Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-02 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: China and Pakistan put forward five proposals on restoring peace and stability in the Gulf region and the Middle East during talks between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar in Beijing on Tuesday.
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[2026-04-02 06:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Stock markets surged and oil plunged below US$100 a barrel after President Donald Trump suggested the US would end its attack on Iran in two to three weeks.
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[2026-04-02 06:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iran’s president has sent propaganda letter to Americans claiming his country harbors no enmity to ordinary US citizens, according to state-owned outlets.
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[2026-04-02 06:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Of course, the news is sometimes contradictory. Trump claims Iran is virtually bombed to submission, while Iran carries on making strike after strike on American bases in the Gulf States and most successfully defending itself. It is left to us, the hapless viewers, to decode the news as best we can and wonder where we stand amidst all this turmoil.
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[2026-04-02 06:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-02 06:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Una mujer vende tanques de gasolina portátiles mientras los conductores hacen fila para llenar sus tanques en Santiago de Chile, el martes 24 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Esteban Félix)
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[2026-04-02 06:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Live
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[2026-04-02 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Measures In view of the prevailing war situation in the Middle East region and the resulting external shocks affecting both the daily lives of the public and the overall economy, the Government has been implementing various measures to manage such impacts in a systematic manner.
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[2026-04-02 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: According to international news sources oil prices fell in Asian trading on Tuesday, reversing earlier gains, after reports suggested a possible easing of tensions in the ongoing Iran conflict.
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[2026-04-02 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The All Pakistan Petrol Pump Owners Association (APPPOA), representing around 15,000 fuel stations, has warned of a national shutdown if its concerns are not addressed amid the Middle East energy shortage.
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[2026-04-02 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ceylon Chamber has recommended a number of policy measures to mitigate potential economic risks from the Middle east conflict.
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[2026-04-02 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Office of the Commissioner General of Essential Services has issued a series of guidelines aimed at promoting energy and fuel conservation across the country in response to the Middle East crisis.
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[2026-04-02 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Government’s decision to implement strict energy conservation measures is a timely move, especially considering the many factors that mitigate against the uninterrupted provision of electricity to consumers. Such moves have been implemented even by some developed countries to conserve energy wherever possible given the serious energy crisis stemming from the Iran War.
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[2026-04-02 06:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The heads of the International Energy Agency, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said they will form a coordination group to respond to the economic and energy fallout from the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-02 06:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump plans to lambast Nato in his address at the White House on Wednesday night local time, in the latest sign that the US-Israeli war on Iran is causing fissures in the West's premier alliance.
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[2026-04-02 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Palestinian shops and public institutions, including universities, across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem were closed as people took to the streets to protest against a new Israeli law that imposes the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks.
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[2026-04-02 06:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A sign shows the price of gas at a store, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Freeport, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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[2026-04-02 06:01 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: War shows little sign of easing despite Donald Trump claiming Iranian leadership ‘just asked’ for ceasefire
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[2026-04-02 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: LIMA (AP) — La inflación de Perú se ubicó en 2,38% en marzo, la tasa mensual más alta en 32 años, por una conjunción de factores locales y externos, informaron el miércoles las autoridades.
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[2026-04-02 05:46 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman, is a critical shipping route carrying about 20 per cent of global oil supply. Source: SBS News
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[2026-04-02 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran kept up its attacks on Israel and Persian Gulf neighbors on Wednesday as airstrikes pounded Tehran and U.S. President Donald Trump again made contradictory statements about whether he was ready to wind down the war or escalate it.
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[2026-04-02 05:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By RT newsroom, a team of multi-lingual journalists with over a decade of experience in Russian and international reporting, delivering original research and insights often missing from mainstream coverage
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[2026-04-02 05:21 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
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[2026-04-02 05:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump will be addressing the nation Wednesday evening about the ongoing Iran war, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced.
