Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-16 07:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un pájaro vuela cerca de un monumento que representa un misil y el puño cerrado del difunto líder supremo iraní, el ayatolá Ali Jamenei, quien murió en el ataque de Estados Unidos e Israel el 28 de febrero, en la Plaza de la Revolución Islámica, en el centro de Teherán, el martes 15 de septiembre de 2026.
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[2026-09-16 07:16 UTC+10:00] [Pete Hegseth] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Congressman says defense secretary repeatedly violated constitution through his handling of Iran war
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[2026-09-16 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Maccabi Tel Aviv cruised past Hapoel Beersheba 4-1 as Ester Sokler scored a brace in the win at Bloomfield Stadium that saw the yellow-and-blue pick up their third victory in as many games to start the season.
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[2026-09-16 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF and Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) issued a joint statement on Tuesday, saying that they struck a senior Hamas terrorist operative in the southern Gaza Strip.
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[2026-09-16 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El Pentágono visto desde el aire, el martes 8 de septiembre de 2026, en Washington (AP Foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-09-16 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli air strike on makeshift tents in the Al-Mawasi area of Gaza killed two people, including an eight-year-old girl named Amal Yasser Omar, Al Jazeera reported.
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[2026-09-16 06:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have warned that Iranian spyware is being used to hunt dissidents living in the West.
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[2026-09-16 06:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Iran war had cost the US taxpayer at least $38 billion by August 1 and expenses are projected to run at about $3 billion a month if the conflict continues, a new report has found.
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[2026-09-16 06:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: American political scientist Norman Finkelstein described Israel as a “nation of child killers” in an interview with former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson that has gone viral online.
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[2026-09-16 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Delaware incumbent Sen. Chris Coons, a longtime supporter of Israel, is expected to easily win Delaware’s US Senate primary on Tuesday, despite criticism from party progressives.
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[2026-09-16 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Houthis’ latest advances along Yemen’s Red Sea coast mark a significant escalation amid the war with Iran, but US President Donald Trump has so far resisted greater military involvement in the region.
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[2026-09-16 05:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Areas in war-devastated Gaza continue to be razed by Israeli bulldozers with “no respect for the dead”, the United Nations’ human rights chief has said.
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[2026-09-16 05:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: American political scientist Norman Finkelstein described Israel as a “nation of child killers” in an interview with former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson that has gone viral online.
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[2026-09-16 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Amazon Web Services said Tuesday it can't restore access to cloud-computing facilities in Bahrain and parts of the United Arab Emirates, more than six months after the sites were damaged by drone strikes in the early days of the Iran war.
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[2026-09-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: September 16, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-09-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Tuesday introduced privileged articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, accusing him of waging an unauthorized war in Iran, ignoring a congressional directive to end it, conducting extrajudicial killings at sea, retaliating against a U.S. senator, seizing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro without legal authority, and launching unauthorized operations in Yemen.
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[2026-09-16 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The six-month-old US war on Iran has cost $38bn so far, and that amount is projected to rise by $3bn a month, Congress's nonpartisan bookkeeper reported on Tuesday, as the Trump administration searches for ways to end the war and reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-09-16 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Pentagon is seen from the air, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Washington (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-09-16 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Less than a month after US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman amid the war with Iran, his administration on Tuesday indicated a rapprochement with Muscat.
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[2026-09-16 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prosecutors charged Tel Aviv resident Udi Ayalon, 48, on Monday with threatening a media professional’s career, reputation and privacy in an alleged campaign to force her to renew a business and personal relationship with him.
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[2026-09-16 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Less than two months ahead of the New Zealand general elections, a PFLP-linked party running entirely on a pro-Palestine platform is raising questions about the normalization of Israel and Jew hate in the southwestern Pacific nation.
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[2026-09-16 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The B’Yachad party will be committed to ensuring equal rights for the LGBTQ community and enabling civil marriage if it joins the next government, opposition leader Yair Lapid, who holds the second slot on former prime minister Naftali Bennett’s party slate, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-16 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli NAZA director Yuval Abraham has nothing to return to in Israel, People of Israel chairman Ofer Winter said during a Tuesday party rally in Rishon Lezion.
