Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-17 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The president of Somaliland, a breakaway state of Somalia recognised only by Israel, has come under fire for botching an interview at a US think tank widely viewed as sympathetic to Somaliland’s quest for US recognition.
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[2026-09-17 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, and US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz held a trilateral diplomatic summit in New York on Wednesday and agreed on a series of measures to upgrade relations between Israel and Morocco and advance the Abraham Accords.
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[2026-09-17 04:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Ministry of Public Works and Housing warned on Wednesday of the dangerous humanitarian and field conditions in the Gaza Strip, with more than 2,000 damaged buildings at risk of collapse as a result of Israeli strikes, Wafa news reported.
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[2026-09-17 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Ruben Neves has a tattoo of him and Diogo Jota hugging on his left leg
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[2026-09-17 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hamas’ October 7 attack was not designed to scuttle normalization ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia, since it was planned long before talk about diplomatic ties between the two countries gained momentum.
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[2026-09-17 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Democratic and Republican US senators asked US President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday to declassify and release all information about a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy, including two classified "side letters" reached with Riyadh.
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[2026-09-17 04:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Houthis said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabian jets had carried out 40 air strikes over the past day targeting western Yemen, where the group recently made substantial gains along the Red Sea coast.
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[2026-09-17 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: For months, Saudi Arabia appeared fairly insulated from the war on Iran even as it engulfed smaller neighbours.
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[2026-09-17 04:09 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: The US Federal Reserve has lifted interest rates for the first time in three years in a bid to rein in persistently high inflation fuelled by the ongoing war with Iran and its impact on the cost of energy.
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[2026-09-17 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE's cyber security chief said the country is still contending with a barrage of daily online threats - with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) behind many of the attacks.
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[2026-09-17 04:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Can the US and its political culture ever be liberated from the fangs and tentacles of genocidal Zionism? Might we see a day when the US is decolonised and declares its independence from Israel and the Israeli operatives inside its own borders?
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[2026-09-17 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Central District Court in Lod sentenced Alexander Granovsky of Petah Tikva to 13 and a half years in prison on Wednesday for carrying out paid assignments for an Iranian agent, including setting vehicles on fire and photographing locations at the request of his handler. The prosecution said it was the harshest sentence so far in a series of cases against people recruited by Iranian agents through social media.
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[2026-09-17 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A Jewish man who has been imprisoned in Iraq for 11 years was released today following a coordinated international effort.
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[2026-09-17 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: President Isaac Herzog said the upcoming Israeli elections "are not a civil war" in an interview on 103FM on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to propose a law to revoke the Israeli citizenship of anyone "smearing" the IDF in a Wednesday post on X/Twitter.
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[2026-09-17 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in three years on Wednesday, as stubbornly high inflation and rising oil prices caused by supply disruptions in the Middle East ripple across the global economy.
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[2026-09-17 03:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: For months, Saudi Arabia appeared fairly insulated from the war on Iran even as it engulfed smaller neighbours.
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[2026-09-17 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The umbrella organisation for trade unions in the United Kingdom has passed a motion calling for an end to complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-09-17 03:36 UTC+10:00] [Houthis] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The extraordinary success of the rebels, and Saudi counterstrikes, threaten economic havoc. But the country’s civilians are paying the highest price
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[2026-09-17 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel is systematically trying to "eliminate" living conditions for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to a new report by a rights group.
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[2026-09-17 03:18 UTC+10:00] [Republicans] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Three more GOP members voted for war powers resolution to force withdrawal from the conflict as election looms
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[2026-09-17 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Yemen’s Houthi forces claimed on Wednesday to have shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet, releasing a video of the burning wreckage of the warplane. If verified, the video is the first ever evidence of a Saudi jet downed by Houthi air defenses.
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[2026-09-17 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-17 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Leaning heavily on the arm of a relative, Hayat al-Ajlah moves slowly between the hospital beds, scanning the faces of the injured.
