defense line” in southern Lebanon, despite calls for a full withdrawal following the announcement of a ceasefire.
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[2026-04-20 23:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has claimed a second round of negotiations with Iran will take place in Pakistan on Tuesday as mediators try to revive negotiations before the end of an ongoing yet fragile two-week ceasefire.
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[2026-04-20 23:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia announced Monday that airlines will once again be allowed to make flights to Iran and sell tickets for flights to and from the United Arab Emirates.
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[2026-04-20 23:42 UTC+10:00] [Pakistan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Islamabad has seized chance to act as mediator in Iran war and hopes to reap diplomatic and economic benefits
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