Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-14 02:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Bahrain has summoned an Iraqi envoy over drone attacks launched at the kingdom and other states in the region, which persist despite the US-Iran ceasefire.
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[2026-04-14 02:41 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-14 02:40 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-04-14 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran will levy tolls on ships from ‘hostile’ countries crossing the Strait of Hormuz as compensation for damage caused by sanctions and US-Israeli strikes, Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has said.
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[2026-04-14 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran will levy tolls on ships from ‘hostile’ countries crossing the Strait of Hormuz as compensation for damage caused by sanctions and US-Israeli strikes, Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has said.
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[2026-04-14 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The State Attorney’s Office on Monday filed an indictment with the Lod District Court against military defense attorney Idan Dvir, 42, of Netanya, accusing him of exploiting his position as counsel to commit multiple sexual offenses against 10 women, including female soldiers, women awaiting enlistment, and an undercover police agent.
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[2026-04-14 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Nearly nine decades after fleeing Nazi Germany as a child on the Kindertransport, Holocaust survivor Helen Charash, 92, recently made aliyah to Jerusalem, joining a small but steady number of survivors relocating to Israel late in life.
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[2026-04-14 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF killed several Hamas terrorists in Gaza this week, including one who had previously been involved in killing several dozen Israeli soldiers, the military announced on Monday.
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[2026-04-14 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two IDF soldiers were moderately wounded, and six others were lightly wounded when an explosive drone fell in the area the soldiers were operating in within southern Lebanon, the military confirmed on Monday.
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[2026-04-14 02:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A French court has fined cement group Lafarge $1.3 million for paying the Islamic State group and other jihadists to keep its factory running in Syria during the civil war.
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[2026-04-14 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump is once again engaged in a high risk bet in hopes that Iran will buckle to US demands after failed initial truce talks in Pakistan. The blockade now in effect as of Monday seeks to starve Iran of $200 million in daily oil revenues.
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[2026-04-14 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Donald Trump's threat that a "whole civilisation" would die unless Iran agreed to end the war was "wrong", Sir Keir Starmer has said.
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[2026-04-14 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Central District Court in Lod convicted Barkat Abu Issa of Tel Sheva on Monday of rape under aggravated circumstances, burglary, and abuse of a minor, in a case stemming from a February 2023 nighttime attack on a woman in her Gedera home while her young children were present.
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[2026-04-14 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with his wife Sara, met on Sunday with several Holocaust survivors who have been chosen to light torches as part of the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony on Tuesday.
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[2026-04-14 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: President Isaac Herzog will award Argentinian President Javier Milei with the Presidential Medal of Honor during his upcoming visit to Israel, the President's Office announced on Monday.
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[2026-04-14 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar said that Israel and Hungary share a "special relationship" at a press conference after his center-right party, Tisza, won the election on Sunday.
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[2026-04-14 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: “We try to help Holocaust survivors with whatever’s needed,” Yoel Provisor, the Jaffa Institute’s Volunteer Services & Accompanying the Elderly Coordinator, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
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[2026-04-14 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto meets with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, as the Southeast Asian country aims to expand energy supplies in the face of Middle East constraints. © Reuters
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[2026-04-14 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-14 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Luxury conglomerate and industry bellwether LVMH reported quarterly sales that missed expectations on Monday as the sector begins to decipher the fallout from the war in the Middle East and its impact on stocks.
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[2026-04-14 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is losing the information war against Iran, as social media platforms allow the “raw, unfiltered truth” about the conflict to instantly reach millions, undermining Washington’s narrative, an Iranian-American Lego cartoonist has told RT.
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[2026-04-14 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is losing the information war against Iran, as social media platforms allow the “raw, unfiltered truth” about the conflict to instantly reach millions, undermining Washington’s narrative, an Iranian-American Lego cartoonist has told RT.
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[2026-04-14 01:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
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[2026-04-14 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A student drinks from a water fountain inside Cuyama Elementary School, Sept. 20, 2023, in New Cuyama, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)
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[2026-04-14 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: There's no doubt the US military has the capability to mount a blockade of vessels moving in and out of the Gulf. The question is: to what end?
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[2026-04-14 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Iran war wiped out 7.88 million barrels per day of Opec’s production in March, resulting in the biggest supply collapse for the producers’ group in recent decades, the Vienna-based organisation said in its latest monthly report.
