Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-11 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: ASHDOD, Israel — The US assault on Iran has meant a return to life underground here for Israeli hotel worker Daniella Aharoni.
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[2026-03-11 03:50 UTC+10:00] [national security incident] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: No one was injured, but security will be boosted at American and Israeli embassies and consulates, police say
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[2026-03-11 03:46 UTC+10:00] [European Union] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Prospect of Trump easing US sanctions on Russian oil is a nightmare for the bloc as nations work out how to respond
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[2026-03-11 03:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Sad footage has emerged out of Dubai with photos of abandoned pets discarded as expats rush to leave the hotspot amid the conflict across the Middle East.
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[2026-03-11 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un hombre hace acrobacias frente a una gasolinera en los Ángeles el 9 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Damian Dovarganes)
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[2026-03-11 03:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The International Energy Agency (IEA) is set to hold an emergency meeting to assess the situation in the Middle East as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to roil global energy markets.
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[2026-03-11 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PHILIPPINE economic growth could remain below 5.0 percent and again miss target due to the war in the Middle East, a Cabinet official said.
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[2026-03-11 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE peso and stock market rebounded on Tuesday after United States President Donald Trump said that the war on Iran could soon end.
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[2026-03-11 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ukraine will send military experts to Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia this week to consult on how to down Iranian drones, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy told reporters.
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[2026-03-11 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: EU's energy chief Dan Jorgensen called on member states to help consumers and businesses by lowering taxes on energy where possible, as war in the Middle East saw oil and gas prices surge.
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[2026-03-11 03:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Louis Sako, patriarch of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
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[2026-03-11 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A video taken by AP shows what appear to be Iranian ballistic missiles flying over the occupied West Bank and dropping smaller bomblets, which are found inside the missile. (Produced by Elaine Carroll)
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[2026-03-11 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russian tour operators have lost about 3 billion rubles ($37 million) in the first 10 days of the war in the Middle East as they scrambled to evacuate tens of thousands of tourists and deal with mass trip cancellations, an industry group said.
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[2026-03-11 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AS dreadful as the adverse impact on our nation of corruption on a gargantuan scale — dirty money in suitcases — is the utter incompetence in governance of this regime. We will be suffering from it if the US-Israeli war against Iran escalates.
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[2026-03-11 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KUALA LUMPUR — Unfolding thousands of kilometers away in the Middle East, the latest military clashes between the United States and Iran may appear geographically distant from Southeast Asia. Yet in today’s deeply interconnected world, the reverberations of such conflicts rarely remain confined to their immediate theaters. Within days, and sometimes even hours, the consequences begin to ripple outward through aviation routes, shipping lanes, energy markets, and even social discourse.
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[2026-03-11 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: IT was a Mao Zedong mandate to begin with: To rightists’ criticism of communist dogma, he issued the call, “Let a hundred flowers bloom and a thousand scents contend.”
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[2026-03-11 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-11 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Russian leaders told President Donald Trump during a phone call on Monday that they are not sharing intelligence with Iran during the United States's war on that country, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said during a CNBC interview on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-11 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Paris has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over the escalating violence" in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-11 02:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Starmer is in zugzwang. Mandelson arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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[2026-03-11 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Manifestantes ondean banderas de Irán y sostienen un retrato del fallecido Líder Supremo del país, el ayatolá Ali Jamenei y su hijo, el ayatolá Mojtaba Jamenei, para apoyar la selección de éste como nuevo Líder Supremo del país en Bagdad, el lunes 9 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Hadi Mizban)
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[2026-03-11 02:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has declared that the United States is “winning” in the fight against Iran, but he declined to provide a timeline as to when the war would end, stressing that decision lies with President Donald Trump.
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[2026-03-11 02:46 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Washington is now focusing on the Iran war, drawing the spotlight from Ukraine’s four-year fight to see off Russia’s bigger army
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[2026-03-11 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Shots were fired at the US consulate in Toronto early Tuesday in the latest attack on an American diplomatic outpost amid the ongoing war with Iran.
