Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Petrol prices] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US president thumbs his nose at concerns about the most serious energy crisis in global history. But Australia, like other countries, is paying a high price
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[2026-03-31 00:54 UTC+10:00] [Narita] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Stability in the Middle East is vital for Japan, which relies on the region for over 90 per cent of its crude oil imports
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[2026-03-31 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Russian tourist Savitskiy Andrey, yesterday (29) told the Daily News at the ‘Sun Siyam’ Hotel in Pasikudah that despite the disruption to air services due to the ongoing tense situation in the Middle East, he was extremely happy to have the opportunity to visit Sri Lanka. Here, Andrey was tasting a traditional “Belimal” drink with a piece of Kithul hakuru during the “Cultural Show” organized at the hotel premises to educate foreign tourists visiting Sri Lanka about the cultural identity
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[2026-03-31 00:41 UTC+10:00] [US government] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: It suspended the Netzah Yehuda, a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers that has been linked to abuses of Palestinian civilians in the past
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[2026-03-31 00:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A Palestinian man inspects a torched house following Israeli settlers’ rampage through nearby Nablus-area villages on Sunday night, in West Bank village of Deir al-Hatab, Monday, March 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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[2026-03-31 00:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Spain has closed its airspace to planes of the United States involved in the US-Israel war on Iran, the latest step in the country’s opposition to the conflict.
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[2026-03-31 00:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has ruled out deploying troops to Iran, saying the UK is "not going to get dragged into this war.”
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[2026-03-31 00:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Kuwait has accused Iran of carrying out a “heinous attack” on one of its combined power and desalination plants on Sunday. Like much of the Middle East, the nation depends heavily on industrial production to meet its freshwater needs.
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[2026-03-31 00:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Kuwait has accused Iran of carrying out a “heinous attack” on one of its combined power and desalination plants on Sunday. Like much of the Middle East, the nation depends heavily on industrial production to meet its freshwater needs.
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[2026-03-30 23:55 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Background image by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters
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[2026-03-30 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: In the densely populated neighbourhoods of southern Tehran, the 11th Criminal Investigation Base once stood as a mundane symbol of local law enforcement. Its detectives investigated economic crimes, fraud and petty thefts.
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[2026-03-30 23:52 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has threatened widespread destruction of Iran's energy resources and other vital infrastructure if a deal to end the war with Tehran is not reached soon.In a social media post on Monday, Trump said "great progress is being made" in talks with Iran to end military operations.But he bristled that if a deal was not reached and and if the strategic Hormuz Strait was not immediately reopened, the US would broaden its offensive by "completely obliterating all
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[2026-03-30 23:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Dozens of British citizens have been jailed in the United Arab Emirates as the country clamps down on social media activity over the Iran war.
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[2026-03-30 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A woman holds a portrait of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a protest outside Iran’s embassy, where dozens of people gathered waving Hezbollah and Iranian flags in solidarity with the Islamic Republic, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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[2026-03-30 23:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US has been in “serious” discussions with a “new and more reasonable” Iranian government, President Donald Trump has claimed. In a post on his Truth Social platform, he also threatened to obliterate Iran’s critical energy infrastructure if no deal is “shortly reached.”
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[2026-03-30 23:41 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, including desalination plants, if a deal to end the war with Tehran is not reached “shortly.” On the ground, the conflict showed no sign of letting up: Tehran struck a key water and electrical plant in Kuwait, and an oil refinery in Israel came under attack.
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[2026-03-30 23:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump is considering a military operation to seize the enriched uranium held at Iranian nuclear sites, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing sources.
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[2026-03-30 23:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan – When the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Egypt landed in Islamabad over the weekend, it marked the second meeting in less than two weeks of a diplomatic track working to contain the fallout of the US-Israel war on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes across the region.
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[2026-03-30 23:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: La ministra de Defensa de España Margarita Robles en una reunión de la OTAN en Bruselas, el 15 de octubre del 2025 (AP foto/Omar Havana)
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[2026-03-30 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Economic and consumer confidence plummeted in Europe in March, according to official data released on Monday, in the latest evidence of how the Iran war is upending growth and inflation expectations.
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[2026-03-30 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it
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[2026-03-30 22:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A worker inspects liquefied petroleum gas cylinders, arranged for customer delivery at a distribution centre on the outskirts of Amritsar, India, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)
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[2026-03-30 22:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump said Monday that a deal with Iran was “probably” close — but warned the US would obliterate the regime’s oil wells and power plants if it fell through.
