Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-15 02:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt will meet with Turkey’s top diplomat this week in Turkey to discuss Iran war tensions, AFP reports, citing a ministry source.
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[2026-04-15 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The city of Saga is scrambling to secure bus fuel, including through local gas stations, after a public bidding process failed. (Photo by Mina Hasegawa)
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[2026-04-15 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ambassadors’ meeting in Washington was not expected to resolve Middle East crisis but could be a step towards broader negotiations
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[2026-04-15 02:41 UTC+10:00] [Marco Rubio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ambassadors’ meeting in Washington was not expected to resolve Middle East crisis but could be a step towards broader negotiations
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[2026-04-15 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Fertiliser shortages due to the blockage on the Strait of Hormuz are a pressing concern for developing countries, the head of the United Nations trade agency warned on Tuesday.
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[2026-04-15 02:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israel has carried out 2,400 attacks in Gaza during the first six months of the "ceasefire", authorities said on Tuesday, as four more people were killed in a strike on a police car.
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[2026-04-15 02:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Nearly half of Sudan’s lifesaving community kitchens have closed down in the last six months because of a lack of international support and the impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran, new research from Islamic Relief has found.
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[2026-04-15 02:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: On the border between Lebanon and Israel lies Metula - Israel's northernmost town.
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[2026-04-15 02:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The war on Iran has “abruptly darkened” the global economic outlook, and if it continues could trigger a worldwide recession, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.
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[2026-04-15 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas War in 2023, there have been complaints that not only are our political and military leaders not providing us with sufficient and credible information about what is happening on the various fronts that we are engaged in, but that most of the media are also stingy with information.
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[2026-04-15 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: This week, the US Federal Appeals Court reinstated a $656 million judgment against the PLO and Palestinian Authority in a lawsuit brought by American victims and their families over terrorist attacks in Israel.
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[2026-04-15 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: IDF troops from the 205th Brigade and Yahalom destroyed four underground Hamas tunnel routes in Gaza over the weekend, the IDF announced on Tuesday.
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[2026-04-15 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The war on Iran has “abruptly darkened” the global economic outlook, and if it continues could trigger a worldwide recession, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.
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[2026-04-15 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon’s armed group Hezbollah said on Tuesday that it carried out attacks on Israeli forces near the border amid ongoing talks between Lebanon’s government and Israel taking place in Washington.
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[2026-04-15 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WITH the war in the Middle East entering a dangerous new phase and looking set to continue for at least several more weeks, economists and policymakers all over the world are scrambling to interpret what the impacts would be on ordinary citizens and businesses. Our analysts and policymakers here in the Philippines are no exception.
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[2026-04-15 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: FRANCE’s refusal to participate in the latest United States military strike against Iran is, in many ways, entirely unsurprising. Anyone even casually acquainted with Paris’ strategic tradition would recognize that France has never been an automatic follower within the Western camp. Since the time of former president Charles de Gaulle in the middle of the last century, France has consciously maintained a certain tension between Atlanticism and its own sense of strategic autonomy — withdrawal from NATO’s integrated military command,
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[2026-04-15 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Donald Trump warned Monday that any Iranian attack boats that approach the American naval blockade around Iran’s ports would be destroyed, despite international calls for a ceasefire to be respected and negotiations to resume.
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[2026-04-15 02:00 UTC+10:00] [US politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Congressman says keeping gas supplies at home could lower costs for Americans amid price hikes sparked by war
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[2026-04-15 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Helena Cobban is a journalist who has covered events in the Middle East for more than four decades. Through her reporting, she has interviewed senior leadership across Palestinian movements and political organisations and senior members of Israel’s government. Recently, she co-authored a book with Rami Khouri, an academic and journalist who has also been writing about the Middle East for decades.
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[2026-04-15 01:56 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-04-15 01:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Former BBC journalist Karishma Patel left the BBC because of what she perceived as its editorial “double-standards” while reporting on Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, she takes us into the newsroom of the BBC and shows us just how the BBC built an “Orwellian” atmosphere around coverage of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.
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[2026-04-15 01:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel is using the rare prosecution of a single settler over the 2025 killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen as propaganda to project itself as the Middle East’s only democracy, Oscar-winning filmmaker Basel Adra has told RT’s correspondent Charlotte Dubinsky.
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[2026-04-15 01:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel is using the rare prosecution of a single settler over the 2025 killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen as propaganda to project itself as the Middle East’s only democracy, Oscar-winning filmmaker Basel Adra has told RT’s correspondent Charlotte Dubinsky.
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[2026-04-15 01:53 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BERLIN — Ukraine urgently needs more air defenses but fears surging global demand for interceptors — driven by the Iran war and European rearmament — will leave it short.
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[2026-04-15 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has long been considered one of Donald Trump's closest allies in Europe. (AP: Evan Vucci)
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[2026-04-15 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the first direct Lebanon-Israel talks in decades a "historic opportunity" as the meeting began between the two countries in Washington.
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[2026-04-15 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with Gideon Levy, one of Israel’s most outspoken and controversial journalists, who has spent decades documenting the occupation of Palestinian lands. We discuss Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Netanyahu’s political calculations, and how Israeli society has responded. We also explore how the Israeli media and culture has eroded Israeli society, the future of Gaza and the West Bank, Palestinian leadership, and what a just resolution to the conflict might look like.
