Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-28 15:58 UTC+10:00] [Southeast Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-28 15:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The FBI confirmed that an email account belonging to Director Kash Patel was hacked after an Iran-linked group claimed responsibility for the breach.
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[2026-03-28 15:22 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Hello and welcome to our live rolling coverage of the war in the Middle East this Saturday, March 28.
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[2026-03-28 15:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: One month into the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, the Middle East is starting to look significantly different — and the effects are being felt across the world.
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[2026-03-28 15:14 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-28 15:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah spoke at the Newcastle Writers' Festival, a month after the NSW Premier Chris Minns labelled her inclusion "crazy". (ABC News)
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[2026-03-28 15:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump said Tuesday Iran gave the U.S. an “oil and gas related” gift that he said is “worth a tremendous amount of money” and called it a sign talks are happening with the “right people.” Trump declined to provide details about the gift.
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[2026-03-28 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-03-28 14:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Iranian missile attack Friday wounded at least 10 US service members and damaged several planes at a military base in Saudi Arabia, according to two US officials familiar with the situation.
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[2026-03-28 14:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight, an area under a renewed blanket evacuation order as Israel expands its ground offensive in Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported.
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[2026-03-28 14:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah said it carried out multiple attacks on Israeli soldiers who crossed into Lebanese territory, targeting forces advancing toward the Litani River, Al Jazeera reported.
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[2026-03-28 14:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The 'No Kings' protest movement is planning a nationwide return on Saturday, with organisers saying more than 3,000 gatherings are scheduled across the United States in opposition to President Donald Trump.
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[2026-03-28 13:59 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Iran has kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf nations, including a strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia that wounded at least 10 US service members
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[2026-03-28 13:55 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Israel’s military chiefs have warned that settler expansion and violence in the West Bank are stretching the army to breaking point.
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[2026-03-28 13:26 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Steve Witkoff says he is ‘hopeful’ that there will be meetings ‘this week’, even as the conflict shows no sign of ending
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[2026-03-28 13:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: President Donald Trump urged Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, saying the Middle East is being “transformed” by the war involving Iran and that the region’s future is bright.
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[2026-03-28 13:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The prime minister says the new fuel security powers will aim to secure supply. (AAP)
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[2026-03-28 13:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency reported that a US-Israeli attack targeted a university in the capital, Tehran, amid ongoing strikes across the country.
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[2026-03-28 12:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The U.S. expects its military operations against Iran to conclude within weeks, not months, and Washington can meet all its objectives without using ground troops, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.
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[2026-03-28 12:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) says in a statement published by Iranian outlets that the site of the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been attacked today for the third time during the current war.
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[2026-03-28 12:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned it would carry out retaliatory strikes on industrial facilities across the region following attacks on its nuclear and infrastructure sites.
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[2026-03-28 12:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Ten U.S. service members were injured in an attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to multiple U.S. officials.
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[2026-03-28 12:17 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said Friday that "Cuba is next," as he pointed out his administration's use of America's "great" military in Iran and Venezuela.
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[2026-03-28 12:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United States is expected to deploy the aircraft carrier USS George Bush to an area near the ongoing conflict with Iran, CBS News reported.
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[2026-03-28 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Saudi intelligence source confirms reporting that crown prince has urged Trump to ramp up ‘historic opportunity’ to remake Middle East – key US politics stories from Friday 27 March at a glance
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[2026-03-28 11:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli air strikes hit multiple towns in southern and eastern Lebanon, with raids reported in the Nabatieh district and the Bekaa Valley, Al Jazeera reported.
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[2026-03-28 11:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Según las autoridades, una llamarada y una columna de humo se elevan tras el impacto de los restos de un dron iraní interceptado contra una instalación petrolera, el sábado 14 de marzo de 2026, en Fujairah, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (AP Foto/Altaf Qadri)
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[2026-03-28 11:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — US stocks deepened their drops Friday as Wall Street finished off a fifth straight losing week, its longest such streak in nearly four years.
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[2026-03-28 11:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said the United States is “crushing Iran currently, as we speak”, claiming that ongoing US attacks are forcing Tehran toward negotiations.
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[2026-03-28 11:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Stocks keep falling as investors lose patience with the Iran war. (AP Photo: Seth Wenig)
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[2026-03-28 11:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Donald Trump on Friday insisted Iran must open up the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic to make a peace deal — and dubbed the crucial waterway the "Strait of Trump."
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[2026-03-28 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Oil is up, coal is back and so are fuel queues. As the Middle East burns, Southeast Asia dusts off an old plan to rewire its future
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[2026-03-28 11:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Houthi supporters shout slogans during a rally against Israel and the United States' war on Iran. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have not yet been active in the Iran war. Source: AP / Osamah Abdulrahman
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[2026-03-28 10:47 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As the Strait of Hormuz crisis deepens, lifting the Iranian blockade has become Donald Trump’s central war aim. For strategists at the Pentagon, that may come as a relief.
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[2026-03-28 10:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli attack killed one person and injured 17 in the town of Sarafand, in Lebanon’s Sidon district, Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting, citing Lebanon’s Public Health Ministry.
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[2026-03-28 10:25 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Israel, meanwhile, hit more of Iran’s nuclear sites, prompting Tehran to vow retaliation
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[2026-03-28 10:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El secretario de Defensa de EEUU, Pete Hegseth, escucha al presidente Donald Trump mientras este habla en el Despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca, en Washington, el 24 de marzo de 2026. (Ap Foto/Alex Brandon/Archivo)
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[2026-03-28 10:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — As President Trump cranks up pressure on Iran, Pentagon brass are quietly lining up a wide menu of military options — which could put US boots on the ground in a major war for the first time in nearly half a decade.
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[2026-03-28 09:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthis say they are prepared to intervene militarily if other countries join the United States and Israel in their war against Iran, or if the Red Sea is used to launch attacks on their ally.
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[2026-03-28 09:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: As tough as the competition is, the most dishonest trope of the entire major-media drive to protect the Islamic Republic of Iran has to be the constant claims that President Donald Trump and the Pentagon “have no plan” for the war, and no clue how they’ll end it — a fecklessness that supposedly has us headed for a “quagmire” if we’re not already in it.
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[2026-03-28 09:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-03-28 09:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia said Saturday it had intercepted a missile targeting the Riyadh region.
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[2026-03-28 09:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Critical bridges on the Litani river have been rendered inaccessible. (Supplied)
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[2026-03-28 09:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The whirlwind of uncertainty in the oil markets has continued this week as the United States-Israel war on Iran approaches the one-month mark.
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[2026-03-28 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — To the victor go the naming rights.
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[2026-03-28 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A projectile hit near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, Tasnim is reporting, citing Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation.
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[2026-03-28 08:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Russia is sending a shipment of drones to Iran including upgraded versions of the drone technology that Tehran originally supplied to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine, US and European officials told The Associated Press this week.
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[2026-03-28 08:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israeli authorities have confirmed multiple casualties and at least one fatality, after Iran launched its latest wave of retaliatory strikes promising to exact a “heavy price” on the Jewish state for its attack on the “heart of Tehran.”
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[2026-03-28 08:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A heavy water production plant at Khondab in Iran was hit on Friday, Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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[2026-03-28 08:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A group of anti-war, US military veterans have slammed what they say are Israeli interests guiding US military policy, culminating in the current US-Israeli war on Iran that is putting American lives at risk.
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