Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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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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[2026-03-28 08:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this screengrab made from video provided by WXYZ-TV, Danielle Khalaf, who said she was humiliated by her teacher after declining to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in protest of U.S. support of Israel against Palestinians, appears at a news conference on Feb. 27, 2025, in Detroit. (WXYZ-TV via AP, File)
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[2026-03-28 08:30 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Handala Hack Team published more than 300 emails from Kash Patel’s inbox between 2010 and 2019
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[2026-03-28 08:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US Marines and paratroopers who could be sent to seize an Iranian island in the Gulf will be thrust into a “shooting gallery” with vulnerable supply lines and ill-defined strategic objectives, former US military officials and analysts tell Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-28 08:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: JERUSALEM — Israel's military warned late Friday that Iran had fired missiles toward it, as AFP correspondents reported air raid sirens in Jerusalem and explosions were heard from the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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[2026-03-28 08:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Heavily armed state forces continue to control Iran’s streets, despite the United States and Israel launching more strikes and preparing for a potential ground attack, as the nearly one-month war proceeds with no clear end point on the horizon
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[2026-03-28 08:14 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-03-28 07:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel has struck a uranium processing facility in the central Iranian city of Yazd, the Israeli military confirmed, in an escalatory move that comes as regional diplomats have been attempting to broker an agreement to halt the joint US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-28 07:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. stocks closed out their worst week since the Iran war began and their fifth losing week in a row.
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[2026-03-28 07:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A bad week for stocks was particularly rough for tech investors, as the Nasdaq suffered its worst weekly drop since April 2025. Meta and Micron saw double-digit drops, but the pain was felt across the board as concerns about the U.S.-Iran war drove up energy prices.
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[2026-03-28 07:11 UTC+10:00] [US markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Dow fell 800 points as oil prices continue to climb, and markets are still on edge despite US pause on Iranian energy strikes
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[2026-03-28 07:09 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Israel expands war into Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah as buffer zone plans and annexation calls raise humanitarian and geopolitical stakes. Source: SBS News / Graphic art by Jacob Chantarat
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[2026-03-28 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ARCHIVO – Las defensas aéreas ucranianas interceptan un dron Shahed en el tercer ataque aéreo ruso contra la capital en las últimas 24 horas, en Kiev, Ucrania, el 30 de mayo de 2023. (AP Foto/Evgeniy Maloletka, Archivo)
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[2026-03-28 06:54 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Mojtaba Khamenei has inherited the role of Supreme Leader and its extensive formal powers, but lacks the automatic authority enjoyed by his father. Source: AAP / Middle East Images
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[2026-03-28 06:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El iraní Sardar Azmoun controla el balón durante el juego de fútbol de cuartos de final de la Copa Asiática entre Japón e Irán en el Estadio Ciudad de la Educación en Rayán, Catar, el sábado 3 de febrero de 2024. (Foto AP/Aijaz Rahi, Archivo)
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[2026-03-28 06:50 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: As with the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is now experiencing travel and supply chain disruptions, panic buying, and requests to work from home. Source: SBS, Getty
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[2026-03-28 06:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has announced that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and any transit through the waterway will face “harsh measures”, according to state media.
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[2026-03-28 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: To explore the roots of Donald Trump’s Iran military strategy and the pugnacious rhetoric of his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, means looking back 105 years. In 1921, a year before Benito Mussolini and his blackshirts marched on Rome to launch the Fascist era, an Italian general named Giulio Douhet published The Command of the Air, proposing a revolution in warfare.
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[2026-03-28 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) is providing support to people in Sri Lanka who are unable to contact their loved ones in affected regions through its Restoring Family Links (RFL) programme in response to the recent escalation of hostilities in Iran and other countries.
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[2026-03-28 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-03-28 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iran’s Sardar Azmoun controls the ball during the Asian Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Japan and Iran at Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)
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[2026-03-28 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Government has called on all State bodies to resort to energy-saving measures to avert a possible energy crisis in the country triggered by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Essential Services Commissioner General Prabath Chandrakeerthi announced that the Government has decided to introduce a new set of energy and fuel-saving guidelines for all State institutions in this regard.
