Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-16 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: David Pocock’s comments come as new photos show scale of damage and government official says its ‘quite possible’ bodies disturbed
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[2026-03-16 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Religion] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: My family fled Iran in 1979 as members of a religious minority. Now we watch from the safety of Australia as our community is persecuted again
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[2026-03-16 00:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El papa León XIV aparece en la ventana de su estudio con vistas a la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano, donde fieles católicos y peregrinos se reunieron para la tradicional bendición dominical al finalizar el rezo del Ángelus del mediodía, el domingo 15 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Andrew Medichini)
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[2026-03-16 00:34 UTC+10:00] [India] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Defence analyst says torpedo strike is a ‘humiliation’ for Modi’s government that disregarded a US defence partner
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[2026-03-16 00:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: De um dia para o outro, os iranianos passaram a viver numa zona de guerra, e os ataques de Israel e dos EUA estão mirando não apenas Teerã, mas vários outros lugares em todo o Irã.
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[2026-03-16 00:28 UTC+10:00] [West Bank] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip
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[2026-03-16 00:24 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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[2026-03-16 00:24 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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[2026-03-16 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Tucker Carlson has claimed the CIA read his text messages leading up to the war with Iran in an effort to frame him as a foreign agent.
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[2026-03-16 00:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Bahrain’s Ministry of the Interior said it arrested five people for their alleged involvement in passing “precise and sensitive information” to the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC).
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[2026-03-16 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: French President Emmanuel Macron has said Paris is ready to mediate a truce between Lebanon and Israel, saying that Lebanese leaders are willing to engage in direct talks in a major shift in the country’s approach towards Israel.
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[2026-03-16 00:00 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high
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[2026-03-15 23:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this handout photo released by the World Health Organization, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visit the Specialty Hospital to meet with recent medical evacuees from Gaza in Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. (World Health Organization via AP)
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[2026-03-15 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UAE’s Ministry of Defence says it has intercepted several ballistic missiles and drones launched from Iran.
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[2026-03-15 23:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's foreign minister on Sunday rejected claims that it had told the United States it was running low on interceptors.
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[2026-03-15 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The decision by United States President Donald Trump to launch a war on Iran has left many international law experts questioning if the world order established after World War II is actually working.
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[2026-03-15 23:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's Tasnim news agency is reporting that dozens of people accused of sharing sensitive information with Israel have been arrested across the country.
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[2026-03-15 23:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV appears at the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican where Catholic faithful and pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing at the end of the noon Angelus prayer, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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[2026-03-15 23:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian couple and two of their children as they drove in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health authorities, with the Israeli military saying the incident is under review.
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[2026-03-15 23:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Palestinians who traveled to South Africa via a charter flight organized by an Israeli group whose founder supported U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to resettle Palestinians from Gaza stand in their temporary flat in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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[2026-03-15 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SENATOR Win Gatchalian urged the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to initiate preparations for the repatriation of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Iran, Israel, and other countries in the Middle east amid escalating conflict in the region.
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[2026-03-15 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Fiction in translation] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As her banned 1989 novella, Women Without Men, is published for the first time in the UK, the Iranian author looks back on a life of resistance and repression
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[2026-03-15 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump’s historic dismantling of the Iranian regime is unfolding at blinding speed, showcasing the next generation of AI warfare. Far from replacing human judgment, the US military’s use of AI in Iran has focused in large measure on solving one of war’s oldest and most vexing problems: processing vast troves of intelligence.
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[2026-03-15 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's Fars News agency reported that 223 women have been killed in attacks since the start of the war, including three pregnant women.
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[2026-03-15 22:23 UTC+10:00] [Overseas Filipinos] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-03-15 22:22 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Humiliating failure now looms, as symbolically damaging to US global standing and national self-esteem as Afghanistan or Iraq
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[2026-03-15 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty will head to Qatar on Sunday as part of a tour of the Gulf to "research regional developments" during the US-Israel war on Iran.