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[2026-03-30 22:50 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A total of 60 South Korean corporate workers based in Iraq had been evacuated to safety amid the continuing war in the Middle East, the foreign ministry said Monday.
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[2026-03-30 22:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Spain’s Defense Minister Margarita Robles waits for the start of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 (AP Photo/Omar Havana, file)
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[2026-03-30 22:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. will "completely" obliterate Iran's electric generating plants, oil wells and Kharg Island if the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz is not "immediately" reopened and a peace deal is not reached "shortly."
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[2026-03-30 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must have persuaded Donald Trump that a war on Iran would unfold much like the pager attack in Lebanon 18 months ago.
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[2026-03-30 22:30 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Vast hog farms – some rising 26 storeys high – have caused China’s pig herd to swell, but consumers dislike the industrially produced meat
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[2026-03-30 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Monday.
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[2026-03-30 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Cantor Ruth Berman Harris, left, who leads the congregation in lieu of a full-time rabbi, lights candles to celebrate Seder with congregants of the 104-year-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center which burned down in the Jan. 2025 Eaton fire, gathered for a Passover at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif.
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[2026-03-30 22:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Since launching their military offensive on Iran on February 28, the United States and Israel have carried out thousands of strikes across the Middle East nation of about 90 million people, targeting military as well as civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and residential buildings.
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[2026-03-30 22:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s military says that Israel was behind an attack on a desalination plant in Kuwait.
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[2026-03-30 22:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences
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[2026-03-30 21:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has been received by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin before talks with Chancellor Friedrich Merz on rebuilding his country and the return of refugees.
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[2026-03-30 21:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Gunmen killed more than 70 people in South Sudan over a gold mining row on the outskirts of the capital over the weekend, a police spokesperson confirmed on Monday.
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[2026-03-30 21:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Yemeni-based Houthi movement on Saturday announced its formal entry into the conflict in the Middle East. The group has proclaimed its full support for Iran and other “resistance” factions across the region faced with US-Israeli aggression.
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[2026-03-30 21:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Yemeni-based Houthi movement on Saturday announced its formal entry into the conflict in the Middle East. The group has proclaimed its full support for Iran and other “resistance” factions across the region faced with US-Israeli aggression.
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[2026-03-30 21:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel has allowed limited access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem following widespread international criticism over blocking access to Christianity’s holiest site.
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[2026-03-30 21:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: In November, three activists from Palestine Action Eire crashed a modified van through a barrier at Shannon Airport, drove onto the runway towards a United States military aircraft and sprayed green paint on a parked Boeing 737-700.
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[2026-03-30 21:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Monday.
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[2026-03-30 21:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said his country could "take the oil in Iran" as thousands of American troops mobilise to the Middle East.
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[2026-03-30 21:05 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's energy minister sought Monday to ease fears over shortages of plastic rubbish bags after sales in Seoul jumped nearly fivefold due to energy supply concerns sparked by the Middle East war.
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[2026-03-30 20:59 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: LG Chem, South Korea's leading chemical company, has secured 27,000 tons of naphtha from Russia amid a potential supply shortage caused by the war in the Middle East, the industry ministry and business circles said Monday.
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[2026-03-30 20:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: In the shadow of the ongoing United States-Israel war on Iran, the deserts of Iraq have transformed into a staging ground for a secondary conflict. Drones and missiles launched by Iran-aligned armed groups routinely tear through the night sky towards the Arabian Peninsula, turning Iraqi soil into a launchpad while the government in Baghdad struggles to intervene.
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[2026-03-30 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Police stand outside the Bank of America building in Paris, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)
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[2026-03-30 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the military will seize additional territory in southern Lebanon and expand the so-called “buffer zone”.
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[2026-03-30 20:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli strike hit a Lebanese army checkpoint in the country's south on Monday, a Lebanese military official said, in the first direct attack on a military post since the start of Israel's war on Lebanon.
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[2026-03-30 20:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Live Blog Update| War on Iran This is an entry from: Live: Israel kills four in Gaza, West Bank as it continues attacks in IranIn photos: Aftermath of Israeli strikes on Beirut30 March 2026 10:32 BST People look on at the site of a damaged Beirut building following a targeted Israeli strike as the US-Israel war on Iran continues, 30 March 2026 (Reuters/Mohamed Azakir) Workers clean up debris at the site of a damaged building following a targeted Israeli strike
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[2026-03-30 20:32 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US ground troops have arrived in the Middle East but military options to open the strait risk strong retaliation from Iran
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[2026-03-30 20:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the military will seize additional territory in southern Lebanon and expand the so-called “buffer zone”.
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