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[2026-03-28 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Gas prices are displayed at a gas station in Parma, Ohio, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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[2026-03-28 06:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States law enforcement agencies have announced that they foiled a plot against prominent Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani in New York City, detaining a suspect for allegedly planning to throw Molotov cocktails at her home.
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[2026-03-28 06:08 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Updated prices of PlayStation 5 consoles to go into effect on 2 April as electronics makers face rising cost pressures
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[2026-03-28 06:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Marco Rubio says allies need to lead postwar efforts to allow safe passage of ships in the Strait of Hormuz. (Reuters: Brendan Smialowski)
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[2026-03-28 06:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Los jugadores de Irán cantan el himno nacional sosteniendo mochilas escolares en simbolismo por los niños presuntamente fallecidos en un ataque estadounidense contra una escuela en Minab, antes de un juego amistoso de fútbol entre Irán y Nigeria, en Antalya, sur de Turquía, el viernes 27 de marzo de 2026.
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[2026-03-28 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Donald Trump is sending marines to the Middle East while also talking about negotiations with Iran. (Reuters: Ken Cedeno)
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[2026-03-28 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A New Jersey man who allegedly planned to firebomb the home of a prominent Palestinian-American activist was arrested on Thursday and now faces federal charges in a criminal complaint viewed by Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-28 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The federal government is turning its mind to what Australian support in the Middle East might look like after the war. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
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[2026-03-28 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has offered wide-ranging remarks upon his departure from the latest Group of Seven (G7) ministers’ meeting in France, denouncing Iran’s continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz as well as settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-03-28 05:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An FBI spokesperson told Fox News the agency is aware of “malicious actors” targeting FBI Director Patel’s personal email information and has taken “all necessary steps to mitigate potential risks.”
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[2026-03-28 05:19 UTC+10:00] [Photography] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenBeirut, LebanonChildren displaced from Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh shelter from the rain in their tents. Israel said this week it would seize parts of southern Lebanon to create what it called a ‘defensive buffer’Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/APShareView image in fullscreenArad, IsraelFirst responders inspect the site of an Iranian missile strike.
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[2026-03-28 05:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A New Jersey man’s assassination plot to firebomb a prominent Palestinian activist’s home with Molotov cocktails was dramatically foiled Thursday after a months-long NYPD intelligence bureau probe, officials and sources said.
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[2026-03-28 05:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iran’s players sing national anthem holding school bags symbolizing children allegedly killed in a U.S. strike on a school in Minab before a friendly soccer match between Iran and Nigeria, in Antalya, southern Turkey, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Riza Ozel)
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[2026-03-28 05:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ukrainian air defense intercepts a Shahed drone mid-air in the third Russia aerial attack on the capital in the last 24 hours in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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[2026-03-28 05:01 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-28 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A leaked email seen by Middle East Eye has revealed that an Iranian opposition coalition is being promoted by pro-Israel publicists who work with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) lobby group.
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[2026-03-28 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-03-28 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday expressed scepticism that the US and Israel had a clear strategy to end the war in Iran but he said Germany would in principle be ready to take part in an international stabilisation mission after the end of hostilities.
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[2026-03-28 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Tehran believes the United Arab Emirates is playing an active role in the US-Israeli war on Iran and any ground invasion could lead to widespread attacks on Emirati state assets, two senior Iranian sources told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-28 04:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN, Iran — US-Israeli strikes hit two Iranian nuclear facilities on Friday, as America's top diplomat left a meeting with his G7 counterparts to declare that Washington expects its military operation to prove victorious within a couple of weeks.
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[2026-03-28 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — A New Jersey man who planned to firebomb the home of a prominent Palestinian activist was arrested Thursday following a weekslong undercover operation led by the New York City Police Department, officials said.
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[2026-03-28 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A group of Iran-linked hackers have said that they successfully gained access to the personal emails of Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), sharing photographs and documents from the United States official online.
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[2026-03-28 04:13 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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[2026-03-28 03:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: For the first time in more than two years, athletes in the embattled Gaza Strip have taken part in what has been described as a “marathon”.
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[2026-03-28 03:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pakistan has eased a key financial regulation to make it easier for exporters to send goods to and through Iran, according to a report on Friday by Pakistan's Profit magazine.
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[2026-03-28 03:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Police detain Nerdeen Kiswani, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstration group “Within Our Lifetime” during a protest, Friday, April. 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
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