Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-08 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
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[2026-03-08 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Listen to Australian and world news, and follow trending topics with SBS News Podcasts.
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[2026-03-08 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Listen to Australian and world news, and follow trending topics with SBS News Podcasts.
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[2026-03-08 05:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Explosions were heard on Saturday night in Iraq's capital Baghdad, AFP journalists reported.
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[2026-03-08 05:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: More than 150 Iranian nationals, including diplomats and their families, left Lebanon on Saturday, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters, after an Israeli military spokesperson threatened "representatives" of Iran in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-08 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates ministry of defence has said its air defence systems are currently responding to “incoming missile and drone threats from Iran”.
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[2026-03-08 04:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A member of Iran's Assembly of Experts said Saturday the body would meet within a day to choose the country's next supreme leader, Iranian media reported.
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[2026-03-08 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The United States on Saturday condemned Iran's drone strikes earlier this week on an Azerbaijan border region, describing the attack as a "needless escalation" of aggression by Tehran during the Middle East war.
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[2026-03-08 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Kuwait said Saturday that it has cut oil production and refining output because tankers cannot transit the Persian Gulf due to threats from Iran.
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[2026-03-08 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday condemned the US attack on Iran's freshwater desalination plant and warned Washington of "grave consequences."
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[2026-03-08 04:04 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Report indicates that US intelligence officials question effectiveness of strikes to produce regime change in Iran
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[2026-03-08 04:01 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: B-1 Lancers arrive at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire after Starmer allows US to use UK as a base for ‘defensive’ action
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[2026-03-08 03:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A strike targeted a military base belonging to the former paramilitary coalition Hashed al-Shaabi in northern Iraq on Saturday, two Hashed sources told AFP.
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[2026-03-08 03:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The war in Iran has already caused the cost of plane tickets to rise, experts say.
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[2026-03-08 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A loud explosion was heard in Dubai on Saturday evening, AFP journalists reported, while Iran continued to launch missiles and drones at targets across the Gulf.
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[2026-03-08 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Germany announced it will provide nearly 100 million euros ($108m) additional humanitarian aid for the region as the situation in Lebanon worsens amid ongoing Israeli strikes.
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[2026-03-08 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un grupo de personas revisa los daños causados por ataques aéreos israelíes, el sábado 7 de marzo de 2026, en la aldea de Nabi Chit, al este del Líbano, el viernes por la noche, donde las fuerzas israelíes aterrizaron durante la noche y cavaron una tumba en un cementerio en busca del copiloto israelí Ron Arad, quien fue capturado y luego desapareció luego que su avión de combate se estrellara en el sur del Líbano en 1986.
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[2026-03-08 03:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the "United States has started using British bases for specific defensive operations to prevent Iran firing missiles into the region, which is putting British lives at risk".
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[2026-03-08 03:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE United States-Israel war on Iran has ushered us into a new age of warfare.
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[2026-03-08 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Missiles rained on Iran Saturday after President Trump warned that the nation could face “complete destruction and certain death.”
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[2026-03-08 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Israel Defense Force conducted a deadly ground operation in Lebanon overnight Friday connected to the 1986 capturing of downed fighter pilot Ron Arad.
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[2026-03-08 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: More than 50,000 protesters have marched on the US embassy in London demanding an end to US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
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[2026-03-08 02:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O Irão preparou-se para uma longa guerra, ao contrário dos Estados Unidos, afirmou Ali Larijani, secretário-geral do Conselho Supremo de Segurança Nacional do país do Médio Oriente, no terceiro dia da guerra dos EUA e Israel contra o Irão.
