Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-25 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Hundreds of fuel retailers in Kenya are running short of supplies due to the current war in the Middle East, a sector representative told Reuters.
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[2026-03-25 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Prediction market bettors aren't confident that a key oil passageway in the Middle East will reopen in the next few weeks, despite some hope that the U.S. and Iran might find a way out of the war.
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[2026-03-25 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The European Union on Tuesday postponed the unveiling of a law that would permanently ban Russian oil imports, coming amid supply disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-25 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: New rules could mean it will be easier for Britain's medical regulators to suspend and strike off doctors accused of anti-semitism and racism for their pro-Palestine views.
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[2026-03-25 03:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In a statement on Tuesday, Hezbollah called on Lebanon to "immediately reverse" Iran ambassador's expulsion and called the decision a "sin".
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[2026-03-25 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said his country would host talks between the U.S. and Iran in pursuit of a "comprehensive settlement" of the ongoing war.
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[2026-03-25 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Tuesday that while the war in Iran poses near-term risks, it may ultimately improve the prospects for lasting peace in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-25 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Após um caça F-35 dos Estados Unidos fazer na semana passada um pouso de emergência em uma base aérea noOriente Médio, em meio à escalada da guerra entre EUA e Israel contra o Irã, duas fontes ouvidas pela imprensa dos EUA afirmaram que a aeronave foi atingida por fogo iraniano quando retornava de uma missão de combate.
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[2026-03-25 03:19 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-25 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, denied on Monday that Iran was negotiating with the US to end the war.
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[2026-03-25 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE geopolitical shock of February 2026 was no accident. It was a manufactured crisis, an engineered rupture authored by the Katzenjammer Kids of global politics: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, acting with little regard for the consent of their own publics. Cornered by domestic failures and legal peril, they fused their agendas into a single act of escalation, gambling global stability on the illusion that total war could achieve what decades of restraint had carefully preserved.
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[2026-03-25 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KUALA LUMPUR — Whenever tensions in the Middle East flare — particularly when Iran once again hints at closing the Strait of Hormuz — a familiar question resurfaces with almost ritual predictability: if this chokepoint is so dangerously critical, why not simply bypass it? Why not lay pipelines from the oil fields along the Persian Gulf that can run across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia or even Oman, and deliver crude directly to the Arabian Sea for export?
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[2026-03-25 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: APROPOS my recent past column, “Oil, oil, oil – US defeat,” a colleague pointed out that the US action against Iran is essentially an undertaking of the United States military-industrial complex. Not having read up much on the subject, I have restricted myself from ever delving into the matter. The principle of accountability in journalism requires that you touch only on subject matter you have sufficient knowledge of.
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[2026-03-25 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-25 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-25 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-25 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America Convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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[2026-03-25 02:29 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s bluffing on Iran ‘talks’ and his callous reaction to Robert Mueller’s death
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[2026-03-25 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United Nations experts are calling on Israel to immediately release Dr Hussam Abu Safia, warning that the Palestinian physician from Gaza has been subjected to “severe torture” and other abuses in Israeli detention.
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[2026-03-25 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: China's top diplomat told his Iranian counterpart in a phone call on Tuesday that "talking is always better than to keep fighting" after Tehran denied US President Donald Trump's claim that negotiations had taken place.
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[2026-03-25 01:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: On Monday, the governor of the Bank of Israel, Amir Yaron, filed the financial institution’s 2025 annual report to the government and the Knesset.
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[2026-03-25 01:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to pursue arrest warrants for three senior Israeli ministers she accuses of being responsible for “systematic torture” amounting to genocide.
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[2026-03-25 01:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iran still has at least a dozen mines in the Strait of Hormuz, which are imperiling oil tanker traffic through the critical passage.
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[2026-03-25 01:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US‑Israeli strategy of decapitating Iran’s leadership in the hope of sparking a revolution was a “miscalculation” that has failed to destabilize the Islamic Republic, a former senior Mossad official has told RT.
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[2026-03-25 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump walks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to speak with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-03-25 01:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is pausing attacks on Iran’s power infrastructure for five days and claimed that Washington and Tehran had held “very good and productive conversations” aimed at ending their war.
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[2026-03-25 01:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US and Israel have started another myopic and dangerous regional war that is ultimately doomed to be counterproductive for all.