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[2026-09-17 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ed Sheeran's four supporting acts for his US tour quit on Wednesday after the singer dropped rapper Macklemore from the lineup, The Telegraph reported.
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[2026-09-17 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Jerusalem District Court convicted four residents of Jerusalem’s Beit Safafa neighborhood on Wednesday in a case involving an alleged Iranian-directed plan to kill an Israeli nuclear scientist and his family, the State Attorney’s Office said.
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[2026-09-17 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iranian drone and missile attacks on US bases in the region during Operation Epic Fury might have been aided by Russian spy satellites, CNN reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 02:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-17 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Transportation companies, the lifeblood of the U.S. economy, are flashing warning signs as diesel costs hit records.
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[2026-09-17 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Palestinian civil defense crews carry a body from the rubble of a collapsed building that housed displaced Palestinians and was heavily damaged during the Israel-Hamas war, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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[2026-09-17 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-09-17 02:43 UTC+10:00] [Music] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are demonstrating the self-sacrifice necessary to stand against those crushing free speech
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[2026-09-17 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Twenty-one people, including five children, have been killed after an apartment building collapsed from damage sustained in earlier Israeli strikes, Gaza authorities reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 02:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel is systematically trying to "eliminate" living conditions for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to a new report by a rights group.
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[2026-09-17 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot denied on Wednesday that he promised to bring Ra'am into a future coalition or government, saying his party did not discuss the composition of a future government during a meeting with Bedouin local authority heads.
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[2026-09-17 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: More Palestinians in the West Bank believe Israel does not have a right to exist (46%) than those who believe it does (41%), according to a new poll published by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-17 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: WTI futures fell to $101 a barrel around midday in New York after Bloomberg reported that Saudi Arabia could restore roughly half the East-West pipeline's capacity within days. The pipeline, a critical export route bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, has been shut since last week's drone attack.
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[2026-09-17 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-09-17 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Global energy prices have spiked alarmingly again, driven largely in recent days by the escalating conflict between Yemen's Houthis and Saudi Arabia causing chaos for the oil industry.
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[2026-09-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In an emotional moment at the world premiere on Sunday of Avi Nesher’s Our Loves at the Toronto International Film Festival, the audience gave the film a lengthy standing ovation, which happened again at the second screening on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Justice Ministry’s Legal Aid Department opened 154,552 files in 2025, with family and debt matters accounting for most of its caseload, according to its annual report published on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF informed residents of northern Israel that it would be striking sites in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Syria's parliament voted on Wednesday to abolish an Assad-era terrorism court and nullify the legal effects of its rulings, state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV reported, in one of the first significant legislative moves by the country's new assembly.
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[2026-09-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Saudi Arabia faces a potential two-front conflict as it weighs what to do about the Houthi advance. The Houthis swept down the coast of the Red Sea and took islands near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. Meanwhile, the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq attacked the key East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia.
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[2026-09-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Even an attack on Islam’s holiest city has not been enough to unite the Middle East in responding to the Iranian axis, Bahraini political analyst Dr. Ahmed Alkhuzaie told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, a day after Saudi Arabia said its air defenses had shot down a Houthi drone south of Mecca.
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[2026-09-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Of all of the battle spaces of the last three years, from Gaza to Syria to the West Bank to Lebanon, the Ali Taher Ridge battle was the most complex to win, Egoz Special Forces Commander Lt.-Col. "M" told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has nominated the anti-Islam, pro-Israel Republican Wesley Hunt as the next American ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
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[2026-09-17 01:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US Energy Secretary Chris Wright acknowledged on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News that the Iran war has “taken some energy resources out of the marketplace,” forcing US consumers to make what he called a “short-term sacrifice”, but added that “this is to end Iran’s ability to forever drive up energy prices”.
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[2026-09-17 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli shelling on the Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City has killed one Palestinian and injured several others, according to Wafa news agency on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.
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