Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: On Saturday morning, at least 165 people, most of them young girls and boys, were killed in a US-Israeli air strike on Iran's Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province.
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia’s nuclear safety watchdog has put its emergency centre “on alert” as fighting escalates between Israel, the United States and Iran, with radiation experts monitoring for potential risks to Australians.
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[2026-03-05 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-05 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the US Senate were set to begin voting Wednesday on a bipartisan war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that any hostilities against it be authorized by Congress.
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[2026-03-05 04:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: À medida que a guerra dos Estados Unidos e de Israel contra o Irã se espalha, iraquianos expressam temores de que antigas rivalidades sectárias, que já levaram o Iraque à beira de uma guerra civil há duas décadas, possam estar ressurgindo.
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[2026-03-05 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah has claimed an attack on Israeli troops near the southern Lebanese town of Khiam.
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[2026-03-05 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said he was surprised at markets’ response to the escalating Iran war, calling the dip in stocks “more benign” than he expected as the conflict entered its fifth day.
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[2026-03-05 04:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Plumes of smoke from an explosion rise on the skyline in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-03-05 04:21 UTC+10:00] [Middle East and north Africa] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Airlines are using long-readied contingency plans but bottlenecks have formed that no amount of planning can fix
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[2026-03-05 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon's health ministry is reporting that Israeli attacks across the country have killed 72 people and displaced over 83,000 since Israel renewed its assault on Monday.
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[2026-03-05 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli security forces believe that Iran’s ruling establishment, despite suffering heavy losses from US-Israeli bombardment, is not close to collapsing, Walla reports.
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[2026-03-05 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE- Iraqi’s head coach Graham Arnold sits on the bench at the start of the 2026 World Cup play off first leg soccer match between UAE and Iraq in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Walid Ibrahim, File)
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[2026-03-05 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli government approved an attack on Lebanon on Sunday night, hours before Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday, Israel's Channel 12 News has reported.
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[2026-03-05 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is open to studying the proposed four-day workweek as a mitigating measure should oil prices in the world market continue to surge and hostilities in the Middle East take longer to resolve.
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[2026-03-05 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The powerful son of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who is now widely tipped to be his father’s successor, was apparently treated for “impotency” and had trouble finding a wife, according to diplomatic leaks.
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[2026-03-05 03:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Gavin Newsom has turned on Israel as he launched a blistering attack on Benjamin Netanyahu and what he called an “apartheid” state.
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[2026-03-05 03:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O ataque aéreo à residência do aiatolá Ali Khamenei em Teerã – um dos primeiros da atual guerra dos EUA e Israel contra o Irã – resultou na morte do líder supremo de 86 anos, juntamente com grande parte da estrutura de comando iraniana.
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[2026-03-05 03:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O chefe da Segurança Nacional iraniana, Ali Larijani, foi morto num ataque aéreo israelense em Teerã, afirmou o ministro israelense da Defesa, Israel Katz, nesta terça-feira (17/03). Horas depois, a morte também foi confirmada pelo Irã.
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[2026-03-05 03:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's military has threatened to target Israeli embassies worldwide if Israel attacks the country's mission in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-05 03:50 UTC+10:00] [Berlin film festival] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: German government convened a crisis meeting after several prize winners condemned Israel’s actions against Palestinians
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[2026-03-05 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, lowa, was posthumously promoted from specialist after a strike at a command center in Kuwait killed him and five other U.S. service members. (AP video by Mark Vancleave)
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[2026-03-05 03:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Forty countries gathered in The Hague on Wednesday to discuss coordinated measures aimed at enforcing international law in Palestine, as governments warn that Israel’s expanding settlement activity in the occupied West Bank amounts to de facto annexation.
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[2026-03-05 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un buque petrolero en el Complejo Sheskharis, en Novorossiysk, Rusia, el 11 de octubre del 2022. (Foto AP)
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[2026-03-05 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed Muslim MPs and community figures at a "Big Iftar" event in Westminster Hall, organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, on Tuesday night.