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[2026-04-02 05:05 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Stocks are rushing higher worldwide, and oil prices are easing as hopes build that the war with Iran could end soon. That’s even though some of the signals investors saw as hopeful are already under dispute, and several prior bouts of optimism in financial markets quickly got undercut by continued, fierce fighting in the war.
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[2026-04-02 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-04-02 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Travel / Reviews & advice] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Planning to fly to Europe this year? If you haven’t already booked, you’re probably wondering which route is going to be safe with little risk of cancellations?
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[2026-04-02 04:54 UTC+10:00] [UK cost of living crisis] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Brutal past experience has taught us that a cost of living crisis doesn’t affect us all the same, because we don’t all go into it with the same income or wealth
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[2026-04-02 04:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran's president had asked for a ceasefire, but ruled out any truce until the vital Strait of Hormuz was reopened for crucial energy shipments.
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[2026-04-02 04:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
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[2026-04-02 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military said 10 soldiers have been killed and 309 others wounded since the outbreak of fighting with Lebanon and Iran.
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[2026-04-02 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: In the face of economic calamity, President Franklin Roosevelt said boldly, “we have nothing to fear, but fear itself,” highlighting how panicked markets feed on themselves.
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[2026-04-02 04:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Welcome to RT’s live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran and the wider turmoil across the Middle East, which continues to be affected by missile and drone strikes from both sides.
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[2026-04-02 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Government supporters have taken to the streets in Iran to celebrate the anniversary of a referendum nearly half a century ago that solidified the Islamic Republic’s hold on power, even as the United States and Israel continued their attacks on the country.
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[2026-04-02 04:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Top Iranian officials denied President Trump’s claim that the regime begged for a cease-fire deal on Wednesday, insisting that Tehran is committed to winning the war.
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[2026-04-02 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Explosions have been reported repeatedly throughout the afternoon along Lebanon’s southwestern front, where Israeli military activity has intensified over the past 48 hours.
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[2026-04-02 04:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: When Israel passed a death penalty law that solely targets Palestinians, it was to be expected that the country’s far right would celebrate. Even as much of the international community roundly condemns Israel for the law – with the United Nations human rights chief calling it a possible “war crime” – there has been little pushback inside Israel.
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[2026-04-02 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Uganda's state minister for foreign affairs has met with Egypt's foreign minister in Cairo to discuss how the ongoing war involving Iran is affecting Africa's energy security, inflation and food prices.
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[2026-04-02 03:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: In a Passover eve address steeped in biblical imagery, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday framed Israel’s campaign against Iran and its proxies through the lens of the biblical Exodus, declaring that Israel had dealt its enemies “ten blows” echoing the Ten Plagues.
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[2026-04-02 03:30 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: April 2, 2026 03:30 | News
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[2026-04-02 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
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[2026-04-02 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SYDNEY, Australia — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warned on Wednesday the months ahead “may not be easy” because of the war in the Middle East, in a rare address to the island continent across television networks.
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[2026-04-02 03:04 UTC+10:00] [Nato] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The president, a longtime critic of Nato, has stepped up criticism after allies refused to join the US-Israel war on Iran
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[2026-04-02 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the Strait of Hormuz is “firmly and dominantly” under its control and will not be opened to what it described as US pressure.
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[2026-04-02 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE coordinated military strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026 as part of “Operation Epic Fury” have plunged the Middle East into a “war without law.” While Washington and Tel Aviv frame these actions as a “preemptive” necessity to neutralize nuclear threats and “Axis of Resistance” proxies, a rigorous examination of international legal frameworks — specifically the United Nations Charter and landmark International Court of Justice (ICJ) precedents — reveals a starkly different reality:
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[2026-04-02 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE war in the Middle East is propelling demand for alternative energy sources.
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[2026-04-02 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-02 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-02 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson poses for a cellphone photo in a cafe in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 30, 2026. (AP Photo)
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[2026-04-02 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United Kingdom will convene talks with dozens of countries on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced, as the US-Israeli war on Iran has effectively shuttered the critical Gulf waterway.
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