Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-18 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel said it had killed Iran's inteligence minister, Esmail Khatib, warning that Israeli attacks would escalate.
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[2026-03-18 23:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Albay Mayor’s League President Carlos Baldo of Camalig town tells The Manila Times on March 18, 2026 that the tourism arrival in his town is not affected by the current economic turmoil as it is increasing despite spiking gasoline prices to watch the effusive eruption of Mayon Volcano. Baldo also cancelled the Pinangat Festival in June as part of austerity measures following the US-Israeli led war in Iran.
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[2026-03-18 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on March 18, 2026 ordered the Department of Transportation to suspend the implementation of the new round of fare hikes amid the skyrocketing prices of fuel and commodities caused by the war in the Middle East. Marcos issued the directive to ease the burden of commuters and also gave reassurance that the government would continue to provide assistance to all those affected.
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[2026-03-18 23:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: For more than a year and a half, Kiryat Shmona, the largest Israeli city on the border with Lebanon, was a ghost town. Now, booms from Hezbollah launches and the sharp explosions of Israeli artillery once again echo through the city’s streets as residents, who just started coming back, find themselves under fire once again, this time from both Iran and Lebanon.
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[2026-03-18 23:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Instead of regime change, all the bombing has produced so far is regime reinforcement and no end in sight
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[2026-03-18 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: $11.3bn more than enough to fund EPA or National Cancer Institute, where administration sought to slash budgets
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[2026-03-18 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Germany’s foreign minister says political change in Iran cannot be imposed through external military force.
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[2026-03-18 22:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: After a week of “will they, won’t they” speculation, as this writer had anticipated, Tricia Tuttle, the artistic director of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), has not been removed from her post, despite hints to the contrary from right-wing German tabloids.
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[2026-03-18 22:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-03-18 22:50 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Republicans almost certain to push through appointment following the ousting of Noem amid public backlash to her aggressive immigration approach
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[2026-03-18 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Facilities linked to Iran’s oil industry in South Pars and Asaluyeh came under attack on Wednesday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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[2026-03-18 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel said it had killed Iran's inteligence minister, Esmail Khatib, warning that Israeli attacks would escalate.
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[2026-03-18 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Large crowds gathered in Tehran on Wednesday for the funeral of senior Iranian officials and sailors killed during the Israel-US war on Iran.
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[2026-03-18 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Jim Chalmers will outline how the federal budget will fix surging oil prices and inflation in an address in Melbourne on Thursday. (ABC News: Luke Stephenson)
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[2026-03-18 22:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Turkiye’s Ministry of National Defence has said NATO is sending another Patriot missile defence unit to its Incirlik Air Base, after several ballistic missiles Ankara says were fired by Iran were downed heading towards or in Turkish airspace.
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[2026-03-18 22:20 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [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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[2026-03-18 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Dezoito dias após os Estados Unidos e Israel lançarem ataques contra o Irã, matarem o então líder supremo do país, o aiatolá Ali Khamenei , já nas primeiras horas da guerra e eliminarem outras lideranças políticas e militares, seria razoável supor um enfraquecimento fatal do centro de poder da República Islâmica .
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[2026-03-18 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As United States President Donald Trump tries to build a coalition of navies willing to open the Strait of Hormuz, some countries are negotiating safe passage directly with Iran, underscoring a new de facto reality, analysts say: Regardless of military results, Tehran is calling the shots on who gets to use the world’s most important energy waterway.
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[2026-03-18 22:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iran launched a wave of strikes on Israel early Wednesday in revenge for the assassination of security chief Ali Larijani — killing an elderly Jewish couple as they tried to find safety in a bomb shelter.
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[2026-03-18 22:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi oil giant Aramco restarted its Ras Tanura refinery on March 13 after shutting the facility on March 2 following a drone strike, industry monitor IIR said.
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[2026-03-18 22:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Russia says it is considering redirecting its remaining energy supplies away from Europe as markets reel from the Israeli-US war on Iran.
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[2026-03-18 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Bank of England] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: We’ve been here before with Covid and Ukraine. Making borrowing more expensive won’t work – only price controls, caps and public ownership can do that
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[2026-03-18 21:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Israeli forces have killed Iranian intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib, making him the third major Islamic Republic figure to have been taken out in the past two days, the Jewish state’s defense minister said Wednesday.
