Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-18 04:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel has forcibly displaced more than 36,000 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank in one year, the United Nations says, warning that illegal Israeli settlement expansion and a push to annex the territory are accelerating.
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[2026-03-18 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Joe Kent, head of the US National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned in protest over Washington’s war with Iran, saying that Israel has dragged the US into another “never‑ending” conflict that does not serve American interests.
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[2026-03-18 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Joe Kent, head of the US National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned in protest over Washington’s war with Iran, saying that Israel has dragged the US into another “never‑ending” conflict that does not serve American interests.
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[2026-03-18 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Joseph Kent appears before a Senate Committee on Intelligence hearing for his pending confirmation to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on Capitol Hill, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)
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[2026-03-18 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Malacañang pushes back against Vice President Sara Duterte’s criticism of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., particularly on claims of shortcomings in addressing the needs of Filipinos. Undersecretary Claire Castro, speaking during a press briefing on March 17, 2026, at the Bagong Pilipinas Studios in Mandaue City, Cebu, said the administration has outlined its programs and responses, including measures for Filipinos affected by the Middle East conflict.
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[2026-03-18 03:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that US forces "no longer need" military help in the Iran war, after his calls for assistance from allies to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic were largely rebuffed.
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[2026-03-18 03:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has privately assessed that Iranians would be "slaughtered" if they took to the streets against the Islamic Republic, despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly calling for them to do so.
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[2026-03-18 03:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has lashed out at Israel after it claimed to have killed Iran’s powerful national security chief Ali Larijani, denouncing its targeting of Tehran’s leaders as “illegal”.
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[2026-03-18 03:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Even the dead aren’t immune to the oil shortage sparked by the Iran war.
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[2026-03-18 03:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought support Tuesday from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, at a time when the Iran war has revived Russia’s ailing economy through increased oil revenue, robbed US-brokered talks to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine of momentum — and could soon limit Kyiv’s access to vital Western air defense systems that are needed in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-18 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente Donald Trump habla durante una reunión con el primer ministro irlandés Micheál Martin en el Despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca, el 17 de marzo de 2026, en Washington. (Foto AP/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-03-18 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry urged leaders from the member-nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to take immediate action in addressing energy, water and food security concerns across the region amid the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-18 03:30 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: March 18, 2026 03:30 | News
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[2026-03-18 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: It’s the last Friday of Ramadan, and the Old City of Jerusalem is a ghost town.
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[2026-03-18 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has privately assessed that Iranians would be "slaughtered" if they took to the streets against the Islamic Republic, despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly calling for them to do so.
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[2026-03-18 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: On Monday, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the army had launched “a ground manoeuvre in Lebanon to remove threats and protect” the residents of northern Israel.
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[2026-03-18 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump points to a bust of Winston Churchill as he speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office of the White House, on St. Patrick’s Day, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-03-18 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) encouraged the private sector to adopt flexible work arrangements to conserve energy and reduce fuel consumption in the face of rising oil prices due to the war in Iran.
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[2026-03-18 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The war in Iran, and especially the quick decapitation of the country’s leadership structure, has been a swift, remarkable display of American power and Israeli determination. But there is one other fact it has proven: an alliance with Moscow counts for little when a regime faces its greatest threat.
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[2026-03-18 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE war on Iran was launched because of one man’s folly, but it is ordinary Americans — not Donald Trump — who is stuck with the bill of around $2 billion a day. That did not come from me, but from the commentaries of American pundits and thought leaders who have been denouncing the recklessness of the decision-making process that led to the war.
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[2026-03-18 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SINCE Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s rise to power in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, removing him and his regime have always existed on the margins of American strategic thinking. However, it became a geopolitical obsession of one man: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-03-18 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MOJTABA Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, has given three conditions for Tehran’s war with the United States and Israel to end: first, the dismantlement of all US military bases in the Gulf; second, the assurance that there will be no more US aggression against Iran; and third, a payment of $500 billion by the US to Iran as war reparations.