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[2026-03-11 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Shots were fired at the US consulate in Toronto early Tuesday in the latest attack on an American diplomatic outpost amid the ongoing war with Iran.
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[2026-03-11 02:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Joy Behar ranted against President Trump on The View after the hosts kicked off yet another day of discussing the growing tension in Iran.
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[2026-03-11 02:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that any attack on Iran's infrastructure would result in a tit-for-tat response.
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[2026-03-11 02:39 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts discussed the unclear objectives and exorbitant economic cost of Trump’s ongoing war in Iran
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[2026-03-11 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has declared that the United States is “winning” in the fight against Iran, but he declined to provide a timeline as to when the war would end, stressing that decision lies with President Donald Trump.
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[2026-03-11 02:00 UTC+10:00] [Marina Zhang] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The American military’s dependence on Chinese sources gives Beijing leverage in the lead-up to Trump’s trip, sources say
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[2026-03-11 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: LONDON (AP) — A former Syrian air force colonel faced a novel set of charges in a British court Tuesday: three counts of murder as a crime against humanity for civilian attacks in a Damascus suburb in 2011.
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[2026-03-11 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The International Energy Agency will convene an extraordinary meeting of its member countries Tuesday to discuss a possible release of oil stockpiles to address the supply disruption triggered by the Iran war.
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[2026-03-11 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference, Monday, March 9, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-03-11 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said that the current war on Iran should not push the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza aside.
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[2026-03-11 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Iran war is causing global disruption, and restaurants in India are under threat because of it.
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[2026-03-11 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence said that arrested "30 spies, agents, and internal field operatives belonging to the American and [Israeli] enemy".
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[2026-03-11 01:13 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenTehran, Iran Smoke plumes billow from the site of airstrikes near the Azadi Tower amid the US-Israel war on IranPhotograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenManama, Bahrain A building damaged in a reported Iranian drone strikePhotograph: ReutersShareView image in fullscreenTehran, Iran A woman prays as she sits beside the grave of a relative who was killed in the US-Israel war on Iran, at Behesht-e Zahra cemeteryPhotograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenAbbasiyeh, Lebanon An Israeli airstrike hits the
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[2026-03-11 01:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: On Monday, Israel targeted a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs that was reportedly a branch of the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Qard Al-Hassan financial institution, as it intensified attacks against organisations linked to the Lebanese group.
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[2026-03-11 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Several MPs question why the party rushed to endorse strikes that were likely in breach of international law
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[2026-03-11 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Resurgent inflation, already a factor before the Middle East conflict, now risks intensifying, creating a problem for prime minister
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[2026-03-11 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Electric vehicles] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Yes, Australia needs fuel. But the Middle East war also shows the necessity of setting ourselves up for the future
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[2026-03-11 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukraine has dispatched drone interceptors and military personnel to Jordan as Middle Eastern countries fend off Iranian strikes on infrastructure and United States military assets during the US-Israel war on Tehran.
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[2026-03-11 00:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announce the 34th wave of attacks against US-Israeli targets "with pinpoint missiles and warheads weighing more than one tonne".
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[2026-03-11 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The unthinkable has happened: the United States and Israel have launched a war on Iran, now in its second week.
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[2026-03-11 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A British minister has refused to declare the school massacre in Iran, which killed 165 people, many of them children, a war crime, labelling it the "realities of war".
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[2026-03-11 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un corredor bursátil en la Bolsa de Valores de Nueva York el 6 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Seth Wenig)
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[2026-03-11 00:41 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-11 00:39 UTC+10:00] [Airline industry] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Hong Kong-based airline has business-class return listed at A$39,577, as travellers seek routes avoiding Middle East
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[2026-03-11 00:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli warplanes launched violent attacks on Beirut's southern suburbs, the Lebanese state-owned news agency reported.
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[2026-03-11 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In a phone call, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed "the deteriorating situation in the Middle East" with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi.
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