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[2026-04-15 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Many in Israel encountered a matzah shortage on Passover. “There’s no matzah in the supermarket.” “Does anyone have extra matzah?” “I checked every branch and couldn’t find any.” These messages and more spread through large numbers of WhatsApp groups. In some neighborhoods, they even opened dedicated groups specifically for people giving away or looking for matzah.
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[2026-04-15 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: As the Holocaust Remembrance Day siren rang on Monday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other state officials joined the nation’s two minutes of silence from a closed wreath-laying ceremony at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem museum and memorial.
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[2026-04-15 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: WARSAW – Polish parliament member Konrad Berkowicz displayed the Nazi swastika on Tuesday at the Sejm (“parliament”). He claimed Israel is responsible for a death rate of Gaza children “greater by the dozens” than the death rate of children in Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion.
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[2026-04-15 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Addressing a delegation of more than 130 senior law enforcement leaders from the United States, Europe, and beyond, on Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz, Sylvan Adams, President of the World Jewish Congress – Israel Region, said that the Holocaust showed how ignoring hatred can lead to the breakdown of society.
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[2026-04-15 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: "Antisemitism is a real threat to democracies around the world," Karoline Preisler, the granddaughter of a Nazi soldier, became one of Germany's most well-known counter-protesters to the pro-Palestinian rallies, told Walla in a Tuesday interview.
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[2026-04-15 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Author, thinker and activist Iyad el-Baghdadi joins us on this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC to break down the impact of Israel’s war in Gaza and its wider consequences for the region. We explore Baghdadi’s hypothesis on whether Israel can survive as a Jewish supremacist state beyond the 2030s and whether a Palestinian state is still viable.
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[2026-04-15 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Egyptian activist and blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy joins us on this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC to speak about how Egypt has changed under Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and how Isreal’s genocidal war on Gaza has affected his rule. In this extended interview, el-Hamalawy recalls the context of the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak’s rule, why Mohamed Morsi lost power and Sisi’s coup.
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[2026-04-15 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US Vice President JD Vance has waded into the feud between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, after the American president sparked global controversy for attacking the Catholic leader over his criticism of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-15 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US on Tuesday said it was offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on Kataib Hezbollah chief Ahmad Al Hamidawi.
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[2026-04-15 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, reacts to US President Donald Trump plan to forcibly expel Palestinians from Gaza so Washington can "have" the enclave. In a wide-ranging interview, Barghouti also speaks about how ethnic cleansing has accelerated in the occupied West Bank amid rising settler attacks.
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[2026-04-15 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, reacts to US President Donald Trump plan to forcibly expel Palestinians from Gaza so Washington can "have" the enclave. In a wide-ranging interview, Barghouti also speaks about how ethnic cleansing has accelerated in the occupied West Bank amid rising settler attacks.
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[2026-04-15 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: China has dismissed reports that it supplied or plans to supply weapons to Iran as "baseless smears," after multiple outlets cited US intelligence accusing Beijing of potentially entering the war indirectly.
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[2026-04-15 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In this extended interview, Norman Finkelstein, the political analyst and author who has studied Palestine and Israel for decades, speaks to us about the fate of the Palestinian people. Finkelstein gives a frank take on how Israel, along with the Trump administration, will continue and accelerate its plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in the area between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.
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[2026-04-15 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Meloni had been a supporter of Trump, but has criticised his decision to go to war with Iran and denounced his weekend criticism of Pope Leo
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[2026-04-15 01:10 UTC+10:00] [European] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Meloni had been a supporter of Trump, but has criticised his decision to go to war with Iran and denounced his weekend criticism of Pope Leo
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[2026-04-15 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US-brokered peace talks between Israel and Lebanon began in Washington on Tuesday, as Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade strikes.
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[2026-04-15 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Anthony Albanese] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Earlier this month, as the United States and Israel’s war on Iran raged, the prime minister frustrated many when he reiterated his support for the US- Australian alliance. And he did so again days later when he responded to Donald Trump’s threat to wipe out the entire Iranian civilisation by calling it inappropriate.
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[2026-04-15 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The latest World Economic Outlook from the International Monetary Fund paints a sobering picture for Sub-Saharan Africa, as escalating conflict in the Middle East threatens to derail an already fragile global recovery.
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[2026-04-15 00:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US has tightened its grip on energy exports from the Persian Gulf with a new naval blockade on Iranian supplies, risking fresh shocks to already fragile global markets.
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[2026-04-15 00:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US has tightened its grip on energy exports from the Persian Gulf with a new naval blockade on Iranian supplies, risking fresh shocks to already fragile global markets.
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[2026-04-15 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: There is rarely a day when US President Donald Trump does not command attention on social media, with posts ranging from attacks on public figures to sweeping claims about his own achievements. The same tone has carried into his handling of the war on Iran, where he has repeatedly insisted that US actions have weakened Tehran and decisively shifted the conflict in Washington’s favor.
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[2026-04-15 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: There is rarely a day when US President Donald Trump does not command attention on social media, with posts ranging from attacks on public figures to sweeping claims about his own achievements. The same tone has carried into his handling of the war on Iran, where he has repeatedly insisted that US actions have weakened Tehran and decisively shifted the conflict in Washington’s favor.
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[2026-04-15 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the diplomatic push to renew ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran continues, Washington and Tehran have also been negotiating a deal on Iran’s uranium enrichment.
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