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[2026-03-08 02:43 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Royal Navy readying HMS Prince of Wales so it can be quickly deployed if decision made to mobilise it to region
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[2026-03-08 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Captain Jon Rahm of Legion XIII celebrates during the second round of the LIV Golf tournament at Grange Golf Club, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 in Adelaide, Australia. (Jon Ferrey/LIV Golf via AP)
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[2026-03-08 02:15 UTC+10:00] [Lebanon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Commandos started digging up grave thought to be of famous IDF pilot, leading to gunfight followed by airstrikes
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[2026-03-08 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Humo emerge tras un ataque con drones iraníes en la zona portuaria de Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, el domingo 1 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Fatima Shbair)
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[2026-03-08 02:04 UTC+10:00] [Asia Times] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-08 02:00 UTC+10:00] [Korea Central News Agency] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Donald Trump’s targeting of Tehran will push Pyongyang to feel ‘vindicated’ in developing nuclear weapons for its own security, analysts say
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[2026-03-08 01:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military has said it destroyed sixteen aircraft belonging to the IRGC's Quds Force in overnight strikes on Iran.
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[2026-03-08 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As the US-Israel war on Iran began last week and Gaza’s crossings were shut, panic spread through the densely populated enclave, raising fears of a famine returning.
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[2026-03-08 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Pam Bondi] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The attorney general faces a subpoena over the Epstein files. She won’t say much – but Democrats are calling for her ouster
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[2026-03-08 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A father and his daughter have been killed in an Israeli drone attack in central Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as Palestinians continue to suffer amid worldwide attention on the United States-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-08 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has targeted a Marshall islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf.
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[2026-03-08 00:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A huge crater left by an Israeli airstrike in the village of Nabi Chit, eastern Lebanon late Friday, March 6, 2026, where Israeli forces landed overnight and dug a grave in a cemetery searching for Israeli co-pilot Ron Arad who was captured and then went missing after his fighter jet crashed over south Lebanon in 1986.
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[2026-03-08 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Mayor Mamdani’s comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America called for “ending the US empire” and mourned the “extrajudicial killing of the supreme leader” during a mass call this week that slammed the US strikes in Iran.
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[2026-03-08 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A serviceman controls an FPV drone of “General Cherry” company at the polygon in Ukraine, on Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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[2026-03-08 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke rises after an Iranian drone attack in the port area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
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[2026-03-08 00:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: VATINCAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV named a new ambassador to the United States on Saturday, amid diplomatic tensions over the Trump administration's war on Iran and its hardline migration policy.
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[2026-03-08 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Iran remains under a near-complete internet blackout, data monitoring site NetBlocks, said on Saturday.
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[2026-03-08 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Authorities have issued a series of warnings promising use of force against anyone in the country engaging in actions perceived to harm national security and aid “enemies”, as war with the United States and Israel enters its second week.
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[2026-03-08 00:00 UTC+10:00] [US crime] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Takeshi Ebisawa, sentenced to 20 years in prison last week, believed he was selling weapons-grade plutonium to Iran
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[2026-03-07 23:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This combination of images provided by the U.S. Army taken on May 16, 2025 shows, from left, Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of Des Moines, Iowa, Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn., Capt. Cody Khork, 35, of Lakeland, Fla., and Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.
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[2026-03-07 23:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The number of people killed in Israeli air and ground attacks on the town of Nabi Chit in Lebanon's eastern Beqaa Valley has risen to 41, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
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[2026-03-07 23:28 UTC+10:00] [ExxonMobil] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: City’s automobile association says fuel cost increases not warranted as petrol currently on sale is from stockpile before conflict erupted in Middle East
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[2026-03-07 23:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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[2026-03-07 23:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: À medida que avança a guerra de Estados Unidos e Israel contra o Irã, aumentam os episódios secundários de instabilidade ao redor do Oriente Médio. Os países da região lidam com níveis crescentes de violência dentro das próprias fronteiras, enquanto sistemas políticos e relações comunitárias são colocados à prova.
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[2026-03-07 23:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: For many veterans of post-9/11 wars, the strikes on Iran bring troubling echoes of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
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[2026-03-07 22:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military has issued a forced displacement order for some residents in the coastal city of Tyre in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-07 22:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the Kremlin said late Friday, as the United States and Israel continued to escalate their attacks against Iran.
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