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[2026-03-18 21:50 UTC+10:00] [Ali Larijani] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Israel’s defence minister promised ‘significant surprises’ throughout this day on all the fronts
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[2026-03-18 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Defence Minister Israel Katz has claimed Israel has killed Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib. Tehran has not commented on, nor confirmed the attack.
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[2026-03-18 21:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz claimed that an overnight Israeli attack killed Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib.
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[2026-03-18 21:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Somewhere along the way, we have seen the rationale for the existence of the state of Israel transition from reliance on western guilt and being a safe haven for Jews after the attempted destruction of Jewish communities in Europe, to the violent biblical rhetoric now deployed across the spectrum.
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[2026-03-18 21:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Emergency teams were seen evacuating wounded people and recovering personal belongings, including photos and toys, from the debris. Iran's Red Crescent said the site was hit during US-Israeli strikes, part of a broader campaign across Tehran. The footage emerged as Iran prepared funerals for senior figures killed on 17 March, including security chief Ali Larijani, according to state media Fars and Tasnim.
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[2026-03-18 21:16 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The man was accused of providing images and information about Iran’s sensitive locations to Israeli Mossad officers
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[2026-03-18 21:13 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With the war affecting the outlook of Dubai’s medical hub, Malaysia could draw more patients from the Middle East
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[2026-03-18 21:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iraq has restarted crude exports from the Kirkuk oilfields to Turkey’s Ceyhan port after Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) struck a deal to resume flows.
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[2026-03-18 20:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Austria’s government says it will temporarily cut fuel taxes and cap retailer margins to shield consumers from soaring oil prices linked to the Iran war.
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[2026-03-18 20:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Seven Iranian footballers sought asylum in Australia after the Asian Cup. Within days, five chose to return to Iran. While officials say it was their decision, human rights groups point to pressure on their families back home. Reporting by Nicholas Maher for ABC News Loop.
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[2026-03-18 20:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton has won the Democratic primary for an open United States Senate seat in one of a slate of closely watched races shaped by heavy spending from special interest groups, including pro-Israel lobbying networks and the artificial intelligence industry.
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[2026-03-18 20:34 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: IAEA chief renews calls for restraint as strike raises specter of a radiological disaster
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[2026-03-18 20:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli war on Lebanon is killing or wounding the equivalent of an entire classroom of children every day, a senior Unicef official said.
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[2026-03-18 20:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Seventeen days — that’s how long the latest leader of Iran lasted.
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[2026-03-18 20:28 UTC+10:00] [Oil] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Governments in countries heavily reliant on Middle Eastern oil introduce measures to shield public from soaring costs
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[2026-03-18 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom and the UN nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that a projectile struck the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Iran, marking the first such incident since the start of U.S.-Israeli attacks.
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[2026-03-18 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom and the UN nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that a projectile struck the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Iran, marking the first such incident since the start of U.S.-Israeli attacks.
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[2026-03-18 20:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: France’s special envoy for Lebanon says it is unrealistic to expect Beirut to disarm Hezbollah while Israeli attacks continue.
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[2026-03-18 20:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: As Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi travels to Washington for her first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump stateside, the Iran conflict will loom large over their meeting.
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[2026-03-18 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A red-flag alert has been issued by one genocide-prevention organisation. This is not the time for empty condemnations but sanctions and arms embargos
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[2026-03-18 19:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli strikes on central Beirut have killed at least 12 people and wounded 41 others, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health says.
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[2026-03-18 19:47 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Wearing a traditional dress, Parzhin Jasem, poses for a photo next to sheep belonging to her uncle as she takes part in a family gathering to break the fast with an Iftar meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the village of Gulp, Iraq.Credit:AP Photo/Leo Correa
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[2026-03-18 19:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iran claimed it has executed a man for allegedly spying for Israel in what is the first such killing since the regime’s war against the US and Israel began.
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[2026-03-18 19:35 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Fund managers pile into cash at fastest pace since Covid-19 as geopolitical tensions, inflation replace AI as top concerns, bank finds
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[2026-03-18 19:34 UTC+10:00] [Washington] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Comments build on Beijing’s recent tendency towards detailing economic and lifestyle benefits for island from reunification
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[2026-03-18 19:25 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-18 19:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli air raids on the Lebanese town of Sahmar in the Western Bekaa have killed two people and wounded six others, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.
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