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[2026-03-18 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TOKYO — Since returning to office last year, United States President Donald Trump has ordered military strikes from the Caribbean and eastern Pacific to Africa and the Middle East, targeting alleged drug-smuggling boats and suspected terrorist groups. He has attacked Venezuela and kidnapped its leader Nicolás Maduro. And he has joined Israel in a large-scale assault on Iran that amounts to a major escalation from last year’s strikes, which supposedly “obliterated” the country’s nuclear facilities.
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[2026-03-18 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-18 02:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A leading Palestinian Islamic cleric has issued a fatwa calling for Eid prayers outside Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, after access to the site was blocked by the Israelis.
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[2026-03-18 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: One person has been killed and another wounded in an Israeli attack between the southern Lebanese towns of Abba and Jebchit, the country's National News Agency is reporting.
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[2026-03-18 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: At least 912 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2 March, the country's Ministry of Public Health is reporting.
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[2026-03-18 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A UN fact-finding group has begun investigating an air strike that hit Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the southern city of Minab on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-18 02:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: More than two weeks since Israel and the US attacked Iran, inflicting "death and destruction from the sky all day long" as US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said, it seems that the decision to go to war was founded on two major miscalculations.
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[2026-03-18 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's largest weapons company is reporting a surge in demand amid US-Israeli attacks on Iran, following record revenues as a result of its 2 year genocide in Gaza.
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[2026-03-18 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: GENEVA, March 17 — Tens of millions more people will face acute hunger if the Iran war continues through to June, according to analysis from the World Food Programme released on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-18 02:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Britain believed Iran did not pose a nuclear threat and saw no evidence of an imminent Iranian attack on Europe when the US-Israeli attack on Iran began, it has emerged.
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[2026-03-18 02:06 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: He had IRGC’s trust while having his differences with hardliners and had huge sway with likes of China and Russia
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[2026-03-18 02:05 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Joe Kent resigned as national counter-terrorism center director, saying Iran posed no imminent threat to the US
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[2026-03-18 01:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israeli attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon may amount to war crimes, the United Nations human rights office says as the Israeli military pummels its northern neighbour as part of the wider war engulfing the Middle East.
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[2026-03-18 01:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Gas prices are surging across the US as the war with Iran continues to rattle global energy markets — with crude oil spiking 4% and American diesel topping $5 a gallon Tuesday, inflicting pain at the pump.
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[2026-03-18 01:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ianians have a very long historical memory.
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[2026-03-18 01:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A map showing travel advisory risk levels in the Middle East is shown behind Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand as she speaks at a news conference at the Emergency Watch and Response Centre at Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
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[2026-03-18 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Two Lebanese soldiers have been killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon, the country's military is reporting.
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[2026-03-18 01:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Satellite images are beginning to be released giving a glimpse into the toll of the Iran war, with ships ablaze in an Iranian port and destroyed buildings at an American base.
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[2026-03-18 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranians have a very long historical memory.
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[2026-03-18 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranians have a very long historical memory.
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[2026-03-18 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump en la Oficina Oval en la Casa Blanca en Washington el 16 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-03-18 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s army has said its air defences are working to intercept incoming missiles fired from Iran.
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[2026-03-18 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, which advises both US President Donald Trump and the director of national intelligence on “terror” threats, has resigned over the war with Iran.
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[2026-03-18 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Falling debris from missile interceptions killed one person on Tuesday in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi and injured two medical staff in Kuwait, authorities said, as Iran pressed its attacks against Gulf countries.
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[2026-03-18 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: European markets are facing a crisis and must get their act together to fix it, the head of the world's biggest individual investor has said.
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[2026-03-18 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent on Tuesday announced he will resign in response to the Trump administration's war against Iran.
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[2026-03-18 01:06 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-03-18 01:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Israel says it has killed two of Iran’s most senior figures in overnight strikes, marking a major escalation in the conflict.Defense Minister Israel Katz claims top security official Ali Larijani and Basij militia chief Gholam Reza Soleimani were both “eliminated.” But so far, Iranian state media has not confirmed the deaths.
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