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[2026-03-15 22:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Tehran on Sunday vowed to kill Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the U.S.-Israel war on Iran continued to threaten oil supplies in the Gulf.
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[2026-03-15 22:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Overnight Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least four people, according to Lebanese state media and the government.
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[2026-03-15 22:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Countries around the world have scrambled to cope with the fallout of the energy shock from the Iran war, imposing measures from fuel export bans, loosening refining standards, and even getting workers to climb stairs instead of taking elevators.
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[2026-03-15 21:45 UTC+10:00] [Sports] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-03-15 21:41 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A South Korean military transport aircraft carrying more than 200 evacuees from the Middle East landed at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Sunday evening, completing a government operation to bring home Korean nationals who had been stranded, amid escalating regional conflict.
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[2026-03-15 21:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Sunday that Israel was not planning to hold direct talks with Lebanon in the coming days and had not told the United States it was running low on missile interceptors.
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[2026-03-15 21:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A few days ago, I was walking with a friend through the tents in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza. We were heading to a small cafe I have frequented since my roof became fabric.
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[2026-03-15 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: As oil prices remain high amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, its impact is increasingly filtering down into the lives of people across Africa.
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[2026-03-15 21:25 UTC+10:00] [pollution] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Missiles and bombs contain pollutants which are released into the air, soil and water when they explode and crash, posing many health risks
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[2026-03-15 21:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Houthi supporters hold posters of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an attack by Israel and the U.S., next to a giant Iranian flag as they protest the war on Iran, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
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[2026-03-15 21:00 UTC+10:00] [US foreign policy] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Experts query ‘mix-up of priorities’ as president plays golf, posts old pictures and repeats details of Bill Maher feud
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[2026-03-15 21:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: ‘Of course there’s going to be retaliation,’ says one expert. ‘It may be that this is what Trump’s interested in’
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[2026-03-15 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DUBAI — Dubai is scrambling to preserve its image as a safe haven despite Iran's onslaught, with influencers rallying behind the government's message as authorities crack down on those sharing footage of strikes.
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[2026-03-15 20:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's foreign minister has denied that Tehran has targeted civilian or residential areas in the Middle East, saying the country is ready to form a committee with its neighbours to investigate responsibility for such strikes.
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[2026-03-15 20:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has threatened further strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island and urged allies to deploy warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway critical for global energy supplies, as Tehran promises to intensify its response.
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[2026-03-15 20:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Maghreb is following the US-Israeli war on Iran and its expansion across the Middle East with particular interest, and for good reason: the geopolitical and economic implications of this major crisis will certainly impact regional balances in North Africa as well.
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[2026-03-15 20:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iranian officials threatened to “pursue and kill” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel unleashed a round of extensive missiles towards western Iran Sunday morning.
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[2026-03-15 20:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Overnight Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon killed at least four people, Lebanese state media said.
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[2026-03-15 20:22 UTC+10:00] [Shahed drones] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: This is about protection and a full assessment of how to counter Shahed drones, says Zelensky, after Kyiv dispatched dozens of experts
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[2026-03-15 20:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Bank of Korea said a supplementary budget being discussed to cushion the economic fallout from the war in the Middle East is unlikely to significantly fan inflation, even as oil-driven cost pressures build.
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[2026-03-15 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Maghreb is following the US-Israeli war on Iran and its expansion across the Middle East with particular interest, and for good reason: the geopolitical and economic implications of this major crisis will certainly impact regional balances in North Africa as well.
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[2026-03-15 19:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States and Israel carried out attacks on Iran’s Isfahan city in the early hours of Sunday, killing at least 15 people, as the conflict entered its 16th day.
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[2026-03-15 19:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Civic groups in South Korea urged the government Sunday to reject any US request to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, warning that involvement in rising tensions with Iran could expose the country to security risks and legal challenges.
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