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[2026-03-05 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Eva Bartlett, a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years).
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[2026-03-05 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Eva Bartlett, an award-winning Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine, as well as Venezuela and the Donbass.
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[2026-03-05 03:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — A US submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday, touting the strike as evidence of America's global reach in its war on Iran.
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[2026-03-05 03:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday disclosed repeated Turkish initiatives to prevent a war between the United States and Iran, saying Tehran had failed to understand the mood in Washington.
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[2026-03-05 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that Iran’s thwarted drone attack on Turkey would not trigger NATO’s Article 5.
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[2026-03-05 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The first commercial flight out of the Middle East to Australia since hostilities began landed in Sydney overnight.
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[2026-03-05 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: IN a press conference on Tuesday, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. provided an update on the plight of Filipino citizens in the war-torn Middle East, disclosing that as of that time, a total of 1,416 Filipinos had requested repatriation from the government. As there are nearly 3 million Filipinos — most of them overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) — across the Middle East, it is likely that the number who would like to be brought out of harm’s way is much higher.
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[2026-03-05 03:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatar's foreign minister "categorically rejected" statements by his Iranian counterpart that Iran's attacks had targeted only US assets in the country and not civilian infrastructure.
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[2026-03-05 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MALACAÑANG on Wednesday said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will certify as urgent a proposed measure seeking a new authority to reduce excise tax on fuel products, describing it as “timely” as war spreads in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-05 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex in Novorossiysk, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-03-05 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-05 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Open University (OU) has appeared to reverse a commitment it made to pro-Israel lobby group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) to stop using the term "ancient Palestine", Novara Media reported.
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[2026-03-05 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces have entered several towns and villages in southern Lebanon, AFP is reporting, citing a source from the UN peacekeeping force in the country, Unifil.
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[2026-03-05 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has plummeted by 90 percent since Israel and the US launched their five-day onslaught on Iran, energy market intelligence firm Kpler reported.
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[2026-03-05 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El buque de guerra iraní IRIS Dena en la bahía de Bengala durante la Revisión Internacional de la Flota celebrada en Visakhapatnam, India, el 18 de febrero de 2026. (Foto AP)
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[2026-03-05 02:40 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The war will have incalculable implications for Europe – and yet, the chancellor has held back from publicly challenging an increasingly erratic Donald Trump
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[2026-03-05 02:31 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts on Tuesday addressed the war in Iran, the closing of Papa Johns restaurants and the upcoming White House correspondents dinner
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[2026-03-05 02:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos Pete Hegseth escucha mientras habla el jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto general Dan Caine, en el Pentágono en Washington, el 2 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-03-05 02:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Turkish foreign ministry has summoned the Iranian ambassador to Ankara to express concerns over a ballistic missile fired from Iran into its airspace, a Turkish diplomatic source said.
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[2026-03-05 02:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still alive and well despite recent reports that he had been killed in an US-Israeli airstrike on Tehran, one of his close aides has told RT.
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[2026-03-05 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Lebanon saw new airstrikes on 4 March as a building was hit in the Harik district of Beirut’s southern suburbs. Social media footage showed smoke rising from a multi storey structure in Haret Hreik, an area often associated with Hezbollah sites. The strike appeared to follow an evacuation warning issued online by Israel’s Arabic language military spokesman, who had shared maps marking buildings near mosques and other locations.
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[2026-03-05 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: AFP reported that fresh blasts were heard over Jerusalem following a missile alert issued by the Israeli military.
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[2026-03-05 02:10 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
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[2026-03-05 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has strongly condemned the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, despite the threat by US President Donald Trump to cut off all trade with Madrid for refusing to allow Washington to use its bases.
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[2026-03-05 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has strongly condemned the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, despite the threat by US President Donald Trump to cut off all trade with Madrid for refusing to allow Washington to use its bases.
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[2026-03-05 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says an American submarine sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo in international waters.
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