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[2026-09-16 04:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.S. war with Iran cost the Pentagon an estimated $38.1 billion through Aug. 1 and could cost another $2 billion to $3 billion for each additional month of fighting, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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[2026-09-16 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 04:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UK Foreign Office said Britain stands in solidarity with Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s internationally recognised government following new attacks by the Houthis.
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[2026-09-16 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Throughout the summer, a major scandal has been brewing in Lithuania. In late July, the country suffered a landmark defeat in the European Court of Human Rights in a case brought by Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national held in secret detention and brutally tortured for four years in CIA black sites around the world – including Lithuania.
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[2026-09-16 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has backed Saudi calls for secure and unhindered navigation in the Red Sea during a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Cairo, according to a statement by the Egyptian presidency.
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[2026-09-16 03:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said he expects to hold talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng this weekend over Beijing's financial relationship with Iran.
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[2026-09-16 03:42 UTC+10:00] [Gaza] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: A ONU pediu que Israel permita a entrada de investigadores internacionais na Faixa de Gaza para coletar provas de possíveis violações dos direitos humanos após quase três anos de guerra, diante da descoberta de centenas de corpos sob os escombros e do temor de que milhares de vítimas ainda permaneçam soterradas.
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[2026-09-16 03:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Houthi education ministry has accused Saudi Arabia “and its mercenaries” of targeting education sites in Taiz governorate, the Houthi-affiliated Almasirah media agency reported.
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[2026-09-16 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran holds over nine tons of nuclear material outside of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) safeguards, accused Israel Atomic Energy Commission Director-General Moshe Edri at the agency's 70th general conference on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-16 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Any hope that presenting the public with a final lineup of parties would provide some clarity about the direction in which the country is headed was shattered by the polls published since last week’s deadline for submitting Knesset lists.
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[2026-09-16 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US is facing ammunition “shortfalls” as a result of the war on Iran, the US Department of War’s inspector general said in a report on Monday.
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[2026-09-16 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: President Sheikh Mohamed met Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday to discuss strengthening bilateral ties.
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[2026-09-16 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A delegation of US officials and business leaders have arrived in Syria in a bid to deepen Washington's economic ties with Damascus.
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[2026-09-16 03:25 UTC+10:00] [Yemen] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Estimated 100,000 Yemenis displaced amid renewed fighting as Qatar sounds alarm over Bab al-Mandab strait
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[2026-09-16 03:07 UTC+10:00] [Ed Sheeran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: English singer outlined his position after US stadium owners refused to let rapper perform after political speech
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[2026-09-16 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The recent willingness shown by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the risks that exist amid AI development is "encouraging," Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Professor Yaniv Romano told The Jerusalem Post in a Tuesday interview.
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[2026-09-16 03:00 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As Western Australians prepare for more shocks at the petrol station with the price of fuel set to increase once again due to the ongoing war in the Middle East, Klaveness Combination Carriers chief executive Engebret Dahm understands the situation in the Strait of Hormuz better than most.
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[2026-09-16 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A group of Israeli influence experts and political advisers worked on a secret campaign targeting Qatar in the weeks after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks, before the initiative was abruptly halted, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
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[2026-09-16 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Malaysian authorities have halted additional shipments bound for Israel at Tanjung Pelepas Port, one of the country’s largest ports, in what appears to be a significant tightening of oversight on cargo passing through its territory, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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[2026-09-16 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel Police opened an investigation into a suspected murder in Jaffa on Tuesday evening after a 30-year-old man was shot on Rubinstein Street in the city.
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[2026-09-16 02:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi said on Tuesday that he discussed selling oil to Europe during visits to France and Germany, as Baghdad seeks to diversify its export routes and reduce its reliance on the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-09-16 02:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Amazon Web Services has said that it will be unable to restore operations at one of its three UAE data hosting zones and its Bahrain network after they were damaged by Iranian attacks.
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[2026-09-16 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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