Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-13 05:10 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Pilots reportedly adopting Russian tactics as statement in name of new Iranian supreme leader vows continued attacks on US bases
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[2026-03-13 05:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel claims its forces have carried out strikes against checkpoints operated by Iran’s Basij force in Tehran.
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[2026-03-13 05:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Pro-Iranian hackers are targeting sites in the Middle East and starting to stretch into the United States during the war, raising the risk of American defense contractors, power stations and water plants being swept into a wave of digital chaos that could expand if Tehran's allies join the fray.
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[2026-03-13 05:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Police officers and federal agents responded to a shooting at Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on Thursday. The FBI has said that the shooter used a vehicle in the attack.
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[2026-03-13 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Government] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-03-13 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Thursday that US military escorts for oil tankers through the crucial Strait of Hormuz “can’t happen now” but are “quite likely” to be in place by April — as Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to keep the waterway closed as a “tool to pressure the enemy” with higher energy prices.
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[2026-03-13 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An Illinois tax preparer who helped run a “staggering” $14 million COVID scam used the money to build a mansion for a wife and kids he had in the Palestinian territories — infuriating his other wife in Illinois.
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[2026-03-13 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iceland and the Netherlands filed declarations to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday, bringing the number of countries seeking to participate in the proceedings to 18.
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[2026-03-13 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel has carried out a new wave of attacks on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, sending enormous plumes of black smoke billowing up over parts of the city.
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[2026-03-13 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A massive flotilla of tankers is rushing to Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast to pick up crude oil that has been diverted as a result of Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-03-13 04:45 UTC+10:00] [Michigan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Driver reportedly crashed vehicle into building in Detroit suburb and shots were fired
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[2026-03-13 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Mayor Zorhan Mamdani defended his hosting of the divisive anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil at Gracie Mansion recently — saying he was simply standing up for First Amendment rights.
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[2026-03-13 04:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: JERUSALÉN (AP) — El ejército de Israel informó el jueves que retiró los cargos contra cinco soldados acusados de agredir sexualmente a un detenido palestino en un presunto ataque captado parcialmente por una cámara.
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[2026-03-13 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — Oil prices have soared since the US and Israel launched their war against Iran, and President Donald Trump is now turning to America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a wider agreement from many of the world’s wealthiest countries to tap into emergency stockpiles.
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[2026-03-13 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel has dropped all charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at a military detention facility, Israeli media outlets have reported, closing a case that became one of the most divisive in the country’s recent history.
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[2026-03-13 04:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Work at QatarEnergy’s huge North Field Expansion liquefied natural gas project has slowed sharply as the war on Iran enters its third week.
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[2026-03-13 04:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The CEO of FireEye Kevin Mandia gives a tour of the cybersecurity company’s unused office space in Reston, Va., March 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren, file)
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[2026-03-13 04:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Donald Trump has said that it would not be appropriate for Iran’s national football team to participate in the FIFA World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States in the summer.
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[2026-03-13 04:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Police swarmed a Jewish synagogue in Michigan Thursday after a car apparently crashed into the building and witnesses reported hearing gunshots immediately after.
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[2026-03-13 04:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei included a disturbing threat of attacks on US soil in his first message to the world — but it’s clear he’s either too hurt or too incompetent to deliver it himself, experts said.
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[2026-03-13 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Army is offering a fat reward for the capture of two thieves who stole drones from a base — amid fears of a possible Iranian drone strike on U.S. soil.
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[2026-03-13 04:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iraqis hold a portrait of the new successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during a protest against U.S. and Israeli attacks on multiple cities across Iran, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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[2026-03-13 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The threat to Americans from international terrorist groups is “higher now than it’s been in decades” as the war against Iran nears the end of its second week, Sen. Ted Cruz has warned.
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[2026-03-13 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran says commercial vessels can still transit the Strait of Hormuz provided they coordinate their passage with Iranian naval forces.
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[2026-03-13 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump is considering waiving the Jones Act to speed up oil shipments as his administration works to bring down gas prices.
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[2026-03-13 04:00 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Two weeks into Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran, the conflict is beginning to take on a shape that few strategists publicly predicted but many privately feared.
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[2026-03-13 03:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: TotalEnergies says it has halted around 15 percent of its global oil and gas production as the war in the Middle East disrupts energy operations across the region.
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[2026-03-13 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: For the past month, US President Donald Trump and his secretaries of state and of war have emphasised a vision of the United States as a white Christian European nation at war with the non-Christian, non-white world.
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[2026-03-13 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army has said it is dropping charges against five soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian detainee.
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[2026-03-13 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A massive flotilla of tankers is rushing to Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast to pick up crude oil that has been diverted as a result of Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-03-13 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel renewed its strikes on Beirut on Thursday, as it threatened to expand operations and seize territory in Lebanon if Hezbollah did not stop its attacks.
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[2026-03-13 03:36 UTC+10:00] [Oil] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Vast release of emergency crude reserves fails to quell mounting fears about supply crunch, rattling markets
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[2026-03-13 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A British base in Iraq has come under attack from Iranian drones, wounding a number of American soldiers.
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[2026-03-13 03:30 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: March 13, 2026 03:30 | News
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[2026-03-13 03:27 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Tehran will keep strait of Hormuz closed and continue attacks on US assets, speech read out on state TV says
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[2026-03-13 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Sergey Poletaev, information analyst and publicist, co-founder and editor of the Vatfor project.
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[2026-03-13 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Sergey Poletaev, information analyst and publicist, co-founder and editor of the Vatfor project.
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[2026-03-13 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Authorities say no Nigerian in Iran has been affected by the conflict so far and that officials are stationed at the Armenian border to assist all evacuees. The Nigerian government has begun evacuating its citizens stranded in Iran as Israeli and US bombings continue in Tehran and other Iranian cities.
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[2026-03-13 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, baja del Air Force One en el base de Andrews, Maryland, el miércoles 11 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Luis M. Álvarez)
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[2026-03-13 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Italian defense firm Leonardo said it is "positioned on a path of strong growth" on Thursday, as European defense companies stand to gain business from the war in Iran, as they have been boosted by the war in Ukraine.
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[2026-03-13 03:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT, Lebanon — An Israeli strike on a campus of Lebanon's public university killed two academics, Lebanese state media said on Thursday.
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[2026-03-13 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Russian government on Thursday ordered travel companies to provide refunds to Russians whose trips to the Middle East have been canceled due to the Iran war.
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[2026-03-13 03:04 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US president says higher oil prices benefit the country as Iran war pushes petrol costs above $100 per barrel
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[2026-03-13 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-03-13 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Irans’s players pose for a team photo before an Asian group A qualifying soccer match against North Korea for the 2026 World Cup, June 10, 2025, at Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
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[2026-03-13 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-13 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-13 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The View sounded off on United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the U.S. Department of Defense in the wake of a fatal missile strike at an elementary school in Iran, and also took a moment to call out the Pentagon’s reported spending.
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[2026-03-13 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia's state oil company is currently in talks to buy Ukrainian drones to protect its oil fields from Iranian attacks, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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[2026-03-13 02:48 UTC+10:00] [World Cup 2026] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Participation is in question amid ongoing war
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