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[2026-03-25 01:02 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: President Lee Jae Myung spoke Tuesday with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon by phone and they shared their thoughts on the current situation unfolding in the Middle East, Cheong Wa Dae said.
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[2026-03-25 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Essential poll] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Poll also finds Australians keener for government to forge closer ties with ‘middle powers’ such as Canada and Japan
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[2026-03-25 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Disruption to Middle Eastern oil shipments has rippled along the world’s longest supply chain, through Asia, and finally to Australia – and there’s no knowing when the pressure will ease
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[2026-03-25 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Petrol prices] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Australia is facing skyrocketing oil prices and demand, as supply is blocked at the strait of Hormuz amid the US and Israel’s war on Iran.
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[2026-03-25 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Iran's former deputy environment chief Kaveh Madani says desalination plants have become a target in the Iran war. (ABC)
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[2026-03-25 00:56 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Airstrikes have battered Iran and Iranian missiles and drones have targeted Israel's Tel Aviv and sites across the Middle East, even as President Donald Trump says the US is in talks with the Islamic Republic to end the war.With thousands more US Marines on their way to the Gulf, both sides firing intense barrages and Iran denying any negotiations are taking place, the war's tempo remained high on Tuesday, a day after Trump delayed his self-imposed deadline for Iran to
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[2026-03-25 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US has issued far-reaching demands to Iran to end the war, conditions that Tehran is likely to view as a non-starter, sources familiar with the matter have told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-25 00:51 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has threatened US, being weighed up as potential interlocutor to bring war to an end
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[2026-03-25 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, said on Tuesday that the army plans to “control” southern Lebanon, a day after Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for the border to be redrawn at the Litani River.
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[2026-03-25 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Officers were called to Golders Green, a north London neighborhood with a large Jewish population, after receiving reports of a fire. No one was injured in the overnight attack, which shattered windows in nearby homes and left the vehicles charred shells. (AP Video by Kwiyeon Ha)
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[2026-03-25 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BERLIN — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke on Tuesday of a "deep rift" with traditional ally the United States and said the US-Israeli war on Iran was a "breach of international law".
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[2026-03-25 00:45 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenBeirut, LebanonRawaa Eido is distraught after her house was hit by an Israeli airstrike, after an escalation between Hezbollah and IsraelPhotograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/ReutersShareView image in fullscreenTyre, LebanonFrom the southern city of Tyre, a rocket fired towards Israel can be seen striking the ground. Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike outside Beirut killed two people on 24 March, after several strikes on the capital’s southern suburbs overnight as the Israel-Hezbollah conflict entered its fourth weekPhotograph: Kawant
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[2026-03-25 00:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said Pakistan is ready to host talks between the United States and Iran amid US President Donald Trump’s claims of ongoing negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
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[2026-03-25 00:41 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Moscow appears to step up spring offensive amid concerns international focus on Iran war leaves Kyiv more vulnerable
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[2026-03-25 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: One of the US airmen killed when their refueling plane crashed in friendly skies this month had predicted just the day before that he wasn’t “coming back” home from the Iran war, his dad said.
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[2026-03-25 00:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar welcomed on Tuesday Lebanon's decision to expel the Iranian ambassador as a "justified and necessary step" and urged the government to take steps against the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
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[2026-03-25 00:17 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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[2026-03-25 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Five anti-arms trade activists accused of breaking into a facility owned by Israel's largest weapons manufacturer in Germany have spent months in pretrial detention under highly restrictive conditions, according to their families and lawyers.
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[2026-03-24 23:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: It is possible that Trump’s special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and US Vice-President J.D. Vance, could travel to Islamabad
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[2026-03-24 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon has declared Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani persona non grata, ordering him to leave country, the foreign ministry has announced.
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[2026-03-24 23:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul has yet to receive a formal request from Washington regarding troop deployment to the Middle East, though the two countries' military authorities remain in close consultation, the defense minister said Tuesday.
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[2026-03-24 23:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Private sector output in the euro zone sank to a 10-month low in March, amid mounting evidence of the impact the Iran conflict is having on the global economy.
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[2026-03-24 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Gaza City – Palestinians in Gaza say the cost of electricity provided by private generators has surged, even as residents increasingly rely on them after Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave destroyed its public power network.
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