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[2026-04-14 01:20 UTC+10:00] [France] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Lafarge fined more than €1m and its former boss jailed for paying nearly €5.6m to groups including Islamic State
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[2026-04-14 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: We've been tracking the global rewiring of energy flows from the start, including identifying who stands to emerge as the net beneficiary of the U.S.-Iran conflict and the resulting disruption across the Gulf theater. Early in the conflict, we cited energy research firm Criterion, which noted that Qatar had been dethroned as the "LNG king" as the U.S.
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[2026-04-14 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said US forces would destroy any Iranian "fast attack ships" that approach the American naval blockade of Iranian ports that came into effect on Monday.
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[2026-04-14 01:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Familiares rezan en la tumba de una persona enterrada junto a combatientes de Hezbollah muertos en ataques israelíes, en un cementerio de Choueifat, Líbano, el lunes 13 de abril de 2026. (Foto AP/Emilio Morenatti)
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[2026-04-14 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: It is entirely in keeping with the way he has managed this war that US President Donald Trump’s first reaction to the collapse of talks in Islamabad was to announce a measure that helps Iran more than it hurts it.
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[2026-04-14 01:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Amid the daily horror show in the Middle East is the realisation the so-called adults in the room are insane or powerless or just as bewildered as you are
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[2026-04-14 00:52 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the war in the Middle East on Tuesday, April 14.
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[2026-04-14 00:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CAIRO — The US military vowed to blockade all Iranian ports starting Monday, part of efforts to force Tehran into agreeing to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz and accepting a peace deal. Iran responded with threats on all ports in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, taking aim at US-allied countries.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Tehran wants to ensure that no damage is inflicted on its terrorist proxy groups across the Middle East and that it always retains instruments of pressure and leverage against Israel. In the strategic logic of Islamist movements, terrorist organizations do not abandon each other in moments of danger. During this war, the regional configuration changed significantly.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Women of the Wall requested that a woman have a prominent role in next week's Remembrance Day ceremony, in a letter sent to Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: British public broadcaster BBC interviewed an individual who goes by the moniker "Mr Explosive," responsible for creating pro-Iran AI-generated propaganda videos using Lego figures in a podcast episode published on Saturday.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The global Jewish population stands at 15.8 million, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics revealed in its annual report on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice struck down on Sunday the government’s faction-based framework for Knesset member visits to security prisoners, ruling that the arrangement unlawfully undercut parliamentary oversight, while unanimously rejecting Ta’al MK Ahmad Tibi’s individual request to meet imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In minutes during the major IDF attacks on Hezbollah on April 8, the military devastated Hezbollah, killing hundreds of its fighters and destroying dozens of its key command centers, a senior IDF intelligence official said on Monday.
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[2026-04-14 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For more news, analysis, and the latest updates, head to jpost.com.
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[2026-04-14 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Lebanon’s opening demand will be singular and clear on Tuesday when it enters direct talks with Israel, a Lebanese political source with knowledge of the scheduled Washington meeting told The National.
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[2026-04-14 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: When it comes to the week ahead, clearly the Iran conflict will be the main focus, but there are a few other things to look out on the calendar.
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[2026-04-14 00:32 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-14 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: US stocks fell Monday morning as oil surged past $100 a barrel after President Trump announced a new blockade of the Strait of Hormuz during the precarious ceasefire with Iran.
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[2026-04-14 00:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: MIAMI — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the price of oil and gasoline may remain high through November’s midterm elections, a rare acknowledgement of the potential political fallout from his decision to attack Iran six weeks ago.
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[2026-04-14 00:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday a ceasefire between the United States and Iran was "holding" and that efforts were underway to reach an agreement after weekend talks failed to do so.
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[2026-04-14 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pakistan presses diplomatic efforts as fragile ceasefire holds; questions remain over enforcement and impact on global energy flows through Hormuz
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[2026-04-14 00:17 UTC+10:00] [Iranian coastline] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pakistan presses diplomatic efforts as fragile ceasefire holds; questions remain over enforcement and impact on global energy flows through Hormuz
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[2026-04-14 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Roblox is making a fresh attempt to reassure parents and regulators that its platform can be made safer for younger users. In the Middle East, where chat remains unavailable in much of the region after last year’s clamp-down, the company is still trying to answer the concerns that prompted it.
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