Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-03 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Israel carried out airstrikes on the Hezbollah-controlled Southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday (2), after the Iran-backed group launched missiles and drones towards Israel to avenge the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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[2026-03-03 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Iran could potentially elect a new supreme leader within one or two days, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said, as the country begins a 40-day mourning period following the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint US-Israeli strikes.
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[2026-03-03 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi said the key nuclear site Natanz had been attacked, without specifying further.
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[2026-03-03 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has issued a statement saying Hezbollah’s military and security activities are banned, hours after Israel responded to the Iran-linked group’s rocket and drone attacks by launching air raids on southern Beirut.
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[2026-03-03 06:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Donald Trump gave a "brief update" on the war at a military medal ceremony, but did not take questions. (Reuters: Jonathan Ernst)
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[2026-03-03 06:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump said Monday that America’s strikes on Iran have only just begun — and are going to escalate, warning that “the big one is coming.”
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[2026-03-03 06:13 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A near-halt to shipping in strait of Hormuz and attacks on Middle East refineries are threatening supplies and stoking inflation
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[2026-03-03 06:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un hombre sujeta una bandera iraní tras un ataque en Teherán, Irán, el 2 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Vahid Salemi)
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[2026-03-03 06:10 UTC+10:00] [Ursula von der Leyen] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Cyprus hit, oil prices jump and EU leaders clash over legality, regime change and Washington’s role in the widening conflict
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[2026-03-03 06:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mourners sit outside a hospital morgue where two bodies were brought, identified as Palestinian brothers Mohammad and Faheem Mo’mar, and who according to the Palestinian Health Ministry were shot by Israeli settlers in their home village of Qaryut, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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[2026-03-03 06:09 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s continuing attacks on Iran – cartoon
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[2026-03-03 06:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Iran is unleashing a wave of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East, targeting several countries with ties to the United States.
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[2026-03-03 06:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US is “stonewalling” requests by some Gulf states to replenish their air defence interceptors as pressure mounts on them to join the US and Israel in their war on Iran, one western official and one former US official familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-03 06:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has said the plan for the Iran war initially “projected four to five weeks”, adding the US military has the “capability to go far longer than that”.
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[2026-03-03 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An Iranian Shahed exploding drone launched by Russia flies through the sky seconds before it struck buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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[2026-03-03 06:03 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-03 06:03 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-03 06:02 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-03 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Lebanon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Tens of thousands of Lebanese flee homes in eerily familiar scenes as Israeli strikes leave 52 people dead
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[2026-03-03 05:58 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: US War Secretary Pete Hegseth has assured nervous Americans that this is not the start of another “endless war” in the Middle East, pledging a swift campaign aimed at destroying Iran’s weaponry, not regime change or nation-building.
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[2026-03-03 05:57 UTC+10:00] [Iran War] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-03 05:55 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As for Keir Starmer, even when he tries to make a reasonably sound judgment he somehow ends up losing both sides of the argument
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[2026-03-03 05:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: At least 23 people were killed in Pakistan on Sunday as protests erupted across the country in reaction to the US-Israeli killing of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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[2026-03-03 05:49 UTC+10:00] [Pete Hegseth] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In a combative press conference, the Pentagon chief dodged questions about the goals of the US military’s Iran operation
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[2026-03-03 05:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente Donald Trump llega para una ceremonia de la Medalla de Honor en el Salón Este de la Casa Blanca, el lunes 2 de marzo de 2026, en Washington. (Foto AP/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-03-03 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Many countries rely heavily on oil from the Middle East. (Reuters: Raheb Homavand)
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[2026-03-03 05:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leaves an enormous power vacuum in Iran, and no-one really knows who'll fill it.
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[2026-03-03 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Qatar’s Ministry of Defense has just claimed in a statement to have shot down two Iranian Su-24 bombers, in the latest sign that the American war on Iran has broadened to the wider Middle East.
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[2026-03-03 05:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: First lady Melania Trump arrives before President Donald Trump speaks to soldiers and their families at Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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[2026-03-03 05:21 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Oil prices are leaping Monday with worries that the Iran war will clog the global flow of crude and make inflation even worse. US stocks, meanwhile, are swinging between sharp losses and a tiny gain.
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[2026-03-03 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said it was maintaining existing crisis alert levels in at least eight countries in the Middle East affected by the armed conflict involving Iran, and Israel and the United States.
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[2026-03-03 05:09 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Many Iranians now have questions about the country’s future.
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[2026-03-03 05:09 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: The attack on Iran may have been motivated by several factors, not just its perceived weakness. Source: SBS, Getty
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[2026-03-03 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday British military bases in Cyprus will not be used by the US in its ongoing war with Iran.
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[2026-03-03 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: If Xi Jinping does not rule indefinitely, who comes next? (Reuters: Sarah Meyssonnier)
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[2026-03-03 04:59 UTC+10:00] [World Cup 2026] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fifa regulations vague on issue of replacing any teams
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[2026-03-03 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El primer ministro británico, Keir Starmer, habla con estudiantes y personal en el Walbottle Academy Campus en Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Inglaterra, el jueves 26 de febrero de 2026. (Scott Heppell/PA via AP)
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[2026-03-03 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: At least four American service members were killed, and another four seriously wounded, when a retaliatory Iranian strike hit their bunker in Kuwait over the weekend, US officials said Monday.
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[2026-03-03 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iran said it temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, as it conducted live fire exercises in the vital waterway, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes.
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[2026-03-03 04:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US-Israeli conflict with Iran escalated across the region on Monday, with Iranian strikes prompting Saudi Arabia and Qatar to halt production at major oil and gas facilities, and bombing spreading to Lebanon too.
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[2026-03-03 04:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, en route Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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[2026-03-03 04:30 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Hello, and welcome to our continuing coverage of the conflict in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-03 04:29 UTC+10:00] [Dubai] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: American president vows US will press on with strikes, warning of more casualties as Iran conflict widens and energy markets reel
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[2026-03-03 04:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mohammad Raad, a member of the Lebanese parliament representing Hezbollah, has said there is no justification for the government's ban on his movement's military and security activities.
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[2026-03-03 04:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos Pete Hegseth en el Pentágono en Washington el 2 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-03-03 04:17 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: People drive to Oman and Saudi in hope of a flight, while most tourists stay stuck in hotels and on cruise ships
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[2026-03-03 04:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Sunny Hostin and Elisabeth Hasselbeck shared a tense moment on The View when Hostin slammed President Trump for ordering the United States to attack Iran, despite running on an anti-war platform during the 2024 election.
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[2026-03-03 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump told CNN on Monday that his military is "knocking the crap" out of Iran and that the "big wave" is yet to come.
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[2026-03-03 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A grim new photo shows the body of Austin mass shooter Ndiaga Diagne wearing an Iran t-shirt under his “Property of Allah” hoodie.
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[2026-03-03 03:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Dois dias antes do início da guerra dos Estados Unidos e Israel contra o Irã, autoridades iranianas e americanas sentaram à mesa, na cidade suíça de Genebra, em busca de uma solução para o programa nuclear do regime iraniano.
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